# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fran-crippen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:48.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fran-crippen"
name: "Fran Crippen"
slug: "fran-crippen"
description: "Francis Crippen was an American long-distance swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006. In international competitions, Crippen won seven medals, five of which were in the open water and two in the pool. Crippen died during an open water swimming race in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 at the age of 26."
tagline: "American long-distance and open water swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1984-04-17"
deathDate: "2010-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             0.2668759811616955
  historical:           10.023544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.francrippen.net"
sources:
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    title: "Fran Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Crippen"
    title: "Fran Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Crippen"
    title: "Fran Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Crippen"
    title: "Fran Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crippen"
    title: "Francis Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%86"
    title: "فران کریپن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crippen"
    title: "Francis Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crippen"
    title: "Francis Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crippen"
    title: "Francis Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crippen"
    title: "Francis Crippen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Криппен, Фрэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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