# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dettlef-gunther
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:54:41.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dettlef-gunther"
name: "Dettlef Günther"
slug: "dettlef-gunther"
description: "Dettlef Günther is an East German former luger who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. He won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, Günther was favored to repeat after leading the first two runs, but crashed at the end of the third run causing him to lose three seconds and settling for fourth in the standings."
tagline: "East German luger"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W0214-0104%2C_Detlef_G%C3%BCnther.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1954-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.87177866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "德特勒夫·金特"
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    title: "Dettlef Günther"
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    title: "Dettlef Günther"
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    title: "دتلف گونتر"
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    title: "Detlef Günther"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef_G%C3%BCnther"
    title: "Detlef Günther"
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    title: "Dettlef Günther"
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    title: "Dettlef Günther"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump