# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sharman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:41.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sharman"
name: "William Sharman"
slug: "william-sharman"
description: "William \"Will\" Sharman is a British/Nigerian former athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. He started his career as a junior high jumper and decathlete, but focused entirely on hurdling after a shoulder injury. He made his international debut for Great Britain at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and went on to compete at the 2007 Summer Universiade. Sharman came to prominence in 2009, after he significantly improved upon his previous personal best and finished fourth in the 110 metres hurdles final at the 2009 World Championships. This would be the first of three consecutive appearances in the World Championship final, he's since finished fifth in both the 2011 and 2013 finals."
tagline: "British hurdler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sharman_at_Josef_Odlozil_Memorial_in_Prague_14June2010_042.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1984-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.67
  momentum:             2.876106194690265
  historical:           7.877142666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Sharman"
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  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وليام شارمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Sharman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharman"
    title: "William Sharman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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