# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/glen-thomson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:45:04.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/glen-thomson"
name: "Glen Thomson"
slug: "glen-thomson"
description: "Glen Thomson is a New Zealand racing cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the men's points race, previously at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada he won a bronze medal as part of the men's team pursuit riding alongside Brendon Cameron, Julian Dean and Lee Vertongen. In 2000 he began racing on the professional cycling circuit, winning the 176 km New Zealand National Road Championship. From 2005 to 2019 he ran the Cycle Surgery franchise in Invercargill, New Zealand, and in February 2019 joined Cycling Southland in Invercargill as development and events co-ordinator. In 2020 Thomson was accepted to the Academy Southland Performance Coach Programme."
tagline: "New Zealand cyclist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1973-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.43
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.335385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "格伦·汤姆森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جلان تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جلان ثومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Thomson"
    title: "Glen Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Thomson"
    title: "Glen Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Thomson"
    title: "Glen Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Thomson"
    title: "Glen Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1299266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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