Athletics: Botswana's Letsile Tebogo breaks the 300 meter world record. The 20-year-old sprinter completed the distance in 30.69, a distance rarely run in athletics.
He erased the record held until now. there by the South African Wayde Van Niekerk. The only downside: World Athletics, the International Athletics Federation, does not consider the 300 meters times as official records since the distance is not contested during international competitions. It was already on this track at Pilditch Stadium that the American Michael Johnson, considered one of the greatest sprinters of all time, had set the old world record in 2000.