John Msuri YUDA, Tanzania (5000/10,000/road/cross country)
Born 9 June 1979, Kwapakacha, Kondoa District, Dodoma Region, Tanzania
Height: 1.59m; Weight: 56kg
Former
mechanic, apprenticed Dodoma; lives mainly in Dodoma; trains in Iten,
Kenya, and Boulder, Colorado; finished primary at Mlimwa Primary Sch.,
Dodoma.
Native language: Mrangi (same as 1980s marathon great
Juma Ikangaa); eldest of two children of father's first of three wives;
father a farmer with 15 acres of maize and ground nuts.
Manager: KIMbia Athletics Coach: Dieter Hogen
John Yuda emerged as a world-class runner in a remarkably short time. In the summer of 2000, while men who were to become his rivals were preparing for the Sydney Olympics, Yuda was still a part-time amateur runner, training in the morning before going to work as a mechanic, and repeatedly pleading to be accepted into Tanzania's most elite running club. His first overseas trip was to the 2001 World Cross Country Championships and, six months after that, he was a bronze medallist in the World Half-Marathon. By the end of 2002, he had won medals in major international championships in cross country, road racing and track.
Yuda
has invested some of the winnings from his once-prolific racing, mainly
in his hometown of Dodoma, where he has bought two cars and a house
that he sometimes shares with his wife, Hawa Hussein, an international
runner of longer experience than Yuda himself. She was 20th at 4km in
the 1998 World Cross and 6th at 5000m in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Other
investments include a football team in the Tanzanian professional
league (not doing well at present) and a rudimentary music studio in the
running centre of Arusha, where young musicians whom Yuda supports can
practise and record. He has also built a two-story commercial
establishment in Arusha that opened as a small hotel and tavern in 2004.
His musical protégés supply the entertainment.
Yuda began running
in primary school, with regional success in 5000m. Later, inspired by
radio reports of Kenyan triumphs, he started training in the early
mornings before going to work as mechanic. Attaching himself to a local
training group, he advanced through regional meets to the 2000 National
Championships, finishing 5th at 5000m and 10,000m.
Yuda twice
approached Max Iranqhe, the leader of elite, at the residential running
club in Arusha, for permission to join and was admitted provisionally in
July 2000 to train for Mt. Meru Marathon in August. Finishing 5th
(2:20:12), he then joined the club for cross country training. After
finishing 25th in the 2001 12km Kenyan Cross Country Championships, Yuda
proceeded to the World Cross Country Championships in Ostend, where he
placed 14th at 4km and 27th at 12 km.
Signed by KIM management in
Ostend, Yuda was then taken around Europe for road races. On successive
weekends, he won 10 km races in Poznan and Wurtzburg, then finished 2nd
to Rodgers Rop's world best at 25 km in Berlin, recording 1:13:56, then
No3 all-time. Moving to the US for a month, Yuda won three road races
and, after more road success in Australia, he won the Tanzanian Half
Marathon and finished 3rd (60:12) behind Haile Gebrselassie and Tesfaye
Jifar in World Half Marathon Championships, in Bristol.
Yuda
prepared for the 2002 World Cross Country Championships, in Dublin, with
six cross country races in Europe, winning four. In Dublin, he took
silver behind Kenenisa Bekele at 12km. Six weeks later, after two road
wins and 4th at Stramilano Half-Marathon, he collected his second
successive bronze in the World Half Marathon, this time in Brussels
behind Paul Kosgei and Jaouad Gharib. He won Tanzanian championship at
10,000m and launched his international track career with a pair of
national records in Golden League races (13:03.62 for 5000m in Rome;
27:06.17 for 10,000m in Brussels) and a bronze at 10,000m (27:45.78) in
the Manchester Commonwealth Games behind Wilberforce Talel and Kosgei.
Yuda closed season with superb Half Marathon PR (60:02), finishing
second behind Kosgei in Great North Run.
