# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alain-colas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:41.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alain-colas"
name: "Alain Colas"
slug: "alain-colas"
description: "Alain Colas was a French sailor, the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull. He met Éric Tabarly in Sydney in 1967, and bought Pen Duick IV from him in 1970, and won the \"Transat\" in 1972. The same year, he started the construction of a 72m 4-masted monohull for the 1976 \"Transat\"."
tagline: "French sailor (1943-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alain_Colas-Saint-Malo-1978-11.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1943-09-16"
deathDate: "1978-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.204516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3490478/"
    handle:    "nm3490478"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Ален Кола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A1"
    title: "Ալեն Կոլա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas"
    title: "Alain Colas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2545301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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