Samukeliso Moyo

Samukeliso Moyo
Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Zimbabwe
Commonwealth Games
Bronze 1998 Kuala Lumpur 5000 m

Samukeliso Moyo (born 1 January 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]

Biography

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.

References

  1. ↑ Samukeliso Moyo. Sports-reference. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moyo Samukeliso. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  3. ↑ African Southern Regional Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  4. ↑ Fuchs, Carole (2010-01-04). São Silvestre de Luanda 15 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  5. ↑ Hauman, Riel (2010-07-28). Rand Athletic Club 10 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  6. ↑ Viriri, Fanuel (2009-02-28). Samukeliso to Defend Title At Nedbank Joburg Marathon. All-Africa/The Standard. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  7. ↑ Hwata, Augustine (2008-11-05). Samukeliso Moyo Comes Second in Soweto Marathon. All-Africa/The Herald. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.
  8. ↑ Ouma, Mark (2010-10-03). Ngamole and Moyo take South African Marathon titles. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-03.

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