{"id":1169904,"date":"2022-08-07T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/ghana-finish-7th-as-nigeria-storm-to-4x100m-gold-in-commonwealth-games-womens-relay\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:22:26","slug":"ghana-finish-7th-as-nigeria-storm-to-4x100m-gold-in-commonwealth-games-womens-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/ghana-finish-7th-as-nigeria-storm-to-4x100m-gold-in-commonwealth-games-womens-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana finish 7th as Nigeria storm to 4x100m gold in Commonwealth Games women&#8217;s relay"},"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 finish 7th as Nigeria storm to 4x100m gold in Commonwealth Games women's relay\" title=\"Ghana finish 7th as Nigeria storm to 4x100m gold in Commonwealth Games women's relay\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Nigeria has stormed to gold in the 4x100m women\u2019s relay final of the Commonwealth Games as Ghana lagged behind in 7th.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing ahead of England (silver) and Jamaica (bronze), the Nigerians run a new African record of 42.10s.<\/p>\n<p>They had the experienced quartet of Tobi Amusan (reigning 110m world champion) starting, Favour Ofili (reigning 200m Commonwealth Games silver medallist), Rose Chukwuma, and Grace Nwokocha on anchor as a packed stadium in Birmingham looked on.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s quartet, conversely, were only running together for the second time, having done so first on Saturday during the heats. Starting the race was Mary Boakye (Ghana Armed Forces), Latifa Ali of the Coppin State University, Gifty Kwakyewaa Oku (University of Education, Winneba) and Hor Halutie (Coppin State University) on the anchor leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaians ran  44.86s.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria \u2013 who are having a sterling Games \u2013 also won bronze in the men\u2019s 4x100m, coming behind Trinidad and Tobago and eventual gold medallists, England.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has stormed to gold in the 4x100m women\u2019s relay final of the Commonwealth Games as Ghana lagged behind in 7th. Finishing ahead of England (silver) and Jamaica (bronze), the Nigerians run a new African record of 42.10s. They had the experienced quartet of Tobi Amusan (reigning 110m world champion) starting, Favour Ofili (reigning 200m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[21273,9853,1918,3149,79,85,430,633,21222,3655,3947],"class_list":["post-1169904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-4x100m","tag-7th","tag-commonwealth","tag-finish","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-gold","tag-nigeria","tag-relay","tag-storm","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169904","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=1169904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}