Ghana’s Rose Yeboah has set her sights on winning a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The high jumper left Ghana for Paris on Wednesday night for her maiden global showpiece.

Rose secured her qualification with an incredible 1.97m jump at the NCAA Championship in Eugene in June.

In an interview with JoySports’ Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo before her departure, she expressed optimism about improving and ultimately winning a medal at the Olympics.

“Qualifying for Olympics is such a great experience and I am really happy to see myself there to compete for my country Ghana.

“Looking at my performance I put up at the NCAA, I feel like I will do much better since it’s going to be a competition among ourselves.

“Everyone should expect me qualifying to the finals and seeing myself on the podium. It will be such a great experience if at least I make it to the finals and get a medal.”

Rose has impressed in recent months for Ghana, having clinched Gold medals in high jump at the African Athletics Seniors Championships and the 2023 African Games.

The Olympic Games runs from July 6 to August 11.

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time Olympic champion in the 100m and 200m, will miss the Paris Olympics with an Achilles injury.

The 31-year-old Jamaican, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, sustained the injury at the New York City Grand Prix on 9 June and had to be carried off the track.

Thompson-Herah – the only sprinter other than compatriot Usain Bolt to win multiple Olympic titles in both the 100m and 200m – was aiming to defend her 100m crown after choosing not to race in the Jamaica 200m trials.

She said a “small tear on my Achilles tendon” ended her chances of competing at a third Olympics.

“It’s a long road but I am willing to start over and keep working and to make full recovery and resume my track career,” Thompson-Herah wrote on Instagram.

“I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympics this year but at the end of the day it’s sports and my health comes first.”

Jamaicans have won the past four Olympic gold medals in the women’s 100m.

Thompson-Herah won gold in the 100m and 200m in Rio in 2016 and defended her titles in Tokyo five years later.

She won a fifth Olympic gold in Japan as part of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay team.

Ghana’s high jumper Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah has won the country’s first gold medal at the ongoing 2024 African Athletics Championship in Cameroon.

The defending champion and African Games Gold medalist scaled a height of

1.87m to grab Ghana’s first gold at the 2024 AAC in Women’s High Jump.

The 22-year-old who had already booked her ticket to the 2024 Summer Olympics looks set with this compelling record of achievements to her accolades.

Rose Yeboah scaled the Olympic Standard height of 1.97m to qualify for the Olympics in a grand style at the NCAA Games in the United States of America. Breaking a long-standing record at the NCAA.

But prior to her qualification, Rose Amoanimaa jumped the bar at 1.91m at the African Games, which was hosted in Ghana at the Legon Stadium, where she defended her title as the 2019 gold medalist in Rabat Morocco.