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Nineteen-year-old Botswanian sprinter, Letsile Tebogo, broke the under 20 world record in the 100-metre sprint finishing in 9.91 seconds.
On April 30, Tebogo broke American Trayvon Bromell’s U20 world record at the Gaborone International Meet at the National Stadium, which previously stood for eight years, when Tebogo ran 9.96 seconds.
Watch Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 break his own World Junior Record, running 9.91s at the World U-20 Championships in Colombia. pic.twitter.com/JzpyycuAHd
— Track & Field Gazette (@Track_Gazette) August 2, 2022
He did it again going 0.02 of a second faster during the heats at the Eugene World Athletics Championships in July.
On Tuesday, the teenager broke his own world record once again, running that 9.91-second performance during the final of the U20 World Athletics Championships in Pascual Guerrero Stadium, Cali, Colombia.
Tebogo showboated demonstratively over the final few metres of the race waving his index finger at the second place competitor Bouwahjgie Nkrumie of Jamaica.
POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK ms* Reaction Time
1 1280 Letsile TEBOGO BOT 9.91 WU20R 0.129
2 1655 Bouwahjgie NKRUMIE JAM 10.02 NU20R 0.153
3 1854 Benjamin RICHARDSON RSA 10.12 .117 0.164
4 1925 Puripol BOONSON THA 10.12 .118 0.183
5 1725 Muhd Azeem FAHMI MAS 10.14 .153
6 1685 Hiroki YANAGITA JPN 10.24 .232 0.192
7 1975 Laurenz COLBERT USA 10.24 .235 0.176
8 1351 Reynaldo R. ESPINOSA CUB 10.32 0.148
Full results from the U20 World Athletics Championships are available here>>
