# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-merki
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:57.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-merki"
name: "Nancy Merki"
slug: "nancy-merki"
description: "Nancy Merki, also known by her married names Lees, Cory and Boland, was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Despite contracting polio at a young age, she set numerous amateur swimming records in her career, most in her early teens, and went on to compete in the 400-meter freestyle in the Olympics."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic athlete (1926-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nancy_Merki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-06-01"
deathDate: "2014-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.94
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.802304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A_(%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A9)"
    title: "نانسي ميركي (سباحة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Merki"
    title: "Nancy Merki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "نانسی مرکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Merki"
    title: "Nancy Merki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%B8%EC%8B%9C_%EB%A9%94%EB%A5%B4%ED%82%A4"
    title: "낸시 메르키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5491650"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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