Gable Garenamotse
Gable Garenamotse (born February 28, 1977 in Gumare, North-West) is a Botswana long jumper, who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games.
In 1999 Garenamotse won the triple jump at the African Southern Region Championships, and participated in both long jump and triple jump at the World Championships. Having peaked at a 16.66 metres jump that year, a national record, he decided to concentrate on long jump from thereon. His first international medal was a bronze at the 21st Universiade in 2001.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester Garenamotse placed second. He competed at the 2004 Olympics, without reaching the final. He repeated the second place four years later at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, setting a national record of 8.17 metres. In August the same year he improved to 8.27 metres.[1] He won the gold medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games.
Gable Garenamotse did not reach the final at the 2007 World Championships, but finished fourth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships, seventh at the 2008 African Championships[2] and ninth at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Competition record[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing ![]() | |||||
1996 | World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | 30th (q) | Long jump | 6.92 m (wind: -0.4 m/s) |
14th (q) | Triple jump | 15.32 m | |||
1998 | Commonwealth Games | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 6th | Triple jump | 16.05 m |
1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 42nd (q) | Long jump | 7.28 m |
38th (q) | Triple jump | 15.53 m | |||
All-Africa Games | Johannesburg, South Africa | 11th | Long jump | 7.19 m | |
6th | Triple jump | 15.70 m | |||
2001 | Universiade | Beijing, China | 3rd | Long jump | 7.99 m |
2002 | Commonwealth Games | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2nd | Long jump | 7.91 m |
African Championships | Radès, Tunisia | 8th | Long jump | 7.80 m (w) | |
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 29th (q) | Long jump | 7.57 m |
All-Africa Games | Abuja, Nigeria | 5th | Long jump | 7.82 m | |
2004 | World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 18th (q) | Long jump | 7.68 m |
Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 25th (q) | Long jump | 7.78 m | |
2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 2nd | Long jump | 8.17 m |
African Championships | Bambous, Mauritius | 6th | 4 × 100 m relay | 41.20 | |
4th | Long jump | 8.02 m | |||
2007 | All-Africa Games | Algiers, Algeria | 1st | Long jump | 8.08 m |
World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 20th (q) | Long jump | 7.77 m | |
2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain | 4th | Long jump | 7.93 m |
African Championships | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 7th | Long jump | 7.84 m | |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 9th | Long jump | 7.85 m | |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 7th | Long jump | 8.06 m |
2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 15th (q) | Long jump | 7.73 m |
References[]
- Gable Garenamotse at World Athletics
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gable Garenamotse". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
- ^ Botswana athletics records Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "2008 African Championships results, men's long jump final". Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from North-West District (Botswana)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Botswana long jumpers
- Botswana triple jumpers
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Botswana
- Olympic athletes of Botswana
- Botswana male athletes
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- African Games gold medalists for Botswana
- African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Universiade medalists for Botswana
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade