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Klaus Beer

1942 - 2023

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Klaus Beer (14 November 1942 – 8 June 2023) was a track and field athlete active in the 1960s for East Germany. Beer is best known for having won the silver medal in the long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics, well behind Bob Beamon's record setting performance – Beamon jumped 8.90 m, while Beer jumped 8.19 m. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Beer is the 1,206th most popular athlete (down from 856th in 2019), the 1,076th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,052nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Klaus Beer ranks 1,206 out of 6,025. Before him are Britt Strandberg, Paul Winter, Velimir Valenta, Kurt Behrens, Donald Johnston, and Gottfried Diener. After him are Vincenzo Cuccia, Catherine Hardy Lavender, Juan Amat, Al LeConey, Zdeněk Škrland, and Saida Gunba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Klaus Beer ranks 522. Before him are Bibi Besch, John McDowell, Pål Tyldum, Jürgen Kissner, Terry Bisson, and Valdis Birkavs. After him are Lorenzo Piretto, Kevin Conway, Anita Roddick, Catharina Lodders, Jeetendra, and Donald Rayfield. Among people deceased in 2023, Klaus Beer ranks 419. Before him are Richard Wagner, Klaus Bonsack, Ferenc Mészáros, Heide Simonis, Jacques Duquesne, and Eugenio Calabi. After him are Alberto Mario González, Bo Goldman, John Pilger, Yuliya Borisova, Sergey Tereshchenko, and Vadim Abdrashitov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Klaus Beer ranks 1,076 out of 1,694. Before him are Gustaw Holoubek (1923), Janusz Sidło (1933), Kazimierz Zimny (1935), Józef Pankiewicz (1866), Iga Świątek (2001), and Artur Brauner (1918). After him are Bernhard Zondek (1891), Jacob Bronowski (1908), Narcyza Żmichowska (1819), Curt Lowens (1925), Jadwiga Wajs (1912), and Anna Grodzka (1954).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Klaus Beer ranks 22. Before him are Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Halina Górecka (1938), Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929), Danas Pozniakas (1939), Janusz Sidło (1933), and Kazimierz Zimny (1935). After him are Jadwiga Wajs (1912), Emil Hirschfeld (1903), Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950), Jan Werner (1946), Andrzej Zieliński (1936), and Dieter Kottysch (1943).

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