# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:36.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-richards"
name: "Bob Richards"
slug: "bob-richards"
description: "Robert Eugene Richards was an American athlete, minister, and politician. He made three U.S. Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and as a decathlete in 1956. He won gold medals in pole vault in both 1952 and 1956, becoming the first male two-time champion in the event in Olympic history."
tagline: "American athletics competitor, pole vaulter (1926–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob_Richards_1951.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1926-02-20"
deathDate: "2023-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump