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Tommy Green

1894 - 1975

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Thomas William Green (30 March 1894 – 29 March 1975) was a British racewalker who won a gold medal in the men's 50 km walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The son of a police constable, Green could not walk until the age of five, owing to his affliction with rickets. He lied about his age and joined the British Army in 1906 and served during the First World War, where he was wounded on three occasions and gassed while fighting in France. Returning to Britain, he eventually settled in Eastleigh where he worked at a railway works before being encouraged by a blind friend to take up racewalking. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tommy Green is the 1,245th most popular athlete (down from 828th in 2019), the 4,274th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,888th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tommy Green ranks 1,245 out of 6,025. Before him are Carl Osburn, Fred Hansen, Patrik Sjöberg, Perikles Kakousis, Bud Houser, and Clyde King. After him are Lennart Klingström, Yrjö Hietanen, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Heinz Ulzheimer, Tullio Baraglia, and Jadwiga Wajs.

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Among people born in 1894, Tommy Green ranks 220. Before him are James P. Johnson, Renzo De Vecchi, Georgy Ivanov, Billy Gilbert, Rudolf Geiger, and Billy Bishop. After him are Raymond Schwartz, Yan Gamarnik, Mikhail Suslin, André Jousseaume, Johannes Block, and Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson. Among people deceased in 1975, Tommy Green ranks 210. Before him are Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Thomas Hart Benton, Carl Silfverstrand, Hermann Paul Müller, Pyotr Novikov, and Erico Verissimo. After him are Nilo Murtinho Braga, Charles Kieffer, William D. Coolidge, László Németh, Alfred Neveu, and Nils Eriksen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Green ranks 4,275 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger of Wendover (1200), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Anthony de la Roché (1700), Aneirin (525), Catherine McCormack (1972), and David Gregory (1659). After him are Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866), Russell Brand (1975), Acker Bilk (1929), Bill Paterson (1945), Edgar Wright (1974), and George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Tommy Green ranks 50. Before him are Robert Kerr (1882), Muriel Freeman (1897), Jack Beresford (1899), Queenie Newall (1854), Richard Gunn (1871), and Richard Meade (1938). After him are Jessica Ennis-Hill (1986), Sonia Robertson (1947), Sidney Robinson (1876), William Henry Dean (1887), Dorothy Manley (1927), and Harry Blackstaffe (1868).

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