# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-dix
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:28:00.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-dix"
name: "Walter Dix"
slug: "walter-dix"
description: "Walter Dix is a retired American sprinter who specialized in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He is the seventh-fastest 200-meter runner ever with a best of 19.53 seconds, and has broken the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters, with a best of 9.88 (9.80w) seconds. He was the only track athlete from USA to win 2 individual Olympic medals in Beijing."
tagline: "American sprinter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Forsythe_Dix_Daegu_2011-2012-24-07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1986-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.71905940594059
  historical:           21.679812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8545695/"
    handle:    "nm8545695"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://waltdixonline.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump