# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zinaida-turchyna
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:19:48.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zinaida-turchyna"
name: "Zinaida Turchyna"
slug: "zinaida-turchyna"
description: "Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Coached by her husband Ihor Turchyn she competed for the Soviet Union in all major international tournaments in 1973–1988, except for the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics, and won three Olympic and five world championship medals. In 2000, a panel from the International Handball Federation and sports journalists named her the best female handball player of the 20th century."
tagline: "Ukrainian handball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tetyana_Kocherhina%2C_Valentyna_Lutayeva%2C_Zinaida_Turchyna_1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1946-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.88013066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Zinaida Stalitenko-Turçina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зінаіда Турчына"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зінаіда Міхайлаўна Турчына"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зинаида Турчина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sinajida Turtschyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinaïda Tourtchyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "זינאידה טורצ'ינה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Զինաիդա Տուրչինա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinaïda Turčyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinaīda Turčina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinajida Turtsjyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinaida Turchyna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Турчина, Зинаида Михайловна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinajida Turtjina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Турчина Зінаїда Михайлівна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zinaida Turchina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2398826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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