# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roel-paulissen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:48:38.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roel-paulissen"
name: "Roel Paulissen"
slug: "roel-paulissen"
description: "Roel Paulissen is a Belgian former professional mountain biker. Throughout his sporting career since 1993, he has won more than ten Belgian national championship titles, mounted top-five finishes at both the European and World Cup series, and claimed a total of four medals, including two golds, in men's cross-country race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Paulissen also represented his nation Belgium in four editions of the Olympic Games, where he competed in men's mountain biking since it officially became an Olympic sport in 1996. By the start of the 2010 season, Paulissen had been overshadowed by a doping issue after he tested positive for clomiphene that sidelined and effectively ended his mountain biking career. Having lifted a two-year suspension from doping in early 2013, Paulissen came out from his short retirement to join and race professionally for the Italian team Torpado."
tagline: "Belgian cyclist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roel_Paulissen.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1976-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             8.4375
  historical:           8.938913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Fastroel"
    handle:    "Fastroel"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.roelpaulissen.be/"
sources:
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    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "رويل پوليسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "رول پاولیسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Paulissen"
    title: "Roel Paulissen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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