The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan from September 13 to September 21 and eight athletes will represent Team Ghana.
Leading Team Ghana in the upcoming event is National 100 Metre Record holder Abdul-Rasheed Saminu who has qualified to compete in the Men’s 100 Metre event.
The showpiece event will have Saminu compete against top sprinters Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville of Jamaica, Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek of the United States of America.
Saminu broke the national record twice and set a new record in the process by running times of 9.86 seconds and 9.84 seconds respectively to break Benjamin Azamati’s hitherto record of 9.90 that was set in 2022.
Azamati has qualified to compete in next week’s event in the 100 Metre sprint event; Ibrahim Fuseini will compete in the Men’s 200 Metres while Alex Amankwa is set to run over the 800 metre course.
Fuseini, Azamati and Saminu are part of Ghana’s 4×100 Relay Team that also has Barnabas Aggerh, Joseph Paul Amoah and Mustapha Alufa Bokpin in it.
High jumper Rose Amoaniwaa Yeboah is the only female athlete in the Ghana Team.
