# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-krumins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:34:45.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-krumins"
name: "Jānis Krūmiņš"
slug: "janis-krumins"
description: "Jānis Krūmiņš was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player. Helped by his height, he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years. As a player of the senior Soviet Union national basketball team, Krūmiņš won 3 gold medals at the 1959, 1961, and 1963 EuroBaskets, as well as 3 silver medals at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Summer Olympic Games."
tagline: "Soviet basketball player (1930-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C4%81nis_Kr%C5%ABmi%C5%86%C5%A1_1960.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1930-01-30"
deathDate: "1994-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.24
  momentum:             2.093802345058626
  historical:           19.95932533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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