# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-van-dyk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:24.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-van-dyk"
name: "Ernst van Dyk"
slug: "ernst-van-dyk"
description: "Ernst Francois van Dyk OIS is a South African wheelchair racer and handcyclist. He has won a record 10 wheelchair titles in the Boston Marathon. He was also awarded the Laureus World Sports Awards for Sportsperson with a Disability of the year for 2006. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, he won a bronze medal in the 400 metres. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, he won a silver medal in the 800 metre race, another silver in the 1500 metres, and a bronze in the 5000 metres. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing van Dyk won gold in the handcycling road race as well as bronze in the wheelchair marathon. Other handcycling achievements include: Obtaining a silver and bronze medal at the 2009 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in Italy and taking double gold at the 2007 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in Bordeaux."
tagline: "South African wheelchair racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernst_F._Van_Dyk_in_2014_Boston_Marathon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1973-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.139597333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ernstvandyk.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Ernst van Dyk"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Dyk"
    title: "Ernst van Dyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Dyk"
    title: "Ernst van Dyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_Dyk"
    title: "Ernst van Dyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF"
    title: "エレンスト・ヴァン・ダイク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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