# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marius-corbett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:01:20.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marius-corbett"
name: "Marius Corbett"
slug: "marius-corbett"
description: "Marius Corbett is a South African javelin thrower. He won a gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, improving his personal best by 4.50 m during the contest. The following year he threw 88.75 m to win the 1998 Commonwealth Games, which was the Commonwealth Games Record until Arshad Nadeem threw 90.18 m in 2022 and was also the African record until Julius Yego's throw of 91.39 m on 7 June 2015 in Birmingham."
tagline: "South African javelin thrower"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1975-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.714285714285714
  historical:           14.204428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Маріус Корбетт"
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    title: "ماريوس كوربيت"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Corbett"
    title: "Marius Corbett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מריוס קורבט"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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    title: "Маријус Корбет"
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    title: "Marius Corbett"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q693845"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump