Ghana’s 100m record holder, Benjamin Azamati, has qualified for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after running a season-best 9.98 seconds to win the 100m at the McNabb Sprint Series.
Azamati’s latest achievement places him in a tie for 17th on the official qualification list for the global showpiece. Known not only for his individual brilliance but also as a pillar of Ghana’s 4×100m relay team, he famously ran the back straight when the team set the national record of 38.07 seconds at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
After reaching the semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Azamati made the difficult decision to skip the World Relays in Guangzhou to focus solely on earning his spot in the individual 100m—and that decision has paid off.
Of Ghana’s nine all-time wind-legal sub-10s performances, Azamati owns four—more than any other Ghanaian sprinter. He now joins an elite list alongside legends Leo Myles-Mills, Aziz Zakari, and Joseph Paul Amoah, as he continues to carry the torch for Ghanaian sprinting on the global stage.
