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Profiles : John Yuda Msuri


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).

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

Prepared by John Manners for the IAAF "Focus on Athletes" project. © IAAF 2004-07

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Phaustin Baha Sulle

Phaustin Baha Sulle (born 30 May 1982 in Arusha) is a Tanzanian long-distance runner who specializes in the half marathon and marathon. He won the silver medal at the 2000 World Half Marathon Championships. In 1999 he won the Paris Half Marathon and set a course record at the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale.
Achievements
Representing
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

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Personal Best - Outdoor

Performance Wind Place Date
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
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

Prepared by John Manners and Gloria Mutahanamilwa for the IAAF ‘Focus on Athletes’ project. Copyright IAAF 2004-2007.

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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.

 

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