{"id":1164771,"date":"2022-08-03T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/azamati-flies-to-semis-in-100-meters-race\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:04:26","slug":"azamati-flies-to-semis-in-100-meters-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/azamati-flies-to-semis-in-100-meters-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Azamati Flies To Semis&#8230; In 100 Meters Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Azamati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GHANA\u2019S MAIN sprint medal hopeful, Benjamin Azamati, is living up to expectations in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian sprinter easily won the Heat 7 of the 100 meters race at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>With the vital win, Azamati, who is in the form of his life, has booked a place in the 100 meters semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Azamati didn\u2019t start the race well, yet he remained composed as he fought back to catch up with the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>From 60 meters, it was clear that the Ghanaian sprinter, who was virtually flying, would win the race.<\/p>\n<p>Azamati crossed the finish line with a time of 10.19s to book his place in the semi-finals and keep his medal hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another Ghanaian sprinter, Sean Safo-Antwi, has also booked a place in the 100m semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>He finished fourth in his race with a time of 10.33s.<\/p>\n<p>Team Ghana is depending on athletics to win medals at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Benjamin Azamati GHANA\u2019S MAIN sprint medal hopeful, Benjamin Azamati, is living up to expectations in Birmingham. The Ghanaian sprinter easily won the Heat 7 of the 100 meters race at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday morning. With the vital win, Azamati, who is in the form of his life, has booked a place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10401,16039,17615,5715,525],"class_list":["post-1164771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-azamati","tag-flies","tag-meters","tag-race","tag-semis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164771","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=1164771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}