Amantle Montsho

Montsho after their victory at the World Championships in Daegu 2011

Amantle Montsho ( born July 4, 1983 in Mabudutsa ) is a Botswana sprinter who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

She was the first woman from Botswana, who took part in the Olympic Games. Athens 2004 she launched over 400 meters, however, different in the preliminary round of. Your participation without the prior fulfillment of a qualification standard was only possible because she was the only female starter of their country and thus benefited from a derogation. Although she put into Athens with a new personal best of 53.77 s and a Botswanan record, but was still far from the performance of the world's best.

In the following years, however, they continuously improved their times. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 it still was eliminated in the first round. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, they had already reached the semi-finals. In the same year she won the silver medal in the 400 -meter run at the African Championships in Bambous with 52.68 s.

In 2007, she won at the Pan-African Games in Algiers in 51.13 s the gold medal over 400 meters, beating the favored runners from Nigeria. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, they increased their personal best to 50.90 s and missed with this time the finals just barely. In 2008 she was in Addis Ababa with a personal best of 49.83 s Africa champion in the 400 -meter run. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she won over 400 meters eighth. The same result they achieved at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 it was in the 400 - meter race in 52.53 s fourth. Previously, she had only to 52.72 s in the semi finals and then s improved forward to 52.34 at the event with their own national record. In the same year she successfully defended at the African Championships in Nairobi and also won her title at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu it secured with a personal best of 49.56 s the title ahead of the US-American Allyson Felix and Russia's Anastasia Kapatschinskaja. A little later she successfully defended her title at the Pan-African Games in Maputo.

Amantle Montsho has a competition weight of 57 kg at a height of 1.73 m.

Bests

  • 200 m: 22.94 s ( NR) 17 April, 2011, Réduit
  • 400 m: 49.33 s ( NR), July 19, 2013, Monaco Hall: 52.34 s ( NR) 12 March, 2010, Doha
400 metres 2011 All-Africa Games 2006 African Championships in Athletics 2008 African Championships in Athletics 2010 African Championships in Athletics 2012 African Championships in Athletics Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 2005 World Championships in Athletics Bambous, Mauritius 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2009 World Championships in Athletics 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2010 Commonwealth Games Cathy Freeman Ana Guevara Tonique Williams-Darling Christine Ohuruogu
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