# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-oppel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:43:54.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-oppel"
name: "Craig Oppel"
slug: "craig-oppel"
description: "Richard Craig Oppel is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning a gold medal in the 4x200 freestyle relay. After graduating the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 where he competed in swimming, he completed a JD Degree at Drake University in 1995 in Des Moines and practiced law in Muscatine, Iowa."
tagline: "American swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.32
  momentum:             0.1904761904761905
  historical:           6.537185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D2%91_%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Креґ Оппел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Oppel"
    title: "Craig Oppel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Oppel"
    title: "Craig Oppel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Oppel"
    title: "Craig Oppel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "کریک اوپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Oppel"
    title: "Craig Oppel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Oppel"
    title: "Craig Oppel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5181293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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