Tebogo burns up track

WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT AFRICANS CAN BE SPRINTERS TOO’

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Letsile Tebogo has always said an Olympic medal would not just be for Botswana but the continent of Africa and he duly delivered on Thursday by becoming the first African to be crowned 200m Olympic champion.

The 21-year-old produced a stunning run in Paris to leave prerace favourite Noah Lyles trailing in third.

In fact, Tebogo is only the second athlete from Africa to even win a medal in the 200m.

Namibian Frankie Fredericks had blazed the way for Tebogo by winning the second of his two silvers in Atlanta in 1996.

Tebogo set an African record of 19.46sec in the Stade de France to put the cherry on the cake.

"Africans were known for the long distance, marathon, and quarter mile," Tebogo told NBC earlier this year.