# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yekaterina-podkopayeva
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:37:30.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yekaterina-podkopayeva"
name: "Yekaterina Podkopayeva"
slug: "yekaterina-podkopayeva"
description: "Yekaterina Ilyinychna Podkopayeva, née Poryvkina, is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. She gained international recognition in 1983, when she won two bronze medals at the World Championships. The same year she managed an 800 m time of 1:55.96. She resurfaced in 1992, winning the European Indoor Championships and placing 8th in the Olympics. More victories in European and World Indoor Championships followed until she retired after the 1998 season. When she won the 1500 metres at the 1997 World Indoors, she was 44, the oldest World Indoor champion ever."
tagline: "Soviet middle-distance runner"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1952-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.27
  momentum:             0.106951871657754
  historical:           12.87347066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Подкопаєва Катерина Іллівна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "إيكاتيرينا بودكوباييفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "ايكاتيرينا بودكوباييفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekat%C4%9Brina_Podkopajevov%C3%A1"
    title: "Jekatěrina Podkopajevová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekaterina_Iljinitschna_Podkopajewa"
    title: "Jekaterina Iljinitschna Podkopajewa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Podkopayeva"
    title: "Yekaterina Podkopayeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Podkop%C3%A1yeva"
    title: "Yekaterina Podkopáyeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Podkopayeva"
    title: "Yekaterina Podkopayeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Podkopaeva"
    title: "Ekaterina Podkopaeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekaterina_Podkopajeva"
    title: "Jekaterina Podkopajeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekaterina_Podkopajeva"
    title: "Jekaterina Podkopajeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekatierina_Podkopajewa"
    title: "Jekatierina Podkopajewa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Подкопаева, Екатерина Ильинична"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekaterina_Podkopajeva"
    title: "Jekaterina Podkopajeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekaterina_Podkopajeva"
    title: "Jekaterina Podkopajeva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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