{"id":152512,"date":"2015-09-17T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=152512"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:57:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T13:57:21","slug":"aag-2015-yamoah-wins-pole-vault-silver-ghana-picks-bronze-in-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=152512","title":{"rendered":"AAG 2015: Yamoah wins pole vault silver, Ghana picks bronze in relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana\u2019s Jordan Yamoah won silver in the men\u2019s pole vault event in the ongoing All Africa Games in Congo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yamoah cleared a height of 5.20m to finish second behind Algeria\u2019s Cherabi Hichem Khalil who vaulted a height of 5.25m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana won the bronze medal in the men\u2019s 4 x 100 m relay event in a time of 39.71 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana\u2019s quartet was made up of Daniel Gyasi, Solomon Afful, Emmanuel Dasor, and Shepard Agbeko.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The race was won by Cote d\u2019Ivoire in a time of 38.93 with Namibia coming second after they clocked 39.22 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julia Agawu won bronze in the women\u2019s discuss with a throw of 49.08 m. Janet Amponsah and Dorcas Gyimah both qualified for the second round of the women\u2019s 200m event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amponsah ran a time of 23.72 seconds while Gyimah recorded a time of 24.44 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana also qualified for the second round of men\u2019s 4 x 400m event in a time of 3:08:23. So far, Ghana has won 13 medals at the All Africa Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Jordan Yamoah won silver in the men\u2019s pole vault event in the ongoing All Africa Games in Congo. Yamoah cleared a height of 5.20m to finish second behind Algeria\u2019s Cherabi Hichem Khalil who vaulted a height of 5.25m. Ghana won the bronze medal in the men\u2019s 4 x 100 m relay event in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":152513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-152512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}