# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thane-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:42:09.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thane-baker"
name: "Thane Baker"
slug: "thane-baker"
description: "Walter Thane Baker is an American former sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics, Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he won a silver medal in the 200-meter."
tagline: "American sprinter"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1931-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.339943342776204
  historical:           18.07980666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thane Baker"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thane_Baker"
    title: "Thane Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thane Baker"
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    title: "Thane Baker"
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    title: "Thane Baker"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BD"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump