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Letsile Tebogo

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Born
2003 (21 years old)

Birth Place

Kanye, Botswana

Position
Sprinter

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Black

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Height
1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight
72 kg (159 lb)

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Sport

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Team
Botswana Athletics

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League
World Athletics Championships

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Latest Results

					Mens 100 metres Final	04 Aug 24
					Mens 100 metres Semi Final 2	04 Aug 24
					Mens 100 metres Round 1 Heat 8	03 Aug 24
					Mens 200 metres Final at Herculis	12 Jul 24
					Mens 100 metres Final at Gyulai István Memorial	09 Jul 24
					Mens 100 metres Final at USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix	18 May 24
					Mens 200 metres Final	25 Aug 23
					Mens 100 metres Final	20 Aug 23
					Mens 200 metres Final at London Athletics Meet	23 Jul 23

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Letsile Tebogo (born 7 June 2003) is a Botswana sprinter. He 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 5 days later. Tebogo won the gold medal in the 100 metres and a silver in the 200 metres at both the 2021 and 2022 World Athletics Under-20 Championships. In 2021, Tebogo became the first Botswana athlete to claim the 100m title at any World Championships level. He is the 200m 2022 African champion, becoming the youngest winner of this title in competition history. Tebogo broke the 300m world record, running a time of 30.69 seconds on February 17, 2024.

Tebogo held the world U20 record in the 100m between April 2022 and July 2023. He was the first man from Botswana to break the 10-second barrier.