The Olympic 200m champion was once noticed pulling submerged cars out of the deep water in Gaborone
Letsile Tebogo, who secured Botswana’s first ever Olympic gold medal in Paris remaining summer time, has stored stranded drivers from floodwaters in Botswana.
The Olympic 200m champion got here to assistance from motorists whose vehicles have been submerged because of the serious flooding within the capital Gaborone.
Tebogo, in a video which was once extensively shared on social media, was once noticed the usage of his 4×4 Toyota Land Cruiser to tug different vehicles out of the deep water. Heavy rains in Botswana resulted in floods and the closure of primary roads around the nation.
Some other perspective of Letsile Tebogo rescuing a car trapped by means of the flooding in Botswana.
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The 21-year-old created historical past remaining yr after he turned into Botswana’s first ever Olympic champion with 200m gold within the French capital, clocking an African checklist of nineteen.46 – a time that positioned him 5th at the all-time checklist over part a lap.
He then adopted that up by means of serving to Botswana’s males’s 4x400m staff safe an Olympic silver medal, completing in the back of america.
Over the process the season, Tebogo dipped below 20 seconds within the 200m on 9 events, appearing exceptional consistency all through his marketing campaign.
Tebogo, along Sifan Hassan, have been topped International Athletes of the 12 months remaining December.
Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan (Getty)
The Botswana additionally claimed silver and bronze medals within the 100m and 200m respectively on the 2023 International Championships in Budapest.
Tebogo, a double global under-20 100m champion and 200m silver medallist, remains to be the respectable 100m record-holder for that age class, after he clocked 9.91 in 2022.
He additionally holds an international very best of 30.69 for the 300m and has clocked 44.29 within the 400m.
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