# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-malakwen-kosgei
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:25:15.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-malakwen-kosgei"
name: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
slug: "paul-malakwen-kosgei"
description: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance and marathon runner. He first came to prominence in athletics by taking the World Junior Record of 3000m steeple in 1997, and later with consecutive medals at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships from 1998 to 2000."
tagline: "Kenyan distance runner"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1978-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.070914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Косгеи, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%8A"
    title: "بول مالاكوان كوسجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "بول مالاكوان كوسجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Malakwen_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Malakwen_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Malakwen_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Malakwen_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Malakwen_Kosgei"
    title: "Paul Malakwen Kosgei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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