# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rolf-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:38:37.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rolf-peterson"
name: "Rolf Peterson"
slug: "rolf-peterson"
description: "Rolf Peterson is a retired Swedish sprint canoeist. He competed in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1964 and a silver in 1972, finishing fifth in 1968. At the world championships Peterson won two gold and one silver medals in K-2 events in 1970–1971, all with Lars Andersson. He was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1964 and served as the Swedish Olympic flag bearer in 1968."
tagline: "Swedish canoeist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rolf_Peterson_1972.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1944-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           13.74136133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "罗尔夫·彼得松"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Peterson"
    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
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    title: "رولف پترشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Peterson"
    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Peterson"
    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Peterson"
    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
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    title: "Rolf Peterson"
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    title: "Петерсон, Рольф"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump