# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yiech-biel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:39.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yiech-biel"
name: "Yiech Biel"
slug: "yiech-biel"
description: "Yiech Pur Biel is a track and field athlete and UNHCR goodwill ambassador originally from Nasir, South Sudan, but now living and training in the United States. He was selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the Refugee Olympic Team in the 800 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He placed last in his heat."
tagline: "South Sudanese middle-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Yiech_Pur_Biel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1995-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             0.8823529411764705
  historical:           5.472714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%97%90%EC%B9%98_%EB%B9%84%EC%97%98"
    title: "이에치 비엘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiech_Biel"
    title: "Yiech Biel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiech_Pur_Biel"
    title: "Yiech Pur Biel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%B6%E9%BD%90%C2%B7%E6%AF%94%E5%9F%83%E5%B0%94"
    title: "耶齐·比埃尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiech_Biel"
    title: "Yiech Biel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%98%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Ијех Бел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572684"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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