Athletics sensation, Abdul Rasheed Saminu, over the weekend shattered Ghana’s 100m file, working a formidable 9.86 seconds to set a brand new nationwide file.
Saminu, a member of Ghana’s athletics group delivered that explosive efficiency within the preliminary spherical of the NCAA East championship.
Earlier than the feat, the file was held by Benjamin Azamati with a time of 9.90 seconds in 2022.
Saminu’s new time was a micro second shy of a earlier 9.87seconds (wind assisted) that certified him for this 12 months’s World Athletics Championship to be held within the metropolis of Tokyo in Japan in September.
.Commenting on his X Account (previously Twitter), Saminu acknowledged that it was vital for stakeholders in Ghana to pay explicit consideration to athletes plying their commerce at house.
Saminu’s 9.86 seconds is the world’s main mark which makes him the world’s quickest man on the time of writing which additionally represents a private greatest. His time checks in forward of South Africa’s Akani Simbine who has clocked a time of 9.90 seconds this 12 months.
“Hopefully extra to return and I need the world to know we acquired skills in Ghana. It is an honour to be the brand new nationwide file holder…native primarily based athletes deserve extra consideration as properly” he wrote on X.
Former nationwide file holder, Benjamin Azamati, additionally not too long ago secured his spot within the Athletics Championship by working a time of 9.98 seconds on the McNabb Dash Collection on Could 23 together with his time representing a private greatest for the 2 time Olympian.
Each males are prone to compete for Ghana within the Males’s 4X100 Relay on the World Championship after Ghana secured qualification on the second day of competitors on the World Relays held in Guangzhou, China.
