# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-varcoe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:08:31.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-varcoe"
name: "Helen Varcoe"
slug: "helen-varcoe"
description: "Helen Gradwell Varcoe, later known by her married name Helen Nicholls, was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Varcoe won a bronze medal swimming the anchor leg for the British women's team in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, together with her teammates Joyce Cooper, Valerie Davies and Edna Hughes. The British women finished third with a time of 4:52.4, behind the Americans (4:38.0) and Dutch (4:47.5), and ahead of the Canadians (5:05.7)."
tagline: "British swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist (1907-1995)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1907-02-18"
deathDate: "1995-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helen Varcoe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump