# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-banach
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:16.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-banach"
name: "Ed Banach"
slug: "ed-banach"
description: "Edward Joseph \"Ed\" Banach is an athlete who won a gold medal in wrestling in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He wrestled for the University of Iowa under coach Dan Gable from 1980 to 1983, where he was a four-time NCAA All-American, and a three-time NCAA national champion. He was named the 1983 Big Ten Athlete of the Year."
tagline: "American Olympic wrestler, twin brother of Lou Banach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Banach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1960-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.35018133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Banach"
    title: "Edward Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "اد بنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Banach"
    title: "Edward Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C_%EB%B0%B0%EB%82%B5"
    title: "에드 배낵"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Banach"
    title: "Ed Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4"
    title: "Банах, Эд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952069"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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