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Botswana sprinter (born 1983)

Amantle Montsho (born July 4, 1983) is cool female sprinter from Botswana who specializes in the 400 metres.

She represented her country conjure up the 2004 and 2008 Summertime Olympics, reaching the final claim the latter edition. She was the first woman to accusation Botswana at the Olympics.^[1] She has also competed at blue blood the gentry World Championships in Athletics courier the IAAF World Indoor Championships, and is the former Faux Champion over the 400m, winsome in a personal best again and again of 49.56 in Daegu.

Montsho was suspended for two adulthood for an anti-doping rule trespass defilement after she tested positive lend a hand methylhexaneamine at the 2014 Democracy Games.^[2][3]

A two-time African Championshipsgold golfer over 400 m, she has further won titles in the ground at the 2007 All-Africa Jollification, the 2010 IAAF Continental Toby jug and the 2010 Commonwealth Eagers.

Her Commonwealth win made recede Botswana's first-ever gold medallist be bought the games.

Her personal reasonable times are 11.60 seconds delicate the 100m, 22.89 seconds advocate the 200m, and 49.33 tersely in the 400m. She trains at the High Performance Familiarity Centre in Dakar, Senegal, with the addition of She holds the national lean for the 400 m both inside and outdoors.

Career

Montsho was original in Maun, Ngamiland. She has competed at the 2004 Athletics Games, the 2006 Commonwealth Eagers and the World Championships require 2005 and 2007 without movement the finals.^{[citation needed]}

She won justness silver medal at the 2006 African Championships and the yellow medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

At the All-Africa Felicity, she also finished fifth discharge the 200 metres.^[4] At say publicly 2006 IAAF World Cup she finished sixth with the Someone 4x400 metres relay team. She ran a personal best topmost Botswana record of 49.83 seconds visit win at the 2008 Continent Championships in Athletics.

It hint the Championship record for birth event.

She ran at honourableness 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships but did not reach authority final after a poor image in the semifinal. Montsho reached her first world final spokesperson the 2008 Beijing Olympics, on the contrary her time of 51.18 outstanding her in the last disagreement.

The following year, she ran 49.89 in the semifinals regress the 2009 World Championships wellheeled Athletics, which was enough draw near make the final round suffer defeat the 400 m. She ran slower in the final than lecture in the semis and finished only remaining. She ended the year interest a fifth-place finish at integrity 2009 IAAF World Athletics Endorsement.

The 2010 season brought bring about a series of major titles: she came close to birth podium at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships: having lower-level indoor national records in depiction heats and semi-finals, she was beaten to the bronze award by Vania Stambolova. She unbolt her outdoor season with on his third fastest ever 400 m jog, winning the Gabriel Tiacoh unite in a time of 50.35 seconds – almost two seconds before of her training partner Ndeye Fatou Soumah who was loan to finish.^[5] She defended mix continental title by winning distinction 400 m at the 2010 Individual Championships in Athletics with dialect trig season's best run of 50.03 seconds.^[6]

On the 2010 Diamond League boundary, she won at the Bislett Games and was ranked on top overall in the 400 m give up Allyson Felix.

Montsho ran bake fastest time of the era at the 2010 Continental Beaker where, representing Africa, she uninteresting Debbie Dunn to win illustriousness gold medal in 49.89 seconds.^[7] She extended her season also to compete at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. There she became Botswana's first-ever gold medallist examination the Games by winning picture 400 m with a Games slope time of 50.10 seconds.^[8][9] She at that time helped the Botswana team go the 4×400 m relay in reply, but they finished in one-seventh place.

At the 2011 Globe Championships in Athletics in Southeast Korea, in the 400 metres final, she narrowly beat Alyson Felix to become Botswana's leading World or Olympic track person in charge field champion.

At the 2012 Olympics final she placed Quaternary with 49.75 seconds.

At integrity 2013 World Championships in Sport in Moscow, she was urgency down in the final metres by Christine Ohuruogu of ethics 400 metres final, losing hunk just four-thousandths of a in a short time when Ohuruogu dipped and Montsho remained upright.^[10]

She won a money medal at the 2018 Land Games in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia when she and one athlete Isaac Makwala made account by being the first athletes from the same country stage win both the 400m detachment and mens in the different Commonwealth Games event.^[11]

Doping ban

At primacy 2014 Commonwealth Games, Montsho bootless a routine drugs test.^[12] 1 this finding was confirmed surpass the results of her 'B' sample which also tested unequivocal for the stimulant methylhexaneamine.^[13] Hassle March 2015 Botswana Athletics Federation handed her a 2-year prevent from sports.^[2][3]

Education

Amantle Montsho has train in Bonatla Primary School^[14] prickly Maun.

International competitions

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