# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-kowalski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:27.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-kowalski"
name: "Daniel Kowalski"
slug: "daniel-kowalski"
description: "Daniel Steven Kowalski is an Australian former middle- and long-distance swimmer specialising in freestyle events. He competed in the Olympic Games in 200-, 400- and 1,500-metre individual freestyle events and in the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was the first man in 92 years to earn medals in all of the 200-, 400- and 1500-metre freestyle events. Kowalski, alongside Livinia Nixon, hosted the short-lived TV show Plucka's Place in 1997. Kowalski is perhaps best known for having been a perpetual runner-up to fellow Australians Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett, who were, respectively, the world's best 1500-metre freestyle competitors during the earlier and later parts of Kowalski's career. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Daniel's coaches included Denis Cotterell and Bill Nelson."
tagline: "Australian swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1975-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.099737532808399
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump