# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasiliy-kaptyukh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:15:13.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasiliy-kaptyukh"
name: "Vasiliy Kaptyukh"
slug: "vasiliy-kaptyukh"
description: "Vasiliy Borisovich Kaptyukh is a Belarusian former discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, despite setting his personal best throw at the former, with 67.59 metres."
tagline: "Belarusian discus thrower"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1967-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             0.8333333333333333
  historical:           12.004212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Каптюх Василь Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AE"
    title: "ڤاسيلى كاپتيوخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassil_Kapzjuch"
    title: "Wassil Kapzjuch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Kaptyukh"
    title: "Vasiliy Kaptyukh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Kaptyukh"
    title: "Vasiliy Kaptyukh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AE"
    title: "وسیلی کاپتیوخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kaptjuh"
    title: "Vasili Kaptjuh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Kaptyukh"
    title: "Vasiliy Kaptyukh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil'_Kapcjuch"
    title: "Vasil' Kapcjuch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kaptjukh"
    title: "Vasilij Kaptjukh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kaptjukh"
    title: "Vasilij Kaptjukh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasil_Kapciuch"
    title: "Wasil Kapciuch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%85%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Каптюх, Василий Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Kaptsiuch"
    title: "Vasil Kaptsiuch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1324168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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