# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karin-kessler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:37:29.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karin-kessler"
name: "Karin Kessler"
slug: "karin-kessler"
description: "Karin Kessler is a German female former track and field athlete who competed for West Germany in the 800 metres. She was the gold medallist in that event at the 1967 European Indoor Games, having been runner-up to Zsuzsa Szabó the previous year at the 1966 European Indoor Games. Kessler also represented her country at the 1966 European Athletics Championships, reaching the semi-finals. She set a personal best of 2:03.6 minutes in 1967, which was a West German record for the Hamburg-born athlete."
tagline: "German athletics competitor"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1939-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           32.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.334377333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Kessler"
    title: "Karin Kessler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "كارين كيسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "كارين كيسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Kessler"
    title: "Karin Kessler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Kessler"
    title: "Karin Kessler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Kessler"
    title: "Karin Kessler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Кесслер, Карин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1472234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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