# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-northway
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:07:10.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-northway"
name: "Doug Northway"
slug: "doug-northway"
description: "Douglas Dale Northway is an American former swimmer, who competed for the University of Washington and then the University of Arizona, and represented the United States at the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. He won a bronze in the 1500-meter freestyle in the 1972 Olympics, and swam an Olympic and world record time in the preliminaries of the 4x200 freestyle relays at the 1976 Mexico City Olympics. His qualifying preliminary heat led the American Men's 4x200 freestyle relay team to a gold medal in the 1976 Olympic finals, though he did not swim with the final team. He was a world record holder in the 400-meter freestyle in April, 1976."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, former world record-holder"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.73
  momentum:             5.172413793103448
  historical:           6.537689333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Northway"
    title: "Doug Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Northway"
    title: "Douglas Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Northway"
    title: "Doug Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Northway"
    title: "Doug Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%AF_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AB%E2%80%8C%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "داگ نورث‌وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Northway"
    title: "Doug Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Northway"
    title: "Douglas Northway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3714638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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