# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaus-jurgen-grunke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:43:41.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klaus-jurgen-grunke"
name: "Klaus-Jürgen Grünke"
slug: "klaus-jurgen-grunke"
description: "Klaus-Jürgen Grünke is a retired track cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the men's 1,000m time trial, defeating Belgium's Michel Vaarten. A year earlier he won the world title in the same event in Rocourt."
tagline: "East German racing cyclist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild%2C_Klaus_Gr%C3%BCnke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1951-03-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             16.12554112554113
  historical:           14.609252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump