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	Josia Thugwane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Josia Thugwane (born April 15, 1971) is a South African athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		Thugwane finished 3 seconds ahead of Lee for the closest Olympic marathon finish ever.
		Thugwane had a very successful year in 1997 by winning the Fukuoka marathon, but then his career went down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josia_Thugwane (143 words)

	Race To The Finish
		The victor was Josia Thugwane of South Africa, who ran the grueling course in two hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds.
		Thugwane is the first fl to win an Olympic gold medal competing for South Africa.
		Thugwane is a modest man. He works in a coal mine.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/aug5/track.html (511 words)

	GALANIS SPORTS DATA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Josia Thugwane stunned the marathon world in 1996 with his win in the Atlanta Olympic Marathon, becoming in the process, the first fl South African ever to win an Olympic Gold, and a hero of his nation.
		In 1997 Thugwane demonstrated that the Gold Medal was no fluke, taking third at the London Marathon in 2:08:06, then later that year lowering his best (and the South African Record) to 2:07:28 in winning Fukuoka.
		Thugwane began running marathons in 1990 (while still only 19) as a way to support his family.
	www.galanissportsdata.com /Galanis/person.asp?personID=1296 (234 words)

	Athletics: Josiah Thugwane - SouthAfrica.info
		The diminutive Thugwane, standing only 1.58 metres (5 foot 2 inches) tall and weighing just 45 kilograms (99 pounds), defeated an elite field in one of the Olympics’ most prestigious events to give South Africa an unexpected third gold medal at the Games after swimming star Penny Heyns had won two in the pool.
		Thugwane suffered through a number of injuries after the Olympics, but has proved since then that he remains a major contender in any marathon he enters.
		Thugwane excelled in the half marathon in 1998, winning the Great North Run Half Marathon, the largest half marathon in the world, and finishing second in Scotland’s biggest half marathon, the Great Scottish Run.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/thugwane.htm (948 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| olympics \| profiles Thugwane hopes for a repeat dose of gold
		Josia Thugwane came from nowhere to stun the world and win the marathon gold medal at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
		Thugwane, little known even in his own country, shot to superstardom with his famous win, one of the big upsets of the Atlanta Games.
		Thugwane won the South African marathon championships in 1996 which earned him his place at the Games in the United States.
	sport.iafrica.com /olympics/profiles/57313.htm (313 words)

	CanadianRunner.com - Go The Distance! - 1996 Olympic Champion Josia Thugwane: “I Can Run Some More Good Marathons”
		Josia Thugwane, who turned 34 just a couple of days ago, admits that he did not perform well during the last two years.
		Josia Thugwane is used to tackle difficult situations and come back.
		Although he says that his new home is not as safe as the one in Johannesburg the tiny figure of Josia Thugwane is not prepared to give in.
	www.canadianrunner.com /content/view/3745/2 (504 words)

	SCC-EVENTS.com > NEWS > Article
		Josia Thugwane does not give in - there is always a chance for me.
		Josia Thugwane, who turned 34 in May, admits that he did not perform well during the last two years.
		Despite what happened in Vienna Josia Thugwane, who has recently bought an 80 acre farm near Pretoria and moved there with his wife and three children, does not think about the end of his career.
	www.scc-events.com /news/news003291.en.html (452 words)

	NewStandard: 8/5/96
		On Sunday morning, however, Josia Thugwane became a giant in his homeland and a symbol around the world of South Africa's emergence from the shackles of racism.
		History was written the moment Thugwane completed the 26.2-mile course ahead of Lee Bong-ju of South Korea by three seconds.
		Thugwane and the other two South African marathoners trained for a month in Albuquerque, N.M., before coming to Atlanta.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-96/08-05-96/d03sp103.htm (965 words)

	champ
		Thugwane won the closest Olympic marathon in history and immediately his life changed from humble worker to celebrity.
		Thugwane has a number of international races ahead, including the New York City marathon as his next big test.
		Thugwane last night joined in a training session with the Border half marathon team which will do duty at the Old Mutual Great South Run on 9th August in Durban.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1998/07/17/sport/CHAMP.HTM (332 words)

	Star: Comrades a possibility for ex-Olympic athlete
		With Josia Thugwane's finest hour now a distant memory, a move up to the ultra distances is on the cards for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics marathon champion.
		Thugwane is considering a possible shot at the Comrades Marathon in 2004.
		Thugwane was delighted with his performance as he is scheduled to run the Nagano Olympic Memorial Marathon on April 20 in Japan.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=52556 (330 words)

	olyrun
		SYDNEY -- Defending Olympic marathon champion Josia Thugwane and team-mates Hendrick Ramaala and Johannes Maremane were blown off the wire in the marathon, the grand finale of the Sydney Olympics, yesterday.
		Thugwane, the slightest figure in the field, sat in the pack slip-streaming like a cyclist in the main bunch.
		Thugwane held on grimly for 20th in 2:16:59, while Maremane trailed in 2:21:25 for 43rd.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/10/02/sport/OLYRUN.HTM (432 words)

