# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-dalins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:18:05.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-dalins"
name: "Jānis Daliņš"
slug: "janis-dalins"
description: "Jānis Daliņš was a Latvian race walker. Competing in the 50 km event he won a silver medal at the 1932 Olympics, becoming the first athlete to win an Olympic medal competing for Latvia. He also won the 1934 European title and set seven world records in the 1930s. At the 1936 Olympics he led the race at 30 km, but abandoned the race due to a leg injury."
tagline: "Latvian athletics competitor (1904–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C4%81nis_Dali%C5%86%C5%A1_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1904-11-05"
deathDate: "1978-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.51
  momentum:             16.16129032258064
  historical:           19.93956133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jânis Dalinš"
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    title: "Jānis Daliņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jānis Daliņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump