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# Athletes API Overview

The **Athletes API** provides access to all athlete data. This is useful in producing statistics, athlete profiles and in media requests.

The Athletes API takes several parameters from the [Events](http://apidocs.triathlon.org/v1.0/docs/events-api-overview) and [Federation](http://apidocs.triathlon.org/v1.0/docs/federation-api-overview) APIs such as `country_id` and `event_id`.

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  The Athletes API provides access to all athlete data
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## Basic Athlete Object

When using the athlete listing call or where athletes are returned from different API calls e.g. results, start lists, or rankings a basic athlete object is returned which will always conform to the following specification. If further detail is required request the full athlete listing using the [Retrieve Athlete Information](https://developers.triathlon.org/docs/retrieve-athlete-information) API call.

```json Basic Athlete Object
{
   "athlete_id":40887,
   "athlete_title":"Gwen Jorgensen",
   "athlete_slug":"gwen_jorgensen",
   "athlete_edit_date":"2015-12-31T05:09:33+00:00",
   "athlete_first":"Gwen",
   "athlete_last":"Jorgensen",
   "athlete_country_id":293,
   "athlete_gender":"female",
   "athlete_yob":"1986",
   "validated":false,
   "athlete_profile_image":"http:\/\/www.triathlon.org\/images\/athlete_thumbs\/Gwen_Jorgensen2.jpg",
   "athlete_noc":"USA",
   "athlete_country_name":"United States",
   "athlete_country_isoa2":"US",
   "athlete_listing":"http:\/\/www.triathlon.org\/athletes\/profile\/40887\/gwen_jorgensen",
   "athlete_flag":"https:\/\/f9ca11ef49c28681fc01-0acbf57e00c47a50e70a1acb89e86c89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/images\/icons\/us.png",
   "athlete_api_listing":"https:\/\/api.triathlon.org\/v1\/v1\/athletes\/40887",
   "athlete_categories":[
      42
   ]
}
```