# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janel-jorgensen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:16.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janel-jorgensen"
name: "Janel Jorgensen"
slug: "janel-jorgensen"
description: "Janel Simone Jorgensen, later known by her married name Janel McArdle, is an American former competition swimmer and butterfly specialist. As a 17-year-old at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with her teammates Beth Barr (backstroke), Tracey McFarlane (breaststroke), and Mary Wayte (freestyle)."
tagline: "American swimmer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1971-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.09
  momentum:             8.701775872627064
  historical:           7.40378
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Джанел Джоргенсен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جنا جارکنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Jorgensen"
    title: "Janel Jorgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3807022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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