{"id":194762,"date":"2025-03-28T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-becomes-first-african-country-to-host-world-athletics-relays\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:19:56","slug":"botswana-becomes-first-african-country-to-host-world-athletics-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-becomes-first-african-country-to-host-world-athletics-relays\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Becomes First African Country to Host World Athletics Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Addis Ababa, \u2014 Botswanan Minister of Sport and Arts Jacob Kelebeng expressed his delight over Botswana&#8217;s having been awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 World Athletics Relays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Global athletics body &#8211; World Athletics- has confirmed that the African nation&#8211;Botswana will host the 2026 World Athletics Relays, scheduled to take place on 2-3 May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;We have done it,&#8221; Kelebeng wrote on his social media account, congratulating the Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) for the milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270221.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>Addis Ababa, \u2014 Botswanan Minister of Sport and Arts Jacob Kelebeng expressed his delight over Botswana&#8217;s having been awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 World Athletics Relays. Global athletics body &#8211; World Athletics- has confirmed that the African nation&#8211;Botswana will host the 2026 World Athletics Relays, scheduled to take place on 2-3 May 2026. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4380,7977,4718,2462,5042,6937,257,7986,254,5093],"class_list":["post-194762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-athletics","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-country","tag-host","tag-news","tag-relays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762","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=194762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}