Some Muge

{{short description|Kenyan long-distance runner}} '''Some Muge''' (1959–1997) was a Kenyan long-distance runner.

He is best known for winning Kenya's first medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, preceding many others. This happened when he won the bronze medal in the long race of the 1983 World Cross Country Championships.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iaaf.org/WXC10/news/kind=100/newsid=55170.html|title=Fresh junior women's talent unveiled in Kisii as Kisorio follows in father's footsteps|last=Makori|first=Elias|date=20 December 2009|publisher=IAAF|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref> Kenya also took bronze medals in the team competition.<ref>{{cite web |url=//mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |title=IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 1983 SENIOR MEN |access-date=21 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110457/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |df= }}</ref> He had previously won the team bronze at the 1981 World Cross Country Championships, after finishing 57th in the race.<ref>{{cite web |url=//mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1981S.html |title=IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 1981 SENIOR MEN |access-date=21 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110457/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1981S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |df= }}</ref> At the 1986 World Cross Country Championships he finished eighth in the race and won a gold medal in the team competition,<ref>{{cite web |url=//mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |title=IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 1983 SENIOR MEN |access-date=21 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110457/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |df= }}</ref> and at the 1987 World Cross Country Championships he finished fifth in the race and won another team gold medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=//mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |title=IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 1983 SENIOR MEN |access-date=21 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110457/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1983S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |df= }}</ref> He also won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the All-Africa Games,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afg.htm|title=All-Africa Games|work=GBR Athletics|publisher=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref> and finished 22nd in the 10,000 metres at the 1987 World Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.todor66.com/athletics/world/1987/Men_10000m.html|title=Men 10000m World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987|publisher=Todor Krastev|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref>

He was the father of runners Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio (born 1989), Peter Kimeli Some (born 1990) and Nicholas Kipchirchir Togom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=52478.html|title=Focus on Athletes – Mathew Kisorio|last=Wokabi|first=James|author2=Mutuota, Mutwiri |date=16 March 2009|publisher=IAAF|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref>

== External links ==

* {{World Athletics}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Muge, Some}} Category:1959 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Kenyan men long-distance runners Category:African Games bronze medalists for Kenya Category:African Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:African Games athletes for Kenya Category:Kenyan men cross country runners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 All-Africa Games Category:20th-century Kenyan sportsmen