# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/birte-weigang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:29.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/birte-weigang"
name: "Birte Weigang"
slug: "birte-weigang"
description: "Birte Weigang is a former butterfly and backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The twenty-year-old triumphed with the DDR women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley together with her teammates Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner and Katrin Meissner, and finished second in both the 100 m and the 200 m butterfly. She won a gold medal in 1987 at the European Championships, in the women's 4×100 m medley."
tagline: "East German swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0619-034%2C_Birte_Weigang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1968-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump