{"id":762723,"date":"2022-01-23T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/meet-ferdie-adoboe-the-fastest-ghanaian-to-run-backwards-in-the-worldvideo\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T12:40:09","slug":"meet-ferdie-adoboe-the-fastest-ghanaian-to-run-backwards-in-the-worldvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/meet-ferdie-adoboe-the-fastest-ghanaian-to-run-backwards-in-the-worldvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ferdie Adoboe, The Fastest Ghanaian To Run Backwards In The World(Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Running backwards is the act of running in reverse so that one travels in the direction one&#8217;s back is facing rather than one&#8217;s front. It is classed as a retro movement, the reverse of a normal movement.<\/p>\n<p>No country or person outside the continent of Africa can doubt the talents of a Black man. Ghanaians are no exceptions as some individuals hold various categories of records in all kinds of sports and other careers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/873b894709b444c38d1a1ffced19f1e2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s article, let us meet a man who has a key record in Africa&#8217;s history. He happens to be the fastest person to run backwards in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ferdie Ato Adoboe<\/strong> is an athlete who set a Guinness World Record in 1983 for running backwards. He is also a practitioner of speed juggling, the act of kicking a soccer ball in the air as many times as possible in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdie Ato Adoboe set another world record by running 100 metres backwards in 12.7 seconds on 25th July 1991 at the Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.<\/p>\n<p>He has held two speed-related world records with a 100m time of 13.6 and a calculated 100 yards time of 12.7, both set on 25 July 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to watch the video as Ferdie Adoboe set the record which has never been done by any African and any person in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow me for more interesting articles.<\/p>\n<p>Comment below your opinion on this.<\/p>\n<p>Like and also share.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Rexbank (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrica<br \/>\nFerdie Adoboe<br \/>\nFerdie Ato Adoboe<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nNorthampton<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running backwards is the act of running in reverse so that one travels in the direction one&#8217;s back is facing rather than one&#8217;s front. It is classed as a retro movement, the reverse of a normal movement. No country or person outside the continent of Africa can doubt the talents of a Black man. Ghanaians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762723","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=762723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}