Luketz Swartbooi

Luketz Swartbooi
nation	Namibia
birthday	February 7, 1966
place of birth	South West Africa
Career
discipline	marathon
Best performance	2:09:08 h
National squad	since ?
status	resigned
Medal table
Type of medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World Athletics Championships silver Stuttgart 1993 marathon

Luketz Swartbooi (born February 7, 1966 in South West Africa ) is a former Namibian long-distance runner .

In 1992 he started at the Olympic marathon in Barcelona, ​​but did not reach the goal. He celebrated his greatest success at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 , when he finished second behind Mark Plaatjes (USA) in the marathon . In 1994 he ran his best time of 2:09:08 h at the Boston Marathon . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he came in 48th place.

Swartbooi won the Lucky Star Marathon in Swakopmund six times , the first time in 1992 with the national record of 2:10:01 h, most recently in 2004. At the Soweto Marathon in Johannesburg in 2005 Swartbooi tested positive for prednisolone and prednisone . He was disqualified and warned by the IAAF for violating the doping regulations .

Swartbooi also competed over 5000 meters, in the half marathon and over 3000 meters in the hall.

He trains (as of 2017) the Namibian long-distance youngsters.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.arrs.run/HP_SwakMa.htm
2. ^ Doping Rule Violation , IAAF March 8, 2006
3. ↑ I want to create the next champion runners - Swartbooi. The Villager, November 3, 2017.