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Myer Prinstein

1878 - 1925

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Myer Prinstein (born Mejer Prinsztejn, December 22, 1878 – March 10, 1925) was a Poland-born American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. To date, he is the only Olympic track athlete to win both the triple and long jump in the same Olympics, earning the distinction in St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Myer Prinstein is the 92nd most popular athlete (up from 151st in 2024), the 478th most popular biography from Poland (up from 633rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Myer Prinstein ranks 92 out of 6,025. Before him are Ken Matthews, Valeriy Brumel, Friedrich Traun, Inese Jaunzeme, David Jacobs, and Roman Steinberg. After him are Harry Babcock, John Taylor, Irina Press, Eric Liddell, Tommie Smith, and Ken Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Myer Prinstein ranks 87. Before him are Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Carl Sandburg, Tullio Serafin, Grigory Petrovsky, Paul Hazard, and Erich Mühsam. After him are Anton Hansen Tammsaare, C. Rajagopalachari, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, José Miaja, and Walther Ritz. Among people deceased in 1925, Myer Prinstein ranks 66. Before him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Robert Koldewey, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Sidney Reilly, Aristide Bruant, and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. After him are Sheikh Said, Anna Schäffer, Stefan Żeromski, Fanny Bullock Workman, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Johan August Brinell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Myer Prinstein ranks 478 out of 1,694. Before him are Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Teresa Orlowski (1953), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), and Georg von der Marwitz (1856). After him are Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Leon Pinsker (1821), Fritz von Below (1853), Julian Tuwim (1894), Fritz Freitag (1894), and Johann Schobert (1720).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Myer Prinstein ranks 3. Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), and Gustav Flatow (1875). After him are Hans Woellke (1911), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Ursula Happe (1926), Józef Szmidt (1935), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Walter Bathe (1892), and Teresa Ciepły (1937).

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