A series of injuries in
2003 raised questions about Yuda’s heavy schedule (two dozen races) in
2002. Slight injury kept him out of World Cross Country, and after
winning Stramilano (60:25) in April, he sustained another injury
switching from road to track training. He did not quite regain fitness
in time for the World Championships in Paris (12th in 10,000m, 27:56.21)
but two weeks later, in Brussels, came within four seconds of PB
(27:09.83). Then, in October, he injured a hamstring in the closing
stages of World Half Marathon, in Vilamoura, Portugal, and limped across
the line in 5th (61:13).
After being involved in devastating car
wreck during the 2003 Christmas holidays, but escaping with minor
injuries, Yuda embarked on rigorous training for the 2004 London
Marathon, skipping cross country altogether. London, billed inaccurately
as his marathon debut, went well for 37 km as Yuda shared lead with
eventual 1st and 2nd placers Evans Rutto and Sammy Korir at 2:06 pace.
But conditions were slippery, and when all three went down in a
collision at 23 miles, Yuda suffered the worst of it. The hamstring
flared and he limped in 10th in 2:10:13.
A similar fate befell him
in the Athens Olympic 10,000m, in which he was tripped, injured a hip,
and was forced to drop out. He trained cautiously for the 2004 New York
City Marathon and thought himself approaching full fitness but finished a
disappointing 15th in 2:18:04.
In 2005 Yuda resumed the furious
racing pace of 2002, completing four 10,000m on the track (best 27:33.84
for 10th in Hengelo), two big 10 km road races (5th in World’s Best
10k, San Juan, in PB 28:17; 3rd in Edinburgh in 28:24), a 10 Miler, the
Great South Run (1st in 46:55), a couple of cross country and odd
distance races, five Half Marathons (most notably, 2nd at Stramilano in
60:25 and 6th at the World Championships in Edmonton in 62:11) and a
marathon (a DNF in Seoul).
Perhaps as a result of that punishing
schedule, 2006 was comparatively inactive, with a DNF in the Boston
Marathon and a lowly 19th in Chicago (2:15:23).
In 2007 however,
Yuda once again has been racing as if there’s no tomorrow, almost
entirely on the road. He has run, among others, five 10 km races,
including 5th place finishes in both the World’s Best (28:38) and
Crescent City (28:37) and 3rd in the Beach to Beacon (PB 27:55), two 12
km races (2nd in Spokane in 34:19 and 5th in the Bay to Breakers in
35:20), a 10 miler (2nd in the Cherry Blossom in 46:04), four Half
Marathons (including 6th in Ras Al Khaimah in 60:39 behind Samuel
Wanjiru’s unratified world record 58:53, and 3rd in Philadelphia in
62:05, just three seconds off the lead) and the grueling Mombasa World
Cross Country.
Yearly Progression
5000m/10,000m/Half
Marathon: 2001 - --/--/60:12; 2002 - 13:03.62 NR/ 27:06.17 NR/ 60:02;
2003 - 13:34.81/27:09.83/60:25; 2004 - —; 2005 - --/27:33.84/60:25; 2006
- --; 2007 - --/--/60:39.
Personal Bests
5000m: 13:03.62 (2002)
10,000m: 27:06.17 (2002)
10km: 27:55 (2007)
Half Marathon: 1:00.02
Marathon: 2:10:13 (2004).
10,000m: 27:06.17 (2002)
10km: 27:55 (2007)
Half Marathon: 1:00.02
Marathon: 2:10:13 (2004).
