disciple of Ghana athletics, Nicholas Boabeng, has expressed shock at the decision of to declare Barnabas Aggerh winner of last month’s GNPC Ghana’s Fastest .
Held at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium in Tamale, was re- ported to have upstaged a formida- ble pack to emerge . However, Boabeng told the Times Sports yesterday that the authorities got it all wrong, insisting Wallace Aflamah should have been declared winner having pipped in the last few seconds of the race.
“I have the pictures and video of the race and I can say without any shred of doubt that won the race at the death and should be announced as now.” According to him, is suffering a similar fate for the time, describing it as “ and unfair.” “Indeed, I was at Ghana’s Fastest race held at the Legon Sports Stadium in 2017 where was given a raw deal.
“In the third heats or so, he was first but interestingly didn’t qualify for the finals. Instead, a athlete who came third in that same made it to the finals.” In that year, Greater Accra Region’s Desmond Aryee, a product of the University of Ghana, won Fastest Human race in the 100m Senior’s event at the Kumasi Sports Stadium.
This year’s event saw University of Development Studies’ (UDS) Barnabas being declared with a time of 10:24 secs, while , also a UDS student, finished behind the winner by just a second, while Abdul Razak Seidu, (10:38) Northern Region, placed third. Ghana Fastest Human founder, Reks , praised the high-level performance churned out by all competitors ahead of the national competition, later in the year.
BY JOHN VIGAH