Amantle Montsho

Amantle Montsho
Amantle Montsho at the 2011 Bislett Games
Personal information
NationalityBotswana
Born (1983-07-04) July 4, 1983
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event
400 meters
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m: 11.60 s

200 m: 22.89 s

400 m: 49.33 s (Monaco, 2013)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Botswana
World Championships
2011 Daegu 400 m
2013 Moscow 400 m
World Indoor Championships
2010 Doha 400 m
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi 400 m
2018 Gold Coast 400 m
African Championships
2008 Addis Ababa 400 m
2010 Nairobi 400 m
2012 Porto-Novo 400 m
2006 Bambous 400 m
2012 Porto-Novo 4 × 400 m
All-Africa Games
2007 Algiers 400 m
2011 Maputo 400 m

Amantle Montsho (born July 4, 1983) is a Botswana former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. She represented her country at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the final at the latter edition. She was the first woman to represent Botswana at the Olympics. She also competed at the World Championships in Athletics and the IAAF World Indoor Championships, and was the former World Champion over the 400 m, winning in a personal best time of 49.56 in Daegu.

Montsho was suspended for two years for an anti-doping rule violation after she tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

A two-time African Championships gold medallist over 400 m, she has also won titles in the event at the 2007 All-Africa Games, the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her Commonwealth win made her Botswana's first-ever gold medallist of the games.

Her personal best times are 11.60 seconds in the 100 m, 22.89 seconds in the 200 m, and 49.33 seconds in the 400 m. She trains at the High Performance Training Centre in Dakar, Senegal, and She holds the national record for the 400 m both indoors and outdoors.