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Shuhei Nishida

1910 - 1997

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Shuhei Nishida (西田 修平, Nishida Shūhei; March 21, 1910 – April 13, 1997) was a Japanese Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. Nishida was born in what is now part of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He was a student of the Engineering Department at Waseda University, when selected as a member of the Japanese Olympic team for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he won the silver medal in the pole vault event. After graduation from Waseda University, he obtained a job at Hitachi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shuhei Nishida is the 962nd most popular athlete (up from 1,380th in 2019), the 1,365th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,500th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Shuhei Nishida ranks 962 out of 6,025. Before him are Maurice Huet, Jaak Uudmäe, Vilho Niittymaa, Gerd Wessig, Hassiba Boulmerka, and Henry Carr. After him are Robert Lindsay, Viktor Kapitonov, László Szollás, Hugo Wieslander, Kinue Hitomi, and Harry Porter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Shuhei Nishida ranks 280. Before him are Carlos Marcello, Mary Wickes, Adri van Male, Alexandru Borbely, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Paul Chocque. After him are Yannis Tsarouchis, Max Bense, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Áttila, George Kojac, and Peter Platzer. Among people deceased in 1997, Shuhei Nishida ranks 225. Before him are Richard Jaeckel, Cyril Toumanoff, Enrique Peralta Azurdia, Eugène Guillevic, Dharamvir Bharati, and Zdeněk Mlynář. After him are Kiki Kogelnik, Norris Bradbury, Cheddi Jagan, Laura Nyro, Billie Dove, and Julian Jaynes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shuhei Nishida ranks 1,365 out of 6,245. Before him are Tetsuya Ogura (1970), Yasutoshi Miura (1965), Yuki Amano (2000), Kansai Yamamoto (1944), Kihachi Okamoto (1924), and Seiji Kubo (1973). After him are Namie Amuro (1977), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Teppei Uchida (1975), Masaru Hirayama (1972), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), and Hiroshi Suzuki (1933).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Shuhei Nishida ranks 8. Before him are Naoto Tajima (1912), Mikio Oda (1905), Sueo Ōe (1914), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Noboru Terada (1917), and Isao Okano (1944). After him are Kinue Hitomi (1907), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Masanori Yusa (1915), Masaru Furukawa (1936), Akio Kaminaga (1936), and Tetsuo Hamuro (1917).

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