Levy Matebo Omari

[1] He ran for Kenya at the 2005 Eastern Africa Youth Championships and won the Tegla Loroupe Peace Race in 2006, beating the more experienced Wilson Kipsang.

[2] In 2007 he was selected for the African Junior Athletics Championships, but withdrew from the competitions amid rumours of offers to compete for Qatar internationally.

At the start of the year he finished eighth at the Discovery Half Marathon in Kenya and was fourth at the 20 van Alphen in the Netherlands.

[1] He won the Nice Half Marathon (his first over that distance) in a new best of 60:06 minutes[8] Matebo ran the sixth fastest ever 25 km race (1:12:46 hours) in a runner-up finish to Mathew Kisorio at the BIG 25 Berlin.

[9] He was among the lesser-known runners to enter the Frankfurt Marathon, but proved his talent by coming in as the runner-up in a time of 2:05:16 hours, only finishing behind Wilson Kipsang who nearly broke the world record.