# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rainer-pottel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:03:38.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rainer-pottel"
name: "Rainer Pottel"
slug: "rainer-pottel"
description: "Rainer Pottel is a retired decathlete, who represented East Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. He had the best performance in the world in 1981, collecting 8,334 points at a meet in Birmingham, England. He is a three-time national champion for East Germany in the men's decathlon."
tagline: "German decathlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0524-012%2C_Rainer_Pottel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1953-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.76
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           4.80198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "راينير پوتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Pottel"
    title: "Rainer Pottel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Pottel"
    title: "Rainer Pottel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Pottel"
    title: "Rainer Pottel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Поттель, Райнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423537"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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