Ghanaian sprinter Joseph Paul Amoah has clinched bronze medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Amoah, 25, finished 3rd with a time of 20.49s in the final of the 200m event on Saturday, August 6.

He becomes Ghana’s first medal in the track event having seen Benjamin Azamati miss out on a medal in the 100m final.

The National 200m record holder also becomes the first African to win a medal in the 200m event since 2006 and the first Ghanaian to win a medal in 200m since George Daniels in 1974.

Earlier on Saturday, Ghana’s 4x100m relay team was also disqualified after the coaches did not inform race officials one hour to the race, as the rules require when replacing an athlete.

Ghanaian boxer Wahid Omar won bronze after losing his semi-final bout to Louis Colin in over 60kg-63kg Light welterweight.

The 28-year-old lost the bout (0-5).

Ghana’s Abraham Mensah progressed to the finals of the men’s bantamweight division after win over Owain Harris-Allan.

Ghana’s female 4x100m team have progressed to the finals of the relay race at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

The quartet of Mary Boakye, Latifa Ali, Gifty Oku and Hor Halutie qualified as one of the two non-automatic qualifiers as they finished fifth in Heat 2 with a time of 44.32s which becomes their season-best.

15-year-old Ghanaian has made history by winning the country’s first ever medals at Unicycling World Championship.

15-year-old Trey Haun has become the first Ghanaian to win a medal for Ghana at the Unicycling World Championship.

Trey Haun competed at the Unicycling World Championship dubbed UNICON20 in the 15-16 years male category.

In the 30m Wheel Walk Race for Male aged 15-16, he won the silver medal.

The 50m One Wheel Race for male aged 15-16 years, he won bronze.

Trey Haun

Trey was born in Europe but moved to Ghana at the age of 1 with his parents.

For half of his life, Trey Haun has lived his life in Nalerigu in the North East Region of Ghana.

Nigerian Tobi Amusan made history on Sunday. The 25-year-old athlete won the 100 metres hurdles gold at the World Athletics Championships, marking it as Nigeria’s first gold medal in this competition.

After breaking the world record in her semifinal heat with a time of 12.12 seconds, she even made a faster time for the final. Unfortunately, this mark of 12.06 seconds didn’t count for the record books because the wind speed was over the legal limit.
On the same day, olympic champion Athing Mu added a world title to her impressive resume.

Tobi Amusa Breaks World Record At World Athletics Championships

The 20-year-old American american middle-distance runner won the 800m gold narrowly beating Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson.
This title makes her the youngest woman in history to have won Olympic and world titles in an individual track and field event.

🇳🇬 Tobi Amusa runs 12.12 seconds to break the Women's 100m Hurdles World record in the semis and wins the gold🥇in the final.pic.twitter.com/PZV7EGYn51

— ZEbet Nigeria (@ZEbetNG) July 25, 2022

In the men’s 500 metres final, Norway’s Yakob Ingebrigtsen was the first to cross the line while Kenyan Jacob Krop claimed silver et Ugandan Oscar Chelimo bronze. And Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis wrapped up this World Atheltics Championships in Eugene, western United States by setting a new world record for his discipline.

The 22-year-old athlete sailed with ease over 6 metres 21. It is the fifth time Duplantis breaks a world record in the pole vault and the third time this year.

The 2022 World Athletics Championships took place in Eugene, Oregon, Western U.S. between July 15 and 24.