Veteran Ghanaian sprinters, Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah, will lead team Ghana’s contingent to the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, after being included in the eight-athlete squad for the competition later this month.
Azamati, 28, will compete in the 100m, as well as the 4x100m, while Joe Paul will only compete in the 4x100m.
Azamati and Joe Paul will be representing Ghana for the seventh consecutive major global championship, having competed at the World Championships in Doha 2019, Eugene 2022, and Budapest 2023; the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024; and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022.
National 100m record holder Abdul-Rasheed Saminu will make his World Championships debut, competing in his signature event as well as the 4x100m relay. He has the 7th fastest time in the world this year, breaking the national record with a 9.84 clocking in July.
Also making their global championship debuts are Ibrahim Fuseini, who will run the 200m and the 4x100m relay, and Barnabas Aggerh, named as part of the relay squad.
The squad also includes Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah, national record holder in the women’s high jump and a two-time NCAA medallist, who is the only female athlete on the team.
Completing the team is 33-year-old Alex Amankwah, national record holder in the 800m, who first appeared at the World Championships in London 2017.
Ghana has not won a world championship medal since 2005, when Ignatius Gaisah won silver in the men’s long jump, and Margaret Simpson took bronze in the women’s heptathlon.