# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russ-hellickson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:34:29.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russ-hellickson"
name: "Russ Hellickson"
slug: "russ-hellickson"
description: "Russell Owen \"Russ\" Hellickson is an American former amateur freestyle wrestler and collegiate wrestling coach. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Hellickson competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for the United States, winning the silver medal in the Freestyle Heavyweight competition and served as the captain of the U.S. squad in 1980. He served as national charter president of Federation of Wrestling Clubs, vice president on the USWF National Board of Control, and as a member of the USWF Hall of Fame selection committee. He was also the head wrestling coach at Wisconsin (1982–1986) before finishing out his coaching career at The Ohio State University from 1986 to 2006."
tagline: "Olympic wrestler"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1948-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.82952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Russell Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روس هيليكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hellickson"
    title: "Russell Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hellickson"
    title: "Russell Hellickson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hellickson"
    title: "Russ Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hellickson"
    title: "Russell Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راس هلیکسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hellickson"
    title: "Russell Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hellickson"
    title: "Russ Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hellickson"
    title: "Russ Hellickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хелликсон, Рассел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump