Triple jumper, Nadia Eke, grabbed Ghana’s first gold medal at the 20th African Seniors Athletics Championships when she leapt 13.42m to clinch victory on the final day of the competition held at the King Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa last Sunday.
The headache for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games organizers shows no signs of subsiding.
Ghana’s medal haul was increased to four last Saturday — two silver and two bronze — after heptathlete Elizabeth Dadzie and pole vaulter Jordan Yamoah both claimed bronze medals on Day 3 of the African Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa.
Young cyclist, Abdul Rahman, won the first individual honour of his young career when he pipped Jacob Akwetey Adotey in a photo-finish at the third edition of the Velocity Open Road Race in Accra last Sunday.
Athletes from the GBI Special School at Hohoe in the Volta Region were the toast of fans when they demolished Yumba Special School 5-0 on the opening day of the National Floorball tournament being held at the Dzorwulu Basic School in Accra.
Eight sprinters last Saturday booked their place for the grand final of this year’s GNPC Ghana Fastest Human(GFH) at the Tamale Sports Stadium.
GNPC Ghana Fastest Human (GFH), a programme aimed at identifying sprint talents for Ghana, arrives in the Northern Region on Saturday, June 18, for an open 100 metre competition.
Usain Bolt will fine-tune his preparations for the Rio Olympics by competing at the Anniversary Games in London on July 22.
Taekwondo as a sport in Ghana was born back in the early 1970s when some practitioners from neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire came into the country to organise a few private clubs in Accra to teach martial arts.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt could lose one of the three gold medals he won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
