# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-merricks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:41:25.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-merricks"
name: "John Merricks"
slug: "john-merricks"
description: "John Edward Merricks was an English sailor. He represented Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he received the silver medal in the 470 class along with his sailing partner, Ian Walker. At the 1996 470 European Championships he and Walker won the silver medal."
tagline: "English sailor (1971–1997)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1971-02-16"
deathDate: "1997-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.67120266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "约翰·梅里克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جان مریکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merricks"
    title: "John Merricks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Джон Меррікс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6248535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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