{"id":206942,"date":"2025-09-12T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ga-selects-8-for-world-athletics-championships-3-pullers-compete-at-world-armwrestling-champs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:38:51","slug":"ghana-ga-selects-8-for-world-athletics-championships-3-pullers-compete-at-world-armwrestling-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ga-selects-8-for-world-athletics-championships-3-pullers-compete-at-world-armwrestling-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GA Selects 8 for World Athletics Championships &#8230;3 Pullers Compete At World Armwrestling Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Ghana Athletics will present a total of eight athletes to feature at the 2025 World Athletics Championships set to take place in Tokyo, Japan on September 13-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The athletes, representing Team Ghana, would compete in 100m, 200m, 800m, 4x100m relay and high jump women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to a list released by Ghana Athletics, national 100m record holder, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu, will lead the team at the championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Saminu would compete in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120555.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>Ghana Athletics will present a total of eight athletes to feature at the 2025 World Athletics Championships set to take place in Tokyo, Japan on September 13-21. The athletes, representing Team Ghana, would compete in 100m, 200m, 800m, 4x100m relay and high jump women. According to a list released by Ghana Athletics, national 100m record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206943,"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":[52321,258,256,29438,7977,7540,11203,12447,4508,4509,257,23314,28827,254,5093],"class_list":["post-206942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-52321","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armwrestling","tag-athletics","tag-championships","tag-champs","tag-compete","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-pullers","tag-selects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/206942","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=206942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}