Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

Medal record
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
Men’s athletics
Competitor for  South Africa
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	800 m
World Championships
Gold	2009 Berlin	800 m
Bronze	2003 Paris	800 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold	2004 Budapest	800 m
Silver	2006 Moskva	800 m
Silver	2008 Valencia	800 m

Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi (born September 8, 1980 in Muduluni, Limpopo Province) is a South African middle distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres. He carried the flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece for his native country. He became South Africa's first black athlete to be ranked number one in the world.^[1]

His first international medal was a silver at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics. He competed at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and finished sixth in his first global final. At his first Commonwealth Games, Mulaudzi was first past the finish line to become the 2002 Commonwealth champion in the 800 m. He won a bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships the following year, in addition to a silver medal from the 2003 All-Africa Games.

He came to prominence in 2004, when he won at the World Indoor Championships and reached the podium at the 2004 Athens Olympics to win an Olympic silver medal. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships he won a silver medal, and he repeated the feat two years later at the 2008 edition. He represented South Africa at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was knocked out of the 800 m at the semi-final stage.

He made the 800 m final at four consecutive World Athletics Championships, and won his first gold medal in the event in 2009. He returned to competition in 2010 with a win at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar.^[2]

Personal bests

• 800 metres - 1:42.86 (2009)
• 1500 metres - 3:38.55 (2008)

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
2000	African Championships	Algiers, Algeria	2nd	1:46.28
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th	1:45.01
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, England	1st	1:46.32
	African Championships	Rades, Tunisia	3rd	1:46.20
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	3rd	1:44.90
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	5th
	All-Africa Games	Abuja, Nigeria	2nd	1:46.44
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	1:45.71
	Summer Olympics	Athens, Greece	2nd	1:44.61
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	5th
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finald	12th (sf)	1:45.73
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	5th
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	2nd	1:47.16
	African Championships	Bambous, Mauritius	6th
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	1st
	IAAF World Cup	Athens, Greece	3rd	1:45.14
2007	All-Africa Games	Algiers, Algeria	2nd	1:45.54
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	7th	1:47.52
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	2nd
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	2nd	1:44.91
	Summer Olympics	Beijing, China	11th (sf)	1:46.24
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	1:45.29
	IAAF World Athletics Final	Thessaloniki, Greece	3rd

Accolades

In 2004 he was inducted into the University of Pretoria Sport Hall of fame.^[3]

References

1. ^ From dusty Village to World Traveler - Mbulaeni Mulaudzi. Time to Run. Retrieved on 2009-08-23.
2. ^ Turner, Chris (2010-04-24). Wlodarczyk blasts out 75.13m release in Dakar – IAAF World Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-25.
3. ^ http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10413 Hall of fame Retrieved June 25, 2011

External links

• IAAF profile for Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
• sports-reference

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Name	Mulaudzi, Mbulaeni
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Date of birth	1980-09-08
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