# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshinori-sakai
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:48:21.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshinori-sakai"
name: "Yoshinori Sakai"
slug: "yoshinori-sakai"
description: "Yoshinori Sakai  was the Olympic flame torchbearer who lit the cauldron at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo."
tagline: "Torch relay last runner, Games of the XVIII Olympiad, in Tokyo, Japan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoshinori_Sakai_1964b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1945-08-06"
deathDate: "2014-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.53
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           13.38434533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12329344/"
    handle:    "nm12329344"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ياوشينورى ساكاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoşinori Sakay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E4%BA%95%E7%BE%A9%E5%89%87"
    title: "坂井義則"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B8%2C_%D0%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Сакаи, Ёсинори"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai"
    title: "Yoshinori Sakai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E4%BA%95%E4%B9%89%E5%88%99"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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