# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:33:10.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hilton"
name: "John Hilton"
slug: "john-hilton"
description: "John Hilton is a retired table tennis player best known for winning the singles event at the Table Tennis European Championships in 1980 despite being a relatively unknown amateur player. His use of a revolutionary combination bat with different rubbers on either side, coupled with his aggressive allround play, always turning the bat in his hand, led to one of sport's greatest upsets. At the time of his victory John trained at the Manchester YMCA, where he was only ranked at number 4, despite being ranked at number 1 in Europe and number 5 in the world. His odds of winning the tournament were rated at 1,000–1."
tagline: "British table tennis player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1947-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.478330666666666
  currentAttention:     7.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E5%B0%94%E9%A1%BF"
    title: "约翰·希尔顿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "جون هيلتون (لاعب تنس الطاولة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton_(Tischtennisspieler)"
    title: "John Hilton (Tischtennisspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton_(table_tennis)"
    title: "John Hilton (table tennis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B2)"
    title: "جان هیلتون (بازیکن تنیس روی میز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton"
    title: "John Hilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton_(tafeltennisser)"
    title: "John Hilton (tafeltennisser)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton_(tenisista)"
    title: "John Hilton (tenisista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hilton"
    title: "John Hilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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