Yobes Ondieki ' Kenyan 5,000 Metres Athlete - Won Olympic Gold in 1991 ' Track and Field Signed Cards Autograph £15.00

This is an In Person Signed White Card 4" x 3" by the Kenyan 5000 metres runner who won Olympic Gold in 1991.

Yobes Ondieki (born February 21, 1961 in Kisii, Nyanza) is a former Kenyan 5000 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 attended Iowa State University where he captured four Big Eight conference titles, three of them in cross country. Ondieki received All-America accolades six times at Iowa State. Although he never won an NCAA individual championship, he came close on several occasions, earning NCAA runner-up honors three times and third-place status three times. Except for the NCAA Championship, he won every cross country meet he competed in during the 1983 and 1984 seasons. 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. In 1993, Ondieki became the first athlete to break the 27-minute-barrier over 10,000 meters when he ran 26:58.38 at the Bislett Games in Oslo on July 10th. His time broke the mark set by Richard Chelimo only five days earlier in Stockholm by over 9 seconds.