# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/corne-du-plessis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:14.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/corne-du-plessis"
name: "Corné du Plessis"
slug: "corne-du-plessis"
description: "Corné du Plessis is a South African sprinter. Together with Morne Nagel, Lee-Roy Newton and Mathew Quinn he won a silver medal in 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Their time of 38.47 seconds was a South African record. Earlier in the season he won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2001 Summer Universiade."
tagline: "South African athlete"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1978-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.79
  momentum:             4.561403508771929
  historical:           9.136321333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%B4%D1%8E_%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D1%96"
    title: "Корне дю Плессі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3%A9_du_Plessis"
    title: "Corné du Plessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1133184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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