Rantso Mokopane
Rantso Mokopane 
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| Full name | Rantso Alfred Mokopane | |||||||||
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 South Africa
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| birthday | 8th August 1994 (age 26) | |||||||||
| job | college student | |||||||||
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| discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | |||||||||
| Best performance | 8: 28.75 min | |||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||
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| last change: April 12, 2020 | ||||||||||
Rantso Alfred Mokopane (born August 8, 1994 ) is a South African athlete who specializes in the obstacle course .
Athletic career
Rantso Mokopane gained his first international experience in 2013 when he finished 84th in the U20 rankings at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz after 24:35 minutes. In 2016 he took part in the obstacle course at the African Championships in Durban , where he finished seventh in 8: 35.02 minutes. In the following year he reached eleventh place in the 1500 meter run in 3: 47.97 min at the Summer Universiade in Taipei and won the silver medal behind Poland's Krystian Zalewski in 8: 36.25 min . Two years later he won the silver medal again at the Student World Games in Naples in 8: 30.37 minutes and this time had to admit defeat to Moroccan Mounaime Sassioui . In addition, he qualified for the first time for the World Championships in Doha , in which he did not reach the final with 8: 42.22 min .
In 2014 and from 2016 to 2019 Mokopane was South African champion in obstacle course. He is a student at Northwest University in Potchefstroom .
Personal best
- 1500 meters: 3: 38.83 min, April 28, 2017 in Cape Town
- 3000 m obstacle: 8: 28.75 min, July 17, 2019 in Liège
Web links
- Rantso Mokopane in the database of World Athletics (English)
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| SURNAME | Mokopane, Rantso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mokopane, Rantso Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African obstacle runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1994 |