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Émile Champion

1879 - 1921

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Émile Adolphe Eugène Champion (August 7, 1879 in Laval, Mayenne – 4 August 1934 in Bordeaux) was a French track and field athlete, born in Paris, who competed in the early 20th century. He was a long-distance runner but specialized in the marathon and won a silver medal in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Champion is the 545th most popular athlete (down from 429th in 2019), the 4,028th most popular biography from France (up from 4,079th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Émile Champion ranks 545 out of 6,025. Before him are Hiroki Ito, Roald Larsen, Percy Hodge, Sven Thofelt, Robert Liottel, and Gert Fredriksson. After him are Fred Alderman, Armas Taipale, Wyndham Halswelle, Ivan Gubijan, Bruno Müller, and Jay O'Brien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Émile Champion ranks 163. Before him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Milan Šufflay, Ernst Herzfeld, Eugène Lanti, and Rafael Erich. After him are Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Wladimir Aïtoff, Antti Tulenheimo, Beals Wright, Alfred Abel, and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. Among people deceased in 1921, Émile Champion ranks 93. Before him are Mirza Kuchik Khan, Gyula Breyer, James H. Johnson, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Isidor Kaufmann, and Milenko Radomar Vesnić. After him are Žemaitė, Jan Janský, Dimitrios Rallis, Hans Huber, Edward Douglass White, and Virginia Rappe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Champion ranks 4,028 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Ochs (1883), François de Créquy (1625), Henri Dutrochet (1776), Robert Liottel (1885), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), and Henri Oreiller (1925). After him are Henri Regnault (1843), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Alain Cavalier (1931), Véronique Sanson (1949), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), and Viviane Romance (1912).

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Among ATHLETES In France

Among athletes born in France, Émile Champion ranks 21. Before him are Edward Gardère (1909), Henri Hazebrouck (1877), André Auffray (1884), Anne-Marie Colchen (1925), Henri Jobier (1879), and Robert Liottel (1885). After him are André Bonin (1909), Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Eventing (null), Roger Beaufrand (1908), Louis Hostin (1908), Michel Jazy (1936), and Joseph Alzin (1893).

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