# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-obikwelu
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:50:36.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-obikwelu"
name: "Francis Obikwelu"
slug: "francis-obikwelu"
description: "Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, GOIH is a retired Nigerian-born Portuguese sprinter, who specialized in 100 metres and 200 metres. He was the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 metres. In the same race, he set the European record in the event at 9.86 seconds, which stood for nearly 17 years. At club level, he was a professional athlete for Sporting CP."
tagline: "Nigerian-born Olympic sprinter who competed for Portugal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Obikwelu_Paris_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "PT"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1978-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump