# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-babashoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:06:35.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-babashoff"
name: "Shirley Babashoff"
slug: "shirley-babashoff"
description: "Shirley Frances Babashoff is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Olympic medals in her career. She won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and she won the 1975 world championship in both the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle. During her career, she set 37 national records and for some time held all national freestyle records from the 100-meter to 800-meter events."
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump