# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-witherspoon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:18:46.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-witherspoon"
name: "Mark Witherspoon"
slug: "mark-witherspoon"
description: "Donald Mark Witherspoon is an American former sprinter. He joined his high school track team after having success as a cornerback on the football team. In college, he was primarily a 200 m and 400 m runner. He recorded an impressive 19.3 200 m split on a 4 × 200 m and a 43.9 440 yd leg on a 4x440 yd while in college. As a professional, he competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he tore his achilles tendon after starting at the 100 m semifinals."
tagline: "Olympic track and field athlete"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1963-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             5.176470588235295
  historical:           8.271310666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Witherspoon"
    title: "Mark Witherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B0%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارك ويذرسبون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B0%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارك ويذرسبون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Witherspoon"
    title: "Mark Witherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Witherspoon"
    title: "Mark Witherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Whiterspoon"
    title: "Mike Whiterspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Witherspoon"
    title: "Mark Witherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Witherspoon"
    title: "Mark Witherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Уизерспун, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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