# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-cheromei
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:17:06.004Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-cheromei"
name: "Lydia Cheromei"
slug: "lydia-cheromei"
description: "Lydia Cheromei is a Kenyan athlete born into a family of athletes. She specialises in long distance running. She rose to fame at the age of thirteen with a win in the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She took some years away from competition, citing burnout, and returned in the mid-nineties, making an appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics."
tagline: "Kenyan marathon runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lydia_Cheromei.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1977-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             9.578754578754578
  historical:           10.07606266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "లిడియా చెరోమీ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "ليديا تشيرومى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Черомеи, Лидия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cheromei"
    title: "Lydia Cheromei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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