All three Ghanaian sprinters at the 2018 African Athletics Championships have qualified for the semi-final of the 100m event.

The Ghanaian contingent has so far made giant strides in athletics championship, which is being held in Asaba, Nigeria.

Female sprinters Janet Amponsah and Hor Halutie have both made it into Thursday’s semi finals of the women’s 100m event while male s [No available link text]printer Emmanuel Yeboah made it to the men’s semi final event.

Amponsah qualified from heat 1 after finishing in second place with a time of 11.63. That heat was won by Ivorian Marie Josee Ta Lou, who made a time of 11.25sec.

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Halutie also made it to the semi finals after clocking 11.77sec, which saw her finish third in her heat.

Meanwhile, the only Ghanaian male sprinter at the championship, Emmanuel Yeboah, clocked a time of 10.50sec in heat 5.

His time was good enough to earn the 21-year-old a third-place finish in his heat.

“This was not my best race. The false start was playing in my mind. Everybody was too careful not get off too early. But hopefully in the semi finals I will make amends,” Yeboah is quoted as saying by Citinewsroom.com.

The semi final event of both the male and female 100m events will come off on Thursday.