Watch as Team Ghana touch down in Guangzhou for World Athletics Relays

Team Ghana person arrived successful China up of the World Athletics Relays, acceptable to instrumentality spot from May 10–11, 2025, successful Guangzhou. The squad volition vie successful the men’s 4×100m relay arsenic they purpose to suffice for the World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo this September 2025.

Despite the notable lack of prima sprinter and nationalist grounds holder Benjamin Azamati, Ghana's squad is brimming with confidence.

Azamati, who shattered Ghana’s 22-year-old 100m grounds with a 9.90s sprint successful 2022 and played a important relation successful the squad that qualified for the 2025 World Relays astatine the Paris Olympics, has opted to skip the Guangzhou lawsuit to absorption connected his preparations for the World Championships.

In Azamati’s place, Barnabas Aggerh, a subordinate of Ghana’s 2023 African Games squad, joins the team. He volition enactment up alongside Joseph Paul Amoah, Ibrahim Fuseini, Sean Safo-Antwi, and Mustapha Bokpin.

Ghana volition look pugnacious contention successful Guangzhou, wherever the apical 14 teams successful each lawsuit volition unafraid automatic qualification for the Tokyo World Championships.

While Ghana's absorption is connected the 4×100m, overmuch of the spotlight this twelvemonth volition besides beryllium connected the men’s 4×400m, wherever heavyweights similar the USA and Botswana are poised for a blockbuster rematch.

At past year’s World Relays, the USA suffered a daze disqualification successful the heats but bounced backmost successful benignant to narrowly bushed Botswana to Olympic golden successful Paris.

In a contention that produced the second- and third-fastest times successful history, 2:54.43 (USA) and 2:54.53 (Botswana), some nations conscionable missed the long-standing satellite grounds of 2:54.29.

This year’s US squad won’t see their Olympic-winning quartet of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon, and Rai Benjamin, but the team’s extent remains a strength.

Justin Robinson and Elija Godwin, some World Championship golden medallists, header the American roster looking to support their planetary dominance.

Botswana, meanwhile, returns with Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, whose stunning 43.04 anchor limb successful Paris marked 1 of the fastest splits ever recorded.

They’re joined by a resurgent South African squad featuring satellite record-holder Wayde van Niekerk, alongside medal hopefuls from Belgium, Great Britain, Jamaica, and big federation China.

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