Ghana’s triple jumper for final
Two Ghanaian triple jumpers, Mathilde Boateng and Nadia Eke, qualified for the finals of the women’s triple jump after impressive performances during the qualification stages at Hampden Park, Glasgow last Monday evening.
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Mathilde jumped 13.07m in Group A to ease through to the finals on her second and third attempts. Similarly, Nadia, who was making her debut international appearance for the country, also jumped 13.14m on her third attempt to qualify for the finals.
However, Ghana’s medal prospects in track and field events diminished after sprinter Flings Owusu-Agyapong failed to qualify for the women's 100m event after placing fourth in the third semi-finals in a time of 11.68 seconds.
She is set to compete in the 200m and 4x100m relay team later in the competition.
Ghana’s medal prospects in boxing was dealt a blow after Azumah Mohammed lost a “controversial” unanimous decision to his English opponent, Scott Fitzgerald, in a round of 16 welterweight contest at the SECC Hall in Glasgow.
Despite a strong showing in the first round of the bout, two of the judges scored the round in favour of the Englishman.
Azumah was subsequently deducted a point for head-butting his opponent in the third round and it proved to be the turning point in the contest.
Ghana made its first appearance in the sport of shooting as Joseph Dzorvakpor and Emmanuel Koli competed in the 50m rifle prone men’s qualification. Koli and Dzorvakpor placed an overall 37th and 39th in the event and missed out of qualification for the next round.
Meanwhile, Ghanaian judoka Emmanuel Nartey, has been ejected from the Ghana camp at the Games Village for gross indiscipline.
His accreditation for the Commonwealth Games was subsequently withdrawn by the Ghana Olympic Committee.
Nartey, who is a serving officer in the British Army, reportedly showed gross disrespect to the Ghanaian officials after he was paid his allowances last Sunday morning.
He was said to have confronted Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Vincent Oppong Asamoah, over refund of expenses which he insisted he had incurred. However, he could not present receipts as proof.
The judoka reacted disrespectfully when GOC officials asked him to channel the request through officials of the national judo federation with the appropriate supporting documentation.
But, he allegedly, cast aspersions, calling the officials derogatory names while suggesting the amount to be paid him was very little compared to what other athletes had been paid.
Despite pleas from his colleague judokas and coaches to withdraw his earlier statements and apologise, he refused to apologise to the Deputy Minister and GOC officials for his insulting behaviour.