1972 Olympic champion in the 4x400m, Hezekiah Nyamau Munyoro, has died today at the age of 82 after a long battle with cancer.
Born and raised in Nyaguta village, Nyaribari Chache constituency, Kisii county, Nyamau won a silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in the 4x400m in Mexico.
He was also a Commonwealth Games 4x400m champion in 1970, an East and Central African 400m champion in 1972, and won the East and Central African 4x400m relays from 1967 to 1972.
Nyamau was also part of one world record when he was a member of the Kenyan 4×880 yds relay team that clocked 7:11.6 in September 1970.
Together with the late Robert Ouko, the late Julius Sang, and Charles Asati the squad’s lone surviving member,the late Nyamau was a member of the Kenyan quartet who won a gold medal in the 4×400-meter Olympic event in Munich, Germany, in 1972.
Nyamau was a career military man, joining the Kenyan Army in 1963 and retiring from the force in 1997.
Nyamau was receiving treatment at a hospital in Kisii till his passing.
