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Margit Schumann

1952 - 2017

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Margit Schumann (14 September 1952 – 11 April 2017) was an East German luger who competed during the 1970s and early 1980s and was the 1976 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles event, a gold in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Schumann also won four consecutive gold medals at the FIL World Luge Championships (1973–75, 1977). Her number of championships would not be matched until Sylke Otto (also German) won it in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margit Schumann is the 1,646th most popular athlete (up from 2,412th in 2019), the 5,246th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,807th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Margit Schumann ranks 1,646 out of 6,025. Before her are Philip Waruinge, Erik Elmsäter, Robert Stangland, Masao Harada, Gösta Runö, and Emil Magnusson. After her are Forrest Towns, Christina Lathan, Giuseppina Leone, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Naohiro Ikeda, and John Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Margit Schumann ranks 505. Before her are Christine Estabrook, Rick Scott, Julie Taymor, Clarke Peters, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and Rodolfo Neri Vela. After her are Mohamed Said Fofana, Vladimir Vasyutin, Des Browne, Tim Powers, Vladimir Nevzorov, and Dahir Riyale Kahin. Among people deceased in 2017, Margit Schumann ranks 483. Before her are Raúl Córdoba, Julia Hartwig, Inge Keller, Hiromi Tsuru, John Nicholson, and August Ames. After her are Valery Bolotov, Gunnar Birkerts, Walter Lassally, John Kundla, Nikos Koundouros, and Dudley Storey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margit Schumann ranks 5,249 out of 7,253. Before her are Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Walther von Dyck (1856), Reinhard Lauck (1946), Helmut Braselmann (1911), Bruno Labbadia (1966), and Kim Dotcom (1974). After her are Christina Lathan (1958), Ivan Klasnić (1980), Walter Lassally (1926), Ursula Knab (1929), Bernhard Langer (1957), and Felix Brych (1975).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Margit Schumann ranks 152. Before her are Dieter Schubert (1943), Thomas Köhler (1940), Klaus Siebert (1955), Frank Shorter (1947), Helmut Berthold (1911), and Erich Koschik (1913). After her are Christina Lathan (1958), Ursula Knab (1929), Bernhard Germeshausen (1951), Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (1951), Hanns Kilian (1905), and Burglinde Pollak (1951).

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