# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aaron-peirsol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:24:58.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aaron-peirsol"
name: "Aaron Peirsol"
slug: "aaron-peirsol"
description: "Aaron Wells Peirsol is an American former competition swimmer and backstroke specialist who swam for the University of Texas and is a former world champion and world record-holder. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist with five gold, and two silver medals. Individually, he has held the world record in the 100-meter backstroke event and is the current record holder in the 200-meter backstroke. In his long career, Peirsol captured a total of thirty-six medals in major international competition: twenty-nine gold, six silver, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, Pan American, and the Pan Pacific Championships."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aaron_peirsol-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1983-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump