# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-pickering
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:33:21.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-pickering"
name: "Karen Pickering"
slug: "karen-pickering"
description: "Karen Denise Pickering, MBE is a former competitive freestyle swimmer from Great Britain. Pickering was the first woman to win an individual World Championship gold medal in swimming for Great Britain at the 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in the 200 metre freestyle, and was part of the team that won relay gold three times for Great Britain in both long course (2001) and short course world championships."
tagline: "British swimmer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1971-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.29
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.145609333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/karen_pickering"
    handle:    "karen_pickering"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/karenpicks/"
    handle:    "karenpicks"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.karenpickering.co.uk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E4%BC%A6%C2%B7%E7%9A%AE%E5%85%8B%E6%9E%97"
    title: "卡伦·皮克林"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86_%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "کارن پیکرینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pickering"
    title: "Karen Pickering"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D2%91"
    title: "Карен Пікерінґ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2780367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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