# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-ritchey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:20:35.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-ritchey"
name: "Tom Ritchey"
slug: "tom-ritchey"
description: "Tom Ritchey is an American bicycle frame builder, Category 1 racer, fabricator, designer, and founder of Ritchey Design. Ritchey is a US pioneer in modern frame building and the first production mountain bike builder/manufacturer in the history of the sport. He is an innovator of bicycle components that have been used in winning some of the biggest cycling competitions in the world including the UCI World Championships, the Tour de France and the Olympics. In 1988, Ritchey was inducted into the inaugural Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in Crested Butte, Colorado : and 2012, inducted to the United States Bicycle Hall of Fame in Davis, California."
tagline: "American bicycle frame designer and builder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Ritchey_(2275515818).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.3
  momentum:             1.469548612521838
  historical:           5.710514666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ritchey"
    title: "Tom Ritchey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ritchey"
    title: "Tom Ritchey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ritchey"
    title: "Tom Ritchey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ritchey"
    title: "Tom Ritchey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ritchey"
    title: "Tom Ritchey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC"
    title: "トム・リッチー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944441"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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