Biography
Masalela is a native of Maun, Botswana. [2] At the 2022 African Championships he won his heat in the 800 metres in 1:48.69. [3] He followed this up by winning the bronze medal in the final. [4] In 2023, he lowered his 800 meters personal best to 1:45.24. [5] At the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, he qualified for the finals of the 800m, placing 6th. [6]
In February 2024, Masalela set a national indoor record of 1:45.56 for the 800 metres in Metz. [7] He ran at the 2024 World Indoors Athletics Championships in Glasgow where he reached the semi-finals. [8] In April 2024 he came third in the 800 meters during the 2024 Diamond League Xiamen meeting and set a new PB of 1:43.88. He finished fourth in the 800 meters at the 2024 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme in May [9] and third at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League event in Stockholm. [10]
He competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, placing seventh in the final, and running a personal best time of 1:42.82. [11]
On 12 April 2025, he finished runner up over 800m to Kethobogile Haingura on the World Athletics Continental tour in Gaborone. [12] In May 2025, he won the 800 metres race at the 2025 Doha Diamond League, running an early world leading time of 1:43.11. [13] The following week, he lowered his early world leading time to win the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat ahead of Max Burgin and Emmanuel Wanyonyi. [14] [15] He placed fifth over 800 metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August. [16]
Masalela was a finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres, running 1:42.77 in the final, the first 800m race in history in which all eight competitors ran under 1:43. [17] [18]
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