# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:35.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-macdonald"
name: "Gary MacDonald"
slug: "gary-macdonald"
description: "Gary Wayne MacDonald is a Canadian freestyle swimmer who competed for Simon Fraser University and won a silver medal representing Canada in the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the Men's 4×100 m medley relay. MacDonald was the Canadian record holder in the 100 and 50-metre freestyle and the 200 metre individual medley, demonstrating his skills as a multi-stroke technician. After completing his education and coaching swimming at Toronto's York University from 1979-1980, he coached the Canadian Dolphin SC in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1980-1983, then moved East to Nova Scottia and coached swimming for the Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club from 1983-2004. Remaining in greater Halifax, he then coached at Dalhousie University from 2004-2015 and then moved sixty miles North to Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scottia, where he began as Head Coach in 2015, continuing through around 2021."
tagline: "Canadian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1953-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.135493333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "加里·麦克唐纳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald_(swimmer)"
    title: "Gary MacDonald (swimmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گری مک‌دونالد (شناگر)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_MacDonald"
    title: "Gary MacDonald"
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    title: "Ґері Макдоналд (плавець)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump