Letsile Tebogo is in a class of his own at 100 meters.
Letsile Tebogo celebrated the world championship last year as well. PDO
Botswana Letsile Tebogo ran a new age group world record in the 100 meters on Tuesday at the Under-20 World Championships in Athletics. The top time was born in Cali, Colombia with a great performance.
Tebogo brazenly gestured in the direction of the crowd ten meters before the finish line, but still won the world championship.
The new ME time for under-20s is 9.91.
Tebogo shaved three hundredths off the old world record. He ran the previous top time of 9.94 at Oregon in July.
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Only two men under the age of 20 have run 100 meters under ten seconds. Tebogo already has three goals under the ghost line in his career.
Another member of the small club is the United States Trayvon Bromellwho clocked 9.97 in 2014. With it, Bromell has won the world indoor championship and two 100m World Championship bronze medals.
Tebogo, on the other hand, also won the Junior 100 meters world championship last year. Silver came from 200 meters.
Explains his trick
Tebogo’s finger twitching spoke volumes after the race. He wanted to explain his trick.
– I saw the fans and I wanted to remind them what Usain Bolt did back in the day. He is my idol, I look up to him. I’m really sorry if anyone found it disrespectful, the ME runner told the reporter of Cathal Dennehy by.
The Botswanan believes he could have run 9.80 if he had given his all in the final. He didn’t want to put everything on the line, because the season continues with several more races.
– Immediately after the first step, I knew that the World Championship title was mine.
Tuesday’s World Cup final also saw other hard results.
of Jamaica Bouwahjgie Nkrumie took silver with his country’s junior record of 10.02. of South Africa Benjamin Richardson was third (10,12).