# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuriy-dumchev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:15:26.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuriy-dumchev"
name: "Yuriy Dumchev"
slug: "yuriy-dumchev"
description: "Yuriy Eduardovich Dumchev was a Russian track and field athlete for the Soviet Union, who set the world record in the men's discus throw on 29 May 1983 with a distance of 71.86 metres. He was born in Rossosh. That mark, surpassed by Jürgen Schult in July 1986, is still the Russian record. A 1980 Olympian, Dumchev also represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in fourth place."
tagline: "Soviet-Russian discus thrower"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lf0iurispxrMDvEhUEHP5tmp5Bd.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-08-05"
deathDate: "2016-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.644244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1342252/"
    handle:    "nm1342252"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Dumcev"
    title: "Yuriy Dumcev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%DA%A4"
    title: "يورى دومتشيڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Dum%C4%8Dev"
    title: "Jurij Dumčev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Eduardowitsch_Dumtschew"
    title: "Juri Eduardowitsch Dumtschew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Dumchev"
    title: "Yuriy Dumchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Dumt%C5%A1ev"
    title: "Juri Dumtšev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youri_Doumtchev"
    title: "Youri Doumtchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Dum%C4%8Dev"
    title: "Jurij Dumčev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95"
    title: "ユーリ・ドゥムチェフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joeri_Doemtsjev"
    title: "Joeri Doemtsjev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Dumczew"
    title: "Jurij Dumczew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Думчев, Юрий Эдуардович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Јуриј Думчев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131212"
    title: "Yuriy Dumchev"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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