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Letsile Tebogo (/lɪt͡silɛ tɛbʊχo/ Lee-tsee-leh Te-boh-khoh) (born 7 June 2003) is a Motswana sprinter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres event, the first ever Olympic gold medal for Botswana. Tebogo also achieved the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the 100 m and followed it up with a bronze medal in the 200 m 5 days later. Tebogo won in the 100 metres and placed second in the 200 metres at both the 2021 and 2022 World Athletics Under-20 Championships. In 2021, Tebogo became the first Botswana athlete to claim the 100m title at any World Championships level. He is the 200m 2022 African champion, becoming the youngest winner of this title in competition history. Tebogo broke the 300m world best, running a time of 30.69 seconds on February 17, 2024 at altitude in Pretoria, South Africa. Tebogo holds the world U20 record in the 100m since April 2022. He was the first man from Botswana to break the 10-second barrier.