# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bogdan-kowalczyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:07.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bogdan-kowalczyk"
name: "Bogdan Kowalczyk"
slug: "bogdan-kowalczyk"
description: "Bogdan Kowalczyk is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and then became a handball coach; he coached the Iceland men's national handball team to victory in the 1989 World Men's Handball Championship of B teams and was later coach of the Polish national team. He is widely considered to be a major influence on the development of handball in Iceland."
tagline: "Polish handball player"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1946-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.05
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.482434666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Kowalczyk"
    title: "Bogdan Kowalczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بوغدان كووالتشيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بوجدان كووالتشيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Kowalczyk"
    title: "Bogdan Kowalczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Kowalczyk"
    title: "Bogdan Kowalczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Kowalczyk"
    title: "Bogdan Kowalczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4937447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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