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}} Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi (8 September 1980 – 24 October 2014) was a South African middle distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres. His first global medal was a silver at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics. He later won a bronze at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, which came a year after his victory at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Mulaudzi was the gold medallist at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and won two further silver medals at the competition in 2006 and 2008. He was runner-up at continental level on three occasions, taking the 800 m silver at the African Championships in Athletics in 2000 and at the All-Africa Games in 2003 and 2007.〔 He carried the flag for his native country at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he became an Olympic silver medallist. His personal best for the 800 m was 1:42.86 minutes. He ranked first on time in the 2006 and 2007 seasons, becoming the first Black South African to achieve such a feat.〔(FACTBOX-The late Mbulaeni Mulaudzi ). Reuters (2014-10-24). Retrieved on 2014-10-25.〕 ==Career== Born in Muduluni, Transvaal Province, he had his first success as a teenager at the 1999 African Junior Athletics Championships, where he won the 800 m title.〔(African Junior Championships ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-25.〕 His first senior 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.〔 That year he was inducted into the University of Pretoria Sport Hall of fame.〔http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10413 Hall of fame Retrieved 25 June 2011〕 In the 2006 season he ranked number one in the world for the season – South Africa's first black athlete to do so.〔(From dusty Village to World Traveler - Mbulaeni Mulaudzi ). Time to Run. Retrieved on 2009-08-23.〕 He was made South African Sportsman of the Year in recognition of this.〔(Winners ). SASports Awards. Retrieved on 2014-10-25.〕 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 set a lifetime best of 1:42.86 minutes later that year at the Rieti Meeting.〔(Former world 800m champion Mulaudzi dies ). IAAF (2014-10-24). Retrieved on 2014-10-25.〕 He returned to competition in 2010 with a win at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar.〔Turner, Chris (2010-04-24). (Wlodarczyk blasts out 75.13m release in Dakar – IAAF World Challenge ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-25.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mbulaeni Mulaudzi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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