# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elena-nurgalieva
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:38:57.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elena-nurgalieva"
name: "Elena Nurgalieva"
slug: "elena-nurgalieva"
description: "Elena Leonidovna Nurgalieva is a Russian ultramarathon runner. She won the Comrades Marathon 8 times and the Two Oceans Marathon 4 times, and with her identical twin Olesya Nurgalieva dominated the Comrades and Two Oceans Marathons, South Africa's main ultramarathons, from 2003 to 2014."
tagline: "Russian ultramarathon runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elena_Nurgalieva%2C_Comrades_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1976-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.52
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.847916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Nurgalieva"
    title: "Elena Nurgalieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena_Leonidowna_Nurgalijewa"
    title: "Jelena Leonidowna Nurgalijewa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Nurgalieva"
    title: "Elena Nurgalieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Nurgalieva"
    title: "Elena Nurgalieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Нургалиева, Елена Леонидовна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1686656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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