Career
He claimed his first international title at the 2001 African Junior Athletics Championships in Réduit, winning the 10,000 metres event on August 16, 2001, and also winning the 5000 metres silver medal. He followed this up with a 10,000 m bronze medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, finishing behind Gebregziabher Gebremariam and Sileshi Sihine. He made his marathon debut in 2005, competing at the New York City Marathon, but he did not manage to finish the distance on his first attempt.
He made his mark in the senior ranks in 2006: he came second at the City-Pier-City Half Marathon behind Moses Kigen, and then finished in third place in the Rotterdam Half Marathon, setting a new best of 1:00:13 for the distance.
His time of 1:03:18 was a minute off Fabiano Joseph"s course record, but an organisational error meant runners had to fight through a traffic jam at the 14 km mark. He ran at the prestigious RAK Half Marathon in 2007, but managed only tenth place.
He was tenth in the Dublin Marathon in 2009, and ninth at the 2010 Prague Marathon. Both runners comfortably improved the Slovakian all-comers record by over a minute, a mark set by William Biama at the competition three years earlier.
He ended the year with a third-place finish at the Honolulu Marathon.