# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:07:24.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-peterson"
name: "Ben Peterson"
slug: "ben-peterson"
description: "Benjamin Lee Peterson is a retired American freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively. As a college wrestler, Peterson was a two-time NCAA champion at Iowa State. He founded the \"Camp of Champs,\" which brought in Olympic wrestlers to train with high schoolers. Peterson also coached wrestling at Maranatha Baptist University for 28 years."
tagline: "Olympic wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Peterson_(1973).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.48
  momentum:             1.5
  historical:           12.215696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "本·彼得森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benjamin Peterson"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peterson"
    title: "Benjamin Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peterson_(wrestler)"
    title: "Ben Peterson (wrestler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peterson"
    title: "Benjamin Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بن پترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peterson"
    title: "Ben Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peterson"
    title: "Ben Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peterson"
    title: "Ben Peterson"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peterson"
    title: "Ben Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Peterson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327739"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump