{"id":196222,"date":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=196222"},"modified":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","slug":"nadia-eke-sets-new-national-indoor-triple-jump-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/nadia-eke-sets-new-national-indoor-triple-jump-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Eke sets new national indoor triple jump record"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghanaian triple jumper Nadia Eke has set a new national record at an event in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n
She jumped a distance of 13.49m to break the old record of 13.48m held by France-based Mathile Boateng.<\/p>\n
The feat has thus qualified Eke to the African Seniors Championships which will be held in South Africa in June.<\/p>\n
Eke is now the national record holder in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump events.<\/p>\n
Her record is the 12th national record to be broken by athletes in several events across track and field. In February, Emmanuel Dasor broke the national 400m indoor record with a time of 46.21 seconds.<\/p>\n
The old one was held by Solomon Amegatcher who had a time of 46.60 and was set in 1993.<\/p>\n
Dasor also set a new national record in the men\u2019s indoor 200m with a time of 20.89 seconds.<\/p>\n
Dasor set these records at the Universities Conference Championships in Alabama.<\/p>\n
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By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
Information from the Ghana Athletics Association was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghanaian triple jumper Nadia Eke has set a new national record at an event in New York on Friday. She jumped a distance of 13.49m to break the old record of 13.48m held by France-based Mathile Boateng. The feat has thus qualified Eke to the African Seniors Championships which will be held in South Africa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n