Letsile TEBOGO

Letsile TEBOGO - Botswana - World Championship 100m silver medal.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 20 August 2023

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Saturday, 07 June 2003
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Kanye, Botswana
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Botswana
    • Event(s)
      100m, 200m, 4X100m.
    • Championship Performances
      Olympics: 2024 Gold 200m, 4x400m silver.
      Worlds: 2023 silver 100m, bronze 200m.
      World U20: 2022 Gold 100 & 200m
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Letsile TEBOGO - Botswana - World Championship 100m silver medal.

Twenty year old Letsile Tebogo winning the silver medal in the men's 100m

at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, with a new National record.

He won his silver medal by a 1/1000th of a second !

 

1st place, gold medalist(s)
Noah Lyles  United States (USA) 9.83 =WL, PB
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Letsile Tebogo  Botswana (BOT) 9.88 [.873] NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 9.88 [.874]
4
Oblique Seville  Jamaica (JAM) 9.88 [.877]
5
Christian Coleman  United States (USA) 9.92
6
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown  Japan (JPN) 10.04
7
Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya (KEN) 10.07
8
Ryiem Forde  Jamaica (JAM) 10.08

The photos above are of him after the race with his medal.


Five days later he won his second medal at the championships when he finished

third in the 200 metres.  Photo above of him running in the outside lane.

 

Letsile Tebogo running in his semi-final of the 200 metres. 19.97 behind Bednarek 19.96.


Result of men's 200m final. 2023 World Athletics Championships Budapest.

1st place, gold medalist(s)
Noah Lyles  United States (USA) 19.52
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Erriyon Knighton  United States (USA) 19.75
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Letsile Tebogo  Botswana (BOT) 19.81
4
Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 20.02
5
Kenneth Bednarek  United States (USA) 20.07
6
Andre De Grasse  Canada (CAN) 20.14
7
Alexander Ogando  Dominican Republic (DOM) 20.23
8
Andrew Hudson  Jamaica (JAM) 20.40