# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-mccoy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:16:44.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-mccoy"
name: "Walter McCoy"
slug: "walter-mccoy"
description: "Walter Lee McCoy is an American former sprinter who qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. He did compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics."
tagline: "American middle distance runner"
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: "1958-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.202268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Маккой, Уолтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "والتر مكوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "والتر مكوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_McCoy"
    title: "Walter McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_McCoy_(sprinter)"
    title: "Walter McCoy (sprinter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_McCoy"
    title: "Walter McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "والتر مک‌کوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_McCoy"
    title: "Walter McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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