Biography
When Letsile Tebogo claimed 100m silver and 200m bronze at the 2023 World Championships, the excitement surrounding the young Motswana reached new levels. Tebogo, then aged just 20, had become Africa’s first world 100m medallist in athletics.
Just one year later at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Tebogo went a step further.
His victory in the men’s 200m cemented his status in the history books as Botswana’s first Olympic gold medallist and the first African to win that event at the Olympic Games.
Letsile Tebogo: A sprint prodigy
Born in the village of Kanye, about 83 kilometres south-west of Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Tebogo grew up playing football and sprinting. His teachers encouraged him to practise both sports, but injuries hampered his football career so he opted to focus solely on track.
But despite claiming a host of medals at the youth level, Tebogo admits he didn’t take sprinting seriously until 2019.
At the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, he became the first athlete from Botswana to win gold in the 100m on a global stage. He also picked up a silver in the 200m.
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