# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-ingvald-naess
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:44:50.736Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-ingvald-naess"
name: "Alfred Ingvald Naess"
slug: "alfred-ingvald-naess"
description: "Karl Alfred Ingvald Næss was a Norwegian speed skater. He set the men's world record for 500 meter speed skating on 5 February 1893 at 49.4 seconds in Hamar, Norway. He then broke his own world record 21 days later on 26 February 1893 at 48.0 seconds, then lowered it to 47.0 seconds on 24 February 1894 at Hamar. He was the youngest European champion of all time, in 1895 he was 17 years and 276 days when he won the European Speed Skating Championships for Men."
tagline: "Norwegian speed skater and figure skater (1877–1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Ingvald_Naess_circa_1900_with_removed_background.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1877-04-26"
deathDate: "1955-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_N%C3%A6ss"
    title: "Alfred Næss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_N%C3%A6ss"
    title: "Alfred Næss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_N%C3%A6ss_(sk%C3%B8ytel%C3%B8per)"
    title: "Alfred Næss (skøyteløper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_N%C3%A6ss"
    title: "Alfred Næss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Несс, Альфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4317707"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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