Letsile Tebogo
Biography
Olympic gold and Botswana’s relay
Letsile Tebogo is Botswana’s Olympic 200m champion. In Paris in August 2024, he set his 100m best of 9.86 and finished sixth. Four nights later he won the 200m in 19.46, earning Botswana its first Olympic gold medal in any sport. He still had a third final to run. On the anchor leg of the men’s 4×400m, he brought Botswana home in 2:54.53, a tenth of a second behind the United States. His breakthrough on the senior world stage had come in Budapest in 2023, with silver over 100m in 9.88 and bronze over 200m in 19.81. The world 4×400m title followed in Tokyo in 2025. At the 2026 World Relays he ran the second leg in front of his home crowd in Gaborone, helping the same four men cut the African record to 2:54.47.
Letsile Tebogo's published record includes performances from 2019 to 2026 in 100 Metres, 200m, 400 Metres, 100m, 300 Metres. Selected recorded events include Botswana Games (2019; source checked); World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 2026 (2026; source checked); BAA Athletics Series 2 (2022; source checked).
Common questions
What time did Letsile Tebogo run to win Olympic 200m gold?
Tebogo ran 19.46 seconds to win the men’s 200 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Achievements & next milestones
Achievements update from recorded results. A tick means the supporting results are verified.
Achieved
76 finishes completed
Based on 76 distinct completed events in your linked record.
Awaiting verification8 countries raced
One completed event in each different country; UK home nations count together.
VerifiedRaced in 8 calendar years
At least one recorded finish in each year; this does not imply an uninterrupted streak.
Verified- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
Each year counts once. A tick means at least one result from that year is verified.
PB improved
A faster result after an earlier performance in the same sport, distance, surface and timing category.
Awaiting verification
Next milestones
100 finishes
24 more finishes needed
76 of 100 recorded
10 different countries
2 more different countries needed
8 of 10 recorded
2 different sports
1 more different sport needed
1 of 2 recorded
10 calendar years with a finish
2 more calendar years with a finish needed
8 of 10 recorded
Personal bests (PBs) & best performances
These are the best marks in this athlete’s results recorded on AthRecs.
Athletics · 100m · Track
9.86PB
VerifiedThe XXXIII Olympic Games · 2024-08-04
Athletics · 150m · Track
16.47PB
Awaiting verification· 2019-01-31
Athletics · 200m · Track
19.46PB
VerifiedThe XXXIII Olympic Games · 2024-08-08
Athletics · 300m · Track
30.69PB
Awaiting verification· 2024-02-17
Athletics · 400m · Track
44.29PB
Awaiting verification· 2024-03-18
Career highlights
Letsile Tebogo's published record includes performances from 2019 to 2026 in 100 Metres, 200m, 400 Metres, 100m, 300 Metres.
Selected events from this athlete’s recorded career. Verification is shown for each record.
Botswana Games
2019 · 100 Metres
Performance: 10.68
Source checkedWorld Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 2026
2026 · 200m
Performance: 19.76
Source checkedBAA Athletics Series 2
2022 · 400 Metres
Performance: 46.09
Source checkedWorld Athletics Championships Oregon 2022
2022 · 100m
Performance: 9.94
Source checkedCurro Podium
2023 · 300 Metres
Performance: 31.52
Source checkedLausanne Diamond League
2023 · 200m
Performance: 20.01
Source checked
Earlier results
Showing 6–10 of 82 recorded performances.
| Race date | Race name | Sport | Distance / discipline | Location | Performance | Place | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun, 30 Aug 2026 | Completed event · Finisher · Grand Prix Brescia, Centro Gabre Gabric, Brescia | Athletics | 400mTrack | Centro Gabre Gabric, Brescia (ITA) | 45.34VerifiedTiming unknown | 8 | — |
| Fri, 21 Aug 2026 | Completed event · Gold · 1st · Overall · Lausanne Diamond League | Athletics | 200mTrack | Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne (SUI)— | 19.87VerifiedTiming unknownWind -0.3 m/s | 1 | — |
| Fri, 10 Jul 2026 | Completed event · Finisher · Meeting International d’Athlétisme Herculis EBS | Athletics | 100mTrack | Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON)— | 10.04VerifiedTiming unknownWind +0.2 m/s | 5 | — |
| Sat, 4 Jul 2026 | Completed event · Silver · 2nd · Overall · Eugene Diamond League | Athletics | 200mTrack | Hayward Field, Eugene, OR (USA)— | 19.93VerifiedTiming unknownWind -0.9 m/s | 2 | — |
| Wed, 10 Jun 2026 | Completed event · Gold · 1st · Overall · Oslo Bislett Games | Athletics | 200mTrack | Bislett Stadion, Oslo (NOR)— | 19.84VerifiedTiming unknownWind +0.2 m/s | 1 | — |
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