Azamati clocks 9.98s to secure Tokyo 2025 World Championships spot

Ghana’s national 100m record holder, Benjamin Azamati, has qualified for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. He achieved this by running a time of 9.98 seconds (+1.2 m/s) at the McNabb Sprint Series.

This performance is his season best and ties him for 17th on the men's 100m qualification list. It marks Azamati's fourth career sub-10 second run under legal wind conditions.

As Ghana’s fastest man over 100 metres, Azamati is also part of the national 4×100m relay team. He ran during Ghana's current national record of 38.07 seconds set at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

The 26-year-old reached the semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Recently, he opted out of Ghana’s relay team for the Guangzhou World Relays to focus on qualifying for the individual 100m event—a goal he has now achieved.

In total, Ghana has recorded nine wind-legal sub-10 second performances in history. Azamati accounts for four of these runs. Leo Myles-Mills and Aziz Zakari each have two, while Joseph Paul Amoah has one.

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