# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iolanda-balas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:46:38.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iolanda-balas"
name: "Iolanda Balaș"
slug: "iolanda-balas"
description: "Iolanda Balaș was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest high jumpers of the twentieth century."
tagline: "Romanian high jumper (1936-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iolanda_Bala%C8%99_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1936-12-12"
deathDate: "2016-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.88
  momentum:             1.484018264840183
  historical:           20.96954933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Iolanda Balaș"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Іаланда Балаш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iolanda Balaş"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iolanda Balaș"
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    title: "ヨランダ・バラシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "이올란다 발라슈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iolanda Balaș"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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