Boxer Moroke Mokhotho is of Team Lesotho's biggest hopes... |
Lesotho’s team
for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games is made up of 20 athletes.
The team is headlined
by sprinter Mosito Lehata and the country will compete in four sports –
athletics, boxing, cycling and weightlifting. Team Lesotho comprises 13 male
and seven female athletes.
Lesotho goes
into the Commonwealth Games looking for its first medal since 2006 when Moses
Kopo claimed a boxing silver medal at the Melbourne edition of the
championships.
In total,
Lesotho three medals in its history at the Commonwealth Games.
In 2002 in Manchester,
Letuka Sephula won bronze in boxing while the country’s greatest sporting
moment remains Thabiso Moqhali’s gold medal in the marathon at the 1998
Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
The 2018 Commonwealth
Games in Australia will be a special occasion for this group of Lesotho
athletes because the country’s delegation will be headed by His Majesty King
Letsie III. King Letsie III will also be accompanied by the minister of sports,
Mahali Phamotse.
Although
Lesotho’s preparations have been far from ideal with a lack of funding
hampering the preparations of the teams, hopes are high given the experience in
the squad. Apart from two-time Olympian Lehata, the athletics team has two-time
Olympic marathon runner Tšepo Mathibelle.
There is also Neheng Khatala, who
finished third at the South African Half-Marathon in Port Elizabeth and Free
State OR Tambo Marathon last year, and is regarded as one of Lesotho’s rising
athletics stars.
Boxing, meanwhile, has Moroke Mokhotho, who
competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and is a two-time bronze medallist
from the 2011 and 2015 All Africa Games.
The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
get underway tomorrow at the Carrara Stadium in Queensland, Australia. The
opening ceremony is from 11:55 to 15:00. The Games will end on April 15.
Team Lesotho:
Athletics:
Women: Lerato
Sechele (triple jump), Tšepang Sello (800 metres), Mokulubete Makatise (1500
and 5000 metres), Lineo Chaka (5000 and 10000 metres) and ‘Neheng Khatala
(marathon)
Men: Mosito Lehata
(100 and 200 metres), Badboy Toka, Ramolefi Motsieloa (5000 and 10000 metres)
and Tšepo Mathibelle (marathon)
Boxing:
Women: ‘Mantoa
Ranone (57kg)
Men: Thabo Molefe
(52kg), Moroke Mokhotho (56kg), Qhobosheane Mohlerepe (60kg), Mokhachane
Moshoeshoe (69kg), Kokole Paneng (75kg)
Cycling:
Women: Likeleli
Makatise (MTB)
Men: Phetetso
Monese, Tumelo Makae (both MTB), Malefetsane Lesofe (Road)
Weightlifting:
Men: Bafokeng
Moeti (69kg)
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