# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/javier-sotomayor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:55:26.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/javier-sotomayor"
name: "Javier Sotomayor"
slug: "javier-sotomayor"
description: "Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. His world record of 2.45 m and second-highest jump of 2.44 make him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet (2.44 m)."
tagline: "Cuban high jumper"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Javier_Sotomayor_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           21.998484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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