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Pavel Schmidt

1930 - 2001

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Pavel Leo Edmund Schmidt (9 February 1930 – 14 August 2001) was a Slovak rower who competed for Czechoslovakia, mostly in the double sculls together with Václav Kozák. They won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and two medals at European championships in 1959 and 1961, and placed fourth at the 1962 World Rowing Championships. After retiring from competitions, Schmidt became a rowing coach, and in 1967–68 trained the Mexico national team. After that he did not return to Czechoslovakia, but settled in Switzerland together with his family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Schmidt is the 358th most popular athlete (up from 654th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 182nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Slovak Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pavel Schmidt ranks 358 out of 6,025. Before him are Earl Thomson, Edward Lindberg, Anni Steuer, Joseph Benz, Albin Lermusiaux, and Gösta Lilliehöök. After him are Evelyn Furtsch, Ugo Frigerio, Erik Lundqvist, Étienne Gailly, Betty Cuthbert, and Marianne Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pavel Schmidt ranks 299. Before him are Giuliano Montaldo, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Philip Bosco, Guy Béart, and Yuri Rytkheu. After him are Nino Cerruti, Wojciech Zabłocki, Gary Snyder, Georges Descrières, Lois Smith, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Among people deceased in 2001, Pavel Schmidt ranks 163. Before him are Herbert Ross, Anne Haney, Davorin Popović, Sergej Kraigher, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, and John Lewis. After him are Micheline Ostermeyer, Betty Holberton, J. J. Johnson, Jaromil Jireš, Gloria Foster, and Berry Berenson.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Pavel Schmidt ranks 128 out of 418. Before him are Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Marián Masný (1950), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Vladimír Weiss (1964), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), and Pál Szinyei Merse (1845). After him are Emília Vášáryová (1942), Jan Brokoff (1652), Anna Kolesárová (1928), Jaromil Jireš (1935), Ján Čarnogurský (1944), and Miloslav Mečíř (1964).

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Among ATHLETES In Slovakia

Among athletes born in Slovakia, Pavel Schmidt ranks 4. Before him are Alajos Szokolyi (1871), Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), and Imre Németh (1917). After him are József Csermák (1932), Ferenc Sidó (1923), Béla Szepes (1903), Imrich Bugár (1955), Jozef Pribilinec (1960), Dušan Pašek (1960), Michal Martikán (1979), and Pavol Hochschorner (1979).

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