# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/imane-merga
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:28.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/imane-merga"
name: "Imane Merga"
slug: "imane-merga"
description: "Imane Merga Jida is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres. He won his first world title at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics he won the 10,000 m bronze medal, but he was disqualified in the 5000 m, losing a second bronze."
tagline: "Ethiopian long-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Imane_Merga_Berlin_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.8
  momentum:             0.7142857142857143
  historical:           12.006048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC"
    title: "イマネ・メルガ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0"
    title: "Иман Мерга"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Merga"
    title: "Imane Merga"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1332325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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