# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-metzker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:05.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-metzker"
name: "Max Metzker"
slug: "max-metzker"
description: "Maxwell Raymond Metzker is a South African-born former long-distance freestyle swimmer who represented Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He was a co-flagbearer with Denise Boyd at the opening ceremony, when Australia marched under the Olympic flag to protest the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan."
tagline: "Australian swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max_Metzker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1960-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             17.87234042553192
  historical:           9.804356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%A2%85%E8%8C%A8%E5%85%8B"
    title: "马克斯·梅茨克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Matzker"
    title: "Max Matzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B2%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "مکس متزکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Metzker"
    title: "Max Metzker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Метцкер, Макс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Макс Метцкер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977774"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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