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Tommy Hampson

1907 - 1965

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Thomas Hampson (28 October 1907 – 4 September 1965) was an English athlete, winner of the 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the first man to run 800 metres in under 1 minute 50 seconds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tommy Hampson is the 709th most popular athlete (down from 605th in 2019), the 3,581st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,479th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tommy Hampson ranks 709 out of 6,025Before him are Hermann Wilker, Roelof Klein, Luciano Sušanj, Ian Stewart, Comoros at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and Harald Tammer. After him are Marita Lange, Martin Sheridan, Eugène Balme, Henri Tauzin, Noboru Terada, and Pino Dordoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Tommy Hampson ranks 265Before him are Henri De Deken, Andrei Glanzmann, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Gunnar Jansson, Roger Blin, and Sigmund Ruud. After him are Jacques Roumain, Ramón Guzmán, Eugène Chaboud, Oscarino Costa Silva, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón. Among people deceased in 1965, Tommy Hampson ranks 143Before him are Karl Allmendinger, Konstantin Muraviev, D. N. Aidit, Sonja Graf, Edward R. Murrow, and Joseph De Combe. After him are Heinrich Schomburgk, Eric Backman, Joaquín Vázquez, Aimée Antoinette Camus, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, and John Miller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tommy Hampson ranks 3,582 out of 8,785Before him are Elaine Paige (1948), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Ian Stewart (1949), Winifred McNair (1877), and John Phillips (1800). After him are W. J. Coffee (1774), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), David Sylvian (1958), Stuart McCall (1964), John Soane (1753), and Tom Phillips (1888).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Tommy Hampson ranks 30Before him are Norman Read (1931), Wyndham Halswelle (1882), Eddie Owen (1886), Albert Hill (1889), George Larner (1875), and Ian Stewart (1949). After him are Guy Butler (1899), Dorian Yates (1962), Henry Macintosh (1892), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Arthur Russell (1886), and Tom Daley (1994).