How much Letsile Tebogo earned after beating Ferdinand Omanyala at Rome Diamond League
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The Diamond League Series provides substantial prize money to the athletes
Following his extraordinary feat at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Letsile Tebogo continued his victory streak at the 2024 Rome Diamond League.
Given the accolades at the Rome Diamond League, the athlete collected prize money of $10,000 approximately Ksh1.3 million.
Tebogo continued his momentum after a victorious campaign at the Paris Olympics.
He has won three back-to-back races in the Diamond League, with two victories coming in the 200m in Lausanne and Silesia and the 100m in Rome.
He defeated top athletes Fred Kerley, Kenya's very own Ferdinand Omanyala who finished seventh, and Christian Coleman to clinch the gold medal in the Rome Diamond League with a time of 9.87s.
The Diamond League season provides substantial prize money to the athletes.
The athletes dominating a particular event at the Diamond League collect $10,000 (Ksh1.3m). Athletes finishing in second and third place bags approximately Ksh774,000 ($6,000) and Ksh503,000 ($3,600) respectively.
The next five finishing athletes in any event amass Ksh258,000 ($2,000), Ksh161,000 ($1,250), Ksh129,000 ($1,000), Ksh90,000 ($700), and Ksh64,000 ($500) respectively.
Meanwhile, in a separate post-race interview with journalist Fentuo Tahiru, Letsile Tebogo said he suffered a mental breakdown before the race as he missed his late mother.
"I wouldn't say I was in great shape because I had too many mental breakdowns a few hours before the race. I tried to be positive, I tried to keep everything positive.
I meditated before the race and imagined how the race is and how I wanted it to be because it is something that we cannot control," he said
“I just miss my mom. I think it affected me so bad, but I tried to keep positive. I didn’t try to show to anyone that the boy is not okay. I made calm, just in my corner, thought ‘Alright,’ and just let it go,” he added.
Tebogo will conclude his 2024 season at the Diamond League in Zurich, scheduled for Friday 5 September.
