# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-orton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:55.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-orton"
name: "George Orton"
slug: "george-orton"
description: "George Washington F. Orton was a Canadian middle and long-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win a medal at an Olympic Games. He won a bronze in the 400 metre hurdles, and then, forty-five minutes later, won the gold medal in the 2500 metre steeplechase. He was the first athlete with a disability to win an Olympic gold medal. At the University of Pennsylvania, for whom he competed while earning his Masters and Doctorate and completed his ability to speak 9 languages, he was captain of Penn's track and field team in 1896 and was a founder and captain of its ice hockey team in 1896–1897, and was known as \"The Father of Philadelphia Hockey\". He won seventeen U.S. National Track and Field titles."
tagline: "Canadian athlete (1873-1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Geo._Orton_LCCN2014693212.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1873-01-10"
deathDate: "1958-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.088235294117646
  historical:           17.94348533333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump