# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michelle-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:28.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michelle-ford"
name: "Michelle Ford"
slug: "michelle-ford"
description: "Michelle Jan Ford is an Australian former long-distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle, bronze in the 200-metre butterfly, and 4th in the 400-metres freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non-Eastern Bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the 1980 games. She also set two world records in her career, and was the first Australian woman to win individual Olympic medals in two distinct specialised strokes."
tagline: "Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1962-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             11.95941661382372
  historical:           14.812564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "米歇尔·福特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "میشل فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "מישל פורד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Ford"
    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Форд, Мишель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michelle Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мішель Форд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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