# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-connolly
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:56.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-connolly"
name: "Hal Connolly"
slug: "hal-connolly"
description: "Harold Vincent \"Hal\" Connolly was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Connolly became the first American to throw a hammer more than 200 feet. He set his first of six world records just prior to the 1956 Olympics, and held the world record for nearly 10 years."
tagline: "American hammer thrower (1931–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hal_Connolly%2C_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1931-08-01"
deathDate: "2010-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump