# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shem-kororia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:27.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shem-kororia"
name: "Shem Kororia"
slug: "shem-kororia"
description: "Shem Kororia is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres and half marathon. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Kororia was the third man ever to run the half marathon within an hour, when he won the world half marathon title in October 1997 in Košice, Slovakia, clocking 59:56 minutes."
tagline: "Kenyan long-distance runner"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1972-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.269762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Корориа, Шем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem_Kororia"
    title: "Shem Kororia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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