# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wouter-claes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:14:48.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wouter-claes"
name: "Wouter Claes"
slug: "wouter-claes"
description: "Wouter Claes is a left-handed Belgian badminton player. He won 20 Belgian titles, 10 in the men's doubles with Frédéric Mawet and Ruud Kuijten, 10 in the mixed doubles with Manon Albinus, Corina Herrle and Nathalie Descamps. He won 20 Flemish Championships in singles, men's doubles with Nico Claes and Steven Delsaert and mixed doubles with Nathalie Descamps and Janne Elst. He won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles during the 2010 European Badminton Championships. This was the first Belgian medal ever won at a European Championship. During his career, he was placed 21 in world ranking."
tagline: "Belgian badminton player"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1975-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             1.86046511627907
  historical:           6.537005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "沃特·克拉斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ووتر كلايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ووتر كلايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Claes"
    title: "Wouter Claes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Claes"
    title: "Wouter Claes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Claes"
    title: "Wouter Claes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Claes"
    title: "Wouter Claes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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