# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derrick-adkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:37.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derrick-adkins"
name: "Derrick Adkins"
slug: "derrick-adkins"
description: "Derrick Ralph Adkins is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter hurdles. He was an Olympic gold medalist in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics and World Champion at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. He was the fastest man in the world in the 1994 and 1996 seasons, and holds a personal record of 47.54 seconds. Adkins was a two-time national champion at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Recent_DA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1970-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "derrickadkins.oly"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump