19 September 2025
21-year-old Collen Kebinatshipi created history for Botswana at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 on Thursday (18), becoming his nation’s first ever men’s world champion.
He stormed to a world-leading national record of 43.53 to win the 400m and move to 10th on the world all-time list, holding off Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards, who adds his 400m silver in a national record of 43.72 to the world 200m bronze he claimed in London in 2017.
Bayapo Ndori joined his compatriot Kebinatshipi on the podium, clinching bronze for Botswana with 44.20.
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