Thabiso Paul Moqhali

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Thabiso Paul Moqhali (born December 7, 1967 ) is a former Lesotho marathon runner .

He started his career as a middle distance runner . At the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 , he was eliminated over 1500 m in the preliminary run and came in 14th place over 5000 m . In 1987 he retired from the World Athletics Championships in Rome over 5000 m in the preliminary run.

After being recruited by a South African mining company for its running club, he moved to Welkom in what was then the province of Orange Free State and switched to the 42.195 km distance. In 1990 he was tenth at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 2:17:33 h and third at the South African Marathon Championships in 2:12:37 h. The following year, he improved to 4:12:14 h in the South African Championships.

In 1992 he finished seventh in the London Marathon with his personal best of 2:10:55 h . At the Olympic Games in Barcelona he came in 33rd, at the Berlin Marathon he was fifth.

In 1995 he was tenth in the Boston Marathon and eighth in the New York City Marathon , in 1997 he was South African marathon champion, came in 200 at the World Cross Country Championships in Turin and was third in the Honolulu Marathon .

The following year he was third at the South African Championships and the Belgrade Marathon . At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur , he defied the humid heat and won in 2:19:15 h. It was the first and so far only gold medal for Lesotho at the Commonwealth Games, and Moqhali then accepted an offer from his government to return home and promote running among the youth for the Ministry of Sports.

In 1999 he qualified again for the Olympic Games with a tenth place in the Chicago Marathon in 2:12:20 h. In 2000, a victory in Belgrade was followed by a 16th place at the Olympic Marathon in Sydney . At the Half Marathon World Championships in Veracruz , he came in 54th place.

In 2001 he was fifth at the South African Championships and ran at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 30th place.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Running symbol for the youth of Lesotho: Thabiso Moqhali . April 24, 2000
  2. ^ IAAF: Moqhali beats Kenyans in Belgrade . April 24, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Moqhali, Thabiso Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lesothic marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1967