{"id":1136299,"date":"2022-06-28T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/ghanas-abraham-seaneke-qualifies-for-world-athletics-championship\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:03:05","slug":"ghanas-abraham-seaneke-qualifies-for-world-athletics-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/ghanas-abraham-seaneke-qualifies-for-world-athletics-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Abraham Seaneke qualifies for World Athletics Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"383\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-28_075552007-696x383.png\"   alt=\"Abraham Seaneke\" title=\"Abraham Seaneke\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Abraham Seaneke will feature in the long jump event at the upcoming World Athletics Championships after an amazing leap of 8.22m (+2.0m\/s) at the ECC Club Outdoors event in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The West Texas A&#038;M Student made the mark on his second attempt at the meet and secured the exact qualification mark for entry into the competition to be held at the Oregon University in Eugene.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIG!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddedAbraham Seaneke will feature in the Long jump event at World Athletics Championships after a leap of  8.22m(+2.0m\/s) at the ECC\/Club outdoors competition.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abrahamseaneke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@abrahamseaneke<\/a> is now 2nd in the all time Ghana long jump records behind Ignisious Gaisah\u2019s 8.43m(-0.2m\/s) leap. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0A2ueanwCk\">pic.twitter.com\/0A2ueanwCk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Addo Jnr (@addojunr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/addojunr\/status\/1541368863333535745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The 26-year-old has also booked his ticket to the upcoming commonwealth games to be held in Birmingham and is currently second in Ghana\u2018s all-time long jump records, only behind Ignatius Gaisah\u2019s 8.43m(-0.2m\/s) which was achieved in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-53-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Seaneke joins sprinters Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah, and female long jumper Deborah Acquah as part of Ghana\u2019s Contingent for the Eugene games between July 15 and 24 in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/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=\"14oQnzDVrsI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We&#039;ve Generated Only 10% Of Estimated E-Levy Revenue so Far - Gabby Otchere Darko (28-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14oQnzDVrsI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Abraham Seaneke will feature in the long jump event at the upcoming World Athletics Championships after an amazing leap of 8.22m (+2.0m\/s) at the ECC Club Outdoors event in the United States. 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