# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nico-spits
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:52.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nico-spits"
name: "Nico Spits"
slug: "nico-spits"
description: "Nicolaas Bernard \"Nico\" Spits is a retired field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1964 and 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in seventh and fourth place, respectively. In 1972, he played alongside his younger brother, Frans Spits. He was the Olympic flag bearer for the Netherlands in 1972."
tagline: "Field hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nico_Spits_1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1943-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.85
  momentum:             3.442622950819672
  historical:           6.336285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%82%D1%81"
    title: "Ніко Спітс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "نيكو سپيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Spits"
    title: "Nico Spits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Spits"
    title: "Nico Spits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Spits"
    title: "Nico Spits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Spits"
    title: "Nico Spits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Спитс, Нико"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973754"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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