Tom Nyariki
| Tom Nyariki medal table |
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 Kenya
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| World championships | ||
| bronze | 1997 Athens | 5000 m |
| Marathon Relay World Championships | ||
| gold | 1998 Manaus | Marathon relay |
| World Cross Country Championships | ||
| bronze | 1997 Turin | Langstrasse |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| silver | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 5000 m |
| Pan-African Games | ||
| bronze | 1999 Johannesburg | 5000 m |
| African Championships | ||
| gold | 1998 Dakar | 3000 m |
Tom Nyariki (actually Thomas Nyariki Mongare ; born September 27, 1971 in Nyamira , Nyanza Province ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner .
Life
Nyariki began his career as a sprinter , but switched to the long distance in the early 1990s due to lack of success. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he established himself among the world's best for the first time with his fifth place in the 5000 meter run .
In 1997, he demonstrated his versatility in what was probably his most successful season. He was first third at the Cross Country World Championships in Turin. At the World Athletics Championships in Athens he also won the bronze medal in 13: 11.09 minutes behind Daniel Komen and Khalid Boulami . He also won the Vancouver Sun Run and, together with his new wife Jackline Maranga , the Course de l'Escalade .
In 1998 he finished fourth at the World Cross Country Championships in Marrakech and won the 3000 meter run at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar . Over 5000 m he won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and in 1999 the bronze medal at the Pan-African Games in Johannesburg. In 2000 and 2001 he celebrated further victories at the Course de l'Escalade.
In 2003 he was ambushed in his car by armed robbers on the run from the police and seriously injured when he drove the car into the ditch and an angry crowd attacked him for mistakenly mistaking him for one of the criminals. He lost an eye and it took him a year to start training again. His limited field of vision forced him to give up his career as a track and cross-country runner , so that from now on he only competed on road races. In 2006 he won the Beach to Beacon and the New York City Half Marathon , and he was twelfth in the New York City Marathon . In 2007 he won the Boston Half Marathon .
Tom Nyariki is 1.70 m tall and weighs 62 kg. He belongs to Dieter Hogen's KIMbia training group . His wife Jackline Maranga is the 1999 World Cross Country Champion; the couple has two daughters.
Top performances
- 2000 m : 4: 55.79 min, September 3, 1997, Rieti
- 3000 m: 7: 27.75 min, August 10, 1996, Monaco
- 5000 m: 12: 55.94 min, July 7th 1997, Stockholm
- 10,000 m : 27: 48.12 min, June 22, 2002, Nairobi
- 10 km road run : 27:30 min, March 24, 2001, Mobile
- Half marathon : 1:02:04 h, September 16, 2007, Philadelphia
- Marathon : 2:15:58, November 5, 2006, New York City
Web links
- Tom Nyariki in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Tom Nyariki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait on the KIMbia website
- Interview with Thomas Nyariki from Shannon Martin on www.mensracing.com, August 26, 2006
- Interview by Toby Tanser in Runner's World , August 30, 2006
- Leading Edge: Sweet Return , portrait by Jim Gerweck in Running Times, December 2006
Footnotes
- ↑ Chasing Kimbia: Chasing Tom Nyariki . September 28, 2006
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nyariki, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nyariki Mongare, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nyamira , Nyanza (Kenya) |