Ghanaian Sprinter, Joseph Paul Amoah has won bronze in the men’s 200meter final at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
The 25-year-old finished the race with a time of 20.49s to secure 3rd position behind Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards and England’s Zharnel Hughes who won finished 1st and 2nd respectively.
The national 200m record holder qualified for the final with an impressive run of 20.51s finishing second in his semi-final race.
He secures the nation’s first medal in the track and field events after Benjamin Azamati missed out on a medal in the 100m final, a few days ago.
The men’s 4×100 meter relay team was earlier on Saturday, August 6, disqualified from the final for failing to inform officials about a change of athlete one hour before their semi-final race.
Amoah 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 won the silver at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.
