Ghanaian sprinters, Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah, will headline Team Ghana’s eight-member contingent to the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Tokyo later this month.
Azamati, 28, will compete in the 100m and the 4x100m relay, while Joe Paul will join him in the relay event. The pair will be making their seventh straight appearance at a major global championship, having featured together at the World Championships in Doha (2019), Eugene (2022), Budapest (2023), the Olympic Games in Tokyo (2020) and Paris (2024), as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Making his debut is national 100m record holder Abdul-Rasheed Saminu, who has clocked the seventh fastest time in the world this year (9.84 seconds) and will run both the 100m and the 4x100m.
Others making their first bow on the world stage are Ibrahim Fuseini (200m & relay) and Barnabas Aggerh (relay).
The team also features high jumper Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah, the national record holder and NCAA double medallist, who will be the only female athlete representing Ghana, and 800m specialist Alex Amankwah, the seasoned campaigner making a return after debuting at London 2017.
Ghana will be seeking its first World Championships medal since 2005, when Ignatius Gaisah won long jump silver and Margaret Simpson clinched bronze in heptathlon.
