# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bethwell-birgen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:50.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bethwell-birgen"
name: "Bethwell Birgen"
slug: "bethwell-birgen"
description: "Bethwell Birgen is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. His personal best of 3:30.77 minutes for the 1500 metres ranks him among the top fifty ever for the event, while his indoor best of 3:34.65 minutes is among the top twenty. He represented Kenya in the 1500 m at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, but did not make the final on either occasion."
tagline: "Kenyan middle-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bethwell_Birgen_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           5.868286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Birgen"
    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Birgen"
    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Birgen"
    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Birgen"
    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwell_Birgen"
    title: "Bethwell Birgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15870576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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