# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaino-penttala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:25.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaino-penttala"
name: "Väinö Penttala"
slug: "vaino-penttala"
description: "Väinö Verner Penttala was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. In 1923 the first freestyle wrestling tournaments took place in Finland. Penttala won the title four times .,"
tagline: "Olympic wrestler (1897–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1897-01-16"
deathDate: "1976-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             16.80722891566265
  historical:           11.803528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "韦伊内·彭塔拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "واینو پنتالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Penttala"
    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Väinö Penttala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%91"
    title: "Пенттала, Вяйнё"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump