# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-tsegay
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:49:52.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-tsegay"
name: "Samuel Tsegay"
slug: "samuel-tsegay"
description: "Samuel Tsegay Tesfamriam is an Eritrean long-distance runner running for the Swedish track club Hälle IF and currently going through the process of acquiring Swedish citizenship, who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. As a junior, he competed in the junior races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing seventeenth in 2005, eighth in 2006 and eighth in 2007. He finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2006 World Junior Championships."
tagline: "Eritrean long-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Tsegay_(Eritrea)_-_London_2012_Mens_Marathon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.17
  momentum:             3.636363636363637
  historical:           7.40486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tsegay"
    title: "Samuel Tsegay"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Самуэль Цегай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2093528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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