# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-true
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:02:38.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-true"
name: "Ben True"
slug: "ben-true"
description: "Benjamin True is an American track and field and cross-country athlete, who competed for Dartmouth College and currently trains in Hanover, New Hampshire, while competing for Saucony and In the Arena. True was the top American at both the 2011 and 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, as well as the 2011 USATF Road Running Circuit Champion, winning the 5 km and 10 km Road Championships along the way."
tagline: "American distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BenTrue2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1985-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.64
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           3.080346666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/benjtrue/"
    handle:    "benjtrue"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_True"
    title: "Ben True"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_True"
    title: "Ben True"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_True"
    title: "Ben True"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16224012"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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