Ghanaian sprinter, Alex Amankwah has qualified for this year’s World Athletics Championships.
Alex Amankwah has qualified for the 2022 World Athletics Championships with a time of 1:44.97 mins in the 800m.#CitiSports pic.twitter.com/RuIaErNOZz
— EBO. (@Original_Ebo) June 10, 2022
Amankwah qualified to the Championships after running a time of 1:44.97 in the 800m at the Maryland Qualifier at Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, Landover, MD.
Amankwah also made a time of 1:15:88 in 600m at the Penn relays a month ago.
He’s Ghana’s national record holder in the 800m event with a time of 1:44.80 which he set in 2017.
Also, he represented Ghana at the 2017 world championships and the 2018 commonwealth Games and he was at the Rio Olympics.
The 2022 World Athletics Championships will take place in Oregon from July 15 to July 24, 2022.