# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanak-jha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:46:34.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanak-jha"
name: "Kanak Jha"
slug: "kanak-jha"
description: "Kanak Jha is an American professional table tennis player. player. Ranked No. 22, he is the second male player from the Americas in the ITTF/WTT world rankings, after Brazil's Hugo Calderano. He is a three-time Olympian, and was the US national champion five times, winning the national title between 2016 and 2019 for a record four straight national titles and adding a fifth title in 2024 on his way to the Olympics in Paris."
tagline: "American table tennis player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Table_tennis_at_the_2018_Summer_Youth_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_Singles_Bronze_Medal_Match_024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "2000-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.44
  momentum:             7.536806342015855
  historical:           11.44482533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jhakanak/"
    handle:    "jhakanak"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/KanakJhaOfficial"
    handle:    "KanakJhaOfficial"
sources:
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    title: "卡納克·賈哈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7"
    title: "كنك جها"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "カナック・ジャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_Jha"
    title: "Kanak Jha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26508825"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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