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Tebogo is now the second sprinter to break the 10-second barrier after American Brommel. He is still only the second man after London 2012 Olympics silver medallist Nijel Amos to secure a gold medal in the World U20 Athletics Championships. The U20 world champion is the first runner from Botswana ever to win a 100m event on a global stage. His personal best in the 400m is 46.09 from this January. He was disappointed when he finished second behind Nigeria’s Udodi Onwuzurike in the 200m last year in Kenya, and he now plans to sign off as a junior with a sprint double at the U20 Worlds in Cali. Tebogo enjoys the longer dash event more than the 100m, and his target is to join the sub 20 club. "However, I just really wanted some change in the country, so I had to do something different from the big guys, that’s why I opted to compete in the 100m and 200m." Tebogo's favourite event is the 200m "The motivation to get into athletics was from watching the big guys like Isaac Makwala, Karabo Sibanda and Nijel Amos," explained Tebogo. His 9.96 run at the end of April, which took 0.01 off Travyon Bromell’s world U20 record from 2014, earned him a ticket to the World Athletics Championships in Oregon. Tebogo then picked up where he left off in 2021 when he opened his season with a national 100m record of 10.08 at the Botswana Athletics Association Championships in February. He bettered his time at the world U20 event in Nairobi.
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"For a while, I didn't pay more attention to athletics until about 2018-2019 when I realised I could go professional with it," Tebogo said. Tebogo said that he “didn’t take sprints seriously until 2019” when he raced his first major 100m in 10.68 and clocked 21.12 in the 200m. Then aged 13 he went on to claim the 200m bronze and helped his team to the 4x100m relay silver at the Confederation of Schools Sports Association of Southern Africa Championships in Namibia. made me frustrated.and prompted my decision to go back to athletics as I saw I am able to put food on the table for my family from that," added the runner whose single mother Seratiwa struggled to raise him and his younger brother.Īt the 2016 Botswana Primary Schools Sport Association championships, he won the 100m, 200m, and the 4x100m relay, earning his first call-up to the national team. Every time though I went to play football I was being benched,” he explained his other motivation to focus on track instead of football in an interview with. "I used to run past people and won medals.
At the age of six, he was already a well-rounded footballer and sprinter.Īfter injuries hampered his football career, he opted to focus solely on track. It all started with football for the young African. Let's take a closer look at the talented African sprinter. Tebogo is expected to be one of the names to watch at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Tebogo had improved the U20 world record to 9.94 in the heats of the senior World Championships last month in Eugene, after he had set the mark at 9.96 on 30 April at the Gaborone International Meet.Īt the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, he became the first athlete from Botswana to win gold in the 100m on a global stage.
"This is my year as a junior, we have to leave (the record) here for the next generation to come and break it."
"We have more races to come, we did not want to go that far," said Tebogo. Tebogo thinks that a 9.80 would have been realistic. "He is my idol, the person I look up to."Ĭould he have run faster? Absolutely. He wanted to remind everyone watching at home "what Usain Bolt did back in the day". If somebody took it as disrespect, I'm really sorry," said Tebogo to World Athletics. "The statement was to come out and enjoy the race. The 19-year-old could have gone even faster but was coasting through the final 20m, immediately drawing comparisons to Jamaican track legend Usain Bolt who celebrated early when he won the first of his eight Olympic gold medals at Beijing 2008 in a then world record time of 9.69 seconds. Botswana's rising sprint star smashed his own Under-20 world record clocking 9.91 in the 100m on Tuesday evening (2 August) on his way to winning gold at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.