University of Ghana’s Benjamin Kwaku Azamati won Gold in the 4×100 meters at the just ended African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Benjamin Azamati, a level 300 student reading Bachelor of Science in Marine Science is the only local based athlete among the quartet which clinched the Gold medal.
Mr Azamati is in top form and is arguably the fastest human in Ghana at the moment. He represented Ghana at the ECOWAS Games in Niger and at the World Universities Games in Napoli, Italy both in July. Ghana’s Quartet Ends Sixteen Years Wait With the exception of Sean Safo-Antwi, the trio of Benjamin Kwaku Azamati, Joseph Amoah and Martin Owusu Antwi are student athletes reading programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Ghana and USA.
The quartet blazing speed on the tracks ended the sixteen year wait for a Gold medal in the 4x100meters for Ghana. The team which is coached by Mr. Samuel Aryee and Christian Nsiah (a member of the 2003 Gold winning Team in Abuja) according to Mr. Azamati, was a significant push in calming their nerves and offering some strategies to help win the gold medal.
Mr. Azamati shared his experience; UG Sports News Benjamin Kwaku Azamati is the first from Right