Gemma Acheampong

Gemma Acheampong
nation	Ghana
birthday	13th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Waterbury , United States
size	163 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter run
Best performance	11.43 s
Trainer	Gabriel Sanders
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Africa Games silver Brazzaville 2015 4 × 100 m  African Championships bronze Marrakech 2014 4 × 100 m silver Durban 2016 4 × 100 m
last change: August 31, 2019

Gemma Acheampong (born February 13, 1993 in Waterbury ) is a Ghanaian sprinter who specialized in the 100 meter run .

Athletic career

Gemma Acheampong gained her first international experience at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , where she retired in the 200-meter run with 24.90 s in the lead and was disqualified in the first round with the Ghanaian 4-by-100-meter relay . She then won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Marrakech in 44.06 s with the relay behind Nigeria and the Ivory Coast and took sixth place over 100 meters in 11.74 s. In the individual competition she was disqualified in the semifinals. In 2015 she won the silver medal behind the Nigerians at the African Games in Brazzaville in 43.72 s and was eliminated in the 100-meter run with 11.81 s in the semifinals. The following year she won the silver medal at the African Championships in Durban in 44.05 s with the relay behind the team from South Africa and was sixth in the 100 meters in 11.49 s. In addition, she took part with the relay at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , in which they could not qualify for the final in 43.37 s , as well as at the World Championships in London the following year, in which 43.68 s not enough for the final . In 2018 she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where she was eliminated with 11.79 s in the semifinals. In addition, she reached fifth place in the Ghanaian 4 x 100 meter relay in 43.64 s.

In 2019 she took part again in the Africa Games in Rabat and was eliminated there over 100 meters with 11.93 s in the semi-finals. In addition, she finished eighth in the Ghanaian 4 x 100 meter relay in 47.24 s.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.43 s (+0.2 m / s), July 8, 2016 in Cape Coast
  • 60 meters (Hall): 7.18 s 22 February 2015 in Annapolis ( Ghanaian record )
• 200 meters: 23.59 s (−0.8 m / s) on March 18, 2017 in Coral Gables
  • 200 meters (hall): 24.15 s, February 26, 2017 in Boston

Web links

• Gemma Acheampong in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Gemma Acheampong in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )