# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:59.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-jones"
name: "Barbara Jones"
slug: "barbara-jones"
description: "Barbara Pearl Jones is a retired American sprinter. She was part of the 4 × 100 m relay teams that won gold medals at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics and at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games. At the 1952 Olympics she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, aged 15 years 123 days. She later became a member of the U.S. Paralympic Games Committee."
tagline: "American sprinter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilma_Rudolph%2C_Lucinda_Williams%2C_Barbara_Jones%2C_Martha_Hudson_1960_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1937-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.90909090909091
  historical:           17.87609866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "芭芭拉·琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Jones"
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    title: "Barbara Jones"
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    title: "바버라 존스 (육상 선수)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Jones"
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    title: "Барбара Джонс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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