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Botswana Golden Grand Prix winners to get P64,000

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Big prize: Isaac Makwala, Kitso Kemoeng and Robert Wagner during the Botswana Golden Grand Prix press briefing PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

A cool $5,000 (approximately P64,000) winner’s prize has been set for the Botswana Golden Grand Prix.

The event previously known as Gaborone International Meet (GIM) will be held on April 29 at the National Stadium. This is the first of the three editions of the World Athletics Continental Tour Golden Grand Prix in Botswana.

GIM was elevated from bronze status to gold by athletics' global governing body this year, thus becoming a world continental tour and one of the only two tours hosted in Africa.

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