Career Highlights
2001 World Cross Country Championships (14th Short Course; 27th Long Course)
2001 3rd, World Half Marathon Championships
2002 2nd, World Cross Country Championships (Long Course)
2002 3rd, World Half Marathon Championships
2002 3rd, Commonwealth Games 10,000m
2002 2nd, Great North Run Half Marathon
2003 1st, Stramilano Half Marathon
2003 12th, World Championships 10,000m
2003 5th, World Half Marathon Championships
2005 2nd, Stramilano Half Marathon
2005 6th, World Half Marathon Championships
2001 3rd, World Half Marathon Championships
2002 2nd, World Cross Country Championships (Long Course)
2002 3rd, World Half Marathon Championships
2002 3rd, Commonwealth Games 10,000m
2002 2nd, Great North Run Half Marathon
2003 1st, Stramilano Half Marathon
2003 12th, World Championships 10,000m
2003 5th, World Half Marathon Championships
2005 2nd, Stramilano Half Marathon
2005 6th, World Half Marathon Championships
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Achievements
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1999 | Paris Half Marathon | Paris, France | 1st | Half marathon | 1:01:37 |
Lille Half Marathon | Lille, France | 1st | Half marathon | 1:00:38 | |
Corrida de Langueux | Langueux, France | 1st | 10 km | ||
World Half Marathon Championships | Palermo, Italy | 15th | Half marathon | ||
Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale | Marseille, France | 1st | Half marathon | 1:00:24 | |
2000 | World Half Marathon Championships | Veracruz, Mexico | 2nd | Half marathon | |
2001 | World Half Marathon Championships | Bristol, England | 12th | Half marathon | |
3rd | Team |
Personal bests
- Half marathon - 1:00:05 (2000)
- Marathon - 2:10:08 (2004)
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Personal Best - Outdoor | |||||
Performance | Wind | Place | Date | ||
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1500 Metres | 4:10.47 | Cuxhaven | 09 JUL 2005 | ||
3000 Metres | 8:39.91 | Zürich | 19 AUG 2005 | ||
5000 Metres | 14:43.87 | Helsinki (Olympic Stadium) | 13 AUG 2005 | ||
10,000 Metres | 32:20.47 | Zhukovsky | 26 JUN 2010 | ||
10 Kilometres | 32:58 | Córdoba, ESP | 20 SEP 2008 | ||
Half Marathon | 1:11:24 | Merano | 25 APR 2010 |
Personal Best - Indoor | |||||
Performance | Wind | Place | Date | ||
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1500 Metres | 4:12.24 | Gent | 08 FEB 2009 | ||
One Mile | 4:30.01 | Gent | 08 FEB 2009 | ||
2000 Metres | 5:59.90 | Paris-Bercy (Palais Omnisports) | 13 FEB 2009 | ||
3000 Metres | 8:51.96 | Birmingham, GBR | 21 FEB 2009 | ||
Two Miles | 9:32.75 | Praha (O2 Arena) | 26 FEB 2009 | ||
5000 Metres | 15:40.00 | Stuttgart | 31 JAN 2004 |
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Profiles : Fabiano Joseph Naasi
Fabiano JOSEPH Naasi, Tanzania (5000m/10,000m/Half Marathon)
Born 24 December 1985, Babati District, Arusha Region, Tanzania.
Second of four children.
Married to fellow international athlete Josephine Deemay. Lives, trains in Arusha.
Manager: PACE Sports Management.
Fabiano Joseph has one of the most distinguished records in the recent history of the World Road Running (nee Half Marathon) Championships—two silver medals and a gold from 2003-05. This year, returning from injury and having just notched a half-marathon PB (60:14 in Rotterdam), he faces one of the most formidable fields in the history of the event.
Joseph first competed internationally in the Junior race at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin (72nd) while in his final year of primary school, having already recorded a sub-29 minute time in a 10km road race. He stopped schooling at the end of that year to pursue a running career. In November, he was selected to represent Tanzania in a half-marathon in Lagos, finishing 3rd in 64:00.
At the recommendation of Tanzanian coach Max Iranqhe, Joseph attracted the interest of management firm KIM (now PACE), which arranged several races on the European cross country circuit early in 2003. After four top-5 placings on the circuit, Joseph finished 19th in the senior World Cross Country 12km. He immediately embarked on a series of road races, placing well in all—4th Stramilano Half-Marathon (61:43); 3rd Humarathon (61:41), 3rd Marseille 10km (28:24), 2nd British 10km (28:14).
