# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-bishop
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:08.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-bishop"
name: "Melissa Bishop"
slug: "melissa-bishop"
description: "Melissa Bishop-Nriagu, née Melissa Bishop, is a Canadian runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She competed at the 2012, 2016 Olympics and 2020 Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2015 World Athletics Championships. Her World Championship medal was a Canadian woman's first-ever medal in the 800 m. Bishop-Nriagu graduated from University of Windsor and was only the third Canadian woman to achieve a time under 2:00 minutes in the 800 m. She is currently the national record holder for this distance."
tagline: "Canadian middle-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Bishop_Rio_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.87948266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ميليسا بيشوب-نرياغو"
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    title: "Melissa Bishop-Nriagu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bishop-Nriagu"
    title: "Melissa Bishop-Nriagu"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bishop"
    title: "Melissa Bishop"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bishop"
    title: "Melissa Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bishop"
    title: "Melissa Bishop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bishop"
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    title: "Melissa Bishop"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14964377"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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