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Wyndham Halswelle

1882 - 1915

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Wyndham Halswelle (30 May 1882 – 31 March 1915) was a British athlete. He won the controversial 400 m race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win an Olympic title by a walkover. Halswelle was also an infantry officer who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. He was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wyndham Halswelle is the 548th most popular athlete (up from 629th in 2019), the 3,296th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,511th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 548 out of 6,025. Before her are Sven Thofelt, Robert Liottel, Gert Fredriksson, Émile Champion, Fred Alderman, and Armas Taipale. After her are Ivan Gubijan, Bruno Müller, Jay O'Brien, William Jones, Howard Valentine, and Karl-Friedrich Haas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 182. Before her are Lydia Lipkowska, Mykhailo Boychuk, Osip Piatnitsky, Bill Tuttle, James Somerville, and Aleksander Skrzyński. After her are Alexander Rueb, Rik Wouters, Louis Wilkins, Júlio Prestes, Verner Weckman, and Amelita Galli-Curci. Among people deceased in 1915, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 92. Before her are Mubarak Al-Sabah, Krikor Zohrab, Guillermo Billinghurst, Leo Frank, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, and Friedrich Hasenöhrl. After her are Stanisław Witkiewicz, Daniel Varoujan, Tevfik Fikret, Keir Hardie, Paul Eyschen, and Karol Olszewski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 3,297 out of 8,785. Before her are Ali Carter (1979), John Mayow (1640), Richard Addinsell (1904), Constance Markievicz (1868), Edmund Campion (1540), and Teddy Sheringham (1966). After her are Enoch Powell (1912), Fish (1958), Dave Holland (1948), Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443), Edward Granville Browne (1862), and Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 25. Before her are John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Jean Pickering (1929), Wally Kinnear (1880), Ken McArthur (1881), Thelma Hopkins (1936), and Norman Read (1931). After her are Eddie Owen (1886), Albert Hill (1889), George Larner (1875), Ian Stewart (1949), Tommy Hampson (1907), and Guy Butler (1899).

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