# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasudevan-baskaran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:35.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasudevan-baskaran"
name: "Vasudevan Baskaran"
slug: "vasudevan-baskaran"
description: "Vasudevan Baskaran is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the Indian national team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union."
tagline: "Field hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V._Baskaran.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1950-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.896103896103897
  historical:           12.94636533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ᱵᱚᱥᱩᱱᱫᱮᱵᱚᱱ ᱵᱟᱥᱠᱚᱨᱚᱱ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump