Rose Yeboah
Source: Africa Publicity
Ghanaian athlete Rose Yeboah has qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
She qualified after setting a new national record in the women’s high jump with a leap of 1.97m.
Rose performance marks the highest jump ever recorded in the history of American college sports. The talented Ghanaian is a two-time gold medalist in the high jump at the African Games.
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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
🥇Collegiate… pic.twitter.com/rLU8VTzedb— Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo (@Fentuo_) June 9, 2024
This achievement took place at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon, where Yeboah also set multiple records including the NCAA, collegiate, and school records.
Ghana has only ever competed TWICE in High Jump at the Olympic Games.
First, in 1952 when were still the Gold Coast with James Owoo and in 1960 when Robert Kotei did in Rome.
Rose Yeboah’s qualification to Paris means she’ll be the FIRST WOMAN to compete in high jump for… pic.twitter.com/sEVSbY3tLx
— Yaw (@theyawofosu) June 9, 2024
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