# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-hession
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:42:03.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-hession"
name: "Paul Hession"
slug: "paul-hession"
description: "Paul Hession is an Irish international track and field athlete who is the fastest Irishman in history over 200 metres. He specialises in the sprinting events, particularly the 200 metres. He has won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games, a silver medallist in the 200 m in the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final and in 2007 made the leap into world class by setting 4 Irish national records at 100 metres and 200 metres. He is a member of the Athenry Athletics Club."
tagline: "Irish sprinter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Hession_(2009).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.36
  momentum:             12.22972972972973
  historical:           6.552665333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession_(Leichtathlet)"
    title: "Paul Hession (Leichtathlet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hession"
    title: "Paul Hession"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2570707"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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