Benjamin Azamati Wins Men’s 100m Heats To Qualify For Semis At 2022 Commonwealth Games

Ghanaian athlete, Benjamin Azamati has made it to the semi-finals of the Men’s 100m race at the ongoing Commonwealth Games after coming first in heat 7.

He finished first in the heats with a time of 10.19 sub-seconds to qualify for the semis in the Men’s 100m dash.

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Azamati overcomed a tough competition from Welsh athlete Jeremiah Azu and Bangladesh runner I. Rahman who finished second and third respectively.

Azamati’s time of 10.19 sub-seconds was below what he did at the 2022 World Athletics Championships where he finished the heats at a time of 10.189 sub-seconds and still failed to progress to the next round.

Azamati would come up in the semi-finals on Wednesday, August 3rd where he would face some of the finest athletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Meanwhile, sprinter, Sean Safo-Antwi has advanced to the semi-finals of the men’s 100m race.

The 31-year-old ran a time of 10.33s and finished fourth in Heat 10 of the men’s 100m race.

Sean Safo-Antwi ended the Heats with one of the best times among the non-automatic qualifiers.

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Earlier on, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Athletics Association, Bawah Fuseini, says media reports that some Ghanaian athletes have been denied visas to the Commonwealth Games 2022 are ‘false’ and should be ‘ignored.’

“Let me state this categorically clear; no Ghanaian athlete was or has been denied any visa,” Bawah told Joy Sports.

Reports on Wednesday suggested that the athletics governing body has been forced to make changes to the country’s 4×100m relay team that competed at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, where they finished fifth.

The quartet of Sean Sarfo-Antwi, Joseph Manu, Ghana’s fastest 100m and 200m sprinters, Benjamin Azamati, and Joseph Paul Amoah obliterated the national record of 38.08s in the relays, setting a new one of 38.07s.