# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-shields
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:57:30.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-shields"
name: "Tom Shields"
slug: "tom-shields"
description: "Thomas Allen Shields is an American competitive swimmer. He is a two-time Olympian and the current American record-holder in the short course 50-meter butterfly and 200-meter butterfly. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in the prelims. Later the same year, he became the first American to swim faster than 44 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, setting a new American record of 43.84 seconds."
tagline: "American swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Shields_(USA)_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1991-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.178770949720671
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Shields"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Shields"
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    title: "Thomas Shields"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump