# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalevi-kotkas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:38:58.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalevi-kotkas"
name: "Kalevi Kotkas"
slug: "kalevi-kotkas"
description: "Kalevi Kotkas was an Estonian-born Finnish athlete, specializing in high jump, discus throw and shot put. He became the first ever European champion in high jump, in 1934 in Turin, and competed in the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he cleared the same height of 2.00 m as the medalists Dave Albritton and Delos Thurber, but made more attempts and was placed fourth."
tagline: "Estonian-Finnish athletics competitor (1913–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kalevi_Kotkas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1913-08-10"
deathDate: "1983-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             2.527472527472527
  historical:           14.67077066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Kalevi Kotkas"
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    title: "Kalevi Kotkas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump