# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wesley-korir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:53.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wesley-korir"
name: "Wesley Korir"
slug: "wesley-korir"
description: "Wesley Kipchumba Korir is a Kenyan athlete who specializes in long distance running competitions, as well as a politician who served as an elected member of Parliament for Cherangany Constituency. On 16 April 2012, he won the Boston Marathon with a time of 2 hours 12 minutes 40 seconds. He had previously won the Los Angeles Marathon in 2009 and 2010, the first back-to-back winner there in eight years. He took second place in the 2011 Chicago Marathon in a personal-record time of 2 hours 6 minutes 15 seconds, and improved that personal record by 2 seconds in the 2012 Chicago Marathon. In the 2013 Kenyan general election, Korir was elected to a seat in the National Assembly. He lost his seat in 2017."
tagline: "Kenyan marathon runner and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wesley_Korir_2012_Boston_Marathon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1982-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.620484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Корир, Уэсли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويسلي كورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويسلى كورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "وسلی کوریر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "വെസ്ലി കൊരിർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Korir"
    title: "Wesley Korir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447119"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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