# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:46.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-richards"
name: "Matt Richards"
slug: "matt-richards"
description: "Matthew Richards is a British swimmer specialising in 100 and 200 metre freestyle, active internationally from 2020. He won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle at 2023 World Aquatics Championships, a silver in the 200 m freestyle at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Olympic gold in the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics and World gold in the same event at the 2023 World Championships."
tagline: "British swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Richards_after_the_Olympics_in_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "2002-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.61
  momentum:             25
  historical:           18.49601733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mattrichardsswim.co.uk/"
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    title: "Matthew Richards"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matthew Richards"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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