# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-laird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:48:05.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-laird"
name: "Ron Laird"
slug: "ron-laird"
description: "Ronald Owen Laird was a race walker from the United States, who competed for the New York Athletic Club. He represented his native country at four Olympiads. His best finish was 19th place in the men's 50 km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He won the 20 km event at the 1967 Pan American Games, and finished 25th in that event in the Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics and 20th in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified in the 1964 Summer Olympics event in Tokyo."
tagline: "American racewalker"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1938-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.868898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Laird"
    title: "Ron Laird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Laird"
    title: "Ron Laird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Laird"
    title: "Ron Laird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Рон Лерд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Laird"
    title: "Ron Laird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Лэрд, Рон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7364053"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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