Working in reminiscence of his mom, who handed away in Could, 21-year-old Letsile Tebogo of Botswana stormed to victory within the males’s 200m ultimate in Paris on Thursday, beating a area of giants, together with two-time world champion and 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles and denying him the dash double he so desperately wished.
Tebogo ran 19.46–a PB and African report. Kenny Bednarek of Workforce USA took silver, operating 19.62, whereas Lyles needed to accept bronze for his second consecutive Olympics; the brash American ran 19.70.
Lyles’ outcome was flagged with a warning for unsportsmanlike behaviour, after he entered the observe taunting his opponents and operating in entrance of them. After the race, which he left in a wheelchair, he mentioned he examined constructive for Covid two days in the past.
Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo strikes as much as fifth on the 200m all-time record 😤
🥇 19.46 Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼
🥈 19.62 @kenny_bednarek
🥉 19.70 @LylesNoah 🇺🇸 #Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/plWA7ckgS3— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 8, 2024
Tebogo beat Lyles of their semi-final warmth on Wednesday, in 19.96; it was Lyles’s first loss over 200m in three years. That is Tebogo’s first Olympics, after ending third final 12 months in Budapest. Bednarek received silver in Tokyo in 2021 and silver in Eugene in 2022; he received the primary warmth of the semi-finals on Wednesday.
No Canadians made the 200m ultimate; Andre De Grasse, the defending Olympic 200m champion, revealed he’s been coping with a hamstring drawback after failing to qualify for the ultimate.
In line with a report in Pulse Sports activities, Tebogo’s mom, Seratiwa, handed away Could 19 after a short sickness, leaving Letsile and his 12-year-old sister; Letsile was competing on the LA Grand Prix on the time, the place he completed second within the 100m. The household mentioned Seratiwa was strongly supportive of her son’s observe profession.