# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-sohl
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:15.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-sohl"
name: "Bob Sohl"
slug: "bob-sohl"
description: "Robert Raymond Sohl was an American competition swimmer, a breaststroke world record holder and a 1948 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200-meter breaststroke. After graduating and swimming for the University of Michigan in 1949, Sohl attended Officer Candidate School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and served in the Army Field Artillery as a Lieutenant through 1953. In the 1950s, Sohl worked in Sales Management for Standard Register in New York, and after 1964 in Sales Management and as a Director of Training for Xerox Corporation in Virginia, later retiring as a vice-president."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1928-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Robert_Sohl.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-03-28"
deathDate: "2001-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.66
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.601692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Боб Сол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sohl"
    title: "Robert Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sohl"
    title: "Bob Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sohl"
    title: "Bob Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "باب سول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sohl"
    title: "Bob Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sohl"
    title: "Robert Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C"
    title: "בוב סול"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sohl"
    title: "Bob Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sohl"
    title: "Robert Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sohl"
    title: "Bob Sohl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4934043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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