Flings Owusu-Agyapong

Flings Owusu-Agyapong

Personal information
Full name	Flings Joyner Owusu-Agyapong
Born	16 October 1988 Kumasi, Ghana[1]
Education	Syracuse University
Sport
Country	Ghana
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 metres
College team	Syracuse Orange
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Ghana African Games 2015 Brazzaville 4 x 100 m relay African Championships 2012 Porto Novo 4 x 100 m relay 2016 Durban 4 x 100 m relay 2010 Nairobi 4 x 100 m relay 2014 Marrakech 4 x 100 m relay

Flings Owusu-Agyapong (born 16 October 1988) is a Ghanaian sprinter.^[2] She was born in Kumasi, Ghana to parents Kwadwo Agyapong and Adwoa Akomaa and moved to Toronto, Canada when she was 9 years old. She started training with the Flying Angels athletics club after her sophomore year of high school. In 2006 and 2007 she made the Ontario provincial team for the National Scholastic Indoor Championships.^[3]

Owusu-Agyapong attended Syracuse University on an athletic scholarship. While at Syracuse she broke the school records for the 55, 60, and 100 metres and was a two-time 2nd team All-American. She graduated from Syracuse with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health.^[4]

She competed in the 100 metres and the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[5] She was also the flag bearer for the Ghanaian team at the opening ceremony.^[6][7]

Career

Owusu-Agyapong competed in the 60 metres at the 2014 and 2016 World Indoor Championships without advancing from the first round.

She competed in the 100 metres and the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She achieved qualification for the 100 metres in April 2016 by running 11.30 at the 2016 Miami Hurricane Alumni Invitational in Miami, Florida.^[8] With her teammates Gemma Acheampong, Janet Amponsah, and Beatrice Gyaman she achieved qualification for the 4 x 100 metres relay on 8 July 2016 by running 42.67 to win the 4 x 100 metres at the Soga-Nana Memorial meet in Cape Coast.^[9] The time of 42.67 was a new national record, eclipsing the previous record of 43.19 that had stood since 2000. The same team also won silver at the 2016 African Championships in Durban in June 2016 in a time of 44.05.^[10]

At the 2016 Olympics she finished 4th in her heat of the 100 metres in a time of 11.43 but did not advance to the semifinals. In the 4 × 100 metres the team finished 8th in their heat in a time of 43.47 and did not qualify for the final.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Ghana
2010	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	9th (h)	100 m	12.00
			3rd	4 x 100 m relay	45.40
2011	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	10th (h)	100 m	11.88
2012	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	5th	100 m	11.75
			2nd	4 x 100 m relay	44.35
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	29th (h)	60 m	7.42
	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	15th (sf)	100 m	11.55
			–	4 x 100 m relay	DQ
	African Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	5th (h)	100 m	11.62^1
			3rd	4 x 100 m relay	44.06
2015	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	6th	100 m	11.61
			2nd	4 x 100 m relay	43.72
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	26th (h)	60 m	7.36
	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	SF	200 m	DNS
			2nd	4 x 100 m relay	44.05
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	28th (h)	100 m	11.43
			14th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.37

¹Disqualified in the semifinals

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 11.39 (+1.6 m/s, Coral Gables 2013)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 7.18 (New York 2015) NR
• 200 metres – 23.34 (Boston 2016) NR

References

1. 2014 CWG profile
2. "Flings Owusu-Agyapong". IAAF. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
3. "Flings Joyner Owusu-Agyapong - about". flingsjoyner.com. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
4. "Flings Owusu-Agyapong - 2011-12 Track and Field". Retrieved 2016-08-04.
5. "Rio 2016: Flings Owusu-Agyapong athlete profile". rio2016.com. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
6. Nitro. "Flings Owusu-Agyapong named Ghana's team captain for Rio 2016 | OC SPORTS NEWS". www.ocsportsnews.com. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
7. "Flag bearers of all nations at the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games". rio2016.com. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
8. Zurek, Kweku. "Athletics - Flings Owusu-Agyapong makes it to Rio - Graphic Online". Retrieved 2016-08-04.
9. admin. "Soga-Nana Memorial, Cape Coast (Ghana) 8/07/2016 | Africathle". Retrieved 2016-08-04.
10. webmaster. "Ghana's women's relay team wins silver at All-Africa games competition". Retrieved 2016-08-04.

External links

• Official website