Gable Garenamotse

Gable Garenamotse

Personal information
Nationality	Motswana
Born	(1977-02-28) 28 February 1977 (age 48) Gumare, North-West, Botswana
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long jump
Club	Cardiff AAC
Medal record Representing   Botswana Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Long jump 2006 Melbourne Long jump

Gable Garenamotse (born 28 February 1977) is a Motswana former long jumper, who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games and competed at two Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008.

Biography

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
Representing   Botswana
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 2 November 2012.

1. Botswana athletics records Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
2. "2008 African Championships results, men's long jump final". Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.

External links

• Gable Garenamotse at World Athletics
• Gable Garenamotse at Olympics.com
• Gable Garenamotse at Olympedia
• Gable Garenamotse at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)