# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wieger-mensonides
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:34:34.210Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wieger-mensonides"
name: "Wieger Mensonides"
slug: "wieger-mensonides"
description: "Wieger Emile Mensonides is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics. For forty years he was the only Dutch male swimmer to have won an Olympic medal. Pieter van den Hoogenband followed in his footsteps at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney."
tagline: "Swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wieger_Mensonides_1960.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1938-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.63
  momentum:             16.64383561643836
  historical:           12.86972666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Віґер Менсонідес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wilger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "ویگر منسونیدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Менсонидес, Вигер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieger_Mensonides"
    title: "Wieger Mensonides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q897244"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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