Samukeliso Moyo (born 1 January 1974 in

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) is a female

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from

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. She represented her country at the

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, and the 1999 World Championships in

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Biography

She claimed the bronze medal in the women's

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at the

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. She represented Zimbabwe at the

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on a number of occasions, with her best finishes being tenth in the short race at the 1998 edition and fifteenth in the 1999 long race.Moyo Samukeliso

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. Retrieved 3 October 2010. She has won titles at the African Southern Regional Championships, including wins over

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, 5000 m and in cross country. Moyo began focusing on

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competitions and won back-to-back titles at the

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15K race in

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from 1997 to 1998. She won the Rand Athletic Club 10 km race in 2001, taking the title in a time of 34:24. She set a personal best in the marathon at the 2008

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, where she finished with a time of 2:37:17. She won both the Johannesburg City Marathon and the Cape Town City Marathons that year, beating the competition by a large margin on both occasions. At the Soweto Marathon near the end of the year, she was runner-up to the defending champion Mamorallo Tjoka of

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. She won at the South Africa Marathon Championships in 2009 and returned to defend her title the following year. She succeeded in winning for a second time, but the victory was a somewhat hollow one for the athlete: "I did not really enjoy the race because the level of competition was low ... Last year I had to work much harder to win. It was more like a training run this time". Moyo's comparatively slow winning time of 2:48:56 was still eleven minutes ahead of the rest of the women's field.Ouma, Mark (3 October 2010)
Ngamole and Moyo take South African Marathon titles

. Retrieved 3 October 2010. She will be taking part in the 2010 Nedbank Soweto Marathon on 7 November.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moyo, Samukeliso 1974 births Living people People from Gwanda Zimbabwean female long-distance runners Zimbabwean female marathon runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Zimbabwe Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Zimbabwe Sportspeople from Matabeleland South Province Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Cape Town Marathon female winners Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics