After profitable 4 medals (two silvers and two bronzes) on the thirteenth African Video games held in Accra, Ghana, in March of this yr, staff Liberia continues to indicate spectacular efficiency on the twenty third African Athletics Championship in Douala, Cameroon.
This time, Ebony Morrison triumphed within the ladies’s 100-meter hurdles after lacking out on a person medal on the African Video games.
Morrison received Liberia’s first-ever gold medal on the African Championship on Saturday, June 22, surpassing her personal nationwide report of 12.74 seconds set on the 2020 Summer season Olympics with a time of 12.70 seconds.
Morrison edged out South Africa’s Marione Fourie, who received silver.
Saturday’s outcome additionally secured Morrison’s ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
On the earlier version of the African Championship, Morrison received Liberia’s first-ever silver on the championship after clocking 12.86 seconds behind South Africa’s Fourie, who completed in 12.82 seconds.
Afterward Saturday, Joseph Fahnbulleh–Liberia’s first-ever Olympic finalist–won the nation’s second gold medal on the competitors.
Within the males’s 100-meter remaining, Fahnbulleh completed first forward of Emmanuel Eseme, the house favourite, in 10.13 seconds to 10.15 seconds to win his first African title.
South Africa’s Benjamin Richardson scooped the bronze with 10.17s.
Earlier than Fahnbulleh received Liberia’s second gold of the competitors, Maia McCoy introduced herself within the championship with a silver within the ladies’s 100m, carrying on from the place she left off on the African Video games.
Gina Bitaye of the Gambia completed first with a time of 11.14, adopted by McCoy with a time of 11.16.
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After profitable the primary on the African Video games in Accra, this was her second particular person silver in 4 months.
Future Smith-Barnett, McCoy’s compatriot, was unfortunate to complete fourth in 10.34 seconds through the ladies’s 100-meter remaining.
Nevertheless, previous to the championship, Smith-Barnett booked her ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics when she clocked 10.99 within the Final Probability Dash Sequence warmth to set a nationwide report.
The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics occasion organized by the Confederation of African Athletics, the continental affiliation for the game in Africa. Since its inaugural version in 1979, it has been organized intermittently, with 9 editions held each fourteen years till 1993
Previous to this yr’s version, Liberia had received 5 medals, a silver and 4 bronzes.
