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Letsile Tebogo from Botswana entered legend on Thursday night when he became the first man from Africa to win the 200m at an Olymp\u00eec Games. <\/em><\/p>\n The 21-year-old scorched home in 19.46 seconds. He beat the American duo of Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles into second and third place respectively.<\/p>\n The men’s 200m has been a feature of the Olympic Games since the second edition in 1900.<\/p>\n Since then, 17 of the winners have come from the United States. Jamaica, courtesy of Don Quarrie and Usain Bolt’s hat…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Letsile Tebogo from Botswana entered legend on Thursday night when he became the first man from Africa to win the 200m at an Olymp\u00eec Games. The 21-year-old scorched home in 19.46 seconds. He beat the American duo of Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles into second and third place respectively. The men’s 200m has been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178256,"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":[9776,258,256,4380,2462,8667,22212,6867,257,9702,15062,254,39797,6675],"class_list":["post-178255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-200m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana-news","tag-claim","tag-legend","tag-man","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-races","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tebogo","tag-title"],"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\/178255","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=178255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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