# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maricica-puica
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:31:42.883Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maricica-puica"
name: "Maricica Puică"
slug: "maricica-puica"
description: "Maricica Puică, née Luca, is a retired Romanian middle-distance runner. She is the 1984 Olympic champion in the 3,000 metres. One of the greatest female middle-distance runners of the 1980s, she also twice won the World Cross Country Championship and broke the world record for the mile in 1982."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maricica_Puic%C4%83_1982.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1950-07-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.33
  momentum:             17.70796460176991
  historical:           20.75918133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump