GABORONE, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Botswana’s 200m Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo is ready to start his season with a 400m race on the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne, Australia on March 25.
The athlete made the announcement on his social media pages on Tuesday and Athletics Australia later confirmed his participation on the continental tour gold occasion.
“The wait is over, the dates are in, and the countdown begins, first race of the season is confirmed,” Tebogo teased with a press release earlier than saying that he can be stepping as much as the problem of the 400m within the season opener.
The 21-year-old Olympic 200m champion will compete in 400m on the Lakeside Stadium as he begins his season with eyes on the 2025 World Athletics Championships scheduled for Tokyo in September.
Despite competing principally within the shorter sprints of 100m and 200m, Tebogo has performed significantly properly within the 400m and has not dominated out a risk of competing within the distance at main championships sooner or later.
He at present has a private better of 44.29 seconds in 400m set in March 2024 and he additionally anchored Botswana’s 4x400m relay crew to silver on the Paris 2024 Olympics.