# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-steele
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:40.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-steele"
name: "Willie Steele"
slug: "willie-steele"
description: "William Samuel Steele was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. Steele won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1948 London Olympics. A two-time USA Outdoor champion, Steele was the 1948 Olympic Trials champion and a two-time NCAA long jump champion. He was considered the world's best long jumper in 1942 and 1946, and was world ranked #1 by Track & Field News their first two years of producing worldwide rankings, 1947 and 1948."
tagline: "American long jumper (1923–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Steele_1949_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1923-07-14"
deathDate: "1989-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.597465886939571
  historical:           16.34190133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump