# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akwasi-frimpong
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:38:09.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akwasi-frimpong"
name: "Akwasi Frimpong"
slug: "akwasi-frimpong"
description: "Akwasi Frimpong is a Dutch-Ghanaian sprinter, bobsledder, and skeleton athlete. Frimpong was raised in Ghana and later moved to the Netherlands. He is a former Dutch Junior Champion in the 200 meter sprints. To qualify for the Olympics, Frimpong decided to compete for his country Ghana in skeleton. Frimpong qualified for the 2018 Olympics in skeleton, earning the continental representation spot for the continent of Africa in skeleton. On February 29, 2020, Akwasi Frimpong became the first skeleton athlete from Africa to win an elite skeleton race sanctioned by the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation in Park City, Utah."
tagline: "Ghanaian sportsman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akwasi_Frimpong_in_the_United_States_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1986-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.24
  momentum:             6.232394366197181
  historical:           6.544817333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.akwasifrimpong.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Фримпонг, Акваси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwasi_Frimpong"
    title: "Akwasi Frimpong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4702010"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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