- Yobes Ondieki
Yobes Ondieki (born
February 21 ,1961 inKisii ,Nyanza ) is a formerKenya n5000 m runner, who won the World Championships' gold medal in Tokyo 1991. In the same year he set a temporary Kenyan 5000 m record of 13:01.82 in Zurich. He participated in the Olympic finals of 1988 and 1992 but did not win a medal.Ondieki was known for his demanding training sessions and his ability to run constantly at a high pace. However, he lacked a finishing kick, a weakness exploited by his opponents in the 1992 Olympic 5,000 m final in
Barcelona . (Some will recall that 1992 marked the first and only time that a white man (Dieter Baumann ) had won the 5000 m Olympic final sinceSaid Aouita did so in 1984.) In 1993, Ondieki became the first athlete to break the 27-minute-barrier over 10000 m at theBislett Games in Oslo.Ondieki married
Lisa Martin , an Australian marathon runner. In 1990 they had a baby girl named Emma Ondieki. Today, Ondieki and Martin are divorced.In September 1991 both he and Martin attended the 1991 AFL Grand Final as a part of the prematch entertainment. The vision of Ondieki laughing uncontrollably at the antics of
Angry Anderson has been used in a recent advertisement for Carlton Draught. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxVvzMXF4S0 'Carlton Draught TV Commercial: Angry Anderson] ]References
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