# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/okkert-brits
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:32.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/okkert-brits"
name: "Okkert Brits"
slug: "okkert-brits"
description: "Okkert Brits is a former South African track and field athlete who specialised in the pole vault. He was the silver medallist at the World Championships in Athletics in 2003. He was a four-time champion at the African Championships in Athletics and twice champion at the All-Africa Games. He was a gold medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and took bronze at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships."
tagline: "South African pole vaulter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Okkertbrits.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1973-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.64
  momentum:             5.127949484878698
  historical:           13.34395333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "أوكيرت بريتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوكيرت بريتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkert_Brits"
    title: "Okkert Brits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Бритс, Оккерт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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