# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marco-lingua
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:11.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marco-lingua"
name: "Marco Lingua"
slug: "marco-lingua"
description: "Marco Lingua is an Italian hammer thrower, writer, actor, TV personality and former weightlifter.\nHe finished eleventh at the 2006 European Championships. He also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best throw is 79.97 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Bydgoszcz.\nFor the results of the races in detail see the displayboards below."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marco_Lingua.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1978-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.53
  momentum:             16.57575757575758
  historical:           7.873542666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماركو لينجوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lingua"
    title: "Marco Lingua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Лингуа, Марко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1996487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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