# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippe-clerc
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:19:31.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippe-clerc"
name: "Philippe Clerc"
slug: "philippe-clerc"
description: "Philippe Clerc is a former Swiss sprinter who won a bronze and a gold medal in the 100 and 200 m at the 1969 European Athletics Championships, respectively. He competed in these events at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. He was married to English sprinter Janet Simpson, who died of a heart attack on 14 March 2010."
tagline: "Olympic athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philippe_Clerc_1970.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: "1946-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.605472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%BF_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Філіпп Клер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Clerc"
    title: "Philippe Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF"
    title: "Клер, Филипп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q672499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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