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Rupert Hollaus

1931 - 1954

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Rupert Hollaus (4 September 1931 – 11 September 1954) was an Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed for the NSU factory racing team. He is the only Austrian to win a road racing World Championship, and the first racer to do so posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rupert Hollaus is the 1,036th most popular athlete (down from 972nd in 2019), the 919th most popular biography from Austria (up from 946th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Rupert Hollaus ranks 1,036 out of 6,025. Before him are Burton Jastram, Gabriele Reinsch, Michael Marsh, Hjalmar Andersson, Hartwig Gauder, and István Rózsavölgyi. After him are Hicham El Guerrouj, Akio Kaminaga, George Finnegan, Joe Earl, Tetsuo Hamuro, and Arvid Knöppel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Rupert Hollaus ranks 420. Before him are D. M. Jayaratne, Richard Murphy, Kiki Dimoula, Walter Taibo, Roger Planchon, and Viktor Tsaryov. After him are Emam-Ali Habibi, Antonio Gamoneda, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Hans van Mierlo, Bengt Eriksson, and Alena Vrzáňová. Among people deceased in 1954, Rupert Hollaus ranks 136. Before him are Charles Perrin, Sydney Greenstreet, Otto Gebühr, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Vasily Yan. After him are Vivian Woodward, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Zhang Shichuan, Julius Körner, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, and Juan Guevara.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Rupert Hollaus ranks 919 out of 1,424. Before him are Johann Nepomuk David (1895), Margarete Adler (1896), Robert Kalina (1955), Lilly Scholz (1903), Josef Smistik (1905), and Ferdinand von Saar (1833). After him are Eva Rueber-Staier (1951), László Sternberg (1905), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), O. W. Fischer (1915), Alexander Pschill (1970), and Walter Haummer (1928).

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Among ATHLETES In Austria

Among athletes born in Austria, Rupert Hollaus ranks 10. Before him are Adolf Kainz (1903), Alfons Dorfner (1911), Eva Janko (1945), Klaus Dibiasi (1947), Hans Haas (1906), and Josef Feistmantl (1939). After him are Fiorenzo Marini (1914), Siegfried Purner (1915), Alois Schnabel (1910), Manfred Schmid (1944), Max Stiepl (1914), and Josef Kloimstein (1929).

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