# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heino-puuste
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:04:58.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heino-puuste"
name: "Heino Puuste"
slug: "heino-puuste"
description: "Heino Puuste is a retired Estonian javelin thrower who represented the USSR and later Estonia. He finished fourth at both the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1983 World Championships, and won a silver medal at the 1982 European Championships. He also won bronze medals at the Universiade in 1979 and 1981. On 6 May 1983 he threw at Birmingham a new Soviet record of 94.20 meters, eclipsing the old mark of 93.80 by Jānis Lūsis. This record was never beaten as increasing distances and frequent flat or ambiguous landings prompted a change to a new javelin design, effective starting in 1986.\nPuuste later became an athletics coach, most notably coaching the 2005 javelin throw world champion Andrus Värnik."
tagline: "Estonian athletics competitor (born 1955)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1955-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.839506172839506
  historical:           8.537077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пуусте, Хейно"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Puuste"
    title: "Heino Puuste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1596355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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