From there Joseph went straight to the track for several major races: 1st AAA of England 10,000 (27:32.81), 8th Lausanne 5000 (13:22.89), 14th Brussels 10,000 (PB 27:32.63) and 13th in the World Championships 10,000 in Paris (28:06.36). He capped his season at the World Half Marathon Championships, in Vilamoura, Portugal, finishing 2nd (PB 60:52) behind Kenya’s Martin Lel, and leading Tanzania to the team title. “I knew the Kenyans were strong but I was ready to die,” said Joseph.
He continued on the roads and cross country at the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004, winning a couple of big races on the European circuit and improving his finish in the World Cross Country 12km to 7th. He ran two half-marathons a week apart in early spring (13th Lisbon in 61:52 and 6th Stramilano in 61:03), then in June suffered a bout of typhoid that curtailed his training during the crucial build-up to the Olympics. Nevertheless, he twice improved his track 5000m best (13:17.83 for 13th in Oslo and 13:15.90 PB for 12th in Stockholm) and doubled at the World Junior Championships, in Grosseto, Italy—6th in the 5000 (13:33.62), 2nd in the 10,000 (28:04.45).
Attempting the same double in the Athens Olympics, Joseph found his lack of training had an effect: he came 10th (28:01.94) in the 10,000 and faded to 11th in his 5000 heat (13:31.89), failing to qualify for the final. After Athens, he concentrated on preparing for the World Half Marathon in New Delhi in early October, and against a field depleted in the post-Olympic autumn, he repeated as silver medallist (62:31), behind another Kenyan, Paul Kirui (62:15).
Joseph resumed cross country competition in late November and ran six races in two months, all in Spain, but chose not to compete in the 2005 World Cross Country Championships after entering the Seoul International Marathon a week earlier and failing to finish. He experienced success on US roads during the summer (2nd in Peachtree 10km and Boilermaker 15 km, 1st in Bobby Crim 10M) but disappointment at the World Championships in Helsinki (15th in the 5000 in 13:42.50 after 13:18.18 in his heat).
He warmed up for the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton with a 6th place three weeks earlier in the Rotterdam Half (61:07 behind Samuel Wanjiru’s world best 59:16). Then on a cold, wet day in Edmonton he won the world title by a whisker in 61:08 as he slipped past Qatar’s Mubarak Shami a metre before the finish, when Shami (the former Kenyan Richard Yatich) eased up in a premature victory celebration.
In 2006 Joseph represented Tanzania at the Commonwealth Games, in Melbourne, and collected a bronze in the 10,000 (27:51.99) as well as a 5th place in the 5000 (13:12.76 PB). But otherwise he stuck to the roads and cross country. He won a 10km in Edinburgh and two half-marathons, one in Spain and one in Bogota (62:34 CR at 2600m altitude).
In April, he paced the London Marathon through 38 km, and six months later, bypassing a defence of his title in the World Half Marathon (which had become the World Road Running Championship), he made his official marathon debut in Amsterdam, finishing 10th in 2:13:24. In December he paced the Fukuoka Marathon, helping Haile Gebrselassie clock 2:06.52.
2007 began as usual with cross country, notably with 4th place in Edinburgh behind the formidable trio of Kenenisa Bekele, Zersenay Tadesse and Eliud Kipchoge. In February he ran a 60:53 half marathon for 6th at Ras Al Khaimah, in the UAE, behind the 58:53 world quickest by Wanjiru. But the next month he was unable to finish either the World Cross Country, in Mombasa, or the Stramilano Half Marathon, severely hampered by tightness in his back and hamstrings.
After months of therapy, and no racing, Joseph returned to the roads in the Rotterdam Half Marathon in September with an impressive PB of 60:14. This seems to indicate that he is ready to try to regain in Udine the title he won two years ago in Edmonton. But, to do so, he has to deal not only with last year’s World Road Running champion, Zersenay Tadesse, but also with a quartet of Kenyans, including world record holder Wanjiru, all with sub-60 PBs. An uphill struggle, but the young Tanzanian, not yet 22 years old, is well used to that.
