Ghana’s national 100m record holder, Benjamin Azamati, secured qualification for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with a season-best time of 9.98s (+1.2 m/s) at the McNabb Sprint Series.
This performance ties him for 17th on the official men’s 100m qualification list for the global event and marks his fourth career sub-10s run under legal wind conditions.
As Ghana’s fastest man in the 100m, Azamati is also a vital member of the national 4×100m relay team. He ran the back straight when Ghana set the national relay record of 38.07s at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
The 26-year-old reached the semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics and recently opted out of Ghana’s 4×100m relay team for the Guangzhou World Relays to focus on qualifying for the individual 100m event, a goal he has now achieved.
Ghana has recorded nine wind-legal sub-10s 100m performances in history, with Azamati accounting for four, Leo Myles-Mills and Aziz Zakari each contributing two, and Joseph Paul Amoah with one.
