# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-benda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:54:56.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-benda"
name: "Jan Benda"
slug: "jan-benda"
description: "Jan Benda is a Belgian-born German ice hockey coach and retired player. He played nine games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals during the 1997–98 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1992 to 2018, was mainly spent in various European leagues. Internationally Benda played for the German national team at the 1994, 1998, and 2002 Winter Olympics, and nine World Championships."
tagline: "Czech-German ice hockey player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1972-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.58
  momentum:             1.260744985673352
  historical:           7.680814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD_(%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Бенда, Ян (хоккеист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "چان بيندا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda_(ledn%C3%AD_hokejista)"
    title: "Jan Benda (lední hokejista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda_(Eishockeyspieler)"
    title: "Jan Benda (Eishockeyspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda"
    title: "Jan Benda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda"
    title: "Jan Benda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda"
    title: "Jan Benda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda_(hokeisto)"
    title: "Jan Benda (hokeisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Benda"
    title: "Jan Benda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q474281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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