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The Gaborone International Meet (GIM) 2019 Local Organising Committee (LOC) was launched on Tuesday August 21, 2018 at the Oasis Motel in Tlokweng, Botswana.
Continue readingBotswana’s Bernard Olesite destroys the field on his way to claim the Boys 400m gold, and Morocco’s dominance of distance events continues on Day 2 of Athletics competition at the 17th Gymnasiade in Marrakech on Saturday.
Continue readingAmantle Montsho pips a Jamaican double-act, who have to settle for silver and bronze, to earn Botswana a rare 400m double by taking the women’s 400m gold in the Gold Coast on Wednesday night.
Continue readingBotswana’s Isaac Makwala has achieved what he set out to do, winning his first major championship gold medal with a well-executed 44.35 in the men’s 400m final at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.
Continue readingBotswana’s Isaac Makwala has sets his sights on breaking the 31-second barrier at the second Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting at the University of Pretoria’s Tuks Stadium in Tshwane on Thursday, 8 March.
Continue readingBotswana’s Baboloki Thebe hopes of competing at the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series meeting in South Africa are up in smoke due to injury.
Continue readingBotswana’s Isaac Makwala has been invited to compete at the maiden Athletix Grand Prix Series at the Ruimsig Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa on 1 March, 2018.
Continue readingThe City of Francistown will host the second edition of the Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) Super night track and field series at the Francistown stadium on Saturday.
Continue readingRising Botswana’s 400m star Baboloki Thebe said missing out on the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Finals after sustaining a grade two rectus femoris tear was a serious setback in his athletics career.
Continue readingBotswana’s star athlete Isaac Makwala has been declared medically fit to compete in the men’s 200m at the IAAF World Championships in London tonight.
Continue readingThe IAAF defends the decision of its Medical Delegate to withdraw Botswana’s star athlete Isaac Makwala from the Ongoing IAAF World Championships in London.
Continue readingBotswana’s Isaac Makwala, one of the medal favourites in both the men’s 200m and 400m at the IAAF World Championships in London has been struck down with a stomach bug.
Continue readingBotswana’s Isaac Makwala broke his national 200m record in 19.77, and 75 minutes later raced to a season’s best 43.92 in the 400m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Madrid on Friday 14 July.
Continue readingBotswana’s 800m runner Nijel Amos vows to deliver yet another medal for his country when the Athletics competition starts on Friday at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Continue readingBotswana’s wonder kid, Baboloki ‘Hurricane’ Thebe will take on board the lessons of Bydgoszcz disqualification to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Continue readingFormer Botswana sprinter Obakeng Ngwigwa has been appointed as the Technical Director of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).
Continue readingAfrican champion Isaac Makwala of Botswana reclaimed the African 400m record in La Chaux-de-Fonds on Sunday, less than 24 hours after the mark was erased by South African Wayde van Niekerk.
Continue readingMore than 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in the 2015 Diacore Gaborone Marathon (DGM) on Sunday March 22nd at the Grand Palm Resort in Gaborone, Botswana.
Continue readingCommonwealth and African 800m champion Nijel Amos said the Glasgow 2014 men’s 800m final, where he out-kicked Kenya’s David Rudisha for the gold medal, was the hardest race of his life.
Continue readingAfrican 400m champion and record-holder Isaac Makwala is confident Africa can win its fifth Continental crown when the IAAF Continental Cup gets underway tomorrow in Marrakech, Morocco.
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