# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-maliekal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:25:39.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-maliekal"
name: "Jacob Maliekal"
slug: "jacob-maliekal"
description: "Jacob Maliekal is a male badminton player from South Africa. He became the South Africa national team members in 2009 and won gold medals at the 2011 and 2014 African Games in badminton men's singles event. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
tagline: "Badminton player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1991-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.803924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jacobmaliekal"
    handle:    "jacobmaliekal"
sources:
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    title: "雅各布·马列卡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاكوب ماليكال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maliekal"
    title: "Jacob Maliekal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maliekal"
    title: "Jacob Maliekal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maliekal"
    title: "Jacob Maliekal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maliekal"
    title: "Jacob Maliekal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BD"
    title: "ജേക്കബ് മാളിയേക്കൽ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maliekal"
    title: "Jacob Maliekal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218554"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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