# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-depoorter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:54.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-depoorter"
name: "Richard Depoorter"
slug: "richard-depoorter"
description: "Richard Depoorter was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1943 and 1947 editions of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He crashed into a tunnel wall on a \"descent of the Sustenpas near Bern\" during the 1948 Tour of Switzerland and died onsite or shortly thereafter due to his injuries."
tagline: "Belgian bicycle racer (1915–1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Richard_Depoorter.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1915-04-29"
deathDate: "1948-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.406264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد ديپورتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Depoorter"
    title: "Richard Depoorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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