Athletics Championship: 0 Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze

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The 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics is over and Ghana won 0 Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze. The most Impressive athlete was long jumper Ignisious Gaisah, who almost won a bronze medal

Day 8 - August 30:
The Ghana 4x100 relay team failed to make it to the finals. This ends Ghana's dream of winning her first world championship
4 x 100 Relay (Semi-finals):
S?rie 1?1, q-USA (John Capel; Bernard Williams; Darvis Patton; Joshua J. Johnson), 37.99 2, q-Jama?que (Ricardo Williams; Dwight Thomas; Michael Frater; Asafa Powell), 38.45. 3, q-Pologne (Marcin Krzywanski; Lukasz Chyla; Marcin Nowak; Marcin Jedrusinski), 38.50. 4, q-Japon (Hiroyasu Tsuchie; Hisashi Miyazaki; Ryo Matsuda; Nobuharu Asahara), 38.58. 5, q-Pays-Bas (Timothy Beck; Troy Douglas; Patrick van Balkom; Caimin Douglas), 38.63. 6, Tinidad et Tobago (Marc Burns; Ato Boldon; Jacey Harper; Niconnor Alexander), 38.84. 7, Ghana (Christian Nsiah; Eric Nkansah; Aziz Zakari; Leonard Myles-Mills), 38.88. 8, Italie (Francesco Scuderi; Simone Collio; Massimiliano Donati; Alessandro Cavallaro), 38.93.

Heat 1--1, q-United States (John Capel; Bernard Williams; Darvis Patton; Joshua J. Johnson), 38.28. 2, q-France (Ronald Pognon; Issa-Aimi Nthepe; Fridiric Krantz; Jirtme Eyana), 38.61. 3, q-Germany (Tobias Unger; Marc Blume; Alexander Kosenkow; Ronny Ostwald), 38.91. 4, q-Ghana (Christian Nsiah; Eric Nkansah; Aziz Zakari; Leonard Myles-Mills), 38.94. 5, q-Dominican Republic (Juan Encarnacion; Luis Morillo; Juan Sainfleur; Yoel Baez), 39.01. 6, China (Yunbao Shen; Jun He; Yaozu Yang; Haijian Chen), 39.28. Hungary (Zsolt Szeglet; Giza Pauer; Gabor Dobos; Miklss Gyulai), DQ.

Day 7 - August 29:

In an exciting, edge-of-the-seat final, Ignisious Gaisah just failed to nip the bornze in the men's long jump at the ninth World Athletics Championships in Paris on Friday. Gaisah of Ghana, who registered 8.13m on his second attempt, finished fourth behind Dwight Phillips (Gold), James Beckford (Jamaica), Yago Lamela of Spain. This was the best position of a Ghanaian athelete at the world championship

Day 6 - August 28:

No Ghanaian competed today

Day 5 - August 27:

Ignisious Gaisah qualified for the mens long jump finals with a leap of 8.01m
Nsiah was disqualified in the 200m
Vida Anim failed to qualify for the women's 200m finals

Long Jump Men
Groupe 1, Yago Lamela, Espagne, 8.19. 2, q-Dwight Phillips, USA, 8.12. 3, q-Ignisious Gaisah, Ghana, 8.01. 4, q-Bogdan Tarus, Roumanie, 7.98. 5, q-Luis Felipe Miliz, Cuba, 7.97. 6, q-Osbourne Moxey, Bahamas, 7.97. 7, q-Hussein Taher Al-Sabee, Arabie Saoudite, 7.97. 8, Salim Sdiri, France, 7.94. 9, Sinisa Ergotic, Croatie, 7.87. 10, Kareem Streete-Thompson, Iles Ca?man, 7.87. 11, Olexiy Lukashevych, Ukraine, 7.85. 12, Nathan Morgan, GB, 7.83. 13, Nikolay Atanasov, Bulgarie, 7.79. 14, Dimitrios Filindras, Gr?ce, 7.72. 15, Gable Garenamotse, Bostwana, 7.57. 16, Danila Burkenya, Russie, 7.52. 17, Harmon Harmon, Cook Islands, 6.40. Hatem Mohamed Mersal, Egypte, DNS.

200 Semifinals
Heat 1_1, q-Kelli White, United States, 22.50. 2, q-Zhanna Block, Ukraine, 22.61. 3, q-Anzhela Kravchenko, Ukraine, 22.66. 4, q-Beverly McDonald, Jamaica, 22.92. 5, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Nigeria, 22.97. 6, Lauren Hewitt, Australia, 23.07. 7, Roxana Diaz, Cuba, 23.12. 8, Vida Anim, Ghana, 23.16.

