THEBE Baboloki

Date of Birth: 18 Mar 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Olympic ScholarshipYouth Olympian

Birth Country:

Botswana

Place of residence : GABORONE

Residence Country:

Botswana

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's 4 x 400m Relay BOT Botswana	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 4 x 400m Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (DNS)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	200m
2014	Nanjing, CHN	2nd (21.20)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2017	London, GBR	4th (44.66)	Heats (3:06.50)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2017	Nassau, BAH	2nd (3:02.28)

African Games

Year	Location	200m
2019	Rabat, MAR	Heats (DNF)

African Championships

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2018	Asaba, NGR	1st (44.81)	7th

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	400m
2019	1 x 6th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 8th
2018	1 x 4th, 2 x 5th, 1 x 7th
2017	1 x 1st, 3 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2017	400m	Oslo, NOR	44.95
2	2017	400m	Lausanne, SUI	44.02
2	2017	400m	Stockholm, SWE	44.99
2	2017	400m	Eugene, OR, USA	45.04
3	2017	400m	Monaco, MON	44.26
4	2018	400m	London, GBR	44.54
5	2018	400m	Zurich, SUI	45.41
5	2018	400m	Doha, QAT	45.58
6	2019	400m	London, GBR	45.23
7	2019	400m	Stockholm, SWE	48.85
7	2018	400m	Birmingham, GBR	46.35

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2019	400m	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	45.51
4	2018	400m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	45.00
7	2018	400m	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	46.53

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Sniper (Facebook page, 27 May 2020)

Playing video games, watching reruns of old 400m races. (ozy.com, 10 Jul 2018)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

2015 for Botswana (Athlete, 11 Aug 2016)

He sustained a left hamstring strain at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco, and was told to rest for six weeks. The injury meant he had to miss the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (theparrotonline.co.bw, 18 Sep 2019; allafrica.com, 16 Sep 2019)

He was affected by a recurring injury to his thigh between 2016 and 2018. He suffered a left rectus femoris [quadricep] grade two tear at the 2017 World Championships in London, England, which meant he missed the 2017 Diamond League Finals in Zurich, Switzerland. (ozy.com, 10 Jul 2018; athletics.africa, 24 Feb 2018; athletics.africa, 24 Aug 2017; telegraph.co.uk, 12 Aug 2017)

He took up athletics in 2013 when he started at Nthwalang Junior Secondary School in Digawana, Botswana. (Athlete, 11 Aug 2016; IAAF, 18 Jul 2016)

He was motivated to take up athletics at school by the possibility of going on trips and travelling with his teammates. (IAAF, 18 Jul 2016)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ozy.com, 10 Jul 2018)

Grenadian sprinter Kirani James. (IAAF, 18 Jul 2016)

Philosophy:

"No pain, no gain." (Facebook profile, 31 Jan 2021)

He was named Sportsman of the Year at the 2019 Botswana Sports Awards. (bnsc.co.bw, 08 Jun 2019)

He was named the 2014 Junior Male Sportsperson of the Year by the Botswana National Sports Council. (IAAF, 18 Jul 2016)

General Interest

General
ROAD ACCIDENT
In March 2020 he was charged with reckless driving after losing control of the car he was driving. Fellow athlete Onkabetse Nkobolo was also in the car at the time and sustained back injuries and fractures to his right leg, while a female passenger suffered head injuries. Thebe was fined by police, and the Botswana National Olympic Committee [BNOC] took disciplinary measures against both athletes as they were supposed to have been at a national training camp at the time of the accident and had not been given permission to leave. Nkobolo spent three months in hospital following the incident, and required continued treatment to help him start walking again. (sundaystandard.info, 12 Jul 2020; insidethegames.biz, 10 May 2020; sundaystandard.info, 13 Apr 2020; mmegi.bw, 27 Mar 2020; allafrica.com, 22 Mar 2020; news.thevoicebw.com, 21 Mar 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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