Leaname Maotoanong

Leaname Maotoanong
Full name	Gaone Leaname Maotoanong
nation	Botswana
birthday	9th May 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Shoshong , Botswana
size	178 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	SSKB
Trainer	Justice Dipeba
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Africa Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games gold Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m  Africa Games silver Brazzaville 2015 4 × 400 m  African Championships gold Marrakech 2014 4 × 400 m gold Durban 2016 4 × 400 m  Universiade silver Gwangju 2015 400 m
last change: March 8, 2020

Gaone Leaname Maotoanong (born May 9, 1991 in Shoshong ) is a Botswana athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Leaname Maotoanong celebrated his first international title win at the 2014 African Championships , where he was eliminated in the semi-finals over 200 meters and won the gold medal with the Botswana 4 x 400 meter relay. In 2015 he took eighth place with the season at the World Relays in the Bahamas . He then won the silver medal over 400 meters at the Student World Games in Gwangju, South Korea, and was disqualified in the relay in the final. With the relay he also took part in the World Championships in Beijing , where he retired with a new national record of 2: 59.95 minutes in advance . At the end of the season he reached the semi-finals over 400 meters at the Africa Games in Brazzaville , won the silver medal behind Kenya with the 4 x 400 meter relay and took the 4 x 100 meter relay in 39, 83 s fifth.

In 2016 he was used in the run-up to the relay team at the African Championships in Durban , which then won the gold medal in the final. He was also used in the run-up to the 4 x 100 meter relay and the relay finished seventh in the final. He then took part in the relay at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished fifth with the Botswana 4 x 400 meter relay in the final in 2: 59.06 minutes. In 2018 Maotoanong took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and won the gold medal there with the Botswana relay in 3: 01.78 s. At the African Championships in Asaba he took part in the 200-meter run and was eliminated there with 21.65 s in the first round. The following year he finished seventh over 200 meters at the Afriakspiele in Rabat with 21.04 seconds and was used in the 4 x 100 meter relay in the run-up.

Personal bests

• 200 meters: 20.58 s, April 22, 2015 in Molepolole
• 400 meters: 45.63 s, July 10, 2015 in Gwangju

Web links

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