# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paavo-puurunen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:23:22.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paavo-puurunen"
name: "Paavo Puurunen"
slug: "paavo-puurunen"
description: "Paavo Puurunen is a retired Finnish biathlete who competed at four Winter Olympics. Puurunen debuted on the World Cup scene in the 1995/96 season. His best overall placing is from the 1997/98 season when he finished 13th. He won his lone World Cup victory in Pokljuka in 2001, in the World Championship, in the 20 km event. His second World Cup medal, a bronze in a pursuit, was from the 2003 World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, he took fourth place in the mass-start competition, his best Olympic result. In an ordinary World Cup competition, his best placing has been 6th."
tagline: "Finnish biathlete"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1973-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             8.376623376623378
  historical:           11.603204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بافو بورونين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Puurunen"
    title: "Paavo Puurunen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE"
    title: "Пуурунен, Пааво"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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