# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-roy-newton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:33.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-roy-newton"
name: "Lee Roy Newton"
slug: "lee-roy-newton"
description: "Lee-Roy Newton is a South African sprinter. Together with Morné Nagel, Corné du Plessis and Matthew Quinn he won a silver medal in 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics."
tagline: "South African sprinter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1978-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             2.467532467532467
  historical:           10.003456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96-%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Лі-Рой Ньютон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "リー＝ロイ・ニュートン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Roy_Newton"
    title: "Lee-Roy Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1389909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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