Day 4 - August 26:

Serwaa Akosua was 7th in the 800m finals in a time of 2:03.24

Vida Anim qualified for the third round of the 200m

Women 800: 1, Maria de Lourdes Mutola, Mozambique, 1:59.89. 2, Kelly Holmes, Britain, 2:00.18. 3, Natalya Khrushchelyova, Russia, 2:00.29. 4, Amina Ait Hammou, Morocco, 2:01.09. 5, Claudia Gesell, Germany, 2:01.84. 6, Diane Cummins, Canada, 2:02.48. 7, Akosua Serwaa, Ghana, 2:03.24. Stephanie Graf, Austria, DNS.

Women 200
Heat 2--1, q-Muriel Hurtis, France, 22.51. 2, q-Vida Anim, Ghana, 23.08. 3, q-Svetlana Goncharenko, Russia, 23.18. 4, q-Debbie Ferguson, Bahamas, 23.18. 5, q-Sharon Cripps, Australia, 23.29. 6, q-Digna Luz Murillo, Colombia, 23.48. 7, Huong Vu Thi, Vietnam, 24.63.

Day 3 - August 25

Owusu Takes Eighth at World Championships
Middle Tennessee track assistant Andrew Owusu (pictured) finished eighth in the triple jump Monday at the 9th Annual IAAF World Track & Field Championships in Paris, France.

Owusu jumped 16.86 to take eighth Monday afternoon in Paris for his native Ghana. The Blue Raider graduate assistant coach had a mark of 55-5 in Saturday's qualification round to make the finals.

Former Blue Raider Christian Nsiah will also represent Ghana during the World Championships, running on a relay this weekend.

Nkansah failed to make it to the 100m finals
Men's TRIPLE JUMP finals: Andrew Owusu was 8th with a leap of 16.86

Triple Jump (Finals):
1, Christian Olsson, Sweden, 17.72. 2, Yoandri Betanzos, Cuba, 17.28. 3, Leevan Sands, Bahamas, 17.26. 4, David Giralt, Cuba, 17.23. 5, Jadel Gregorio, Br?sil, 17.11. 6, Kenta Bell, USA, 17.08. 7, Hrmstos Meletoglou, Gr?ce, 16.92. 8, Andrew Owusu, Ghana, 16.86. 9, Yoelbi Quesada, Cuba, 16.84. 10, Ivaylo Rusenov, Bulgarie, 16.66. 11, Aleksandr Glavatskiy, Belarus, 16.40. 12, Jonathan Edwards, GB, 16.31.

100m (Semi-finales):
S?rie 1?1, q-Bernard Williams, USA, 10.11 secondes. 2, q-Tim Montgomery, USA, 10.14. 3, q-Uchenna Emedolu, Nigeria, 10.15. 4, q-Kim Collins, St. Kitts et Nevis, 10.16. 5, Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canada, 10.27. 6, Eric Nkansah, Ghana, 10.39. 7, Nobuharu Asahara, Japon, 10.42.8, Mark Lewis-Francis, GB, 10.44.

Day 2 - August 24

Akosua Serwah made the 800 final breaking her national record in the process.

Simpson Margaret failed to finish in the women's HEPTATHLON

Aziz failed to qualify for round 2 in the 100m

Nkansah beats Maurice Green (picture) and goes through to next round. He's through to the Semi-finals

Myles-Mills failed to make it to the semis of the 100m

100 METRES - Men - Quarter-Final

100 m?tres Round 2
S?rie 6: 1, q-Jon Drummond, USA, 10.22. 2, q-Issa-Aimi Nthepe, France, 10.30. 3, q-Matic Osovnikar, Slov?nie, 10.31. 4, Aziz Zakari, Ghana, 10.48. 5, Wai Hung Chiang, Hong Kong, 10.70. 6, Arben Makaj, Albanie, 10.87. 7, Djikoloum Mobele, Tchad, 11.38. 8, Assad Ahmadi, Afghanistan, 11.99.

S?rie 8: 1, q-Eric Nkansah, Ghana, 10.18. 2, q-Maurice Greene, USA, 10.18. 3, q-Uchenna Emedolu, Nigeria, 10.22. 4, Marc Burns, Trinit? et Tobago, 10.28. 5, Churandy Martina, Antilles, 10.35. 6, Xuan Tran Van, Vietnam, 10.78. 7, Mohd Yusof Alias, Singapour, 11.02. 8, Mohammad Shamsuddin, Bengladesh, 11.18.

