# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buddy-edelen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:15.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buddy-edelen"
name: "Buddy Edelen"
slug: "buddy-edelen"
description: "Leonard Graves \"Buddy\" Edelen was an American marathoner. Based in England for most of his prime competitive years, in 1963 Edelen became the first man to run a marathon faster than 2 hours and 15 minutes when he set a world record of 2:14:28. Edelen also won the 1964 U.S. Olympic marathon trials at Yonkers and represented the U.S. in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan."
tagline: "American marathoner (1937–1997)"
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: "1937-09-22"
deathDate: "1997-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Edelen"
    title: "Buddy Edelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بودى اديلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Edelen"
    title: "Buddy Edelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "بڈی ایڈیلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Edelen"
    title: "Leonard Edelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Edelen"
    title: "Leonard Edelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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