The
dream of Gambia’s sensational sprinter Adama of making it to the semifinals of
the 200m of Rio 2016 Olympic Games ended on Tuesday afternoon after finishing
5th in round one of the event with a time of 20.55 seconds.
The
23-year-old athlete is the first Gambian 200m male runner to get an Olympic
qualifier standard when he closed 20.45 seconds at the African Senior Athletics
Championship in Durban, South Africa, in June and won a Silver medal for The
Gambia.
Adama
Jammeh, who is now ranked 38th out of 80 runners in the 200m at the games, was
making his debut in the Olympic Games.
Croatian’s
Nery Brenes and Dutch’s Churandy Martina came first and second in the heat with
20:20 and 20:29 respectively.
It
would be noted that The Gambia’s young swimmer Papp D. Jonga could not also
realise his dream of making it to the next round of the 50m freestyle at the
Summer Olympic Games.
The
200m sprinter Gina Bass and 22-year-old Finish-based Gambian judoka Faye Alex
Njie were also eliminated in their maiden debut in the Olympic Games.
