# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helmuts-balderis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:40.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helmuts-balderis"
name: "Helmuts Balderis"
slug: "helmuts-balderis"
description: "Helmuts Balderis-Sildedzis is a former Soviet and Latvian professional ice hockey player. He played on the right wing and participated at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where the Soviet team unexpectedly lost to the United States. He played part of a single season in the National Hockey League after being drafted in 1989 by the Minnesota North Stars, becoming the oldest player to be drafted by an NHL team at the age of 36. In 1998, he was inducted into International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Latvian ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balderis_Helmuts_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1952-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.49
  momentum:             9.887133182844241
  historical:           17.59910533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Балдеріс Гельмут Гунарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيلموتس بالديريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis-Sildedzis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helmutas Balderis"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    title: "Helmuts Balderis"
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    title: "Ҳелмут Балдерис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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