Former Ghana Athletics coach Elorm Amenakpor says the nation’s 4x100m relay team deserves the same support and investment given to the Black Stars.
The team made history in Tokyo, setting a new national record of 37.79 seconds in their heat, and narrowly missed a medal, finishing fourth in the World Athletics Championships final.
Amenakpor is urging the government and sports stakeholders to act quickly before the team’s momentum fades. He insists this is the only way Ghana can turn near misses into medals on the global stage.
“We need to handle this team like we handle the Black Stars,” Amenakpor told JoySports. “The relay is wide open—anything can happen, even top teams can drop the baton. The Netherlands, who beat us to third, train in camps every three months and follow a periodized program. They were in camp four times before the championship.”
The Ghanaian quartet—Ibrahim Fuseini, Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Paul Amoah, and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu—clocked 37.93 seconds in the final, missing bronze by just 0.04 seconds.
Ghana now faces a critical moment: will the relay team get the backing they need to convert historic near-misses into global glory?
Source: Angel No Lie
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