Gemma Acheampong
Appearance
![]() Acheampong in October 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | 13 February 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Boston University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 118 lb (54 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Boston Terriers[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Gabriel Sanders Greg Lambert Robyne Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gemma Acheampong (born February 14, 1993) is a Ghanaian-American athlete specialising in the sprinting events.[3] She holds the Ghanaian record in the rarely-contested indoor 300 meters event, and represented Ghana in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[4]
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing ![]() | |||||
2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 28th (h) | 200 m | 24.90 |
– | 4 × 100 m relay | DQ | |||
African Championships | Marrakech, Morocco | 6th | 100 m | 11.74 | |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.06 | |||
2015 | African Games | Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo | 10th (sf) | 100 m | 11.81 |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.72 | |||
2016 | African Championships | Durban, South Africa | 6th | 100 m | 11.49 |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.05 | |||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 14th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.37 | |
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 10th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.68 |
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 19th (sf) | 100 m | 11.79 |
5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.64 | |||
2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 7th | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.77 |
African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 13th (sf) | 100 m | 11.93 | |
8th | 4 × 100 m relay | 47.24 | |||
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 11th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.62 |
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 100 metres – 11.43 (+0.2 m/s) (Cape Coast 2016)
- 200 metres – 24.21 (+1.2 m/s) (Princeton 2014)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 7.18 (Annapolis 2015)
- 200 metres – 24.41 (Boston 2015)
- 300 metres – 39.50 (Boston 2015) NR
References
- ^ Personal Website and Blog
- ^ "College team profile". Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
- ^ Gemma Acheampong at World Athletics
- ^ "Ghana names 16 first-time Olympians for Rio 2016". 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
Categories:
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Waterbury, Connecticut
- Sportspeople from Chicago
- Ghanaian female sprinters
- American female sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Ghana
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes of Ghana
- African Games silver medalists for Ghana
- African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
- Ghanaian athletics biography stubs