# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samwel-mushai-kimani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:42.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samwel-mushai-kimani"
name: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
slug: "samwel-mushai-kimani"
description: "Samwel Mūchai Kìmani is a visually impaired middle-distance runner from Kenya. He won the 5000 m – T11 event at the 2016 Paralympics. Previously he won a silver and a gold medal in the 1500 m – T11 at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics, respectively. Kimani won gold in the 2017 Para Athletics championships in London on Friday 21 July in the T11 1500m."
tagline: "Kenyan paralympic athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kimani_and_Boit_Rio2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1989-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           30.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.267530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/samuel.mushai.7"
    handle:    "samuel.mushai.7"
sources:
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwel_Mushai_Kimani"
    title: "Samwel Mushai Kimani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7413144"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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