Ghana’s men’s 4×100 metres relay team have kept their World Athletics Championships qualification campaign firmly on course after finishing fourth in Heat 3 of the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana.
Abdul Rasheed Saminu, Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Paul Amoah, and Edwin Gadayi ran 38.18 seconds, coming in fourth behind South Africa, Great Britain, and China.
The result, while not sufficient for automatic progression, guarantees the team a second opportunity to secure a qualifying spot when they return to the track on Sunday, 3 May 2025.
A fourth-place finish in the heat, however, means the team will now rely on the second-chance qualification format built into the World Athletics Relays structure, a repechage-style round that offers non-qualifying heat finishers a direct route to earning their spot in the global relay rankings.
Sunday’s race represents not merely a second attempt, it is an opportunity to make a definitive statement and cement Ghana’s place on the world relay stage.
The 2026 World Athletics Championships, scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, represent one of the pinnacle events in World athletics.
Relay qualification through the World Athletics Relays provides nations with one of the clearest and most direct pathways to secure team entries in the sprint relay disciplines.