# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelia-sirch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:32.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelia-sirch"
name: "Cornelia Sirch"
slug: "cornelia-sirch"
description: "Cornelia Sirch is a former East German backstroke swimmer. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in three events and won two bronze medals in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, in which she swam in a preliminary round. In 1982 she was named Swimming World's European Swimmer of the Year, after winning 200 m backstroke at the World Championships in Guayaguil in a world record time of 2:09.91, becoming the first woman to dip under 2 minutes 10 seconds."
tagline: "East German swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cornelis_Sirch_1986.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1966-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.007308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Cornelia Sirch"
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    title: "Cornelia Sirch"
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    title: "Cornelia Sirch"
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    title: "Cornelia Sirch"
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    title: "Cornelia Sirch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump