# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-hardcastle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:29:43.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-hardcastle"
name: "Sarah Hardcastle"
slug: "sarah-hardcastle"
description: "Sarah Lucy Hardcastle, also known by her married name Sarah Thomas, is a British former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, world championships and European championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games. She specialised in the 400- and 800-metre freestyle, and also competed in medley races. Hardcastle won multiple major championship medals over the course of her career, including individual silver and bronze medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics at the age of 15 and two individual gold medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. She retired from the sport in 1986 but returned in 1993, winning gold at the World Short Course Championships for the 800-metre freestyle in 1995 and reaching the final of the same event at the 1996 Summer Olympics."
tagline: "British swimmer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1969-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             0.3703703703703704
  historical:           9.144529333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%90%A8%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E5%93%88%E5%BE%B7%E5%8D%A1%E6%96%AF%E5%B0%94"
    title: "萨拉·哈德卡斯尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "سارا هاردکستل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hardcastle"
    title: "Sarah Hardcastle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB"
    title: "Сара Гардкасл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3950332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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