# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elsy-jacobs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:46.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elsy-jacobs"
name: "Elsy Jacobs"
slug: "elsy-jacobs"
description: "Elsy Jacobs was a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer. She became the first ever women's Road World Champion when she won the inaugural race on 30 August 1958. Later the same year she broke the women's hour record on 9 November, riding 41,347 m on the Vigorelli velodrome in Milan; the record stood for 14 years."
tagline: "Luxembourgian racing cyclist (1933-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elsy_Jacobs_1958.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1933-03-04"
deathDate: "1998-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.67397466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://elsy-jacobs.lu/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "إلسي جاكوبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "السى جاكوبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobsov%C3%A1"
    title: "Elsy Jacobsová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsy_Jacobs"
    title: "Elsy Jacobs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Якобс, Эльзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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