# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaan-talts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:36:42.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaan-talts"
name: "Jaan Talts"
slug: "jaan-talts"
description: "Jaan Talts is a former Estonian weightlifter. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. Throughout his career, Talts won two world and four European titles and set approximately 40 world records."
tagline: "Estonian weightlifter, coach and politician (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaan_Talts_1972.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.08009466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jaan Talts"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Talts"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump