# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnd-kruger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:03.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnd-kruger"
name: "Arnd Krüger"
slug: "arnd-kruger"
description: "Arnd Krüger is a German professor of sport studies. Krüger earned his BA from UCLA in 1967 and his PhD from the University of Cologne in Germany in 1971. He attended UCLA on a track scholarship, was 10 times German champion, and represented West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres run, where he reached the semi-final. He was one of the first Germans to be honored as All-American for being part of the UCLA Distance Medley Relay which ran faster than the World Record in 1965."
tagline: "German sports historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1944-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             3.572202149145164
  historical:           6.663041333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Arnd Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "أرند كروغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "ارند كروجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnd_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Arnd Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnd_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Arnd Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnd_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Arnd Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnd_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Arnd Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q691878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump