Ghana’s Benjamin Azamati clocks 9.98s to Qualify for 2025 World Championships in Tokyo

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

This performance places him 17th on the official men’s 100m qualification list. It also marks his fourth career run under 10 seconds with legal wind conditions.

As Ghana's fastest man in the 100m, Azamati is crucial to the national 4×100m relay team. He ran the back straight when Ghana set a national relay record of 38.07 seconds at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

The 26-year-old reached the semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Recently, he opted out of Ghana’s 4×100m relay team for the Guangzhou World Relays. He wanted to focus on qualifying for the individual 100m event, which he has now accomplished.

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