Team Ghana at the World Athletics Championship 2019 will go down in the history books as one of the worst years for Ghana sports as the country didn’t enjoy much success from our leading sporting disciplines despite the commitment of the government to assist them with almost every logistical and financial support needed to win laurels for the nation.
Ghana for the first time since 2006 couldn’t progress to the semi-finals of the African Cup of Nations after they were kicked out of the tournament in the round of 16 by the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia who had not won against Ghana in the history of the AFCON before on penalties.
In the multi-sports event, Team Ghana was 15th on the medal table in the 2019 Africa games tournament with only thirteen medals after participating in 14 different sporting disciplines.
14 different sporting disciplines were in action in the year 2019 and despite their overall failure or bad performances on the continental stage, some performed better than others.
Ghanaweb today brings you it’s top five sporting disciplines in the year 2019.
1. Athletics
Athletics was arguably the best sporting discipline for Ghana in the Africa games in Rabat, Morocco despite going through numerous challenges prior to the start of the tournament.
The major problem was the internal conflict about the leadership positions within the Ghana Athletics Association. This made Ghanaians worried about the kind of performance the athletics sent to the African Games will deliver at the tournament when their leadership was distracted with numerous legal battles. Nevertheless, they were able to deliver the only gold medals the country won in the competition through Sean Safo-Antwi, Benjamin Azamati-Kwaku, Martin Owusu-Antwi and Joseph Amoah who won the gold medal in the men’s 4*100 meters relay event while Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah won the gold medal in the women’s high jump event.
Athletics added two bronze medals and one silver medal to make it 5 medals for team Ghana. Due to the off-the-field problems they had prior to the start of the tournament, we say Ghana athletics performed well in the 2019 Africa Games and they can do better when the country host the entire continent in 2023 and also in the 2021 edition.
2. Weightlifting Winning eight medals, made up of seven bronze medals and one silver medal on the continental stage for Ghana in our estimation makes Weightlifting one of the top five sporting disciplines for the year […]