# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veikko-salminen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:27.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veikko-salminen"
name: "Veikko Salminen"
slug: "veikko-salminen"
description: "Veikko Salminen is a Finnish modern pentathlete and épée fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team modern pentathlon event at the 1972 Summer Olympics."
tagline: "Modern pentathlete, fencer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1945-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.736285333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "韦科·萨尔米宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویکو سالمین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Salminen"
    title: "Veikko Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4009287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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