{"id":1167580,"date":"2022-08-05T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/ghanas-deborah-acquah-tops-long-jump-qualifying-despite-late-arrival-at-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:31:01","slug":"ghanas-deborah-acquah-tops-long-jump-qualifying-despite-late-arrival-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/ghanas-deborah-acquah-tops-long-jump-qualifying-despite-late-arrival-at-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Deborah Acquah tops long jump qualifying despite late arrival at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Ghana's Deborah Acquah tops long jump qualifying despite late arrival at Commonwealth Games\" title=\"Ghana's Deborah Acquah tops long jump qualifying despite late arrival at Commonwealth Games\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Ghanaian long jump athlete, Deborah Acquah, has qualified for the final of the long jump event at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Acquah, who received her UK visa, only 48 hours before her scheduled event at the games topped her qualifying group with a leap of 6.85, which was also the best across all groups.<\/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\">\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Deborah Acquah no dey talk plenty. She just dey show working! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Gets her visa late<br \/>\u2705 \ufe0fArrives at the Games late<br \/>\u2705 Has a basic prep<br \/>\ufe0f\u2705\ufe0f Tops her qualifying field<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoySports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JoySports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CWG2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CWG2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlJeZDDSHn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/xlJeZDDSHn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffeJoin the Joy Sports FPL (@JoySportsGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoySportsGH\/status\/1555525963185799168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She beat the automatic qualifying mark of 6.75 to sail through to the final of the long jump event.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her arrival at the games, Acquah said she was not going to use her late arrival as an excuse to not perform.<\/p>\n<p>She missed out on the final of the women\u2019s long jump event at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.<\/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\">\u201c\u2026this is not an excuse to not perform\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Acquah speaks after receiving her UK visa only 48 hours before her long jump event at the Commonwealth Games<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoySports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JoySports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rM1IN7olaJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/rM1IN7olaJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffeJoin the Joy Sports FPL (@JoySportsGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoySportsGH\/status\/1555472033034674177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian long jump athlete, Deborah Acquah, has qualified for the final of the long jump event at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Acquah, who received her UK visa, only 48 hours before her scheduled event at the games topped her qualifying group with a leap of 6.85, which was also the best across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[22390,7574,1918,9641,79,250,7962,749,2406,783,4758],"class_list":["post-1167580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-acquah","tag-arrival","tag-commonwealth","tag-deborah","tag-games","tag-ghanas","tag-jump","tag-late","tag-long","tag-qualifying","tag-tops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167580","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=1167580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}