# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faina-melnyk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:25:11.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/faina-melnyk"
name: "Faina Melnyk"
slug: "faina-melnyk"
description: "Faina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik was a Soviet discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event. During her career she set 11 world records."
tagline: "Soviet discus thrower"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FMelnik.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1945-06-09"
deathDate: "2016-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.27
  momentum:             5.263157894736842
  historical:           20.38970933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فاينا ميلنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D1%8B%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA"
    title: "Фаіна Рыгораўна Мельнік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnikov%C3%A1"
    title: "Faina Melniková"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Grigorjewna_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Grigorjewna Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnyk"
    title: "Faina Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "فاینا ملنیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%AFna_Melnyk"
    title: "Faïna Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "פאינה מלניק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ֆաինա Մելնիկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%AFna_Mel'nyk"
    title: "Faïna Mel'nyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ファイナ・メルニク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%B4%EB%82%98_%EB%A9%9C%EB%8B%88%ED%81%AC"
    title: "파이나 멜니크"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фаина Мељник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnik"
    title: "Faina Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Mielnik"
    title: "Faina Mielnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faina_Melnyk"
    title: "Faina Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Мельник, Фаина Григорьевна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241917"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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