# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-blackwood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:42.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-blackwood"
name: "Michael Blackwood"
slug: "michael-blackwood"
description: "Michael Blackwood is a Jamaican male track and field athlete, who specialized in the 400 meters, his personal best being 44.60 set during his win at the 2002 IAAF World Cup. He was chosen as the Jamaica Sportsman of the Year in 2002, in that same year he was the world number one rank by IAAF in the 400 meters. He is the brother of Catherine Scott who earned a silver medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Blackwood won the NAIA national 400 meters title in 1997. He is the winner of Jamaica 400 meters national championships three times.\nBlackwood holds the Big 12 conference record in the 400 meters since 2000 in the time of 44.69. He is an alumnus of The University of Oklahoma."
tagline: "Jamaican sprint athlete"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1976-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             15.17441860465116
  historical:           13.73963333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Майкл Блеквуд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل بلاكوود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل بلاكوود (عداء سريع من جاميكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood_(Leichtathlet)"
    title: "Michael Blackwood (Leichtathlet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood_(sprinter)"
    title: "Michael Blackwood (sprinter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل بلک وود (ورزشکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Блэквуд, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood"
    title: "Michael Blackwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blackwood_(mwanariadha)"
    title: "Michael Blackwood (mwanariadha)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568980"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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