{"id":1146730,"date":"2022-07-11T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/ghana-announces-team-for-world-athletics-championships\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:16:14","slug":"ghana-announces-team-for-world-athletics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/ghana-announces-team-for-world-athletics-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana announces team for World Athletics Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/axxxccccc-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Benjamin Azamati\" title=\"Benjamin Azamati\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Azamati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has announced a very strong team heading to the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 World Athletics Championships are slated to commence on Friday, July 15, and end on Sunday, 24 July. <\/p>\n<p>Check Ghana\u2019s team for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the United States below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Long Jump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deborah Acquah (Long Jump Record Holder)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Men<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 100m<\/p>\n<p><strong>100m and 200m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>800m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men 4x100m<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benjamin Azamati (Student-Athlete \u2013 100m and 4\u00d7100m relay record-holder)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Paul Amoah ( 200m and 4\u00d7100m relay record-holder)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Manu Odoru ( Student-Athlete \u2013 Part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic 4\u00d7100m relay)<\/li>\n<li>Sean Safo Antwi (Senior Athlete \u2013 4\u00d7100m relay record-holder)<\/li>\n<li>Emmanuel Yeboah (Student-Athlete 4\u00d7100m relay record-holder)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coaches<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Nsiah ( Professor of Finance and Economics \u2013 Baldwin Wallace University<\/li>\n<li>Elorm Amenakpor (Sprint Coach \u2013 University of Ghana. Student &#038; Volunteer \u2013 Assistant Sprints Coach \u2013 West Texas A&#038;M University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Officials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alhaji Hafiz Adam (Leader of the delegation)<\/li>\n<li>Ababu Afelibiek (President of the Ghana Athletics Association)<\/li>\n<li>Bawah Fuseini (Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Athletics Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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=\"H2-iQx1-B0M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Presidents Akufo Addo Speaks on Global Economic Turmoil - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (11-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2-iQx1-B0M?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 The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has announced a very strong team heading to the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The 2022 World Athletics Championships are slated to commence on Friday, July 15, and end on Sunday, 24 July. Check Ghana\u2019s team for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1082,19153,20219,85,97,784],"class_list":["post-1146730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-announces","tag-athletics","tag-championships","tag-ghana","tag-team","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146730","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=1146730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}