# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-nicholson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:55:48.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-nicholson"
name: "Richard Nicholson"
slug: "richard-nicholson"
description: "Richard Nicholson is an Australian Paralympic powerlifter and athlete. He has competed at five successive Paralympic Games from the 1996 to 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2000 Games, he won a silver medal in the powerlifting Men's Up to 60 kg event. In athletics, at the 2004 Athens Paralympics he won a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m T53–54 event and at the 2012 London Paralympics a bronze medal in the Men's 4 × 400 m T53–54 event."
tagline: "Australian paralympic powerlifter and athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/070611_-_Richard_Nicholson_-_3b_-_2012_Team_processing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1970-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.75
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.802916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nicholson_(Paralympian)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nicholson"
    title: "Richard Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E7%A7%91%E5%B0%94%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "理查德·尼科尔森"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump