{"id":199509,"date":"2025-06-04T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-saminu-sets-new-national-100m-record\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:40:34","slug":"ghana-saminu-sets-new-national-100m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-saminu-sets-new-national-100m-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Saminu Sets New National 100m Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Athletics sensation, Abdul Rasheed Saminu, over the weekend shattered Ghana&#8217;s 100m record, running an impressive 9.86 seconds to set a new national record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Saminu, a member of Ghana&#8217;s athletics team delivered that explosive performance in the preliminary round of the NCAA East championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Before the feat, the record was held by Benjamin Azamati with a time of 9.90 seconds in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Saminu&#8217;s new time was a micro second shy of a previous 9.87seconds (wind assisted) that qualified him for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics sensation, Abdul Rasheed Saminu, over the weekend shattered Ghana&#8217;s 100m record, running an impressive 9.86 seconds to set a new national record. Saminu, a member of Ghana&#8217;s athletics team delivered that explosive performance in the preliminary round of the NCAA East championship. Before the feat, the record was held by Benjamin Azamati with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[22499,258,256,4508,4509,6687,257,5267,51536,7123,254],"class_list":["post-199509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-100m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-record","tag-saminu","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}