Benjamin Azamati, the Ghanaian athlete, has successfully qualified for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.
Ghana’s national 100m record holder, Benjamin Azamati, clocked an impressive time of 9.98 seconds in California at the McNabb Sprint Series, securing his place at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
According to reports, Azamati’s performance places him 17th on the official men’s 100m qualification list for the global athletics championship.
Azamati is also a key member of Ghana’s 4×100m relay team, which set a national record of 38.07 seconds during the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
The 26-year-old reached the semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games but opted out of Ghana’s relay team for the Guangzhou World Relays to focus on qualifying for the individual 100m event.
Azamati has now achieved his dream of qualifying for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo. He becomes the first Ghanaian sprinter to qualify for the event.
Ghana has recorded nine legal 100m sprint times under 10 seconds. Benjamin Azamati has four of them, Joseph Paul Amoah has one, and Leo Myles-Mills and Aziz Zakari have two each.
Keep following GH Educate for more credible updates
Kindly share with others
