# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:04:52.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-burke"
name: "Ed Burke"
slug: "ed-burke"
description: "Edward Andrew Burke is an American hammer thrower best known for carrying the flag of the United States at the Olympics in Los Angeles 1984. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1984 Olympics and placed 7th, 12th and 18th, respectively. He set his personal best in 1984, aged 44."
tagline: "American hammer thrower"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Burke_1968.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             3.250454821103699
  historical:           6.540533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burke"
    title: "Edward Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83_(%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89)"
    title: "إدوارد بيرك (منافس ألعاب قوى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burke_(Leichtathlet)"
    title: "Ed Burke (Leichtathlet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burke_(hammer_thrower)"
    title: "Ed Burke (hammer thrower)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burke_(lanzador_de_martillo)"
    title: "Edward Burke (lanzador de martillo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burke"
    title: "Ed Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burke"
    title: "Ed Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5342086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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