# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dain-blanton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:54:05.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dain-blanton"
name: "Dain Blanton"
slug: "dain-blanton"
description: "Dain J. Blanton is an American former beach volleyball player who won the gold medal in beach volleyball in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney with partner Eric Fonoimoana. He returned to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with partner Jeff Nygaard, becoming the first two-time U.S. male beach volleyball Olympian. He is the current head coach for the University of Southern California's women's beach volleyball team, having won 6 national titles with the program."
tagline: "Volleyball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1971-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.87483866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://dainblanton.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دین بلانتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dain_Blanton"
    title: "Dain Blanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Блантон, Дейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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