# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-joyon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:53.766Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-joyon"
name: "Francis Joyon"
slug: "francis-joyon"
description: "Francis Joyon is a French professional sailboat racer and yachtsman. Joyon and his crew currently hold the Jules Verne Trophy for circumnavigation, on IDEC SPORT, nearly five days less than the previous reference time. He held the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation from 2008 to 2016."
tagline: "French yacht racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis-Joyon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1956-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             14.06607884868754
  historical:           5.287618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.idecsport.com/francis-joyon/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon"
    title: "Francis Joyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسيس جويون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon"
    title: "Francis Joyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon"
    title: "Francis Joyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon"
    title: "Francis Joyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q523162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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