{"id":1165476,"date":"2022-08-03T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/benjamin-azamati-qualifies-for-100m-final-at-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:53:39","slug":"benjamin-azamati-qualifies-for-100m-final-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/benjamin-azamati-qualifies-for-100m-final-at-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Azamati qualifies for 100m final at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"558\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-02_140231947-696x558.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Benjamin Azamati\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Dada Oliseh photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Benjamin Azamati has qualified for the men\u2019s 100m final at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian finished third in heat three of the semi-finals with a time of 10.18s and qualified for the final via a non-automatic qualifying slot.<\/p>\n<p>Azamati will be in lane one for the final which takes place later tonight at 20:30GMT. The 24-year-old will compete against the likes of Akani Simbine, Ferdinand Omanyala and Yupun Abeykoon.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Sean Safo Antwi missed out on the final after finishing fifth in heat two of the semi-finals with a time of 10.36s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Azamati is one of four Africans who will participate in the final of the men\u2019s 100 event.<\/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=\"Yy_tbQ12yjw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He Neglected Our Cerebral Palsy Child - Wife Accuses Hubby \u2013 Obra on Adom TV (3-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yy_tbQ12yjw?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>Image credit: Dada Oliseh photos Benjamin Azamati has qualified for the men\u2019s 100m final at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. The Ghanaian finished third in heat three of the semi-finals with a time of 10.18s and qualified for the final via a non-automatic qualifying slot. Azamati will be in lane one for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6765,10401,1832,1918,1450,79,12829],"class_list":["post-1165476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-100m","tag-azamati","tag-benjamin","tag-commonwealth","tag-final","tag-games","tag-qualifies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165476","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=1165476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}