Amantle Montsho

Kenyan women strode to the 1,500m and 10,000m Commonwealth Games titles on Friday as Amantle Montsho won Botswana's first-ever gold medal.European champion Andy Turner, meanwhile, led an English clean sweep of the men's 110m hurdles.Kenya came to New Delhi with a strong middle and long distance team and after their men failed to land the 5,000m title, their women were determined to reassert their dominance.Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Langat led the way, breezing to the title in a new Games...Read Full Story

Kenyan women strode to the 1,500m and 10,000m Commonwealth Games titles on Friday as Amantle Montsho won Botswana's first-ever gold medal.European champion Andy Turner, meanwhile, led an English clean sweep of the men's 110m hurdles.Kenya came to New Delhi with a strong middle and long distance team and after their men failed to land the 5,000m title, their women were determined to reassert their dominance.Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Langat led the way, breezing to the title in a new Games...Read Full Story

Botswana's Amantle Montsho smashed the Commonwealth Games women's 400m record on her way to winning the gold medal on Friday in 50.10 seconds.With English Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogo missing the event, along with Jamaica's world-class trio of Shericka Simpson, Novlene Williams-Mills and Kaliese Spencer, the title was there for the taking for Montsho.She blitzed the field to beat the previous record of 50.17 set in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur by Jamaica's Alexandre Richards.Nigeria's...Read Full Story

The women’s 400m reigning World Champion, Amantle Montsho (Botswana), is amongst the athletes in the line-up to compete in the SA Open Championships... for full story visit http://www.time-to-run.com/forumsRead Full Story

Amantle Montsho held off Allyson Felix on the line to win a dramatic women's 400 metres final on Monday, earning Botswana its first gold medal at the world athletics championships.Read Full Story