Quinton-Steele Botes

Quinton-Steele Botes (30 April 1960 – 23 June 2014) was a Namibian sport consultant. He won the International Olympic Committee Award in recognition of his promotion of athletics in Namibia.

As technical manager of the Namibian Olympic Team, he attended 2 Olympic Games, 3 World Games, 1 African Games and 2 Commonwealth Games. Botes was a member of the executive board of the Namibia National Olympic Committee in 2009.^{[1][failed verification]}

In 2005, Botes resigned from Athletics Namibia after many personal differences with its president (who announced Botes' expulsion two weeks later and denied receiving a resignation letter). Botes said "I have already resigned and have nothing to do with Athletics Namibia".^[2] The organization elected a new president in 2009, and Botes was elected chairperson of its Track and Field Committee and thus a member of its council.^[3]

He was a second-level tutor of the International Association of Athletics Federations, and a course director and lecturer of the IAAF and International Olympic Committee.^[4]

Death

On 20 September 2007, Botes was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. He died after a long battle with the disease on 23 June 2014, aged 54. He was survived by his two sons, Ibarto and Benton, and daughter, Quinita.^[5]

Botes was among ten people honoured posthumously by Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba in August 2014.^[6]