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Victor Willems

1877 - 1918

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Victor Willems (19 February 1877 – 1920) was a Belgian fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1908 Summer Olympics and a gold in the same event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Willems is the 418th most popular athlete (up from 456th in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 574th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Belgian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Victor Willems ranks 418 out of 6,025. Before him are Veikko Hakulinen, Milka Babović, Julius Skutnabb, Imre Harangi, Edward Gardère, and Tatyana Kazankina. After him are Johnny Hayes, Durward Knowles, Lee Haney, Bernd Kannenberg, José Villanueva, and Pat McCormick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Victor Willems ranks 112. Before him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Giuseppe Volpi, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Filippos Karvelas, Ivy Lee, and Elin Pelin. After him are Buddy Bolden, Henri Hazebrouck, Yan Huiqing, James Montgomery Flagg, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Walter Sutton. Among people deceased in 1918, Victor Willems ranks 123. Before him are Milan Neralić, Meshadi Azizbekov, Bohumil Kubišta, Hubert Parry, Peter Rosegger, and Alexander Protopopov. After him are George Lawrence Price, Sophie Menter, Vasily Safonov, Nikolai Ruzsky, Henry Adams, and Carl Peters.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Victor Willems ranks 517 out of 1,190. Before him are Joseph Mermans (1922), Germain Derycke (1929), Christl Cranz (1914), André Noyelle (1931), Jean de Bie (1892), and Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman (1866). After him are Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (1790), Theodoor Rombouts (1597), Louis Michel (1947), Reginar IV, Count of Mons (950), Cécile de France (1975), and Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889).

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Among ATHLETES In Belgium

Among athletes born in Belgium, Victor Willems ranks 10. Before him are Emmanuel Foulon (1871), Gaston Roelants (1937), Oscar Dessomville (1876), Prosper Bruggeman (1873), Émile Grumiaux (1861), and Étienne Gailly (1922). After him are Maurice Verdonck (1873), Ivo Van Damme (1954), Maurice Hemelsoet (1875), Emiel Puttemans (1947), Jules De Bisschop (1879), and Joël Robert (1943).

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