# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-stepanov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:49:33.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-stepanov"
name: "Yuri Stepanov"
slug: "yuri-stepanov"
description: "Yuri Nikolaevich Stepanov was a Soviet track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and long jump. On 13 July 1957 he set a new world record in the high jump at 2.16 m, breaking a 44-year-long dominance of American athletes in this event. In the high jump, Stepanov won the Soviet title in 1954 and 1958 and finished second in 1953 and 1957."
tagline: "Soviet track and field athlete (1932–1963)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1932-08-30"
deathDate: "1963-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.604572000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Stepanov"
    title: "Jurij Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "يورى ستيبانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Nikolajewitsch_Stepanow"
    title: "Juri Nikolajewitsch Stepanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Stepanov_(athlete)"
    title: "Yuri Stepanov (athlete)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Step%C3%A1nov"
    title: "Yuri Stepánov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Stepanov"
    title: "Juri Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Stepanov"
    title: "Yuriy Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Stepanov"
    title: "Jurij Stepanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Stiepanow_(lekkoatleta)"
    title: "Jurij Stiepanow (lekkoatleta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Stepanov_(atleta)"
    title: "Yuri Stepanov (atleta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD)"
    title: "Степанов, Юрий Николаевич (спортсмен)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1713934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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