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Botswana’s 20-year-old sprinter, Letsile Tebogo, made history in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday night, becoming the first African to win a medal in the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships.
The 200m junior champion and record holder finished second behind American Noah Lyles in a huge new National Record (9.88s) in front of a packed capacity 40,000 crowd at the National Athletics Centre.
The event was billed to be the Fred Kerley vs Noah Lyles show, but after the 2022 champion failed to make the final, it threw up many possibilities for all involved, with Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala also in the mix.
But it was Lyles who picked the win with a new world lead of 9.83s, with Tebogo’s usual power finish just putting him ahead of Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes in 3rd and Jamaica's Oblique Seville in 4th, with all three athletes clocking 9.88s. Sadly, it was the Jamaican that missed out on the podium places.
Omanyala, Africa's record holder in the event, finished in 7th with 10.07s.
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