# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-van-balkom
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:19:35.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-van-balkom"
name: "Patrick van Balkom"
slug: "patrick-van-balkom"
description: "Patrick Petrus Marinus van Balkom is a former Dutch sprinter. Together with Caimin Douglas, Timothy Beck and Troy Douglas he won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. With this same team he also participated in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the series due to a mistake in the changing area and did not qualify for the final."
tagline: "Dutch sprinter"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1974-09-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             1.830065359477124
  historical:           11.33984933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "پاتريك ڤان بالكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A0"
    title: "パトリック・ファン・バルコム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Balkom"
    title: "Patrick van Balkom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Ван Балком, Патрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203774"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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