Yearly Progression
5000m/10,000m/Half Marathon: 2002 – –/–/64:00; 2003 – 13:22.89/ 27:32.63/ 60:52; 2004 – 13:15.90/ 28:01.94/ 61:03; 2005 – 13:18.18/28:33.44/61:00; 2006 – 13:12.76/27:51.99/62:34; 2007 – –/–/60:14.
Personal Bests
5000m: 13:12.76 (2006)
10,000m: 27:32.63 (2003)
Half Marathon: 60:14 (2007)
Marathon: 2:13.24 (2006)
Career Highlights
2002 72nd, World Cross Country Championships (Junior)
2003 19th, World Cross Country Championships
2003 13th, World Championships 10,000m
2003 2nd, World Half Marathon Championships
2004 7th, World Cross Country Championships
2004 10th, Olympic Games 10,000m
2004 2nd, World Junior Championships 10,000m
2004 6th, World Junior Championships 5000m
2004 2nd, World Half Marathon Championships
2005 15th, World Championships 5000m
2005 1st, World Half Marathon Championships
2006 3rd, Commonwealth Games 10,000m
2006 5th, Commonwealth Games 5000m
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GIDAMIS SHAHANGA
Kutoka kushoto (25) ni Zacharia Barie (Mtanzania) na katikati (26) ni
GIDAMIS SHAHANGA wakimuonyesha umahiri mkenya (23) katika mbio
zilizofanyika San Juan Porto Rico miaka ya 1980.
Born 24 December 1985, Babati District, Arusha Region, Tanzania.
Second of four children.
Married to fellow international athlete Josephine Deemay. Lives, trains in Arusha.
Manager: PACE Sports Management.
Fabiano Joseph has one of the most distinguished records in the recent history of the World Road Running (nee Half Marathon) Championships—two silver medals and a gold from 2003-05. This year, returning from injury and having just notched a half-marathon PB (60:14 in Rotterdam), he faces one of the most formidable fields in the history of the event.
Joseph first competed internationally in the Junior race at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin (72nd) while in his final year of primary school, having already recorded a sub-29 minute time in a 10km road race. He stopped schooling at the end of that year to pursue a running career. In November, he was selected to represent Tanzania in a half-marathon in Lagos, finishing 3rd in 64:00.
At the recommendation of Tanzanian coach Max Iranqhe, Joseph attracted the interest of management firm KIM (now PACE), which arranged several races on the European cross country circuit early in 2003. After four top-5 placings on the circuit, Joseph finished 19th in the senior World Cross Country 12km. He immediately embarked on a series of road races, placing well in all—4th Stramilano Half-Marathon (61:43); 3rd Humarathon (61:41), 3rd Marseille 10km (28:24), 2nd British 10km (28:14).
From there Joseph went straight to the track for several major races: 1st AAA of England 10,000 (27:32.81), 8th Lausanne 5000 (13:22.89), 14th Brussels 10,000 (PB 27:32.63) and 13th in the World Championships 10,000 in Paris (28:06.36). He capped his season at the World Half Marathon Championships, in Vilamoura, Portugal, finishing 2nd (PB 60:52) behind Kenya’s Martin Lel, and leading Tanzania to the team title. “I knew the Kenyans were strong but I was ready to die,” said Joseph.
He continued on the roads and cross country at the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004, winning a couple of big races on the European circuit and improving his finish in the World Cross Country 12km to 7th. He ran two half-marathons a week apart in early spring (13th Lisbon in 61:52 and 6th Stramilano in 61:03), then in June suffered a bout of typhoid that curtailed his training during the crucial build-up to the Olympics. Nevertheless, he twice improved his track 5000m best (13:17.83 for 13th in Oslo and 13:15.90 PB for 12th in Stockholm) and doubled at the World Junior Championships, in Grosseto, Italy—6th in the 5000 (13:33.62), 2nd in the 10,000 (28:04.45).
