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| Lesotho record breaker Lerato Sechele |
Lesotho triple jump specialist Lerato Sechele
set a new national record of 13.57 metres in the final of the women’s triple
jump at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia on Tuesday.
Sechele’s brilliant performance wasn’t
enough however to end Lesotho’s international medal drought as she finished
fourth.
The event was won by Jamaica’s Kimberly
Williams with a jump of 14.64 metres. She was followed by countrywoman Shanieka
Ricketts with the Dominican Republic’s Thea Lafond claiming bronze.
Sechele, who won silver at the 2011
African Junior Athletics Championships in Botswana, has been camped in Senegal
for the past three years.
She is a beneficiary of the
International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Olympic Solidarity training programme
with hopes of qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Lesotho hasn’t won a medal at a global
championship since Moses Kopo’s boxing silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in
Melbourne, Australia.
Women’s
triple jump results:
1. Kimberly Williams (Jamaica) 14.64
metres
2. Shanieka Ricketts (Jamaica) 14.52
3. Thea Lafond (Dominica) 13.92
4. Lerato Sechele (Lesotho) 13.57
5. Blessing Ibrahim (Nigeria) 13.48
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