# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:16:19.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-thornton"
name: "Jane Thornton"
slug: "jane-thornton"
description: "Jane S. Thornton is a Canadian sport medicine physician, associate professor, World Champion and Olympic rower, and international advocate for physical activity. She serves as the director of the Health, Medicine and Science Department for the International Olympic Committee. Thornton is also president of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine and holds the Canada Research Chair in Injury Prevention and Physical Activity for Health at the University of Western Ontario. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada."
tagline: "Canadian rower"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1978-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             2.888888888888889
  historical:           7.208352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JaneSThornton"
    handle:    "JaneSThornton"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AE%80%C2%B7%E6%A1%91%E9%A1%BF"
    title: "简·桑顿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جين ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جين ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Thornton"
    title: "Jane Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Thornton"
    title: "Jane Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Thornton"
    title: "Jane Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rumball"
    title: "Jane Rumball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Торнтон, Джейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6152849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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