Ghanaian high jumper, Rose Yeboah, has punched her ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with an incredible 1.97m jump at the NCAA Championship in Eugene, Oregon where she claimed the collegiate title on Sunday night.

Yeboah, 22, representing the University of Illinois, became the first Ghanaian female athlete to win an NCAA collegiate title, one of multiple records on a historic night for the former University of Cape Coast student.

Her leap is also a new National Record (NR), a new NCAA record, a new collegiate record, a new school record, a new Meet Record (MR) and a new Personal Best (PB).

Her previous national record and personal best stood at 1.94m.

Last night, Ghana’s Rose Yeboah booked her Paris Olympic qualification by winning the NCAA Women’s High Jump title. Her 1.97m jump came with quite a number of records:

NCAA Record
National Record
Personal Record
School Record
Meet Record
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The NCAA championship win adds to Yeboah's stellar record, having won a second African Games gold medal in March this year in Accra.

She's also an African Senior Athletics Champion from 2022, and a World University Champion from 2023.

She only transferred to the University of Illinois in Fall 2023, and in less than a year, she has gone on to make history.

She joins fellow Ghanaian, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu, as the second Ghanaian to book Olympic qualification from the NCAA Championships this weekend.