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Akua Obeng-Akrofi

Ghanaian athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ36303524
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Akua Obeng-Akrofi (born 10 July 1996) is a Ghanaian sprinter. In 2016, Obeng-Akrofi represented Ghana at the Rio Olympics as part of the country's relay team.

Obeng-Akrofi was born in Ghana and raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She attended Archer High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. In 2018 she represented Ghana again at the Commonwealth Games.

She graduated from Columbia University in 2018 and was recognized with a Campbell Award for "exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit".

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“Akua Obeng-Akrofi” enters the record as ghanaian athlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Akua, Obeng-Akrofi and Ghanaian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Akua Obeng-Akrofi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.