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Afrosport 2024 Athletics review: Tebogo, Hassan, Alfred rule the track

Afrosport 2024 Athletics review: Tebogo, Hassan, Alfred rule the track

The 2024 calendar year was an eventful one for Athletics particularly as it had the biggest event in the Paris 2024 Olympics. The global sporting event is incomplete without setting remarkable feats and records and Afrosport takes a lot some of the most noteworthy individuals and the moments that set them apart. Moments of the year Tebogo claims historic 200 metres Olympic gold Letsile Tebogo was...

Botswana’s Tebogo, Hassan named World Athletics ‘Athletes of the Year’

Botswana’s Tebogo, Hassan named World Athletics ‘Athletes of the Year’

Dutch marathon runner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, both of whom took gold at the Paris Olympics, were named ‘Athletes of the Year’ by World Athletics in Monaco on Sunday. Hassan, who also won the out-of-stadium award, was rewarded for her incredible performance in the French capital which stretched beyond the marathon and on to the track. Sifan Hassan 🇳🇱 is your World Athletics...

Tebogo, Chepngetich & Tola in final shortlist for 2024 World Athletics Awards

Tebogo, Chepngetich & Tola in final shortlist for 2024 World Athletics Awards

Three Africans are in the race for the 2024 World Athletics Awards scheduled to be held in Monaco, France on December 1, Afrosport reports. Olympic 200m champion, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, is in contention for the Men's Track Athlete of the Year, and has been shortlisted in the category alongside Olympic 500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway. Meanwhile, Kenya's long distance runner and world marathon record...

Tebogo, Kipyegon and two other Africans nominated for Track Athlete of the Year award

Botswana's sprint king Letsile Tebogo and Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi have been nominated for the prestigious World Athletics Male Track Athlete of the Year award, Afrosport reports. Tebogo made history when he became the first African to win a gold medal in the men's 200 metres. Wanyonyi, on the other hand, has been a dominant force in the 800 metres, winning the gold medal in Paris. Both...

Paris 2024: Tebogo, Fahnbulleh & two others to represent Africa in men’s 200m final

Brussels Diamond League: Tebogo, Fahnbulleh & other Africans vie for medals in final

Olympic 200-metre champion, Letsile Tebogo, is aiming for another triumph on the tracks, this time at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday, September 14. The Botswana sprinter has been in top form of late securing victories in Lausanne, Silesia, Zurich, and Brescia, as well as a 100m win in Rome. The 21-year-old has seemingly switched his attention to Brussels, where he will face...