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| Born | 9 December 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Karabo Letebele (born 9 December 2006) is a South African sprinter. In 2025, he became the African under-20 record holder over 60 metres. [1]
From Vanderbijlpark, Letebele was educated at Grey College High School in Bloemfontein. He was a keen footballer as well as track and field athlete before focusing on athletics. [2] [3]
In 2024, Letebele finished seventh in the 100 metres final at the 2024 ASA U20 Championships, and had a personal best of 10.45 seconds that year. [4]
Letebele recorded a win over 100 metres against African record holder Ferdinand Omanyala at Athletics South Africa’s Grand Prix on 12 March 2025, running 10.19 seconds for the win. [5] [2] Later that month he won in a time of 10.18 seconds the 100 metres at the South African Youth, Junior & Senior Provincial Championships. [3] Letebele was runner-up to Bayanda Walaza in the 100 metres at the South African U20 Championships in Cape Town at the end of March 2025. [6] He ran 10.17 seconds for a fifth place finish at the 2025 senior South African Athletics Championships over 100 metres the following month. [7] That summer, he was a silver medalist over 100 metres at the 2025 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Abeokuta, Nigeria. [8]
In October 2025, still aged 18 years-old, he ran the 60 metres in 6.53 seconds in Potchefstroom and 6.54 seconds in Johannesburg, to break the African under-20 area record, and become the first South African to meet the automatic time for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships. The following month, he ran a new personal best of 10.11 seconds for the 100 metres in Sasolburg. [9] [10] [11] Competing in the United States in December 2025, he won the 60m at the New Balance Early Bird Invite, in a time of 6.59 seconds.
