Oarabile Babolayi

Oarabile Babolayi
nation	Botswana
birthday	8th March 1992 (age 28)
Career
discipline	Hurdles
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 African Championships 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Africa Games silver Rabat 2019 4 × 400 m  African Championships silver Porto-Novo 2012 4 × 400 m Junior African Championships bronze Gaborone 2011 100 m hurdles bronze Gaborone 2011 400 m hurdles
last change: September 17th, 2019

Oarabile Babolayi (born March 8, 1992 ) is a Botswana hurdler .

Athletic career

Oarabile Babolayi gained her first international experience in 2009 at the World Youth Championships in Brixen , where she was eliminated in the first round of the 400 meter hurdles with 62.29 seconds. The following year she took part in the 400-meter run at the African Championships in Nairobi , where she was eliminated with 55.86 s in the lead and finished with the Botswana 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 37.17 min fourth place. She then took part in the relay at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi , where she finished sixth in 3: 38.44 minutes. In 2011 she won the Junior African Championships inGaborone won the bronze medal in the 100 meter hurdles in 14.40 s , as well as over the longer distance in 60.88 s. In addition, she finished fourth with the relay in 3: 48.71 min. Then she was at the Africa Games in Maputo in 58.91 s seventh over 400 m hurdles. The following year, she retired from the African Championships in Porto-Novo with 58.37 seconds and won the silver medal behind Nigeria in 3: 31.27 minutes.

In 2013 she took part in the Summer Universiade in Kazan and was eliminated from the preliminary round in the individual competition with 66.05 seconds and with the relay in 3: 38.96 minutes. Babolayi then studied in the United States and did not take part in any international competitions. It was not until 2019 that she finished fifth in the hurdles at the African Games in Rabat with a new national record of 57.96 s and won the silver medal behind Nigeria in 3: 31.96 min.

In 2017, Babolayi became the Botswana champion in the 400 meter hurdles and in 2019 over the 100 m hurdles.

Top performances

• 400 meters: 54.78 s, April 17, 2019 in Potchefstroom
• 100 m hurdles: 13.66 s (+1.3 m / s), May 16, 2015 in normal ( Botswana record )
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.51 s, March 1, 2015 in Cedar Falls ( Botswana record )
• 400 m hurdles: 57.96 s, August 30, 2019 in Rabat ( Botswana record )

Web links

• Oarabile Babolayi in the database of World Athletics (English)