Gift Sango is the 2012 Botswana Strongman. He was crowned at the end of the tournament that brought together muscle-men battling out in six categories. Zimbabwean born Sango proved he was still the guy to beat in Botswana as he retained the title; winning the grand prize of P15, 000. Only a handful of competitors turned out to the event after the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) team pulled out in the last minute. The first activity was the heavy barbell squat that was won by Kudakwashe Zhara after squatting 240kg. The trio of Matthew Sibanda, Dunmore Maweni and Sango were all tied for the second position after managing to squat 220kg.
A tiebreaker was needed in the next event of dead lift after Zhara, Sango and Maweni lifted 260kgs. Sango emerged the winner after completing three repetitions of the same weights in the tiebreaker. Sango pulled ahead of his competitors after winning the endurance test of clean and jerk doing 15 repetitions with 80kg.Matthew Sibanda and Zhara were tied for the second position after doing 13 repetitions apiece and Maweni was third with 11 repetitions. The next event of tyre flips proved to be the most challenging. Sango and Sibanda tied for the first position after managing only five flips with the extra heavy machinery tyre.
