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Tommy Kono

1930 - 2016

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Tamio "Tommy" Kono (Japanese: 高野 民夫, June 27, 1930 – April 24, 2016) was an American weightlifter of Japanese descent. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kono set world records in four different weight classes: lightweight (149 pounds or 67.5 kilograms), middleweight (165 lb or 75 kg), light-heavyweight (182 lb or 82.5 kg) and middle-heavyweight (198 lb or 90 kg). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tommy Kono is the 1,891st most popular athlete (down from 1,856th in 2019), the 10,346th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,682nd in 2019) and the 341st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tommy Kono ranks 1,891 out of 6,025. Before him are Georg de Laval, Endre Tilli, Leonid Shcherbakov, Norman Taber, Arthur Wint, and Bohumil Modrý. After him are Paul Nihill, Frank Schaffer, László Fábián, Matthias Behr, Ghada Shouaa, and Lennart Magnusson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tommy Kono ranks 550. Before him are Ardalion Ignatyev, Terence Bayler, Geoffrey Holder, Violetta Ferrari, F. Albert Cotton, and Douglas Hurd. After him are Lin Carter, Marie Senghor Basse, Jean Forestier, Kauko Hänninen, Dolores Huerta, and Ian Burgess. Among people deceased in 2016, Tommy Kono ranks 485. Before him are Berta Cáceres, William Christopher, František Jakubec, Terence Bayler, Ali Beratlıgil, and Qandeel Baloch. After him are Reinhard Häfner, François Dupeyron, Viktor Zubkov, Dan Haggerty, Mrinalini Sarabhai, and Karel Husa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tommy Kono ranks 10,348 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Bopp (1949), Esther Phillips (1935), Charles F. Hockett (1916), John Heysham Gibbon (1903), Red Mitchell (1927), and Amy Tan (1952). After him are Carmine Caridi (1934), Norman Alden (1924), Chris Hillman (1944), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Jon Tenney (1961), and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Tommy Kono ranks 341. Before him are Justin Gatlin (1982), Ron Freeman (1947), Josiah McCracken (1874), Calvin Smith (1961), James Corson (1906), and Norman Taber (1891). After him are DeHart Hubbard (1903), Gilbert Colgate (1899), Marilee Stepan (1935), Willard Rice (1895), Steve Prefontaine (1951), and August Rodenberg (1873).

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