# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:47.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-francis"
name: "Charlie Francis"
slug: "charlie-francis"
description: "Charles Merrick Francis was a Canadian Olympic sprinter and sprint coach most noteworthy for being the trainer of sprinter Ben Johnson, the first competitor to be stripped of an Olympic gold medal for using banned drugs, and sprinters Angella Issajenko, Mark McKoy, and Desai Williams. Francis was banned by Athletics Canada following his admissions at the 1989 Dubin inquiry that he had introduced Johnson to steroids."
tagline: "Sprinter coach (1948-2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1948-10-13"
deathDate: "2010-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.85
  momentum:             0.4026845637583893
  historical:           5.493126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلى فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis"
    title: "Charlie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلي فرنسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis"
    title: "Charlie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis"
    title: "Charlie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis"
    title: "Charlie Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5084870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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