{"id":1088656,"date":"2022-05-16T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/16\/azamati-to-compete-with-olympic-champion-jacobs-in-oslo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:09:23","slug":"azamati-to-compete-with-olympic-champion-jacobs-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/16\/azamati-to-compete-with-olympic-champion-jacobs-in-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"Azamati to compete with Olympic champion Jacobs in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"472\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652692163_771_az-696x472.png\"   alt=\"Benjamin Azamati\" title=\"Benjamin Azamati\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Azamati <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s fastest runner, Benjamin Azamati will have an opportunity to compete with some of the world\u2019s fastest runners after earning a chance to run in this year\u2019s IAAF Diamond League in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>Azamati, who has run a personal best of 9.90s this year, will use the diamond league as a preparation tournament ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>The diamond league meeting on June 16 will give Benjamin Azamati a feel of top-level action before the World Champs<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s athletes want the right preparations ahead of the subsequent competitions and Azamati will see this as a huge opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He will go up against some of the world\u2019s heavyweights including Olympic gold medalist, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, and South Africa\u2019s Akani Simbine.<\/p>\n<p>Azamati after a great NCAA season with West Texas A&#038;M will participate in the World Athletics Championships and the Commonwealth Games later in July.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"J6vVGf4u-gE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ebewiase Chatroom on Adom TV (13-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6vVGf4u-gE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Azamati Ghana\u2019s fastest runner, Benjamin Azamati will have an opportunity to compete with some of the world\u2019s fastest runners after earning a chance to run in this year\u2019s IAAF Diamond League in Oslo. Azamati, who has run a personal best of 9.90s this year, will use the diamond league as a preparation tournament ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10401,5289,2811,8627,7684,13715],"class_list":["post-1088656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-azamati","tag-champion","tag-compete","tag-jacobs","tag-olympic","tag-oslo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}