# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-talen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:47.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-talen"
name: "John Talen"
slug: "john-talen"
description: "John Talen is a former road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who was a professional from 1987 to 2000. As an amateur his most notable achievement came when he won the world title in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Rob Harmeling, Tom Cordes and Gerrit de Vries, while also finishing second in the individual road race."
tagline: "Road bicycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Talen_1986.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1965-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             15.92485549132948
  historical:           9.806804
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون تالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "جان تالن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talen"
    title: "John Talen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597113"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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