Namakoe Nkhasi (born 10 January 1993) is a Lesotho long-distance runner who competes in distances from 5000 metres to the half marathon.
He gained his first international selection for Lesotho for the 2016 African Championships in Athletics and delivered national records of 13:21.68 minutes for the 5000 m and 28:06.33 minutes for the 10,000 m. He took sixth in the 5000 m and was a bronze medallist in the 10,000 m.[3] He was chosen to represent Lesotho at the 2016 Summer Olympics and ran in the 5000 m heats only.
Nkhasi opened his 2019 season at the Gyeonggi-Do Half Marathon in South Korea, where he placed second, running 1:02:59.
Nkhasi's 2020 season was curtailed by the COVID-19 Pandemic, but he returned in 2021 to run a half-marathon personal best of 1:02:19 at the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon, in Port Elizabeth.
[2] In 2022, Nkhasi improved to win the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon in 1:01:01 - his current personal best at the distance.