Botswana sprinter sets new 300m race world record
Botswana sprinter Letsile Tebogo dominated the race tracks by setting the 300-metre world record at 30.69.
The 20-year-old athlete broke the 300m world record on February 17 at the Simbine Curro Classic Shoot-Out in Pretoria.
The 300m world record was previously held by South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk after he ran 30.81 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on 28 June 2017.
“He's a brother to me. We share the good vibes. There's no bad energy between us… so thank you (van Niekerk) for always pushing me and telling me not to belittle myself. Thank you so much, mate,” Tebogo is reported by the South African news agency Times Live to have said after he broke the world record set by van Niekerk
Tebego now joins an exclusive list of four athletes in the world to have run under 31 seconds for the discipline. American sprinter Michael Johnson who ran 30.85 in Pretoria to set the 300m world record in 2000, Usain Bolt’s 30.97 in 2010, and Wayde van Niekerk’s 30.81 in 2017.
The young athlete who also won bronze in the 200m race and silver in the 100m event in the 2023 World Athletics Championships will be looking to have a similar impact in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics in July.
