# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-cheruiyot-kirui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:21:48.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-cheruiyot-kirui"
name: "Peter Cheruiyot Kirui"
slug: "peter-cheruiyot-kirui"
description: "Peter Cheruiyot Kirui is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes over 10,000 metres on the track and in road running competitions. He was the 2011 Kenyan champion over 10,000 m and came sixth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. He has acted as a pacemaker for major marathons and has a marathon best of 2:06:31 hours. His best for the half marathon is 59:22 minutes."
tagline: "Kenyan long-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2012_NYC_Half_Kirui_Merga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.38
  momentum:             16.90476190476191
  historical:           6.336033333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Кируи, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "پيتير تشيرويوت كيروى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cheruiyot_Kirui"
    title: "Peter Cheruiyot Kirui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cheruiyot_Kirui"
    title: "Peter Cheruiyot Kirui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kirui"
    title: "Peter Kirui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kirui"
    title: "Peter Kirui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kirui"
    title: "Peter Kirui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2074332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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