# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-petranoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:05.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-petranoff"
name: "Tom Petranoff"
slug: "tom-petranoff"
description: "Thomas Alan Petranoff is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He held the world record from May 1983 to July 1984; his 99.72 m throw was almost the length of an American football field (360 feet. During his career, he was a silver medalist at the World Championships in 1983 and represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988. He transferred to South Africa in the 1990s and was twice a winner at the African Championships. His personal best with the new implement javelin is 89.16 m. In the final years of his career, he returned to the United States and won a medal at the 1999 Pan American Games."
tagline: "American athletics competitor, javelin thrower"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1958-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           10.28059866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Tom Petranoff"
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    title: "Tom Petranoff"
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    title: "Tom Petranoff"
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    title: "Tom Petranoff"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petranoff"
    title: "Tom Petranoff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump