Please answer the following question: Barbel Korner is a West German slalom canoer who competed in the 1960s and 1970s.She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (K-1 team: 1969) a silver (K-1 team: 1971) and three bronzes (K-1: 1965; K-1 team: 1965 1967). Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete