{"id":232362,"date":"2026-05-05T03:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-all-eyes-on-botswana-relay-teams-in-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:59:05","slug":"botswana-all-eyes-on-botswana-relay-teams-in-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-all-eyes-on-botswana-relay-teams-in-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: All Eyes On Botswana Relay Teams in Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Gaborone \u2014 History was made on home soil as Botswana men&#8217;s 4x100m relay team booked a place in the Debswana World Athletics Relays finals for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The men&#8217;s 4x100m team sent the crowd into a frenzy after finishing second in their heat with a new National Record of 37.96 seconds. Anchor leg Letsile Tebogo produced a trademark surge, clawing back from fourth position to cross the line in second and secure automatic qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;We give credit to the whole team. Tebogo&#8217;s finish&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050010.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 History was made on home soil as Botswana men&#8217;s 4x100m relay team booked a place in the Debswana World Athletics Relays finals for the first time ever. The men&#8217;s 4x100m team sent the crowd into a frenzy after finishing second in their heat with a new National Record of 37.96 seconds. Anchor leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232363,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,4342,9777,257,7141,254,8492],"class_list":["post-232362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-eyes","tag-finals","tag-news","tag-relay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams"],"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\/232362","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=232362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}