Attempting the same double in the Athens Olympics, Joseph found his lack of training had an effect: he came 10th (28:01.94) in the 10,000 and faded to 11th in his 5000 heat (13:31.89), failing to qualify for the final. After Athens, he concentrated on preparing for the World Half Marathon in New Delhi in early October, and against a field depleted in the post-Olympic autumn, he repeated as silver medallist (62:31), behind another Kenyan, Paul Kirui (62:15).
Joseph resumed cross country competition in late November and ran six races in two months, all in Spain, but chose not to compete in the 2005 World Cross Country Championships after entering the Seoul International Marathon a week earlier and failing to finish. He experienced success on US roads during the summer (2nd in Peachtree 10km and Boilermaker 15 km, 1st in Bobby Crim 10M) but disappointment at the World Championships in Helsinki (15th in the 5000 in 13:42.50 after 13:18.18 in his heat).
He warmed up for the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton with a 6th place three weeks earlier in the Rotterdam Half (61:07 behind Samuel Wanjiru’s world best 59:16). Then on a cold, wet day in Edmonton he won the world title by a whisker in 61:08 as he slipped past Qatar’s Mubarak Shami a metre before the finish, when Shami (the former Kenyan Richard Yatich) eased up in a premature victory celebration.
In 2006 Joseph represented Tanzania at the Commonwealth Games, in Melbourne, and collected a bronze in the 10,000 (27:51.99) as well as a 5th place in the 5000 (13:12.76 PB). But otherwise he stuck to the roads and cross country. He won a 10km in Edinburgh and two half-marathons, one in Spain and one in Bogota (62:34 CR at 2600m altitude).
In April, he paced the London Marathon through 38 km, and six months later, bypassing a defence of his title in the World Half Marathon (which had become the World Road Running Championship), he made his official marathon debut in Amsterdam, finishing 10th in 2:13:24. In December he paced the Fukuoka Marathon, helping Haile Gebrselassie clock 2:06.52.
2007 began as usual with cross country, notably with 4th place in Edinburgh behind the formidable trio of Kenenisa Bekele, Zersenay Tadesse and Eliud Kipchoge. In February he ran a 60:53 half marathon for 6th at Ras Al Khaimah, in the UAE, behind the 58:53 world quickest by Wanjiru. But the next month he was unable to finish either the World Cross Country, in Mombasa, or the Stramilano Half Marathon, severely hampered by tightness in his back and hamstrings.
After months of therapy, and no racing, Joseph returned to the roads in the Rotterdam Half Marathon in September with an impressive PB of 60:14. This seems to indicate that he is ready to try to regain in Udine the title he won two years ago in Edmonton. But, to do so, he has to deal not only with last year’s World Road Running champion, Zersenay Tadesse, but also with a quartet of Kenyans, including world record holder Wanjiru, all with sub-60 PBs. An uphill struggle, but the young Tanzanian, not yet 22 years old, is well used to that.
Yearly Progression
5000m/10,000m/Half Marathon: 2002 – –/–/64:00; 2003 – 13:22.89/ 27:32.63/ 60:52; 2004 – 13:15.90/ 28:01.94/ 61:03; 2005 – 13:18.18/28:33.44/61:00; 2006 – 13:12.76/27:51.99/62:34; 2007 – –/–/60:14.
Personal Bests
5000m: 13:12.76 (2006)
10,000m: 27:32.63 (2003)
Half Marathon: 60:14 (2007)
Marathon: 2:13.24 (2006)
Career Highlights
2002 72nd, World Cross Country Championships (Junior)
2003 19th, World Cross Country Championships
2003 13th, World Championships 10,000m
2003 2nd, World Half Marathon Championships
2004 7th, World Cross Country Championships
2004 10th, Olympic Games 10,000m
2004 2nd, World Junior Championships 10,000m
2004 6th, World Junior Championships 5000m
2004 2nd, World Half Marathon Championships
2005 15th, World Championships 5000m
2005 1st, World Half Marathon Championships
2006 3rd, Commonwealth Games 10,000m
2006 5th, Commonwealth Games 5000m
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