# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-lapthorne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:07.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-lapthorne"
name: "Andy Lapthorne"
slug: "andy-lapthorne"
description: "Andrew David Lapthorne is a British wheelchair tennis player. He took up wheelchair tennis in 2005, and entered the quad division in 2008. He is active in both singles and doubles tournaments, and has 17 grand slam titles in singles and doubles. He competed at his first Summer Paralympics at London 2012 in the quad singles and in the quad doubles, in which he won a silver medal and is now a four-time Paralympic medallist and British no.1 Quad tennis player, who started playing wheelchair tennis at the age of 10."
tagline: "British wheelchair tennis player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andy_Lapthorne_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1990-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.36
  momentum:             7.580645161290324
  historical:           6.349029333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.andylapthorne.com/"
sources:
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    title: "安迪·拉普索恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "أندرو لابثورني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lapthorne"
    title: "Andy Lapthorne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lapthorne"
    title: "Andy Lapthorne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lapthorne"
    title: "Andy Lapthorne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD"
    title: "Енди Лапторн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lapthorne"
    title: "Andy Lapthorne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13512827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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