Tebogo at World Junior Champs

Botswana’s rising athletics star, Letsile Tebogo (100 and 200 metres) will look to use the World Junior Athletics Championships, which get underway in Cali, Columbia tomorrow (Monday) to overcome a slip that recently denied him a slot in the finals at the World Athletics Championships 2022.

Born 07 June 2003, Tebogo enjoys the longer 200m dash event more than the 100m, and his target is to join the sub 20 club. 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. The U20 world champion was the first runner from Botswana ever to win a 100m event on a global stage. He is still only the second man after London 2012 Olympics silver medallist Nijel Amos to win a gold medal in the World U20 Athletics Championships.