 Eppie in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Lee Bhekempilo Eppie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Botswana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 May 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400m: 44.40 (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lee Bhekempilo Eppie (born 18 May 1999) is a sprinter from Botswana. He was a silver medalist at the 2024 African Championships over 400 metres and a bronze medalist in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Relays. [1]
In 2012 he started competing in athletics at primary school, and continued at both junior and senior school under the tutelage of Johnson Kubisa. In 2019, he moved to the United States to study and train at Mississippi State University. [2]
He was a silver medalist for Botswana in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Tlemcen, Algeria. [3]
He won a silver medal at the 2024 African Championships in Athletics in the Men's 400 metres, running a personal best of 45.39 seconds to finish runner-up to Senegalese athlete Cheikh Tidiane Diouf in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024. [4] [2] He was named for the Botswana relay pool for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris in August 2024, although he did not race at the Games. [2] [5]
In March 2025, he lowered his personal best to 45.20 seconds for the 400 metres. [6] He was selected to compete for Botswana at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China, winning a bronze medal as the Botswana men's 4 x 400 metres relay team came third in a time of 2:58.27. [7] [8] [9]
Whilst he was studying at Mississippi State University, he was a roommate of Jamaican Olympic athlete Navasky Anderson. [10]
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