# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-thune
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:17:00.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-thune"
name: "Wolfgang Thüne"
slug: "wolfgang-thune"
description: "Wolfgang Thüne is a German former gymnast. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze medal with the East German team. Individually his best achievement was seventh place in the horizontal bar. He won two more bronze team medals at the world championships in 1970 and 1974 as well as individual silver in the horizontal bar in 1974. At the 1975 European Championships in Bern, he fled to West Germany with the help of his rival Eberhard Gienger. In 1977 he won the national all-round title in West Germany competing for TuS 04 Leverkusen. After retirement he worked as a gymnastics coach at the same club."
tagline: "East German gymnast"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N0427-0016%2C_Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1949-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.36
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.077898666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7574083/"
    handle:    "nm7574083"
sources:
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    title: "沃尔夫冈·蒂内"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne_(Turner)"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne (Turner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87"
    title: "وولفگانگ تونه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8E%D0%BD%D0%B5%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Тюне, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Th%C3%BCne"
    title: "Wolfgang Thüne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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