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Roland Matthes

1950 - 2019

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Roland Matthes (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːlant ˈmatəs], ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 28 European records in various backstroke, butterfly and medley events. He was trained by Marlies Grohe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Matthes is the 24th most popular swimmer (down from 12th in 2019), the 3,740th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,094th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Roland Matthes ranks 24 out of 709. Before him are Kornelia Ender, Bill Mulliken, Ken Huszagh, Don Schollander, Ken Walsh, and Joe Ruddy. After him are Kirsty Coventry, Ann Curtis, Allen Stack, Joan Harrison, John Arthur Jarvis, and Henry Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Roland Matthes ranks 269. Before him are Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mariano García Remón, Yang Jiechi, Harriet Walter, Mark Blum, and Li Zhanshu. After him are Iris Berben, Angry Grandpa, Peter Gould, Mitsuru Komaeda, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, and Phillip Noyce. Among people deceased in 2019, Roland Matthes ranks 233. Before him are Thomas Remengesau Sr., Diahann Carroll, David Hedison, Johnny Clegg, Sylvia Miles, and Vladimir Etush. After him are Ram Dass, Oliver Mtukudzi, Sadako Ogata, Janet Asimov, Ivan Dimitrov, and Jan Olszewski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Roland Matthes ranks 3,742 out of 7,253. Before him are Felix Draeseke (1835), Ursula Franklin (1921), Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Angela Voigt (1951), Liane Augustin (1927), and Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859). After him are Christian Schad (1894), Iris Berben (1950), Pam Ferris (1948), Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821), and Lisa Tetzner (1894).

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Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Roland Matthes ranks 2. Before him are Kornelia Ender (1958). After him are Otto Fahr (1892), Barbara Krause (1959), Erich Rademacher (1901), Hilde Schrader (1910), Emil Rausch (1883), Georg Zacharias (1884), Ulrike Richter (1959), Andrea Pollack (1961), Max Hainle (1882), and Max Schöne (1880).

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