# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ton-buunk
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:02:40.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ton-buunk"
name: "Ton Buunk"
slug: "ton-buunk"
description: "Anton \"Ton\" Gerrit Jan Buunk is a retired Dutch water polo player. He competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1976, placing sixth-seventh on other occasions. He was given the honour to carry the national flag of the Netherlands at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the 15th water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. On 14 December 1979 he married Vera Renema."
tagline: "Dutch water polo player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ton_Buunk_1979.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1952-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.13614133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%8E%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Тон Бюнк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "طون بونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "تون بونک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Buunk"
    title: "Ton Buunk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2102476"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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