# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-balfanz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:41:11.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-balfanz"
name: "John Balfanz"
slug: "john-balfanz"
description: "John Carlyle Balfanz was an American ski jumper. He competed in the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics with the best result of 10th place in the normal hill in 1964."
tagline: "Olympic ski jumper (1940-1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Balfanz_1975.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-06-23"
deathDate: "1991-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.16
  momentum:             5.833333333333336
  historical:           4.602052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جون بالفانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfanz"
    title: "John Balfanz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfanz"
    title: "John Balfanz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfanz"
    title: "John Balfanz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfanz"
    title: "John Balfanz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4231880"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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