Galefele Moroko

Galefele Moroko
2016
nation	Botswana
birthday	16th April 1997 (age 24)
place of birth	Maun , Botswana
size	158 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.59 s
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 2 × 1 × 0 × U18 African Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m  Africa Games gold Brazzaville 2015 4 × 400 m gold Rabat 2019 400 m silver Rabat 2019 4 × 400 m Youth African Championships bronze Warri 2013 400 m
last change: April 4, 2020

Galefele Moroko (born April 16, 1997 in Maun ) is a Botswana sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Galefele Moroko gained her first international experience at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri , where she won the bronze medal in 55.52 seconds. Then she was disqualified in the individual competition in the preliminary run at the youth world championships in Donetsk and could not qualify for the final even with the sprint relay (1000 meters). Then she retired at the Junior African Championships in Bambous with 57.73 s in the lead. Two years later she was seventh at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa in 60.16 s and then won in 3: 32.85 min at the Africa Games in Brazzaville with the 4 x 400 meter relay, after the team from Nigeria subsequently Has been disqualified for a doping offense. At the African Championships in 2016 in Durban , she finished fourth in the relay in 3: 31.54 min and was eliminated shortly afterwards at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz with 55.38 seconds in the first round. At the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas , she finished sixth in 3: 30.13 minutes and also qualified for the World Championships in London , where she finished seventh in the relay competition in 3: 28.00 minutes. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where she was eliminated in the semifinals in 54.27 seconds and won the bronze medal in the relay in 3: 26.86 minutes behind Jamaica and Nigeria. In August, she retired from the African Championships in Asaba with 54.90 s in the preliminary round and finished fourth in the relay in 3: 42.16 min.

In 2019, Moroko again took part in the Africa Games in Rabat and won there with a new record of 51.30 s. In addition, she won the silver medal behind Nigeria in 3: 31.96 min. She also qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where she reached the semi-finals with a new record , but did not reach the finish line there.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 24.39 s (+1.0 m / s), June 8, 2018 in Dessau
• 400 meters: 50.59 s, September 30, 2019 in Doha

Web links

Commons : Galefele Moroko  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Galefele Moroko in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yemi Olus: Botswana and Kenya dominate the 400m and 20km race walk at African Games ( English ) IAAF. August 29, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2020.