# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-ruto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:20:00.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-ruto"
name: "Paul Ruto"
slug: "paul-ruto"
description: "Paul Ruto is a former Kenyan 800 metres runner who won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. Ruto took the lead in the first lap and kept it until the end. He was used to front-running, as earlier in his career, he had been employed as a pacemaker at international meetings."
tagline: "Kenyan distance runner"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1960-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             3.977272727272728
  historical:           12.87109466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пол Руто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Руто, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Пол Руто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ruto"
    title: "Paul Ruto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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