# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selemon-barega
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:38.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selemon-barega"
name: "Selemon Barega"
slug: "selemon-barega"
description: "Selemon Barega Shirtaga is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, silver for the 5,000 metres at the 2019 World Championships in Doha and bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. Selemon is a two-time 3,000 metres World Indoor Championship medallist, taking silver in 2018, and gold in 2022."
tagline: "Ethiopian athlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selemon_Barega_(cropped)_Oregon_2022.jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "2000-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump