{"id":35075,"date":"2014-07-28T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=35075"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T14:33:13","slug":"commonwealth-games-day-5-update-ghana-struggles-in-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=35075","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games Day 5 update: Ghana struggles in athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Ghana&#8217;s bid in athletics has so far not been too successful after the initial heats in a number of events at the Hampden Park in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Kwadwo Acheampong could not go far in the Men&#8217;s 400m as he finished 5th in Heat 2 with a time of 47.72 seconds and the same fate befell Daniel Gyasi who ran in the 7th heat of the event.<\/p>\n<p>He also came in 5th and he recorded a time of 47.07 seconds. His team-mate John Obrien did not fare better in his heat after injuring himself and thus, could not finish.<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s initial round, Solomon Afful finished 5th in the Men&#8217;s 100m heat and he made a time of 10.66 seconds while Shawkia Iddrisu was 5th in her 400m heat with a time of 55.74 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s decathlon, Atsu Nyamadi came fifth in the second heat of the men&#8217;s 100m in a time of 11.27 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He also took part in the long jump Group A and leaped a distance of 7.36m and threw 10.38m in the shot put to place 10th in that event.<\/p>\n<p>The times he recorded in the 100m and the long jump are his new personal best times for the current season.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Nyamadi lies 9th with 2397 points while the leader, Damian Warner of Canada leads the line with 2691 points.<\/p>\n<p>Nyamadi will compete in the high jump, 400m, 110m hurdles, Discuss throw and the pole vault on the 28th and the 29th of July at the Hampden Park in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Ghana&#8217;s bid in athletics has so far not been too successful after the initial heats in a number of events at the Hampden Park in Glasgow. Kwadwo Acheampong could not go far in the Men&#8217;s 400m as he finished 5th in Heat 2 with a time of 47.72 seconds and the same fate befell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35077,"comment_status":"closed","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":[118,3,31,1685,1700],"class_list":["post-35075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-professor-adei","tag-sdg","tag-swiss-spirit-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35075","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}