# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-nordquist
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:24:20.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-nordquist"
name: "Doug Nordquist"
slug: "doug-nordquist"
description: "Douglas Nordquist is a retired male high jumper from the United States, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics where he ended up in fifth place with a jump of 2.29 metres, one place behind distant cousin Dwight Stones. He was TAC high jump champion in 1986 and 1988, and placed second at the 1984 Olympic Trials behind Stones. He competed for Sonora High School, finishing a three-way tie for third place at the 1977 CIF California State Meet. While at Fullerton Community College he won the 1979 California Community College Championships, Washington State University where he was coached by 1968 Olympian Rick Sloan. After graduation he was coached by Jim Kiefer and competed for and Tiger International. He was a practitioner of Washington State's specialized weight training for high jumpers He set his personal record of 2.36m while finishing second in a jumpoff at the USATF National Championships at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California on June 15, 1990. Alan Hankle and Athleticorp was his coach."
tagline: "American high jumper"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             10.94736842105263
  historical:           5.471094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Nordquist"
    title: "Doug Nordquist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "دوج نوردكويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Nordquist"
    title: "Doug Nordquist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B3"
    title: "Нордквист, Даг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Nordquist"
    title: "Doug Nordquist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Nordquist"
    title: "Doug Nordquist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1281108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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