# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-blackburn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:51.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-blackburn"
name: "Michael Blackburn"
slug: "michael-blackburn"
description: "Michael Blackburn is an Australian Olympic medallist, sailor and coach. He is well known for his crossing of Bass Strait in a Laser dinghy. He did so on 9 March 2005 in a record time of 13 hours 1 minute."
tagline: "Sailor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1970-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             12.5
  historical:           7.60414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E8%8E%B1%E5%85%8B%E6%9C%AC"
    title: "迈克尔·布莱克本"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn"
    title: "Michael Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn_(sailor)"
    title: "Michael Blackburn (sailor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn"
    title: "Michael Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "مایکل بلکبرن (ملوان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn"
    title: "Michael Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn"
    title: "Michael Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackburn"
    title: "Michael Blackburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6828678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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