# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-mashiani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:51:06.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-mashiani"
name: "Jan Mashiani"
slug: "jan-mashiani"
description: "Jan Mashiani was a Tswana track and field athlete from who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics in the marathon. He finished thirteenth of the fifteen finishers, but moved up to twelfth after Frederick Lorz was disqualified. Along with Len Taunyane, Mashiani was one of the first two black Africans to participate in the modern Olympic Games. He was chased off the course of the 1904 marathon by a dog, affecting his placement. Mashiani served as a dispatch runner in the Second Boer War, although there are conflicting reports on which side he served."
tagline: "South African athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Mashiani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1850"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.04
  momentum:             1.412429378531074
  historical:           4.807272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mashiani"
    title: "Jan Mashiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mashiani"
    title: "Jan Mashiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mashiani"
    title: "Jan Mashiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mashiani"
    title: "Jan Mashiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mashiani"
    title: "Jan Mashiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16567061"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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