# Some Muge

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

He is best known for winning Kenya's first medal at the [IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/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](/source/1983_IAAF_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](/source/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](/source/1981_IAAF_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](/source/1986_IAAF_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](/source/1987_IAAF_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](/source/Athletics_at_the_1987_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](/source/1987_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Men's_10%2C000_metres).<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](/source/Mathew_Kipkoech_Kisorio) (born 1989), [Peter Kimeli Some](/source/Peter_Kimeli_Some) (born 1990) and [Nicholas Kipchirchir Togom](/source/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](/source/IAAF)|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref>

== External links ==

* {{World Athletics}}

==References==
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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

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