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Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for Kenya
World Championships

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 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. (Some will recall that 1992 marked the first and only time that a white man (Dieter Baumann) had won the 5000 m Olympic final since Said Aouita did so in 1984.) In 1993, Ondieki became the first athlete to break the 27-minute-barrier over 10000 m at the Bislett Games in Oslo.

Ondieki married Lisa Martin, an Australian marathon runner. In 1990 they had a baby girl named Emma Ondieki. Today, Ondieki and Martin are divorced.

In September 1991 both he and Martin attended the 1991 AFL Grand Final as a part of the prematch entertainment. The vision of Ondieki laughing uncontrollably at the antics of Angry Anderson has been used in a recent advertisement for Carlton Draught.^[1]

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^ 'Carlton Draught TV Commercial: Angry Anderson

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IAAF profile for Yobes Ondieki

Records
Preceded by Richard Chelimo	Men's 10,000 m World Record Holder July 10, 1993 – July 22, 1994	Succeeded by William Sigei
Sporting positions
Preceded by John Ngugi	Men's 5,000 m Best Year Performance 1989	Succeeded by Salvatore Antibo
Preceded by Salvatore Antibo	Men's 5,000 m Best Year Performance 1991	Succeeded by Moses Kiptanui

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[0] 'Carlton Draught TV Commercial: Angry Anderson

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