| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
| Competitor for Zimbabwe | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| Bronze | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 5000 m |
Samukeliso Moyo (born January 1, 1974, in Gwanda) is a female long-distance runner from Zimbabwe. She represented her native African country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain.[1]
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 1997–98.[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 Mamaorolla 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.