The Africa Senior Athletics Championships will be taking place in Nairobi, Kenya from July 28 to August 2. "I hope to do well because I have been training very hard for this competition. I have been working on speed because that is where I have been lacking and I have confidence that it has improved," Montsho told Mmegi Sport yesterday before departure to Nairobi. The Botswana runner became Africa's number one in 400m and set a personal best record of 49.83 seconds in Ethiopia in 2008. She has done the country proud in several international competitions. She hopes the youngsters selected to take part at this year's competition will do well saying with proper training, they can be the country's ambassadors in the near future. Montsho will take part in the women's 4 x 400m relay.
Two years ago, Kgosiemang like Montsho, won an African title with a personal best record of 2.34 metres. This is currently the national record in Botswana. The athletics team is under the tutelage of Bobby Gaseitsiwe and Sadi Ramolemoge. Gaseitsiwe told Mmegi Sport that he has high hopes that they will do much better than two years ago when only Montsho and Kgosiemang won while the men's 4 x 400m relay team came back with bronze. He pointed out that this year, they have included more women than before to show that Botswana can compete well in the women categories.
