# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aries-merritt
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:52.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aries-merritt"
name: "Aries Merritt"
slug: "aries-merritt"
description: "Aries Merritt is an American track and field athlete who specialized in the 110 metre hurdles, and holds the second fastest time in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012. He won the gold medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London."
tagline: "American hurdler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aries_Merritt%2C_Bislet_Games_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1985-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             25
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 243
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    handle:    "aries.merritt.hurdles"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump