Janet Amponsah

Janet Amponsah
(2016)
nation	Ghana
birthday	12th April 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Kumasi , Ghana
size	171 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter run
Best performance	11.26 s
society	Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
Trainer	Dean Hayes
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Africa Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 0 × 3 × 2 ×
Commonwealth Games silver New Delhi 2010 4 × 100 m  Africa Games silver Brazzaville 2015 4 × 100 m  African Championships silver Porto Novo 2012 4 × 100 m bronze Marrakech 2014 4 × 100 m silver Durban 2016 4 × 100 m silver Asaba 2018 100 m bronze Asaba 2018 200 m
last change: March 8, 2019

Janet Amponsah (born April 12, 1993 in Kumasi ) is a Ghanaian sprinter .

Athletic career

Janet Amponsah gained her first international experience at the 2008 African Championships in Addis Ababa , where she finished fifth in the Ghanaian 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 42.36 minutes. Then she reached at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune in 24.50 s fourth place in the 200-meter dash . Two years later she was eliminated in the first round of the Junior World Championships in Moncton over 200 meters and then reached the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi over 100 and 200 meters and won with the 4 x 100 meter Season in 45.24 s the silver medal behind the team from England. The following year she took part in the Africa Games in Maputo for the first time and was eliminated there with 24.54 s in the semi-finals. In 2012, she was sixth in the 100-meter run in 11.76 s and fifth in the 200 meters in 23.68 s at the African Championships in Porto-Novo . In addition, she won the silver medal behind Nigeria in 44.35 s with the relay and was eighth in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 41.46 min. She then reached fifth place over 200 meters at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona with 23.41 s and was eliminated in the semifinals over the shorter distance with 11.94 s. In 2013 she qualified over 200 meters for the first time for the World Championships in Moscow , where she was eliminated with 24.07 s in the preliminary round. In 2014 she was disqualified over 200 in the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . She then won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Marrakech in 44.06 seconds with the relay behind Nigeria and the Ivory Coast and was eighth in the long sprint relay in 3: 42.89 minutes.

In 2015 she won the silver medal behind the Nigerians at the Africa Games in Brazzaville in 43.72 s and was fourth in the 200 meters in 23.49 s. 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 finished fifth in the 200 meters in 23.45 s. In addition, she also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in 23.67 s in the preliminary run . Even with the relay she 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 were not enough for the final . Also over 200 meters she was eliminated in qualification with 23.77 seconds . In 2018 she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where she was eliminated with 23.67 s in the semifinals. In addition, she reached fifth place in the Ghanaian 4 x 100 meter relay in 43.64 s. In August she won the silver medal behind the Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou at the African Championships in Asaba in 11.54 seconds . In the 200-meter competition, she was also able to win a medal in 23.38 s; behind Ta Lou and the Cameroonian Germaine Abessolo Bivina , she secured the bronze medal.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.21 s (+1.6 m / s), June 9, 2018 in Montverde
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.40 s, February 7, 2015 in Albuquerque
• 200 meters: 22.67 s (+0.9 m / s), April 21, 2018 in Auburn ( Ghanaian record )
  • 200 meters (hall): 23.40 s, March 7, 2015 in Albuquerque

Web links

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