# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-lopes
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:48:39.251Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-lopes"
name: "Carlos Lopes"
slug: "carlos-lopes"
description: "Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes is a Portuguese former long-distance runner and world-record holder in the marathon. He won the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming Portugal's first Olympic gold medalist, the oldest ever Olympic marathon winner at the age of 37, and setting an Olympic record for the event which stood for 24 years. On 20 April 1985, Lopes set the men's marathon world record at 2:07:12 at the Rotterdam Marathon. At club level, he competed for Sporting CP."
tagline: "Olympic runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carlos_Lopes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "PT"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
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birthDate: "1947-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump