Seklorwu is Best Sports Personality
Ghanaian junior athlete, Richard Seklorwu, was last Saturday named the Best Sports Personality at the 2015 Ghana Sports Excellence Awards, capping a stellar year which saw him win gold in the boys’ long jump at the Samoa 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games.
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The flagship award was Seklorwu's second on the night as he had earlier received the Best Male Athlete award for a season which saw him jump 7.67 metres to win the Commonwealth Youth Games gold medal ahead of Australia’s Thomas Wilson and Benjamin Fisher, who jumped 7.48 metres and 7.38 metres respectively.
The T. I. Amass Senior High School student saw off Deputy Black Stars skipper, Andre Ayew; hockey starlet, Nafisatu Umaru, and tennis star, George Darko, to win the Best Sports Personality award.
Black Sticks Ladies and Ghana Police Ladies defender, Nafisatu Umaru, was also crowned the Female Athlete of the Year after she aided the national hockey team to place second at the Africa Hockey Championships (AHC).
Nafisatu was adjudged the best player of the AHC after Ghana lost 3-0 to South Africa in the final and she also won the domestic hockey title and BEIGE knoockout title with Police in the year under review.
The former national U-21 captain emerged from a strong field, including Nadia Eke, Mary Zuta and Mercy Myles to clinch the award.
Ms Rosalind Amoh of the Graphic Sports, which was incidentally named the Best Print Media House, was adjudged the Best Reporter, beating Andrew Nortey (Ghanaian Times), Kofi Aduonum (Daily Guide) and last year's winner, Kweku Zurek (Graphic Sports) to the award.
Meanwhile, last year's winner, Emmanuel Quaye and his Graphic Sports stablemate, Samuel Tei Adano, missed out on the Best Photographer award which went to Senyuidzorm Adadevor (Solvers).
Other notable winners on the night included Black Stars’ skipper, Asamoah Gyan, who won the Best Volunteer gong; Dr Deborah Cubagee, who won the Best Physician category; Ashantigold SC were named the Best Sporting Club and Japanese athlete, Sani Brown, was named the Best Diasporan Athlete.