# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thijs-van-valkengoed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:33:32.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thijs-van-valkengoed"
name: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
slug: "thijs-van-valkengoed"
description: "Thijs Maarten van Valkengoed is a breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He trains together with his sister Jolijn in their hometown."
tagline: "Swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1983-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.91
  momentum:             7.291666666666666
  historical:           8.068502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Тійс ван Валькенгод"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "تیس فن والکنگود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thijs_van_Valkengoed"
    title: "Thijs van Valkengoed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1131941"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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