Ghanaian athlete, Nadia Eke, added to the country’s modest medal haul of three bronze medals after finishing third in the women’s triple jump competition yestersday.
Her jump of 13.40m could only earn her a bronze medal, after Camerounian Babumi Nkuindjin claimed gold with a
jump of 13.75m, followed in second place by I.O. Ibukum of Nigeria, who jumped 13.52m.
Ayittey Powers last Saturday recorded his third successive knock out in the year with a fourth round technical knockout (TKO) of Joe Sarbah in an anti-climax of an event that promises so much.
A non-title cruiserweight at the Kotobabi Wembley Sports Complex in Accra, Sarbah was full of bluster heading into the fight, vowing to retire Powers but he was desperately out of his depth requiring his corner to rescue him from a brutally efficient Powers who was cruising to victory.
Ghana forward Majeed Waris has had a difficult year but marked his return from injury with a goal in the French Ligue 1.
Not only that. He got an assist too as Lorient won 3-1 at home against Angers. Waris, 23, had fractured a bone in his left hand on his debut and there had been fears of a poor season, but he looked sprightly as he set up teammate Yann Jouffre in the 46th minute for the leveller.
Ghana's Black Queens and Banyana Banyana of South Africa will have to wait for the drawing of lots to decide who joins Cameroun to the Semi finals of the women’s football competition of the All Africa Games.
The Queens’ fate was made uncertain following a 1-1 draw with Cameroun yesterday. But the Indomitable Lionesses sailed through to the semifinals after gaining two points with two goals.
Accra Great Olympics stay in to top flight football ended on a disappointing note after they were condemned to relegation alongside Kpando Heart of Lions and Brong Ahafo United, all of who lost crucial games yesterday.
On the day when AshantiGold were crowned champions of the First Capital Plus Premier League at the Accra Sports Stadium, Olympics failed to survive despite winning 2-1 against the’ Soccer Miners’ on home soil to finish the season in 15th position on the league log. Lions 2-4 loss against New Edubiase United in a relegation dogfight at Ashgold had clinched the title even before yesterday’s game and despite their loss, players and officials of the Aboakese lads revelled into the night after the final whistle as they ended a 19-year wait to win their fourth Premier League title yesterday.
The chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB), Mr Welbeck Abra-Appiah, has expressed gratitude to the stakeholders of Ghana football for their diverse unflinching support which contributed to the success of this year’s First Capital Plus Premier League.
Accra Great Olympics yesterday bid another farewell to elite football despite coming from behind to beat Ashgold 2-1 at the Accra Sports stadium.
The result did not mean so much to Ashgold as they were already champions and were indeed, given a guard of honour by Olympics ahead of the kick-off.
Olympics supporters were seen wailing. They had only spent just a season in the Premier League but on the other side were Ashgold fans dancing as they celebrated their fourth league triumph after 19 years.
Congo Brazzaville, the third seeds whose players have spent one year preparing in China, suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Ghana’s Male Team, the Black Loopers.
Derek Abrefa Ghana’s top seed started off well in the opening match of the contest by beating Suraju Saka, crowned African champion in 2008 in Kinshasa (11-7, 12-10, 4-11, 11-7) Emmanuel Commey in the vital concluding fifth match of the engagement also beat Suraju Saka (11-8, 11-6, 4-11, 11-6). However Hu Bin remained unbeaten for Congo Brazzaville, he accounted for Emmanuel Commey (11-4, 11-4, 11-6) and Derek Abrefa (11-7, 11-5, 11-7) but that was to be the sum total of success for the host nation outfit.
Winner earlier in the year on the GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour in Lagos, Omar Assar proved the backbone of success for Egypt, the top seeds, as they booked their place in the final of the Men’s Team event at the 11th African Games in Congo Brazzaville on the evening of Saturday 12th September.
Impressively, the 24 year old remained unbeaten as the defending champions overcame the host nation’s third seeded combination of Hu Bin, Saheed Idowu and Wang Jianan by three matches to one.
The success came after the second seeded Nigerian trio of Seun Ajetunmobi, Quadri Aruna and Segun Toriola had recorded a three-nil win in opposition to Ghana’s sixth seeded combination of Derek Abrefa, Emmanuel Commey and Felix Lartey.
Twiga Stars of Tanzania coach, Rogasian Kaijage has admitted that his team were inferior to Nigeria’s Super Falcons at the ongoing All Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo.
The East Africans suffered a 0-3 loss to the reigning African champions in the group’s match day 2 clash at the Alphonse Massamba Debat Stadium in Brazzaville.
Heavyweight boxer, David Bawah Akankolim, kept Ghana’s medal hopes at the All Africa Games alive when he knocked out Comeroun’s Kenfack Claude in the first round to win the 91kg contest last Wednesday.
He now awaits his opponent in the quarter finals after compatriots, Abdul Wahid Omar and Musa Rahman Lawson, disappointed in their respective fights to be booted out of the competition.
The GFA Disciplinary Committee has upheld Accra Hearts of Oak’s protest against Asante Kotoko in respect of the eligibility of Obed Owusu in their Match day 25 Premier League game played on August 2, 2015.
grA member of the Justice Dzamefe Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s 2014 World Cup fiasco, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has taken the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ghana Football Association to task, describing the payment of winning bonus in cash to the Black Stars in far away Rwanda last Saturday as unfortunate and a breach of government’s directives.
In a bid to produce thrilling hockey games, the Greater Accra Hockey Association (GAHA) has reviewed the format of its BEIGE Capital Knock-Out tournament which pushes off on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.
The new format announced last Wednesday in Accra will see the respective winners and runners-up of the men's, women's and youth categories of the just ended Greater Accra Hockey League season seeded in two groups of three teams in their various divisions.
The last qualifier of the ongoing “Red Bull King of the Rock” ended last Wednesday at the Accra Polytechnic basketball courts with Abdul Mutalib beating off competition from Romeo Wilfred to emerge victorious.
With his feat, Mutalib will lead a four-member squad to represent Accra at the national finals which takes off later today at the Lebanon House in Accra.
