Hezekiél Sepeng
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Full name | Hezekiél Sello Sepeng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | South African | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1974-06-30) 30 June 1974 (age 50) Potchefstroom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Potchefstroom High School for Boys | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 800m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hezekiél Sello Sepeng (born 30 June 1974),[1] is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 (behind Vebjørn Rodal),[2] the 1998 Commonwealth Games (behind Japheth Kimutai) and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999 (behind Wilson Kipketer). He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for nandrolone.[3][4]
He was born in Potchefstroom and educated at Potchefstroom Boys High, where he was in the same class as South African commonwealth boxer Sean Santana.
See also
References
- ^ "Hezekiel Sepeng". SAHO. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ Hezekiél Sepeng Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
- ^ IAAF suspends Sepeng (Archived). News24. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
- ^ "Sepeng banned for two years". Mail&Guardian. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
External links
- Hezekiél Sepeng at World Athletics
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Preceded by | Flagbearer for South Africa Sydney 2000 | Succeeded by |
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- 1959: Dieter Heydecke (FRG)
- 1961: Ron Delany (IRL)
- 1963: Mamoru Morimoto (JPN)
- 1965: Bill Crothers (CAN)
- 1967: Ralph Doubell (AUS)
- 1970: Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG)
- 1973: Yevhen Arzhanov (URS)
- 1975: Waldemar Gondek (POL)
- 1977: Alberto Juantorena (CUB)
- 1979: Evans White (USA)
- 1981: Andreas Hauck (GDR)
- 1983: Ryszard Ostrowski (POL)
- 1985: Ryszard Ostrowski (POL)
- 1987: Slobodan Popović (YUG)
- 1989: Ari Suhonen (FIN)
- 1991: Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA)
- 1993: Marko Koers (NED)
- 1995: Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA)
- 1997: Norberto Téllez (CUB)
- 1999: Norberto Téllez (CUB)
- 2001: Khalid Tighazouine (MAR)
- 2003: Roman Oravec (CZE)
- 2005: Fabiano Peçanha (BRA)
- 2007: Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei (IRI)
- 2009: Sajjad Moradi (IRI)
- 2011: Lachlan Renshaw (AUS)
- 2013: Nijel Amos (BOT)
- 2015: Shaquille Walker (USA)
- 2017: Jesús Tonatiu López (MEX)
- 2019: Mohamed Belbachir (ALG)
- 2021: Maciej Wyderka (POL)
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