Karabo Letebele

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.