# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-sato
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:57:53.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-sato"
name: "Eric Sato"
slug: "eric-sato"
description: "Eric Anthony Sato is an American former volleyball player and two-time Olympian. Sato was a member of the United States national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He also played in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and won a bronze medal. He was a defensive specialist, and was widely considered to be the best defensive player in the world. After the Olympics, he played professional beach volleyball."
tagline: "Volleyball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             16.88854489164087
  historical:           8.947157333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%88"
    title: "ایرک سیٹو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "اريك ساتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "اریک ساتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6"
    title: "エリック・サトウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sato"
    title: "Eric Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5387436"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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