# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kerry-lynch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:02.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kerry-lynch"
name: "Kerry Lynch"
slug: "kerry-lynch"
description: "Kerry Joel Lynch is an American former nordic combined skier who competed from 1979 to 1987. He is best known for his doping scandal at the 1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, West Germany in which he and his coach Jim Page approved a plan to give Lynch an illegal transfusion to increase his red blood cell count. Lynch would finish second in the 15 km individual event behind Norway's Torbjørn Løkken, only to be stripped of his medal when he and Page confessed to the scandal. Lynch would serve a two-year suspension as a result and was prohibited from participating in the 1988 Winter Olympics. He is the only Nordic combined athlete to ever been stripped of a medal either in the Winter Olympics or in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. The United States would not win a Nordic combined medal at the Nordic skiing World Championships until Johnny Spillane's gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint event at Val di Fiemme in 2003."
tagline: "US Nordic combined skier"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.402340000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "كيري لونش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Lynch"
    title: "Kerry Lynch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2699923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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