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Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah has qualified for the women’s high jump final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after clearing 1.92m in Thursday’s qualification round.
Yeboah’s performance makes her the first Ghanaian athlete to reach the final of an individual event at the championships since Ignatius Gaisah and Margaret Simpson in 2005. Gaisah won silver in the men’s long jump and Simpson claimed bronze in the women’s heptathlon at the Helsinki edition.
The qualification round saw 12 athletes progress after meeting the automatic qualifying mark of 1.92m. They include Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Yuliia Levchenko, Serbia’s Angelina Topić, Great Britain’s Morgan Lake, the Czech Republic’s Michaela Hrubá, Poland’s Maria Żodzik, Germany’s Christina Honsel, and Yeboah of Ghana.
The final is scheduled for Sunday, September 21 at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.
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