{"id":178207,"date":"2024-08-09T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-letsile-tebogo-creates-history-with-botswanas-maiden-olympic-gold-and-an-african-first-for-200m-sprint\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:09:28","slug":"botswana-letsile-tebogo-creates-history-with-botswanas-maiden-olympic-gold-and-an-african-first-for-200m-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-letsile-tebogo-creates-history-with-botswanas-maiden-olympic-gold-and-an-african-first-for-200m-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Letsile Tebogo Creates History With Botswana&#8217;s Maiden Olympic Gold and an African First for 200m Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\"><em>Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo created history when he won Botswana&#8217;s first ever Olympic gold medal and the first ever gold medal in the 200m sprints by an African athlete. Later, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone confirmed her championship credentials as she claimed gold for the US while breaking her own world record in the women&#8217;s 400m hurdles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo and Team USA&#8217;s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lit up the Stade de France stadium at Paris Olympics 2024 in the track and field arena on Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo created history when he won Botswana&#8217;s first ever Olympic gold medal and the first ever gold medal in the 200m sprints by an African athlete. Later, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone confirmed her championship credentials as she claimed gold for the US while breaking her own world record in the women&#8217;s 400m hurdles. Botswana&#8217;s Letsile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651430:601300c76c51bf35edf6bbf77c024693:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[9776,258,256,4380,4718,2462,10477,14118,4644,7099,49249,6965,257,9702,254,32776,39797],"class_list":["post-178207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-200m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-creates","tag-gold","tag-history","tag-letsile","tag-maiden","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sprint","tag-tebogo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651430:601300c76c51bf35edf6bbf77c024693:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}