# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-thomas-lauritzen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:50:38.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-thomas-lauritzen"
name: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
slug: "jan-thomas-lauritzen"
description: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen is a former Norwegian handball player. He played 254 matches and scored 557 goals for the Norway men's national handball team between 1993 and 2008. He participated at the 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 World Men's Handball Championship and has participated multiple time in the EHF Cup, the Challenge Cup, and the EHF Champions League. Until 2011 he had the record for most matches on the Norwegian national team, until he was overtaken by Steiner Ege and later Bjarte Myrhol."
tagline: "Norwegian handball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1974-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           33.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen"
    title: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%86"
    title: "يان توماس لوريتزن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen"
    title: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen"
    title: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen"
    title: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Thomas_Lauritzen"
    title: "Jan Thomas Lauritzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1416941"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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