# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kwambai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:23.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kwambai"
name: "James Kwambai"
slug: "james-kwambai"
description: "James Kipsang Kwambai is a runner from Kenya, who specialises in marathons. He is a former Kenyan record holder in the event, with his personal best of 2:04:27 hours in 2009. At the time this made him the second fastest runner ever, behind Haile Gebrselassie."
tagline: "Kenyan road running athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Kipsang_Kwambai_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-02-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.2
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           7.402196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Квамбаи, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "چيمس كوامباى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kipsang_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kipsang Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kwambai"
    title: "James Kwambai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1380118"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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