# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-burra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:19:37.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-burra"
name: "John Burra"
slug: "john-burra"
description: "John Burra is a retired long-distance runner from Tanzania, who won the 1987 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:12:40 on May 10, 1987. He twice represented his native country in the Olympic men's marathon, in 1988 and 1992. At his last Olympic Games appearance in Barcelona, Spain he didn't finish the race."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Burra_(1987).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1965-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.73
  momentum:             2
  historical:           4.801728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burra"
    title: "John Burra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burra"
    title: "John Burra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burra"
    title: "John Burra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burra"
    title: "John Burra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burra"
    title: "John Burra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1845306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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