{"id":883,"date":"2024-08-02T01:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2024-08-02T01:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:36:45","slug":"fridays-paris-olympic-games-schedule-features-african-champion-rose-yeboah-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Friday’s Paris Olympic Games schedule features African champion Rose Yeboah in action”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Since breaking onto the scene in 2019, the 22-year-old, Rose Yeboah, has won back-to-back African Games and African Athletics Seniors Championships gold medals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

African women\u2019s high jump champion Rose Yeboah will begin her Olympic journey on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeboah, who is Ghana\u2019s first woman ever to qualify for the Olympic Games in women\u2019s high jump, will compete at 8:15 am Ghana time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s in Group A alongside women\u2019s high jump record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, who jumped higher than any woman in history, setting a world record of 2.10m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in June. This has stamped her as the outright favourite for the Olympic gold medal in this year\u2019s Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ghanaian would need to clear the bar at 1.97m, the height she jumped to secure a ticket to Paris for these games, if she\u2019s to make the final on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She can also qualify for the final without necessarily meeting the standard qualification of 1.97m if she\u2019s among the top 12 best jumpers after the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since breaking onto the scene in 2019, the 22-year-old has won back-to-back African Games and African Athletics Seniors Championships gold medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the African Games in Rabat five years ago, she cleared the bar at 1.84m to win and defended it in Accra with a jump of 1.90m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She won her first gold at the African Seniors Athletics Championships in Mauritius with a jump of 1.79m. A year ago, while a student at the University of Cape Coast, the youngster set a new national record at the FISU Games by clearing the bar at 1.94m, earning her another gold medal and qualifying her for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She earlier won gold in the African University Games in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her last event before flying to Paris, Rose won gold at the Confederation of African Athletics Seniors Championships in Douala last month, clearing a height of 1.87m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her cabinet are six gold medals from four continental or global competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She capped off that spectacular CV with a 1.97m in the NCAA to qualify for the Olympics, and she\u2019s hoping to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQualifying for the Olympics is such a great experience, and I am really happy to see myself there to compete for my country, Ghana,\u201d she told JoySports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLooking at my performance at the NCAA, I feel like I will do much better since it\u2019s going to be a competition among ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone should expect me to qualify for the finals and see myself on the podium. It will be such a great experience if at least I make it to the finals and get a medal,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every height cleared by Rose was a record set by her and broken by herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flying to Paris for the Olympics is a record, and she could be in contention for another record if she makes the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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