# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/babacar-niang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:22.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/babacar-niang"
name: "Babacar Niang"
slug: "babacar-niang"
description: "Babacar Niang is a retired Senegalese-French middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. He remains Senegal's national record holder in the 1000 metres dating back to 1983. In 1995, he briefly held the masters M35 world record for 800m, which lasted only a month before his contemporary Johnny Gray contested and beat the record."
tagline: "French athlete"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.65
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.8036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang"
    title: "Babacar Niang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_(%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89)"
    title: "باباكار نيانج (منافس العاب قوى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang"
    title: "Babacar Niang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang"
    title: "Babacar Niang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang_(athl%C3%A9tisme)"
    title: "Babacar Niang (athlétisme)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang"
    title: "Babacar Niang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babacar_Niang"
    title: "Babacar Niang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80_(%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82)"
    title: "Нианг, Бабакар (легкоатлет)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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