	Thugwane recovers from shooting to win gold \| Outside Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Josia Thugwane made a remarkable recovery after being shot in a car hijacking to win the men's marathon and become the first fl South African Olympic champion and the first African men's marathon winner since 1968.
		Thugwane, a security guard at a mineworkers' hostel, clocked two hours 12 minutes 36 seconds--just three seconds ahead of South Korean Lee Bong-ju and eight ahead of Eric Wainaina of Kenya.
		Thugwane said he was overjoyed to win gold for his country and for its president Nelson Mandela.
	outside.away.com /events/olympics/marathon/mmara.html (682 words)

	Defiant Thugwane strikes gold
		JOSIAH THUGWANE, a coal mine security officer who was shot in the face at point blank range in March when youths hijacked his car, became the first fl South African to collect an Olympic gold medal when he won the closest Olympic marathon in history.
		Thugwane, 25, finished in 2hr 12min 36sec, just three seconds ahead of South Korean Lee Bong-Ju, while Eric Wainaina, of Kenya, was only eight seconds behind the winner.
		Thugwane is the first South African since Kenneth McArthur, at Stockholm in 1912, to win the Olympic marathon and the first South African since women's high jumper Esther Brand, at Helsinki in 1952, to win an athletics gold medal.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/08/05/spmara05.html (427 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		Thugwane always wanted to come back to the scene of one of his most memorable wins, but his manager thought he wasn't healthy enough and that the $15,000 purse is small potatoes for a gold medal winner.
		He doesn't do it because he wants his country to be strong in the marathon, he does it so that he can make his native land better one youngster at a time.
		Thugwane will not be able to sneak up on the field this year as he did in 1995 and in the Olympics.
	starbulletin.com /2001/12/08/sports/story4.html (889 words)

	Sunday Times - other - 14 May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NEWS that a film is in the pipeline depicting the life and times of Olympic marathon champion Josia Thugwane shouldn't surprise anyone.
		Thugwane himself says it is Malan who inspires him to run at his peak.
		Unlike the range of experts dismissing Thugwane's chances a second time around, Malan steadfastly believes in his man. He says Thugwane will win again because the Sydney marathon course, like the one in Atlanta, is tough and built for endurance athletes - ideal for Thugwane.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2000/05/14/sport/other/sport01.htm (644 words)

	Olympics
		Josia Thugwane of Witbank, South Africa, which is right outside Johannesburg, has had to deal with apartheid in his home country all his life.
		Thugwane said, "I thought there was no possibility I would run again." However, he recovered and was there at the gun shot, to start of the men's marathon in Atlanta.
		Josia Thugwane was the first fl South African to earn a gold medal in any Olympic Games.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/kane97/P6/jgiap6/jgiap6.html (1467 words)

	Marathon
		So here was Thugwane, born into poverty and raised separate but not equal, running, running, running toward the light at the end of the tunnel.
		Thugwane outdueled Lee Bong-Ju of Korea and Eric Wainaina of Kenya in a grim game of cat-and-mouse over the last 12 miles that ended with Thugwane beating Bong-Ju to the finish line by 3 seconds, the smallest victory margin in Olympic marathon history.
		Thugwane's time was 2 hours 12 minutes 36 seconds on the hilly 26.2-mile course.
	www.onwisconsin.com /sports/oly/thon804.html (852 words)

	South African wins close men's marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thugwane entered a nearly empty Olympic Stadium about 40 meters ahead of silver medalist Lee Bong-ju of South Korea and maintained the margin to the finish, winning by three seconds in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 36 seconds.
		Thugwane won the 1995 Honolulu Marathon and the 1996 South African championship in Cape Town.
		But Thugwane pushed the pace on the 20th mile, with only Lee and, later, Wainaina keeping up with him.
	www.canoe.ca /OlympicsTrackAndField/aug4_marathon.html (427 words)

	CNN - Marathon runner becomes South African hero - Oct. 22, 1996
		Josia Thugwane, a little-known marathon runner who came out of nowhere to win an Olympic gold medal last summer in Atlanta, is finally reaping the awards.
		Thugwane says gangsters in the region are jealous of his success and have threatened to kill him, so his training partners are there for security as well as company.
		Thugwane also carries the memories of racial discrimination in a white-ruled South Africa.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9610/22/safrica.marathon (359 words)

	SuperAthletics
		Josia Thugwane might not, after all, take up the sponsor's offer of a free trip to Sweden which came with his victory in the Volvo SwedoCar half-marathon in Pretoria at the weekend.
		Thugwane has committed himself to defending his title in the Nagano Olympic Memorial Marathon in Japan on April 20.
		Thugwane's long-term goals are to qualify for the marathon at this year's world championships in Paris and next year's Olympics in Athens.
	www.superathletics.co.za /?id=78005&des=article&scat= (390 words)

	Posso International Promotions, Inc. - Josiah Thugwane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A win in the 2002 Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon, a 2:10:29, seventh place finish in the 2000 London Marathon, a 2:10:05 seventh place finish in the 2001 Seoul Marathon and a sixth place finish in the 2000 New York City Marathon have been bright spots on a career otherwise limited by injury.
		Born in a small town of Bethal, he is married and has four children.
		Essentially uneducated at the time of his 1996 Olympic triumph, Thugwane hired private tutors, and tackled his education with same determination as took him to Olympic victory.
	www.possosports.com /runners/josiah.htm (323 words)