S?rie 9: 1, q-Asafa Powell, Jama?que, 10.05. 2, q-Kim Collins, St. Kitts et Nevis, 10.09. 3, q-Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghana, 10.25. 4, Anson Henry, Canada, 10.33. 5, Eric Pacome N'Dri, C?te d'Ivoire, 10.38. 6, Aaron Egbele, Nigeria, 10.43. 7, Andre Blackman, Guayana, 10.86. 8, Zoran Josifovski, Mac?doine, 11.63.

Day I - August 23

Vida Anim failed to qualify for the 100 m semi finals.

Andrew Owusu (pictured) qualified for the finals of the triple jump with a seasons best jump of 16.88m. Finals will be on Monday - 25 Aug.

Margaret Simpson is placed 15th in the women's HEPTATHLON. She has 3556 points after 4 events. It's highy unlikely she'll win a medal.

Women
Second round 100m
1, q-Torri Edwards, Etats-Unis, 11.08. 2, q-Aleen Bailey, Jamaica, 11.16. 3, q-Yuliya Tabakova, Russie, 11.25. 4, q-Joice Maduaka, GB, 11.29. 5, Vida Anim, Ghana, 11.29. 6, Savatheda Fynes, Bahamas, 11.36. 7, Mercy Nku, Nigeria, 11.37. 8, Guzel Khubbieva, Ouzbekistan, 11.42.
Heats
Heat 1--q-Chandra Sturrup, Bahamas, 11.08. 2, q-Lyubov Perepelova, Uzbekistan, 11.30. 3, q-Vida Anim, Ghana, 11.35. 4, q-Mercy Nku, Nigeria, 11.52. 5, q-Kadiatou Camara, Mali, 11.70. 6, Olympia Zacharias, Nauru, 14.07. 7, Joanne Hallen, Western Samoa, 14.33.

HEPTATHLON
100 Hurdles
Heat 1--1, Svetlana Gnezdilov, Israel, 13.62 seconds, 1,033 points. 2, Margaret Simpson, Ghana, 13.68, 1,024. 3, Liga Klavina, Latavia, 13.92, 990. 4, Aryiro Strataki, Greece, 13.93, 988. 5, Gertrud Bacher, Italy, 14.01, 977. 6, Sylvie Dufour, Switzerland, 14.08, 967. 7, Julie Hollman, Britain, 14.10, 964. 8, Tia Hellebaut, Belgium, 14.24, 945.

High Jump
Group B--1, Julie Hollman, Britain, 6-0}, 1,041. 2, Aryiro, Greece, 5-10?, 966. 3, Kim Schiemenz, United States, 5-10?, 966, 4, Austra Skujyte, Lithuania, 5-9, 928. 5, Margaret Simpson, Ghana, 5-9, 928. 6, Gertrud Bacher, Italy, 5-9, 928. 7 (tie), Natalya Sazanovich, Belarus, and Sonja Kesselschlager, Germany, 5-9, 928. 9, Svetlana Kazanina, Kazakstan, 5-8, 891. 10, Sylvie Dufour, Switzerland, 5-5}, 818. 11, Svetlana Gnezdilov, Israel, 5-1, 678.

Heptathlon Points
After two events

1, Carolina Kluft, 2,255. 2, Eunice Barber, 2,236. 3, Julie Hollman, 2,005. 4, Sonja Kesselschlager, 2,002. 5, Yelena Prokhorova, 2,000. 6, Tia Hellebaut, 1,986. 7, Irina Butor, 1,956. 8 (tie), Natalya Sazanovich, and Aryiro Strataki, 1,954. 10, Margaret Simpson, 1,952. 11, Kim Schiemenz, 1,950. 12, Yelena Chernyavskya, 1,928. 13, Larisa Netseporuk, 1,919. 14, Liga Klavina, 1,918. 15, Irina Naumenko, 1,916. 16, Gertrud Bacher, 1,905. 17, Denise Lewis, 1,852. 18, Austra Skujyte, 1,845. 19, Svetlana Kazanina, 1,808. 20, Natalya Roshchupkina, 1,789. 21, Sylvie Dufour, 1,785. 22, Svetlana Gnezdilov, 1,711.

Triple Jump Qualification
Group A--1, q-David Giralt, Cuba, 56-9?. 2, q-Jonathan Edwards, Britain, 55-7. 3, q-Andrew Owusu, Ghana, 55-4}. 4, q-Jadel Gregorio, Brazil, 55-2. 5, q-Leevan Sands, Bahamas, 55-0}. 6, q-Ivaylo Rusenov, Bulgaria, 54-10. 7, q-Aleksandr, Belarus, 54-10. 8, Walter Davis, United States, 54-5?. 9, Marian Oprea, Romania, 54-3}. 10, Igor Spasovhodskiy, Russia, 53-11}. 11, Allen Simms, United States, 53-10?. 12, Olivier Sanou, Burkina Faso, 53-3.