# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-bojars
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:50:59.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-bojars"
name: "Jānis Bojārs"
slug: "janis-bojars"
description: "Jānis Bojārs was a Latvian male shot putter, best known for winning the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the men's shot put event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. He set his personal best on 14 July 1984 at a meet in Riga."
tagline: "Latvian shot putter (1956–2018)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1956-05-12"
deathDate: "2018-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             15
  historical:           14.203384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Яніс Боярс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Bojars"
    title: "Janis Bojars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "یانیس بویارس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Боярс, Янис"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Boj%C4%81rs"
    title: "Jānis Bojārs"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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