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Letsile Tebogo is a male athletics competitor from Botswana, born on June 7, 2003, in Kanye. He specializes in sprinting and represents Botswana in international competitions. Tebogo has participated in the men's 100 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and both the men's 100 metres and 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He is affiliated with the Botswana Athletics team and speaks Tswana and English.
Tebogo stands 185 centimeters tall and weighs 77 kilograms. He has received an award from World Athletics. In interviews, he has discussed his background, stating that he believed football was the only way to survive and that without sport, he might have been behind bars. He also noted that running a new world record was not his plan but came naturally, and that few people knew who he was in 2023.
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Quotes
- “Without sport I believe I’d also be behind bars because that was the only way we knew of.”
- “We believed that football was the only way to survive.”
- “Running a new world record was not the plan, but it just came naturally.”
- “I was scared, I didn’t know what to expect. Nobody knew who Letsile was back in 2023.”
- “That transition was what I’d been dreaming of since I started athletics—that was the validation of the potential I didn’t see growing up.”
- “I felt like it was over for me—it was over for athletics. I just needed to hand in the boots. I didn’t have the confidence to go out there and do what I have to do.”
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Key facts
- Nickname
- School-boy
- Nationality
- Motswana
- Born
- ( 2003-06-07 ) 7 June 2003 (age 22) , Kanye, Botswana
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Weight
- 77 kg (170 lb)
- Country
- Botswana
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Sprints
- Team
- Nike
- Personal bests
- 100 m : 9.86 NR ( Paris 2024) 200 m : 19.46 Area (continental) record</span>"}]]}'>AR ( Paris 2024) 300 m : 30.69 World best</span>"}]]}'>WB ( Pretoria 2024) 400 m : 44.29 ( Pretoria 2024)
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- Botswana Athletics
- Position
- Sprinter
- Nationality
- Botswana
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Encyclopedic overview
Letsile Tebogo ( Tswana pronunciation: [lɪt͡silɛ tɛbʊχo] ; born 7 June 2003) is a Motswana sprinter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres event, with his win earning the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Botswana. He also won the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the 100 m and followed it up with a bronze medal in the 200 m five days later.
Tebogo won in the 100 metres and placed second in the 200 metres at both the 2021 and 2022 World Athletics Under-20 Championships. In 2021, he became the first Botswana athlete to claim the 100 m title at any World Championships level. He is the 200 m 2022 African champion, becoming the youngest winner of this title in competition history. He broke the 300 m world best, running a time of 30.69 seconds on February 17, 2024 at altitude in Pretoria, South Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Letsile Tebogo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.