Samukeliso Moyo
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Zimbabwe
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | 5000 m |
Samukeliso Moyo (born 1 January 1974 in Gwanda) is a female long-distance runner from Zimbabwe. She represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain.[1]
Biography
[edit]She claimed the bronze medal in the women's 5000 metres at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She represented Zimbabwe at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on a number of occasions, with her best finishes being tenth in the short race at the 1998 edition and fifteenth in the 1999 long race.[2] She has won titles at the African Southern Regional Championships, including wins over 1500 metres, 5000 m and in cross country.[3]
Moyo began focusing on road running competitions and won back-to-back titles at the São Silvestre de Luanda 15K race in Angola from 1997 to 1998.[4] She won the Rand Athletic Club 10 km race in 2001, taking the title in a time of 34:24.[5] She set a personal best in the marathon at the 2008 Pyongyang Marathon, where she finished with a time of 2:37:17.[2] She won both the Johannesburg City Marathon and the Cape Town City Marathons that year, beating the competition by a large margin on both occasions.[6] At the Soweto Marathon near the end of the year, she was runner-up to the defending champion Mamorallo Tjoka of Lesotho.[7]
She won at the South Africa Marathon Championships in 2009 and returned to defend her title the following year. She succeeded in winning for a second time, but the victory was a somewhat hollow one for the athlete: "I did not really enjoy the race because the level of competition was low ... Last year I had to work much harder to win. It was more like a training run this time". Moyo's comparatively slow winning time of 2:48:56 was still eleven minutes ahead of the rest of the women's field.[8] She will be taking part in the 2010 Nedbank Soweto Marathon on 7 November.
References
[edit]- ^ Samukeliso Moyo. Sports-reference. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ a b Moyo Samukeliso. IAAF. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ African Southern Regional Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Fuchs, Carole (4 January 2010). São Silvestre de Luanda 15 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Hauman, Riel (28 July 2010). Rand Athletic Club 10 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Viriri, Fanuel (28 February 2009). Samukeliso to Defend Title At Nedbank Joburg Marathon. All-Africa/The Standard. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Hwata, Augustine (5 November 2008). Samukeliso Moyo Comes Second in Soweto Marathon. All-Africa/The Herald. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Ouma, Mark (3 October 2010). Ngamole and Moyo take South African Marathon titles. IAAF. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
External links
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Gwanda
- Zimbabwean female long-distance runners
- Zimbabwean female marathon runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Zimbabwe
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Zimbabwe
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Sportspeople from Matabeleland South Province
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Cape Town Marathon female winners