Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

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Mbulaeni Mulaudzi at ISTAF 2008

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (born September 8, 1980 in Muduluni , Northern Transvaal ; † October 24, 2014 between Ogies and eMalahleni , Mpumalanga ) was a South African middle-distance runner . In 2009 he was world champion in the 800 meter run .

Life

Mulaudzi was the 1999 Junior African Champion in the 800-meter run . Mulaudzi won his first medal in the adult division at the African Athletics Championships in 2000 in Algiers. In 1: 46.28 min he finished second behind the Algerian Djabir Saïd-Guerni in 1: 45.88 min. In 2001 Mulaudzi reached sixth place at the World Championships in Edmonton in 1: 45.01 min.

In 2002 Mulaudzi won the 800-meter run in 1: 46.32 minutes at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester ahead of the Kenyan Joseph Mwengi Mutua in 1: 46.57 minutes. Two weeks later at the African Championships in Radés, Tunisia, Mulaudzi finished third in 1: 46.20 minutes behind Saïd-Guerni and the Kenyan William Yiampoy .

At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis, Mulaudzi again won bronze in 1: 44.90 minutes. Saïd-Guerni won in 1: 44.81 minutes before the Russian Juri Borsakowski in 1: 44.84 minutes. In October at the African Games in the Nigerian capital Abuja, Mulaudzi won silver in 1: 46.44 minutes behind Samuel Mwera from Tanzania.

Mulaudzi won the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 1: 45.71 minutes ahead of Rashid Ramzi from Bahrain. In the 2004 Olympics passed in Athens Mulaudzi down the stretch leading Wilson Kipketer from Denmark, both of which were but überspurtet nor Borzakovsky. Borsakowski won gold in 1: 44.45 minutes ahead of Mulaudzi in 1: 44.61 minutes and Kipketer in 1: 44.65 minutes.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , Mulaudzi surprisingly did not qualify for the final after finishing third in the slowest intermediate run in 1: 45.73 minutes. In 2006 at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow, Mulaudzi finished a hundredth of a second behind Kenyan Wilfred Bungei in 1: 47.16 min . The sprinting Borsakowski couldn't quite reach them and finished third in 1: 47.38 min.

In 2007 Mulaudzi was seventh at the World Championships in Osaka. The following year he won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, however, he was eliminated in the semifinals. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin he surprisingly became world champion over 800 meters in a slow race ahead of Alfred Kirwa Yego and Yusuf Saad Kamel .

Mulaudzi was 2001-2003 and 2005-2009 South African champion over 800 meters and thus the successor to Hezekiél Sepeng . With a height of 1.71 m, his competition weight was 62 kg.

On October 24, 2014, Mulaudzi was killed in a traffic accident.

Personal bests

  • 800 m - 1: 42.86 min (2009)
  • 1000 m - 2: 15.86 min (2007)
  • 1500 m - 3: 38.55 min (2009)

literature

  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mbulaeni Mulaudzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Details of Mulaudzi crash emerge (English)
  2. ↑ sip: Senzo Meyiwa: South Africa's goalkeeper shot by cell phone robbers. In: welt.de . October 26, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Former world 800m champion Mulaudzi dies. Report on the IAAF homepage from October 24, 2014 (English, accessed October 24, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Mulaudzi, Mbulaeni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Muduluni , Transvaal , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2014