10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nijel Amos!

Botswana Youth
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Nijel Zoro Amos is one of the talented and successful athletes to come out of this continent. At such a young age, his name is mentioned among the greatest of the great. Nijel  Amos is an 800m runner who has represented Botswana at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The below list will help you to get to know your star even better.

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  1. He was born on 15 March 1994 in Marobela village.
  2. He went to Shangano Community Junior Secondary School in Nshakazhogwe and Tutume McConnel Community College.
  3. Nijel is the most consistent 800m runner this year and walked away with the overall Diamond League Title in the 800m.
  4. Nijel Amos, has beaten Rudisha to Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow last year and beat him again when the pair last met at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne, and once more the script played out in familiar fashion this year July.
  5. He is based in Potchestroom, North-West in South Africa, where he trains.
  6. Olympic silver medalist, Nijel Amos, loves the good life, he celebrated his 21st birthday in an all-white glitz and glamour gig on March 14.
  7. He is very ambitious as he also a DJ of note going by the name DJ Zoro, much to the disappointment of some fans.
  8. For a long time he was rumored to date Sasa Klaas, and their alleged romance led to fans creating a facebook page in their honor.
  9. The care free Amos is a charmer and is quite famous with the ladies
  10. He is a new father of a week old baby girl named Bakang Zoe Amos, by a South African lady.
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