Amantle Montsho
400 meters | |
| Achievements and titles | |
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| Personal best(s) | 100 m: 11.60 s 200 m: 22.89 s |
Medal record | |
Amantle Montsho (born July 4, 1983) is a female
Montsho was suspended for two years for an anti-doping rule violation after she tested positive for
A two-time African Championships gold medallist over 400 m, she has also won titles in the event at the 2007 All-Africa Games, the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her Commonwealth win made her Botswana's first-ever gold medallist of the games.
Her personal best times are 11.60 seconds in the 100m, 22.89 seconds in the 200m, and 49.33 seconds in the 400m. She trains at the High Performance Training Centre in Dakar, Senegal, and She holds the national record for the 400 m both indoors and outdoors.
Career
Montsho was born in
She won the silver medal at the
She ran at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships but did not reach the final after a poor showing in the semifinal. Montsho reached her first world final at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but her time of 51.18 left her in the last position. The following year, she ran 49.89 in the semifinals at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, which was enough to make the final round of the 400 m. She ran slower in the final than in the semis and finished last. She ended the year with a fifth-place finish at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final.
The 2010 season brought her a series of major titles: she came close to the podium at the
On the
At the
At the 2012 Olympics final she placed 4th with 49.75 seconds.
At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, she was run down in the final metres by Christine Ohuruogu of the 400 metres final, losing by just four-thousandths of a second when Ohuruogu dipped and Montsho remained upright.[10]
She won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia when she and fellow athlete Isaac Makwala made history by being the first athletes from the same country to win both the 400m women and mens in the same Commonwealth Games event.[11]
Doping ban
At the
Education
Amantle Montsho has schooled in Bonatla Primary School[14] in Maun.
International competitions
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Botswana
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| 2003 | All-Africa Games | Abuja, Nigeria
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14th (h) | 400 m | 55.06 |
| 2004 | African Championships | Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
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11th (h) | 400 m | 54.06 |
| Olympic Games | Athens, Greece
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36th (h) | 400 m | 53.77 (NR) | |
| 2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland
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40th (h) | 400 m | 53.97 |
| 2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia
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15th (sf) | 400 m | 53.07 |
| African Championships | Bambous, Mauritius | 2nd | 400 m | 52.68 | |
| 2007 | All-Africa Games | Algiers, Algeria
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5th | 200 m | 23.71 |
| 1st | 400 m | 51.13 (NR) | |||
| World Championships | Osaka, Japan
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12th (sf) | 400 m | 50.90 (NR) | |
| 2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain
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8th (sf) | 400 m | 53.21 |
| African Championships | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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1st | 400 m | 49.83 (CR) | |
| Olympic Games | Beijing, China
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8th | 400 m | 51.18 | |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany
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8th | 400 m | 50.65 |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar
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3rd | 400 m | 52.53 |
| African Championships | Nairobi, Kenya
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1st | 400 m | 50.03 | |
| Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 1st | 400 m | 49.89
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| Commonwealth Games | New Delhi, India
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1st | 400 m | 50.10 | |
| 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:38.44
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| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea
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1st | 400 m | 49.56 (NR) |
| All-Africa Games | Maputo, Mozambique
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1st | 400 m | 50.87 | |
| 2012 | African Championships | Porto Novo, Benin
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1st | 400 m | 49.54 |
| 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:31.27 (NR) | |||
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom
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4th | 400 m | 49.75 | |
| 2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia
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2nd | 400 m | 49.41 |
| 16th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:38.96 | |||
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 11th (sf) | 400 m | 51.28 |
| 7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.00 | |||
| 2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 1st | 400 m | 50.15 |
| 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:26.86 | |||
| 2019 | African Games | Rabat, Morocco
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2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:31.96 |
| 2021 | World Relays | Chorzów, Poland
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11th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:34.99 |
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan
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– | 400 m | DNF | |
References
- ^ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ a b Duncan Mackay: Montsho banned for two years after positive drugs test at Glasgow 2014 , insidethegames.biz, 18 March 2015
- ^ a b Xinhua: Botswana's Montsho handed a two year-ban from athletics for doping, china.org.cn, 18 March 2015
- ^ "2007 All-Africa Games, women's 200 m final". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-24.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-15.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-15.
- ^ Statistics of the Games . 2010 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved on 2010-10-15.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-10-15.
- ^ Kessel, Anna (27 December 2013). "Memorable moments of 2013: Christine Ohuruogu wins world gold with late dip". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ "MONTSHO Amantle". Tokyo2020. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- TheGuardian.com. 2 August 2014.
- bbc.co.uk. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "Amantle Montsho Biography: Age, Family, Education, Career, Controversy, Networth". TSWAlebs. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
External links
- Amantle Montsho at World Athletics
- Amantle Montsho at Diamond League
- Amantle Montsho at Olympics.com
- Amantle Montsho at Olympedia
- Amantle Montsho at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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Commonwealth Games champions in women's 400 metres | |
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