# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-tom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:40:39.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-tom"
name: "Richard Tom"
slug: "richard-tom"
description: "Richard Wah Sung Tom was a Chinese American bantamweight weightlifter. He won a silver medal at the 1947 World Championships and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics. In 1952 he won his only national AAU title and later served as a weightlifting official. Tom was a World War II veteran. He was born in China, but his family moved to Hawaii when he was a boy. He was the first Chinese-American to compete for the United States at the Olympics."
tagline: "American weightlifter (1920–2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Richard_Tom_1947.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1920-11-08"
deathDate: "2007-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.004464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "理查德·汤姆"
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    title: "Richard Tom"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tom"
    title: "Richard Tom"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tom"
    title: "Richard Tom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد تام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Tom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tom"
    title: "Richard Tom"
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    title: "Richard Tom"
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    title: "Richard Tom"
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    title: "Richard Tom"
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    title: "Річард Том"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump