# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthias-merz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:54:02.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthias-merz"
name: "Matthias Merz"
slug: "matthias-merz"
description: "Matthias Merz is a Swiss orienteering competitor, winner of the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Long distance, and also earned a silver medal on the Sprint distance in the same championship. He has a bronze medal from the 2005 Relay Championships in Aichi, Japan, as member of the Swiss winning team. When Merz won the bronze medal in the middle distance at the World Championships in Miskolc in 2009, he joined countryman Daniel Hubmann as the only two men to have ever medaled in all four orienteering disciplines at the World Championships."
tagline: "Swiss orienteer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merz_WOC2008_sprint_q.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1984-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.93668133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "ماتياس ميرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84"
    title: "マティアス・メルツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Merz"
    title: "Matthias Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Мерц, Матиас"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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