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World Athletics Relays, Gaborone, 3 May 2026

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A competition record. The fastest men’s 4x400m ever run at the World Relays.

The four athletes walking in, arms crossed

3 May 2026 Gaborone World Relays

Gaborone does not get many nights like this.

Botswana turns 60 this year, and on 3 May the crowd got the moment it had waited for. The men’s 4x400m final ran on home soil, four runners carrying one baton in front of a stadium in full voice.

When it ended, the clock showed a time that had never been run at a World Relays before.

The four athletes around the Seiko board reading CHAMP RECORD 4x400m BOT 2:54.47, flags draped as capes
Lee Eppie, duotone portrait

First leg

Lee Eppie

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Lee Eppie ran the opening leg in 44.26, setting the tone from the first step and getting Botswana away clean.

Letsile Tebogo, duotone portrait

Second leg

Letsile Tebogo

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Letsile Tebogo, the Olympic 200m champion, took leg two and ran 43.50, quicker than the leg before it, keeping the baton moving fast.

Bayapo Ndori, duotone portrait

Third leg

Bayapo Ndori

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Bayapo Ndori ran the third leg in 43.62 and carried the baton into Kebinatshipi’s hands, doing the unglamorous work that holds a relay together.

Collen Kebinatshipi, duotone portrait

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Collen Kebinatshipi

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Collen Kebinatshipi, a world champion, ran his leg in 43.09 and brought the baton home, stopping the clock at 2:54.47, a time that has never been beaten at a World Relays.

The line

Gold, silver and bronze, and the margins that separated three fast teams.

BotswanaGold
2:54.47
South AfricaSilver
2:55.07+0.60
AustraliaBronze
2:55.20+0.73

Bars sized for legibility, not to scale. Times are official.

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Two minutes, fifty four seconds, forty seven hundredths.

Championship record2:54.47

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Race footage by World Athletics.

We wanted to break the world record, we didn’t care about the gold. We polished the mistakes before we got into the race and everything was perfect from start to finish.
Lee Eppie · First leg
This was the best moment in my career. I’m sure there is more to come but this has been my biggest highlight so far.
Letsile Tebogo · Second leg

The artwork, in motion

Posters are not supposed to move.

The four athletes mid victory jog in the Brandesis duotone style

Every relay is won or lost in the handover.

A relay is the purest brand exercise there is: four runners, one identity, a result decided at the handovers. Most businesses lose their race exactly there.

Botswana polished every handover until the whole thing held at record pace. Our work is the same: a brand that survives every handover it will ever face.

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Four runners. One baton. One mark at the end of it.