CANYON, Texas - West Texas A&M Track and Field star turned professional runner Benjamin Azamati has double-qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 100-meter and in the 4x100 relay for Team Ghana.
 
Azamati cleared the 100-meter Olympic qualification as he is currently ranked 39^th in the world which allowed him a slot in the coveted race. Earlier this year, he qualified with Team Ghana at the World Athletic Relays Bahamas in the 4x100 relay with teammate and WT sophomore, Isaac Botsio along with Ghana runners Ibrahaim Fuseini and Joseph Amoah.  
 
The WT graduate represented Ghana in the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics where he competed in the 100-meter dash and ran the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay. Azamati along with Sean Safo-Antwi, Emmanuel Yeboah and Joseph Paul Amoah ran 38.08 to finish .02 ahead of the United States to secure the final spot into the final.  The quartet then-broke the previous Ghana record that had stood since August 9, 1997. 
 
Azamati finished his collegiate career as one of the top sprinters in NCAA Division II history as he was a five-time national champion, nine-time All-American, and 10-time Lone Star Conference individual champion.  He held the top seven times in DII history in the 100-meter and currently stands as the NCAA Division record holder in three events: 60-meter (6.54/indoor), 100 (9.90/outdoor), and 200 (20.13/outdoor).  
 
He broke his own NCAA Division II and Ghana national 100-meter record at the 94^th annual Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays when he matched the fifth-fastest time in all-collegiate history, running 9.90 in the prelims. His performance was exactly a year after he shattered the previous 38-year-old DII record formerly held by Darrell Green (10.08) with his first sub-10 time at 9.97. 

The speedster also shined in the 200m as he matched his NCAA DII record at 2022 Jo Meaker Classic in Canyon after running 20.13.  He ran the final leg of the 4x100-meter relay that claimed the program's first national title in either relay event with the fastest time in program history at 39.27.
 
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are slated for July 24-August 11. The Athletics events begin on August 1 with the men's 100-meter preliminaries starting on Saturday, August 3 and the first round of the men's 4x100 meter relay is scheduled for Thursday, August 8.
 
Azamati's Career Accomplishments
NCAA DII National Outdoor 4x100 Relay Champion (2022) 
NCAA DII National 100-meter Champion (2021)
NCAA DII National 200-meter Champion (2021)
NCAA DII National Indoor 60-meter Champion (2022, 2021)
USTFCCCA National Men's Track Athlete of the Year (2021) 
USTFCCCA South Central Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022)
USTFCCCA South Central Region Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year (2021)
LSC Male Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022)
LSC Indoor Male Track Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022)
LSC Outstanding Indoor Male Track Athlete (2021, 2022)
LSC Outdoor Male Track Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022) 
LSC Outstanding Outdoor Male Track Athlete (2021, 2022)
LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll (2020)
NSCA Male Athletic Performance Athlete of the Year (2022)
USTFCCCA All-South Central-Region (12x)
USTFCCCA First-Team All-American (9x)
All-Lone Star Conference (10x) 
NCAA DII 60-meter Record Holder (6.54)
NCAA DII 100-meter Record Holder (9.90)
NCAA DII 200-meter Record Holder (20.13)