Letsile Tebogo, 19, is the world’s new enemy king.
Despite advancing age.
In the JVM 100-meter final, he ran to the finish line in a new junior world record of 9.91, despite celebrating and waving to the fans in the final meters towards the finish line.
– If I had bet all the way, I would have ran at 9.80, he says afterwards.
The world has been crying out for a new race king ever since Usain Bolt It ended in 2017.
Now we may have the answer.
Letsile Tebogo of Botswana actually shocked at WC in Eugene as he lowered his junior world record by two hundred to 9.94. He broke the previous record of America’s Trayvon Brommel (9.97) again in April, and they are the only two boys to have managed to run under a clean ten.
And now it’s his third consecutive world record and 9.91 in a race where everyone saw he could have run faster if he hadn’t stopped and started celebrating even before the finish line.
When I got my starting shot, I just wanted to get the best start ever and it turned out to be the quickest start of my life. I wasn’t planning on celebrating, but I already knew in the first step I was going to win, I didn’t care about the time. He told the World Athletics website that I didn’t even look.
– The message was to show that I enjoyed the race. If anyone offended, I apologize. I saw the fans and thought of everyone watching the race at home. I wanted to remind them of what Usain Bolt was doing. He is my idol – the person I look up to.
When asked what a season without celebrations would be like, Tibugo replied:
– 9.80. But I have more races to come. This was my last year as a junior, so I wanted to leave behind a record that the next generation could break.
Compared to Bolt
Letsile Tebogo recently turned 19 on June 7 and has only been serious about running since 2019. Now he is the greatest talent the world has seen.
He has a natural running style that no one of the same age has approached.
Not even the idol Usain Bolt who is actually being compared to him.
The JVM finale has also been rumored about an emerging world of sprinting outside the almost entirely dominant USA and Jamaica.
At WC in Eugene, the United States took a triple victory in the 100 meters.
In Cali, the top six were from completely different countries.
Botswana, Jamaica, South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan.
16-year-old Thai phenomenon Burebol Bunson finished fourth in the final with a time of 10.12, just a thousand more than the bronze.
But already in the semi-finals he became the fastest 16-year-old player in the world ever when the clock stopped at 10.09. He crushed American Anthony Schwartz’s best time of 10.15.