Paris, 8 August 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Letsile Tebogo won a first ever Olympic gold medal for Botswana when he denied three Americans including 100 metres winner Noah Lyles in the 200m on Thursday.

Tebogo stormed to gold with 19.46 seconds for fifth on the all-time list and an African record.

Like at Tokyo 2020, Kenneth Bednarek took silver and Lyles bronze, clocking 19.62 and 19.70, respectively. The third American, Erriyon Knighton, came fourth.

Gold for Tebogo came after 100m silver and 200m bronze at last year's world championships, where Lyles had won a second straight 100/200m double.

Lyles had won 100m gold in dramatic fashion in a personal best 9.79 seconds on Sunday, five-thousandths of a second ahead of Jamaican Kishane Thompson. Tebogo was sixth in that race.

Thursday's other finals are the women's 400m hurdles and long jump, and the men's 110m hurdles and javelin.

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