Letsile Tebogo is preparing for the 2025 campaign but his coach is struggling with how to best plan his season given the nature of this year’s track programme.
Botswana sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo was one of the most successful athletes of 2024 following his Olympics 200m gold as well as the 4x400m relay silver.
Tebogo also won a number of Diamond League races, besides breaking the 300m world record, and after such a successful season, all eyes are on him this year, especially at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.
With 2025 also having the World Relays, Continental Tour events and Diamond League meets, Tebogo’s coach Kebonyemodisa “Dose” Mosimanyane is in dilemma over how to best plan for his star athlete so that he has the best possible chance of doing well at the World Championships where he will be going for gold in both 100m and 200m.
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“Their bodies are responding very well, but currently we want to draw a plan as to how many Diamond Leagues to attend, because Diamond League finals come before the World Championships,” said Mosimanyane as quoted by Botswana News Daily.
His biggest concern, however, is how well to plan for Tebogo and his Team Botswana team-mates to reach their peak in time for the World Championships given the Diamond League finals will take place before the global event and he would also like them to be successful in the event.
“We might peak and fail to drop and peak again, so we have to calculate properly so that we can do well at both, or take the Diamond League final peak and carry it to the World Championships, and that is to be discussed after analysing performance of our first competitions,” added Mosimanyane, who is also Team Botswana athletics coach.
Mosimanyane’s troops will feature at the World Athletics Relays scheduled for Guangzhou, China from May 10-11 as they look to defend their 4x400m title and will then select which Diamond League races to run before the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan from September 13-21.
He admits it was a big struggle motivating his athletes after their success last year but has laid an elaborate programme that will get them in shape, starting with a race in Francistown, Botswana then in South Africa, after which they will travel to Australia on March 16 for a two-week training camp and compete in Melbourne on March 29.
