# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-lessing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:06:14.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-lessing"
name: "Simon Lessing"
slug: "simon-lessing"
description: "Simon Christopher Lessing, MBE, is a British triathlete who won five International Triathlon Union (ITU) world titles. He also won races at 70.3, ITU long distance and Ironman-distance events. He set an Olympic-distance world record in 1996, and is noted for his 2004 Ironman Lake Placid win, where he set a course record of 8:23:12. In 2008 he retired from professional racing. Simon resides in Boulder, Colorado, United States, where he operates Boulder Coaching with Darren de Reuck."
tagline: "British triathlete"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SimonLessing8.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1971-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             9.333333333333332
  historical:           10.47494666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Саймон Лессінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون ليسينج"
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  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lessinq"
    title: "Simon Lessinq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lessing"
    title: "Simon Lessing"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lessing"
    title: "Simon Lessing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lessing"
    title: "Simon Lessing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
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    title: "Simon Lessing"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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