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Kinue Hitomi

1907 - 1931

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Kinue Hitomi (人見 絹枝, Hitomi Kinue; January 1, 1907 – August 2, 1931) was a Japanese track and field athlete. She was the world record holder in several events in the 1920s – 1930s and was the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal. She was also the first woman to represent Japan at the Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kinue Hitomi is the 967th most popular athlete (down from 494th in 2019), the 1,367th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,193rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Kinue Hitomi ranks 967 out of 6,025. Before her are Henry Carr, Shuhei Nishida, Robert Lindsay, Viktor Kapitonov, László Szollás, and Hugo Wieslander. After her are Harry Porter, Giovanni Zucchi, Guy de Luget, Brenda Jones, Bernard Morel, and Frank Forberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Kinue Hitomi ranks 295. Before her are Raúl Silva Henríquez, Alain Daniélou, George Raynor, Hagigat Rzayeva, Adalbert Steiner, and László Szollás. After her are José Bustamante, Dionisio Mejía, Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Les Clark, Frank Séchehaye, and Crisant Bosch. Among people deceased in 1931, Kinue Hitomi ranks 126. Before her are Elsa Laula Renberg, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Curt von François, William Frederick Denning, Victor Bérard, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín. After her are Cesare Burali-Forti, Jetze Doorman, Alfred Maudslay, Art Acord, Axel Andersen, and Daniel Chester French.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kinue Hitomi ranks 1,367 out of 6,245. Before her are Yuki Amano (2000), Kansai Yamamoto (1944), Kihachi Okamoto (1924), Seiji Kubo (1973), Shuhei Nishida (1910), and Namie Amuro (1977). After her are Teppei Uchida (1975), Masaru Hirayama (1972), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), and Kei Kumai (1930).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Kinue Hitomi ranks 9. Before her are Mikio Oda (1905), Sueo Ōe (1914), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Noboru Terada (1917), Isao Okano (1944), and Shuhei Nishida (1910). After her are Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Masanori Yusa (1915), Masaru Furukawa (1936), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), and Shunpei Uto (1918).

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