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Letsile Tebogo is a male athletics competitor from Botswana who specializes in sprinting. Born in Kanye on June 7, 2003, he represents Botswana in international competition. He is a member of the Botswana Athletics team and speaks Tswana and English.
Tebogo has participated in the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the men's 100 metres. He also competed in the men's 100 metres and the men's 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He has received an award from World Athletics.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Botswana
- Place of birth
- Kanye
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- World Athletics
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metres
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Botswana
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Atrletes Botswanais Championnats d'Afrique d'athlétisme 2024 à Douala 17 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 185
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- date of birth
- 2003-06-07
- sports discipline competed in
- sprinting
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- Letsile Tebogo
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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.