How to watch Sha’Carri Richardson and Andre De Grasse at Botswana Golden Grand Prix - full schedule of the World Athletics event
American sprinter Richardson will run her first 200m of the 2023 season on April 29, at the National Stadium in Gaborone, as Olympic champion Andre De Grasse lines up in the men's 200.
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Sha’Carri Richardson opens her 200m campaign at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix in Gaborone on Sautray, April 29.
It will be the first time Botswana in Africa is hosting a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series event.
Gaborone will be the American's first competitive 200m race since the USA Track and Field Trials on June 26 when her time wasn't good enough to make the team to the 2022 World Championships. She placed fifth in the semi-finals in what was only her third 200m race of the season.
Richardson's last women's 200m outside the U.S. Trials was at the NYC Grand Prix on June 12 last year, which she won in 22.47 seconds.
The 23-year-old’s fastest time over the distance is 22.00 from a 2020 meet in Monteverde, Florida, and she will be keen to open her 200m push with a quality performance in her first race on African soil.
At the National Stadium in the southern African capital, Richardson will line up against several key compatriots: World Championships bronze medallists (4x100m) Kiara Parker and Dezerea Bryant, 2019 NCAA indoor 200m champion Kayla White.
The North American 100m collegiate record holder Richardson is in fine form, after speeding to a wind-assisted 10.57 over 100m in early April. She has also recorded a sub 10.8 seconds in the 100m and a sub 22 in the 200m on the same day, a first for women’s sprints.
African Games 200m champion Gina Bass from the Gambia, fresh from her double sprints victory at the Grand Prix International de Doula, will also be on the starting line for the women’s 200m alongside South Africa’s latest generational sprinting talent Viwe Jingqi and the local pair Lydia Jele and Winnie Sarefo.
The other event to keep an eye on is in Botswana is the men’s 100m, that has attracted five men with sub-10-second personal bests including world silver medallist Marvin Bracy. But the fastest man in the field will be Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, the African record holder at 9.77, who is also the reigning African and Commonwealth 100m titleholder.
World and Olympic 200m silver medallist Kenny Bednarek will also start the dash, alongside Canada’s world 4x100m champion Aaron Brown, Liberian record-holder Emmanuel Matadi, and triple world U20 medallist Benji Richardson of South Africa.
In the men’s 200m, Botswana’s rising sprint star Letsile Tebogo will take on Olympic champion Andre De Grasse.
Full schedule for the 2023 Botswana Golden Grand Prix
All times in South African Standard Time (SAST)
**Saturday, 29 April - Golden Grand Prix schedule **
- 13:10 – Long jump women
- 13:10 – Shot put men
- 14:35 – 400m hurdles men
- 14:45 – 400m women B race
- 14:52 – 400m women
- 14:55 – Long Jump men
- 15:00 – Shot put women
- 15:02 – 100m women B race
- 15:09 – 100m women
- 15:16– 100m men B race
- 15:23 – 100m men
- 15:33 – 400m men B race
- 15:40 – 400m men
- 15:50 – 800m women
- 15:57 – 800m men
- 16:09 – 200m women
- 16:16– 200m men B race
- 16:23 – 200m men
- 16:50 – 4 x 400m mixed
- 17:05 – 4 x 100m men
How to watch the 2023 Botswana Golden Grand Prix
Viewers in Africa can catch all the action at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix live on SuperSport's TV broadcast channels and live streaming services. Athletics fans in other territories can find coverage details and highlights via the official Botswana Golden Grand Prix website, where tickets for the event are also on sale.