Botswana announces a public holiday for the world athletics championship winning.

Botswana announced a public holiday to celebrate the country’s 4×400 World Championships in the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the first African country to win the event.

President Douma Boko praised the gold medal as a “African historical victory”, in an online speech praising the team for their performance.

On Monday, September 29, it was announced as a holiday to celebrate the achievement – a day before the country’s independence.

On Sunday, the Lee Bhekempilo Eppie team in Botswana, Letsile Tebogo, Bayapo Ndori, and Busang Collen Kebinatshipi, in the United States, won the last 10 world titles, in a steady race. South Africa took the third rank.

“I will be sure to tell everyone, the natural diamonds in Botswana are not only on the ground, but they are the athletes of the world champion,” the president said, speaking from New York where he attends the United Nations General Assembly.

He described the moment as “electrical”, adding that Botswana’s performance occurs to its growing position on the world stage.

The southern African nation ranked fifth in the championship medal ranking – behind the United States, Kenya, the Netherlands and Canada – their best ever after taking two gold, silver and bronze.

Last year, Botswana celebrated another historic marking as Tebogo won the first Olympic gold medal in the country by winning the 200 -meter men in Paris.

His victory, which also represents the first time that an African athlete won the event, has become a national feeling, as tens of thousands of people in the national stadium in the capital, Gaburon, celebrated it after returning to the country.

The government announced a half-day holiday that allows citizens to “stop and celebrate it”-in what the mokgweetsi Masisi president described at the time as “the most distinctive … it will be dug in the annuals of the history of the Republic.”