# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-biwott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:08:10.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-biwott"
name: "Simon Biwott"
slug: "simon-biwott"
description: "Simon Biwott is a former long-distance runner from Kenya who won the silver medal in the men's marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. The race in Edmonton, Canada was won by Ethiopia's reigning Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera. A year later, Biwott won the Rotterdam Marathon. He also won marathons in Cancún, Mexico City (1998), Berlin, Milan (2000), and Paris (2001). After his career in athletics, he started a private school in Eldoret. His personal best of 2:06:49 was run at the 2002 edition of the Berlin Marathon."
tagline: "Kenyan distance runner"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1970-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             11.11111111111111
  historical:           11.33887733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون بيوت"
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    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "サイモン・ビウォット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "사이먼 비워트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Biwott"
    title: "Simon Biwott"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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