# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-ervin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:44.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-ervin"
name: "Anthony Ervin"
slug: "anthony-ervin"
description: "Anthony Lee Ervin is an American competitive swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place United States relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He was the second swimmer of African descent, after Anthony Nesty of Suriname, to win an individual gold medal in Olympic swimming. He is the first United States citizen of African descent to earn a gold medal in an individual Olympic swimming event. In 2017, he knelt for the US national anthem prior to the start of a competition in Brazil."
tagline: "American swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony_Ervin_at_start_of_50m_free_(27023743703)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1981-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.641140191878311
  historical:           20.99806133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "anthonyervin"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyErvinSwimming"
    handle:    "AnthonyErvinSwimming"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.anthonyervin.com"
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    title: "Anthony Ervin"
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    title: "Эрвин, Энтони"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ентоні Ервін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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