# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-edgson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:57.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-edgson"
name: "Michael Edgson"
slug: "michael-edgson"
description: "Michael Edgson is a Canadian retired Paralympic swimmer. He is amongst the most successful Paralympians of all time having won 17 gold medals. He attended three Games between 1984 and 1992, winning medals in all but one of the events in which he competed individually. As a visually-impaired athlete Edgson competes in the B3 classification."
tagline: "Canadian Paralympic swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1969-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669294666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Edgson"
    title: "Michael Edgson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Edgson"
    title: "Michael Edgson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Edgson"
    title: "Michael Edgson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E5%A5%87%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "迈克尔·埃奇森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%95%D1%9F%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Мајкл Еџсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%95%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Майкл Еджсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14626641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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