Amantle Montsho

Amantle Montsho
Amantle Montsho in Daegu 2011
nation	Botswana
birthday	4th July 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Mabudutsa , Botswana
size	175 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
society	49.33 s
Trainer	Anthony Koffi
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Africa Games 2 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 3 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 2 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships gold Daegu 2011 400 m silver Moscow 2013 400 m  Commonwealth Games gold New Delhi 2010 400 m gold Gold Coast 2018 400 m bronze Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m  Africa Games gold Algiers 2007 400 m gold Maputo 2011 400 m silver Rabat 2019 4 × 400 m  African Championships silver Bambous 2006 400 m gold Addis Ababa 2008 400 m gold Nairobi 2010 400 m gold Porto-Novo 2012 400 m silver Porto-Novo 2012 4 × 400 m
last change: September 17th, 2019

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

Athletic career

Amantle Montsho gained her first international experience at the 2003 African Games in Abuja , where she was eliminated with 55.06 seconds in the semi-finals of the 400-meter run. The following year she failed at the African Championships in Brazzaville with 54.06 seconds, also in the first round, but qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens and was the first woman from Botswana to start at the Olympics. With a new national record of 53.77 s in the first round , she could not qualify for the semifinals. Her participation without the prior fulfillment of a qualification norm was only possible because she was the only female starter in her country and therefore benefited from an exemption. The following year she took part in the World Championships in Helsinki , but even there she was far from the top of the world with 53.97 s. In 2006 she got at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne to the semi-finals, in which she was eliminated with 53.07 s. In the same year she won the silver medal over 400 meters behind Amy Mbacké Thiam from Senegal at the African Championships in Bambous with 52.68 seconds . Then she was sixth at the Athletics World Cup 2006 in Athens with the African 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 27.65 min.

In 2007 she won the gold medal over 400 meters at the Africa Games in Algiers in 51.13 seconds, beating the favorite runners from Nigeria . In addition, she was fifth in the 200-meter run in 23.71 s. At the World Championships in Osaka, she increased her personal best to 50.90 seconds and narrowly missed the finals during this time. In 2008 she reached the semi-finals of the World Indoor Championships in Valencia , where she was eliminated with 53.21 s. Then she was in Addis Ababa with a personal best of 49.83 s Africa champion in the 400-meter run. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where she finished sixth with 51.18 seconds in the final . The following year she was seventh in 50.65 s at the World Championships in Berlin .

In 2010 she again took part in the World Indoor Championships in Doha and reached fourth place with 52.53 s. Before that, she had improved her own national record to 52.72 s in the run-up and then to 52.34 s in the semifinals. In the same year she successfully defended her title at the African Championships in Nairobi in 50.03 seconds and was seventh with the Botswana relay in 3: 37.17 minutes. Then she won in 49.89 s at the Athletics Continental Cup 2010 in Split and was third with the Africa relay. In early October she also won the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi for the first time , where she ran 50.10 s. In the relay competition she was sixth in 3: 38.44 min. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , she secured the title ahead of the Americans Allyson Felix and Francena McCorory with a personal best of 49.56 s . A little later she successfully defended her title at the Africa Games in Maputo in 50.87 s. In 2012 she won for the third time in a row at the African Championships in Porto-Novo in 49.54 s and won the silver medal behind the team from Nigeria for the first time with the relay in 3: 31.27 min. She was considered a favorite for the Olympic Games in London , where she only missed bronze by three hundredths of a second with a time of 49.75 s in the final .

The following year she won the silver medal behind Christine Ohuruogu from the United Kingdom at the World Championships in Moscow in 49.41 s . In addition, she failed with the season with 3: 38.96 minutes in advance. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games , Montsho tested positive for methylhexanamine and was banned for two years for this doping offense . She returned at the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas , where she finished sixth with 3: 30.13 minutes. She immediately qualified for the World Championships in London, where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 51.28 s . In addition, she secured seventh place with the relay in the final . At the Commonwealth Games 2018 in the Australian Gold Coast , she surprisingly won again in 50.15 seconds and also won the bronze medal in the relay competition in 3: 26.86 minutes behind Jamaica and Nigeria. The following year she won the silver medal at the African Games in Rabat in 3: 31.96 minutes with the Botswana relay behind Nigeria.

In 2004 and 2017, Montsho became the Botswana champion in the 400-meter run. Between 2011 and 2013 Montsho secured the overall ranking of the IAAF Diamond League .

Personal best

• 200 meters: 22.89 s (0.0 m / s), May 3, 2012 in Fukuroi ( Botswana record )
• 400 meters: 49.33 s, July 19, 2013 in Monaco ( Botswana record )
  • 400 meters (hall): 52.34 s, March 12, 2010 in Doha ( Botswana record )

Web links

Commons : Amantle Montsho  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Amantle montsho in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Amantle Montsho in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• IAAF: Focus on Athletes - Amantle Montsho ( Memento from February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), July 31, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glasgow 2014: Amantle Montsho fails doping test after 400m final BBC August 2, 2014
2. ↑ Former 400 m world champion Montsho banned for two years n24.de March 18, 2005