# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theophile-nkounkou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:02:15.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theophile-nkounkou"
name: "Théophile Nkounkou"
slug: "theophile-nkounkou"
description: "Théophile Nkounkou is a Congolese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Nkounkou ran in heat 8, coming 3rd out of 7 runners with a time of 10.53 seconds, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals he was placed in race 3 and came 6th out of 8 runners with a time of 10.59 seconds. He did not advance to the semi-finals. Nkounkou also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany in the men's 4x100m relay. He raced along with Antoine Nkounkou, Louis Knanza and Jean-Pierre Bassegela. They raced in heat 4 and came 4th out of 8 teams with a time of 39.86 seconds. They advanced to the semi-finals and came 8th out of 8 runners in their race with a time of 39.97 seconds. They did not advance to the finals."
tagline: "Congolese athlete"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1952-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.46
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.668322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "ثيوفيل نكونكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_Nkounkou"
    title: "Théophile Nkounkou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3526682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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