# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melaine-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:37.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melaine-walker"
name: "Melaine Walker"
slug: "melaine-walker"
description: "Melaine Walker is a Jamaican 400 metres hurdler. She was born in Kingston. Walker is the former Olympic 400 m hurdles champion. She held the Olympic record of 52.64, set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and her time of 52.42 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin was the second fastest time in history at the time."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melaine_Walker_Berlin_2009_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.33
  momentum:             10
  historical:           20.95615733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melaine Walker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump