# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaroslav-kovar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:24.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaroslav-kovar"
name: "Jaroslav Kovář"
slug: "jaroslav-kovar"
description: "Jaroslav Kovář was a Czech track and field athlete who competed in the high jump for Czechoslovakia. He was the bronze medallist at the 1954 European Athletics Championships, behind his teammate Jiří Lanský. He set a lifetime best of 2.06 m in his native Prague in 1957. He was highly successful in student competitions, taking gold at the 1954 World Student Games and a gold and a silver at the World Festival of Youth and Students."
tagline: "Czechoslovak high jumper"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1934-05-12"
deathDate: "2015-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.74
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.800864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1%C5%99"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovář"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4_%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "چاروسلاڤ كوڤار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1%C5%99"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovář"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1%C5%99_(atlet)"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovář (atlet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1%C5%99"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovář"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1%C5%99"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovář"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1r"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Kov%C3%A1r"
    title: "Jaroslav Kovár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12023874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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