{"id":209832,"date":"2025-10-14T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kebinatshipi-and-tebogo-qualify-for-ultimate-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:41:56","slug":"botswana-kebinatshipi-and-tebogo-qualify-for-ultimate-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kebinatshipi-and-tebogo-qualify-for-ultimate-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Kebinatshipi and Tebogo Qualify for Ultimate Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Gaborone \u2014 Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo and World 400m champion Collen Kebinatshipi have qualified for the newly introduced World Athletics Ultimate Championship meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The inaugural event to be held in Budapest, Hungary from September 11-13, 2026, will offer a record-setting prize pot of US$10 million, the largest ever offered in a single track and field event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Every athlete lining up in Budapest will be financially rewarded for their performance, according to World Athletics, with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140282.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>Gaborone \u2014 Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo and World 400m champion Collen Kebinatshipi have qualified for the newly introduced World Athletics Ultimate Championship meet. The inaugural event to be held in Budapest, Hungary from September 11-13, 2026, will offer a record-setting prize pot of US$10 million, the largest ever offered in a single track and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209833,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6843,52578,257,7867,254,39797,14073],"class_list":["post-209832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-championship","tag-kebinatshipi","tag-news","tag-qualify","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tebogo","tag-ultimate"],"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\/209832","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=209832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}