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Kusuo Kitamura

1917 - 1996

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Kusuo Kitamura (北村 久寿雄, Kitamura Kusuo; October 9, 1917 – June 6, 1996) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Kitamura was born in Kōchi, Japan. Selected as one of the youngest members of the Japanese swimming team in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, he won the gold medal in the Men's 1500 meter freestyle swimming event. He was 14 years and 309 days old at the time, setting a record for youngest ever swimmer to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kusuo Kitamura is the 50th most popular swimmer (up from 56th in 2019), the 1,174th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,291st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 50 out of 709. Before her are Judit Temes, Barbara Krause, Shigeo Arai, Károly Bartha, Willy den Ouden, and Steve Clark. After her are Kathy Ellis, Pontus Hanson, Erich Rademacher, Margaret Woodbridge, Gérard Blitz, and Greta Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 212. Before her are Yvette Chauviré, Olga Sanfirova, Steno, Tetyana Yablonska, Helena Rasiowa, and Christiane Rochefort. After her are Leandro Remondini, Isuzu Yamada, Marion Donovan, Robert Fano, Ilse Steppat, and Ossie Davis. Among people deceased in 1996, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 193. Before her are José Lázaro Robles, Kenneth Bainbridge, François Picard, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and Johan Kraag. After her are Eno Raud, José Sasía, Harry Andersson, Jamie Uys, Don McNeill, and Eva Cassidy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 1,174 out of 6,245. Before her are Toshio Furukawa (1946), Kyoko Kuroda (1969), Yuriko Shima (1959), Shoichi Sakata (1911), Kosuke Suzuki (1981), and Yukio Endo (1937). After her are Kanno Sugako (1881), Tsuru Aoki (1892), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Seiko Matsuda (1962), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 3. Before her are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), and Shigeo Arai (1916). After her are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hideko Maehata (1914), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Ai Shibata (1982), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Daiya Seto (1994).

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