# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-armstead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:02:38.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-armstead"
name: "Ray Armstead"
slug: "ray-armstead"
description: "Ray Ricky Armstead is an American former track athlete who specialized in the 400 meters. He was a 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the men's 4 × 400 meter relay. In the 1985 IAAF Grand Prix season, he won the 400 m in Rieti and\nWest Berlin (45.36s) and came second in the final in Rome (45.24s). In 1989 he contested the US Trials in Baton Rouge for 1989 the World Indoor Championships.\nAs of 2020, he was an elementary-school art teacher in the Hazelwood School District."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Armstead_(1984).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1960-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.27491066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ray Armstead"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump