Thabiso Moqhali

Thabiso Paul Moqhali ( born December 7, 1967) is a former marathon runner Lesotho.

He began his career as a middle-distance runner. At the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986, he retired about 1500 m from the lead and came over 5000 m to 14th place. In 1987 he retired from about 5000 m in the flow at the IAAF World Championships in Rome.

After he had been recruited by a South African mining company for its running club, he moved to Welkom in the former province of Orange Free State and moved to the 42,195 -km distance. In 1990 he finished tenth at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 2:17:33 h and third in the South African Marathon Championships in 2:12:37 h following year he improved to fourth in the South African Championships in 2:12:14 h

He was with his personal best of 2:10:55 h seventh London Marathon 1992. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​he made ​​it to number 33, at the Berlin Marathon, he finished fifth.

In 1995 he finished tenth in the Boston Marathon and eighth in the New York City Marathon, 1997, he was South African marathon champion, arrived at the World Cross Country Championships in Turin, ranked 200 and was third in the Honolulu Marathon.

The following year, he came third in the South African Championships and the Belgrade Marathon. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, he braved the sweltering heat and won in 2:19:15 h It was the first and only gold medal for Lesotho at the Commonwealth Games, and Moqhali then took an offer his government to return home and for the Sports Ministry to promote the sport of running among the youth.

In 1999 he qualified with a tenth place at the Chicago Marathon in 2:12:20 h again for the Olympics. 2000 was followed by a win in Belgrade a 16th place in the Olympic marathon in Sydney. In the World Half Marathon Championships in Veracruz, he came on the 54th.

He was fifth in the South American Championships in 2001 and ran at the IAAF World Championships in Edmonton one on the 30th place.