	Sunday Times - sport - 01 November 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		AFTER nearly three months away from home, Olympic marathon champion Josia Thugwane enjoyed a traditional South African meal with countrymen Johannes Mabitle and Daniel Radebe in the sumptuous surroundings of New York's Hilton and Towers Hotel on Thursday night.
		Thugwane has been in the US since August 25, training, as has become his custom, at high altitude in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
		Thugwane, who has 11 marathon victories under his belt, is in "very, very good condition", says his manager, after breaking from training to win the Great North Run in Newcastle, England, a month ago.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /1998/11/01/sport/sport02.htm (437 words)

	SuperAthletics
		Thugwane, who won gold over 42,2km at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, has qualified to contest the marathon at this year's IAAF world championships in Paris in August, but, according to ASA's selection criteria, may not race further than 21,1km between the end of April and the championships.
		Former US middle-distance athlete Ray Wicksell, who accompanied Thugwane as part of the crew of the Activate TV programme who'll be filming his progress, reckons Thugwane is in with a very good shot at winning Saturday's race.
		Thugwane qualified for the Paris championships, for which ASA's marathon qualifying mark was 2hr 11min, by running 2:10,05 in Seoul last November.
	www.superathletics.co.za /default.asp?id=84395&des=article&scat= (379 words)

	IOL: Thugwane now road running's senior statesman
		Olympic Marathon gold medallist Josia Thugwane is slowly but surely achieving senior statesman status in a sport he has served with distinction for some years now.
		Thugwane followed eight seconds later, with Jacob Motsoeneng third in 47:50, Ernie Mashoene fourth (48:10) and Jacob Malahoane fifth (48:20).
		Thugwane's coach and manager, Dries Lessing, was concerned with the fact that he ran a fast race only a week before appearing on the international stage.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=197&art_id=ct20020408175356356G620541&set_id=6 (609 words)

	PLUS: MARATHON -- NEW YORK CITY; Olympic Champion Enters the Race - New York Times
		The South African Josia Thugwane, the 1996 Olympic marathon champion, will make his New York City Marathon debut on Nov. 1.
		Thugwane won the Olympic marathon in Atlanta in 2 hours 12 minutes 36 seconds, three seconds ahead of Lee Bong-ju of South Korea.
		Thugwane has won 11 marathons, including the 1997 Fukuoka Marathon in Japan in 2:07:28, the fastest of his career and a South African record.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E2DF113AF935A25753C1A96E958260 (111 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/other
		He spearheaded the vastly seasoned pair of Gert Thys and Atlanta Olympic champion Josia Thugwane from the early phases of the race and hung in grimly to finish 14th in 2:19:38.
		Thys was worried about a blood disorder before the marathon and will travel to London after the championships where he will undergo tests to gauge whether there is an imbalance in his blood count.
		Thugwane complained of a pain in his back.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/other/0,2172,18776,00.html (691 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: A Curtain Call in Atlanta
		ATLANTA, Aug. 4— Tonight, the Closing Ceremonies for the 1996 Summer Olympics began with the traditional awarding of the medals in the men’s marathon, and it was a fitting moment for an Olympics that provided a bigger world stage for a far more diverse collection of athletes than any in history.
		Josia Thugwane, 25, stood at the center of the medal platform, the first fl South African in Olympic history to win a gold medal.
		Thugwane’s triumph came on a day when boxer Paea Wolfgramm won a silver medal for Tonga, a nation so overwhelmed by the prospect of any medal—Tonga never had won one—that hordes of his countrymen fasted one day this week to show Wolfgramm their support.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/daily/aug/05/close5.htm (1104 words)

	MDO - Kempainen struggles to poor finish at Olympics - 08/05/1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kempainen ran the 26.2-mile race in 2:18.38, which was almost six minutes off his pace at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials Feb. 17.
		The 111-man run through the streets and suburbs of Atlanta was won by the Republic of South Africa's Josia Thugwane, who became the first fl South African to win an Olympic gold medal.
		Thugwane finished in a time of 2:12.36, which means if Kempainen would have run the same time he did in the Trials he could have competed for a medal.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1996/08/05/sports/kemp05 (415 words)

	Sportsvendo - Sport Marketing & Event Management
		VINTAGE THUGWANE QUALIFIES FOR GOTHENBURG 21 KM Vintage Josia Thugwane, winner of the gold medal in the marathon at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, completed the Volvo SwedoCar half marathon in Pretoria on Saturday in under 65 minutes to qualify for the Gothenburg half marathon in Sweden.
		Thugwane ran a superb race to win in 64:51.
		His race plan was to push his running and club mate from Liberty Nike, Collin Khoza, to run under 65 minutes, as Khoza was eager to go to Sweden.
	www.powermansa.co.za /results/2003/swedocar2003.htm (318 words)

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