{"id":173844,"date":"2015-12-12T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T07:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=173844"},"modified":"2015-12-12T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T07:49:56","slug":"alex-amankwah-qualifies-for-rio-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=173844","title":{"rendered":"Alex Amankwah qualifies for Rio 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex Amankwah has become Ghana\u2019s first athlete to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He achieved the feat following a revision of the Rio qualification standards by the athletics world governing body,the IAAF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Alabama University student ran a personal best 1.45.91s on May 2nd, and the qualifying standard has now been revised to 1.46.00 to reflect performance at the Beijing World Championships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex thus qualified by 9\/100ths of a second.He last competed for Ghana at the 2015 All African Games in Congo-Brazaville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nCredit:Ghana Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Amankwah has become Ghana\u2019s first athlete to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He achieved the feat following a revision of the Rio qualification standards by the athletics world governing body,the IAAF. The Alabama University student ran a personal best 1.45.91s on May 2nd, and the qualifying standard has now been revised to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":173846,"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":[3,31],"class_list":["post-173844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173844","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=173844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}