Mosito Lehata

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Mosito Stephen Lehata (born April 8, 1989 in Ha Moima , Makhoarane , Maseru District ) is a Lesotho athlete . He took part in the 200-meter run at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , but was eliminated there in the lead 4 in eighth place with a time of 20.74 seconds.

Lehata was one of a total of four or five Lesotho athletes who took part in the 2012 Olympic Games. He is also considered to be one of the best sprinters in his home country and currently (as of August 27, 2014) holds four national athletics records.

life and career

Lehata was born in 1989 in the village of Ha Moima in Makhoarane in the Lesotho district of Maseru and began his career as a track and field athlete in 2006 while he was in high school. In the beginning he was mainly trained over longer distances. He achieved his personal best in the 3000 meter run in 2009 with 8: 38.9 minutes in the South African Potchefstroom . Over time, he came to ever shorter distances and from then on was only used as a sprinter. On April 9, 2011, Lehata set his first national record at the Yellow Pages South African Championships , beating a 100 meter record for more than 28 years by 0.02 seconds, with a time of 10.47 seconds . Also in 2011, the Lesother, who had previously trained in one of the IAAF High Performance Training Centers in Mauritius , took part in the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu , South Korea . He started in the 200-meter run and qualified as the first Lesotho in history for the semifinals, although he did not start in this one . The 21.03 seconds he ran was also his personal best of the season. A year later, Lehata took part in the World Indoor Athletics Championships 2012 in Istanbul from March 9th to 11th . At the tournament, however, he was eliminated in the run-up 7 in fifth place with a time of 7.00 seconds, but was not only able to achieve a personal best, but also set a national record. This exceeded the record set by Molise Rammita on March 7, 1999 by a full 0.30 seconds. Almost two months later, at a meeting in Bellinzona, he set a new national record over 100 meters, where he finished in 10.33 seconds, improving himself by 0.14 seconds.

In April 2012, the 1.74 m tall athlete ran the d'Athlétisme Meeting International in Bambous , the district capital of the Mauritian district Black River , in the 200-meter dash, a time of 20.76 seconds, setting a already on 25 November In 1989, Henry Mohoanyane set a national record for Lesotho. On June 30 of the same year he was able to improve his time over 200 meters again at the African Athletics Championships 2012 in Porto-Novo , where he ran in the semifinals with a time of 20.63 seconds. Lehata finally finished the final, running on the third lane, in seventh place with a time of 21.11 seconds. In the same year he took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as one of four Lesothes . He also competed in the 200-meter run , but was eliminated in seventh place and thus last in prelim 4 with a time of 20.74 seconds. On April 18, 2013, he improved his record over 200 meters again when he achieved a time of 20.49 seconds at an international athletics meeting in Bambous. At the meeting, Lehata not only competed over the 200-meter distance, but was also represented in the 100-meter sprint, where he narrowly missed a new Lesotho record when he reached a time of 10.36 seconds. Slightly more improved than two months after this new record Lesotho mosito lehata at Folksam Grand Prix Sollentuna in Sweden Sollentuna on 27 June 2013 its own record for a second time when he ran the 200 meters in 20.37 seconds.

Over a year after his last record over 100 meters, the Lesother also improved in this discipline and set a new national record on July 7, 2013 with a time of 10.26 seconds at an international meeting in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland on. In August of the same year, Lehata took part in the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow , where he competed in the 200-meter run . With a time of 20.46 seconds, he qualified eighth best for the subsequent semifinals, where he was eliminated as the 23rd of 24 athletes competing with a time of 20.68 seconds. This also made him the first Lesotho sprinter to take part in a semifinals after qualifying two years earlier, but not having started. After the record over 100 meters, which he set at the 34th Résisprint in early July 2013 , he achieved this time again on February 22, 2014 at the Perth Track Classic event . On March 8, 2014, Lehata again set a new personal best over 400 meters in his actual home at the IAAF training center in Bambous, Mauritius, where he finished with a time of 47.35 seconds, but just under two seconds from the existing one National record was away. At the Stanislas Nancy meeting in the French city ​​of Nancy on June 27, 2014, the Lesother was able to set a new national record in the 100-meter run when he crossed the finish line with a time of 10.13 seconds. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland Glasgow mosito lehata could however again set a new national record Lesotho by coming to a time of 20.36 seconds in the 200-meter race and thus improved his record from last year by 0.01 seconds. He narrowly missed a medal and finished fourth in the final run.

In 2015 he improved his time over 100 meters by another 0.02 seconds when he ran with a 1.4 meter tailwind per second in Réduit on Mauritius.

statistics

Personal best

Event Time (s) place date
60 meters in the hall 7.00 Istanbul March 9, 2012
100 meters 10.11 Réduit ( Mauritius ) April 12, 2015
200 metres 20.36 Glasgow July 31, 2014
400 meters 47.35 Bambous March 8, 2014
3000 meters 8: 38.9 Potchefstroom January 23, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results YELLOW PAGES SA SENIOR CHAMPS ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2014
  2. ↑ COMPETITION RESULTS - 60m in the men's hall - March 9, 2012 , accessed on August 27, 2014
  3. ↑ Porto-Novo (Benin), June 27-1. July 2012 - African Championships - (English), accessed August 27, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Mauritius International meet, Bambous April 18-19, 2013 (English), accessed on August 27, 2014
  5. ↑ Results Folksam Grand Prix 2013 Results ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2014
  6. ↑ Botswana's Makwala, Lesotho's Lehata set national sprint records in La Chaux-de-Fonds , accessed on August 27, 2014
  7. ↑ REPORT: MEN'S 200M HEATS - MOSCOW 2013 (English), accessed on August 27, 2014
  8. ↑ 2014 Perth Track Classic - February 22, 2014 | Western Australia Athletics Center | Results - Perth Track Classic , accessed August 27, 2014
  9. ↑ Nancy (France), June 27, 2014 -Meeting Stanislas- (English), accessed on August 27, 2014
  10. ↑ a b Results Men's 200 m Finals Glasgow 2014 (English), accessed on August 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lehata, Mosito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehata, Mosito Stephen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lesothic athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ha Moima , Makhoarane, Maseru District, Lesotho