# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/widad-mendil
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:13.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/widad-mendil"
name: "Widad Mendil"
slug: "widad-mendil"
description: "Widad Mendil is an Algerian steeplechase runner. Mendil represented Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the first ever women's 3000 metres steeplechase. She ran in the first heat against sixteen other athletes, including Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, who eventually became an Olympic champion in the final. She finished the race in last place by three seconds behind Japan's Minori Hayakari, with a time of 9:52.35. Mendil, however, failed to advance into the final, as she placed thirty-seventh overall, and was ranked below four mandatory slots for the next round."
tagline: "Algerian steeplechase runner"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.94
  momentum:             23.85714285714286
  historical:           6.335709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "وداد منديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Mendil"
    title: "Widad Mendil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16211096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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