# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-mateelong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:13:56.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-mateelong"
name: "Richard Mateelong"
slug: "richard-mateelong"
description: "Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metre steeplechase. He won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and he has two World Championship medals in the discipline."
tagline: "Kenyan long-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Mateelong_FBK_Games_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.09174311926606
  historical:           15.73729333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mateelong"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mateelong"
    title: "Richard Mateelong"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mateelong"
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    title: "Матилонг, Ричард"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump