Tebogo is keen to take part in all the short distant races that fall under his category without giving any particular preference
Paris Olympics 200m champion Letsile Tebogo has said he won’t restrict himself to run in particular events but instead is open to participating in all the events he is capable of.
Tebogo, 21, set two national records in the 100m – 9.88 in London and 9.86 in the Olympic final. The budding runner managed sixth place in the Paris finals in one of the most competitive races of 2024. He also set a world 300m best of 30.69 in Pretoria.
When asked after being crowned 2024 World Athletics Male Athlete of the year in Monaco about how he sees his career progressing, whether it will involve the 100m and 200m, or the 200m and 400m, or all of them, he said: “I think for now it will be all of them.”
Tebogo said leaving his choices open will also give national team selectors an easy decision regarding where they will fit him. “I don’t want to limit myself to a particular event. I just want to leave it open so that I know when I am training that they can use me again in the 400m, not just be the sprints guy,” he observed.
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Letsile Tebogo was crowned the overall male World Athlete of the year in 2024.
Despite his age, Tebogo has already achieved a lot in his career but this doesn’t stop Botswana’s hero from dreaming big. He said he wants to accomplish everything before celebrating his 31st birthday when he enters the tail-end of his career.
His priority is to go down into annals of history as the youngest ever guy to do it at 22. “I would just like to be in the history books as the youngest guy to ever do it, at 21 or 22 or whenever.”
Tebogo won Botswana’s first Olympic gold medal in any sport and his Paris showing was marked with a national holiday.
