18-year-old Karabo Letebele shatters South African U-20 60 metres record. Clocking a blistering 6.53 seconds in the 60m dash, Letebele now holds the fastest U20 time in South African history—just 0.02 seconds off the World U20 record and 0.19 seconds off the senior world record. Letebele’s time places him within a hair’s breadth of history. He is now just 0.02 seconds shy of the World U20 record of 6.51s, set by Mark Lewis-Francis (Great Britain) on March 11, 2001—a full seven years before Karab