Kabelo Kgosiemang

Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang in Warsaw 2013
nation	Botswana
birthday	7th January 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Rakhuna , Botswana
size	188 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.34 m
society	ATC Cologne
Trainer	Wolfgang Ritzdorf
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 2 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 5 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Delhi 2010 2.26 m  Africa Games gold Algiers 2007 2.27 m silver Maputo 2011 2.20 m gold Brazzaville 2015 2.25 m  African Championships gold Bambous 2006 2.30 m gold Addis Ababa 2008 2.34 m gold Nairobi 2010 2.19 m gold Porto-Novo 2012 2.25 m gold Marrakech 2014 2.28 m Junior African Championships gold Radès 2005 2.16 m
last change: March 23, 2020

Kabelo Kgosiemang (born January 7, 1986 in Rakhuna ) is a Botswana high jumper. With a jump of 2.34 meters, he holds the national record and has been African champion five times in a row since 2006.

Athletic career

Kgosiemang was an avid footballer in his youth and didn't get into athletics until he was 17. Right away he jumped 1.95 m, established himself as one of the best youth high jumpers in Botswana and won the gold medal at the Junior African Championships in Radès in 2005 with a jump of 2.16 m. This aroused the interest of the German athletics club ATC Cologne, which took the African talent under its wing in December 2005. In the following year he took part in the African Championships in Bambous for the first time and won there with a new national record of 2.30 m before he came fourth at the World Cup in Athens with 2.20 m. In 2007 he took part in the Africa Games in Algiers and also won there with a height of 2.27 m and thus equalized the championship record that was previously held by the Nigerian Anthony Idiata . He also qualified for participation in the World Championships in Osaka , where he finished ninth with 2.26 m in the final. 2008 started for Kgosiemang with some injuries, but then he caused a bang at the African Championships . In the mountain air of Addis Ababa , he jumped 2.34 m and improved his own national record by four centimeters in one fell swoop. In addition, he equalized the championship record of the Algerian Abderrahmane Hammad . The Olympic Games in Beijing , however, were rather disappointing. Kgosiemang only managed 2.20 m and was eliminated from the qualification .

In 2009, he arrived at the World Championships in Berlin skipped the Cologne-based qualifying 2.30 meters, but could not confirm this performance in rainy finale and was m 2.18 13. The following year, he finished at the World Indoor Championships in Doha with 2.28 m took sixth place and then celebrated the third continental title win in a row at the African Championships in Nairobi with 2.19 m. At the end of the season he was able to secure the bronze medal behind the two Bahamians Donald Thomas and Trevor Barry at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi with a 2.26 m jump . Before that he reached fourth place again with 2.25 m at the Continental Cup in Split . In 2011 he retired at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea with 2.21 m in qualification and then had to admit defeat at the Africa Games in Maputo with 2.20 m for the first time on continental level to Sudanese Ali Mohd Younes Idriss . In 2012 the season was very mixed, but he secured his fourth gold medal in a row at the African Championships in Porto-Novo with 2.25 m, but missed a new qualification for the Olympic Games in London.

In 2013 he took part in the World Championships in Moscow again and reached tenth place in the final with 2.25 m skipped. The following year he finished fifth at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, with 2.21 m and then won the African Championships with a height of 2.28 m. Thereupon he finished eighth at the Continental Cup with a skipped 2.18 m. In 2015 he was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Beijing with 2.22 m , but then won the African Games in Brazzaville with a height of 2.25 m. In 2016, his winning streak at the African Championships in Durban , where he only came fourth with a jump of 2.10 m. The following years were more and more mixed and Kgosiemang hardly competed. In 2019, however, he again took part in the Africa Games in Rabat , where he finished fourth with a height of 2.10 m.

In 2017, Kgosiemang became the Botswana high jump champion.

Personal best

• High jump: 2.34 m, May 4, 2008 in Addis Ababa ( Botswana record )
  • High jump (hall): 2.28 m, February 6, 2010 in Arnstadt ( Botswana record )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Souleiman, Ndiku and Ahoure among winners on the final day of African Championships ( English ) IAAF. August 14, 2014. Accessed March 23, 2020.
2. ↑ Phil Minshull: Kenya's 4x400m men finish off the All-Africa Games in style ( English ) IAAF. September 17, 2015. Accessed March 23, 2020.