Baboloki Thebe

Baboloki Thebe
nation	Botswana
birthday	18th March 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Ramonaka , Botswana
size	169 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	44.02 s
Trainer	Mogomotsi Otsetswe
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 3 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m silver Gold Coast 2018 400 m  African Championships gold Durban 2016 400 m gold Durban 2016 4 × 400 m gold Asaba 2018 400 m  Junior World Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2016 4 × 400 m  Youth Olympic Games silver Nanjing 2014 200 m
last change: July 9, 2019

Baboloki Thebe (born March 18, 1997 in Ramonaka ) is a Botswana athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Baboloki Thebe celebrated his first international title win at the 2014 African Youth Games in Gaborone , where he won over 200 meters in 20.85 s. He also won the bronze medal over 100 meters in 10.65 seconds. At the Junior World Championships in Eugene , he reached the semi-finals over 200 meters and was eliminated with both the Botswana 4 x 100 meter relay and the 4 x 400 meter relay in the preliminary run. At the end of the season he won the silver medal over 200 meters behind the American Noah Lyles at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing . In 2015 he reached the semi-finals over 100 meters at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa , but did not compete there.

In 2016, Thebe won the gold medal in the 400-meter run and the Botswana relay at the African Championships in Durban . At the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz , Poland , he was disqualified in the semi-finals over 200 meters, retired with the 4 x 100 meter relay in the run-up and won the 4 x 400 meter relay with a new African junior record of 3: 02.81 min the silver medal behind the United States. In addition, he qualified over 400 meters for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , in which he reached the semi-finals , but did not start again there. In addition, the Botswana 4 x 400 meter relay took fifth place in the final . In early 2017, this season won the silver medal behind the United States at the World Relays in the Bahamas . At the World Championships in London , he finished fourth in the 400 meter final in 44.66 s. The season, which was considered a candidate for a medal, was surprisingly eliminated in the run-up .

In 2018 Thebe took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and won the silver medal over 400 meters behind his compatriot Isaac Makwala . He also won gold on the final day of the games with the Botswana 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 01.78 s. In August he defended his title over 400 meters in 44.81 s at the African Championships in Asaba . He then finished second at the Continental Cup in Ostrava in 3: 16.19 minutes with the African 4 x 400 meter relay.

In 2019 Thebe became the Botswana champion in the 200-meter run.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.29 s (+1.9 m / s), 23 May 2015 in Gaborone
• 200 meters: 20.21 s (+1.4 m / s), May 22, 2016 in Gaborone
• 400 meters: 44.02 s on July 6, 2017 in Lausanne

Web links

Commons : Baboloki Thebe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baboloki Thebe in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Baboloki Thebe in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Semenya clocks 49.96, Amos defeats Korir at African Championships in Asaba ( English ) IAAF. August 3, 2018. Retrieved July 9, 2019.