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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.

References

^ "Hezekiel Sepeng". SAHO. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
^ Hezekiél Sepeng Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
^ IAAF suspends Sepeng (Archived). News24. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
^ "Sepeng banned for two years". Mail&Guardian. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2018.

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