# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-steel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:01:32.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-steel"
name: "Ian Steel"
slug: "ian-steel"
description: "John \"Ian\" Steel was a Scottish racing cyclist who in 1952 won the Peace Race, a central European race between Warsaw, Berlin and Prague. He was the only Briton, and the only rider from the English-speaking world to win it, as well as the first Briton to win any major race. He also won the Tour of Britain as a semi-professional and was at one stage second in the 1952 Tour of Mexico before crashing."
tagline: "Scottish racing cyclist (1928–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0006288_011_Radrennfahrer_beim_Etappenstart_auf_dem_Karl-Mar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1928-12-28"
deathDate: "2015-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.670770666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Steel"
    title: "Ian Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ايان ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Steel"
    title: "Ian Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Steel"
    title: "Ian Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Steel"
    title: "Ian Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Steel"
    title: "Ian Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123727"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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