# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kolius
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:09:14.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kolius"
name: "John Kolius"
slug: "john-kolius"
description: "John Waldrip Kolius is an American sailor. He won a silver medal in the Soling class with Walter Glasgow and Richard Hoepfner at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. In 1987 and 2000 he competed at the Louis Vuitton Cup. Kolius began sailing at the age of 5 when his father introduced the family to sailing as a way to spend time together. John's first boat was a Sunfish and he grew up sailing at the Houston Yacht Club through the Ragnot program. In 1968, John won his first major championship, the US Sailing Triplehanded Championship for the Sears Cup. He was 17 years old. Two years later at the age of 19, Kolius won the US Sailing Senior Championship for the Mallory Trophy. It was not too long after that he began sailing Solings and preparing for the Olympics. In 1975, John won the Soling North Americans and in 1976 an Olympic silver medal. In 2023, he was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame"
tagline: "Sailor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.603852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Джон Коліус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جان کولیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kolius"
    title: "John Kolius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16149226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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