# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruben-sanca
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:06:55.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruben-sanca"
name: "Ruben Sança"
slug: "ruben-sanca"
description: "Ruben Pascal Sança is a Cape Verdean long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. He attended and ran for the University of Massachusetts Lowell, after which he began training under Gary Gardner as a member of the Whirlaway Racing Team. Sança is the current Cape Verdean record-holder at 3,000 m indoors at 8:07.50, the 5000 m indoors at 13:56.46, the 5000 m outdoors at 14:05.39, road 5 km at 14:11 and the marathon at 2:18:47. He was one of three members of the 2012 Cape Verdean Olympic team."
tagline: "Cape Verdean long-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berlin_Marathon_2018_027_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1986-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "RubenPSanca"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump