Hezekiél Sepeng | |
Fullname: | Hezekiél Sello Sepeng |
Nationality: | South African |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1974 |
Alma Mater: | Potchefstroom High School for Boys |
Height: | 176 cm |
Weight: | 63 kg |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 800m |
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng (born 30 June 1974),[1] is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 (behind Vebjørn Rodal),[2] the 1998 Commonwealth Games (behind Japheth Kimutai) and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999 (behind Wilson Kipketer). He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for nandrolone.[3] [4]
He was born in Potchefstroom and educated at Potchefstroom Boys High, where he was in the same class as South African commonwealth boxer Sean Santana.