The Ghana weightlifting federation (GWF) held its annual congress at the conference hall of the press centre of the Accra sports stadium on Tuesday.
The congress was chaired by the federation’s president, Ben Nunoo Mensah who addressed the gathered press on the 2016 plans for the weightlifting federation. The event brought together all delegates and personnels involved in the sport.
sportscrusaader.com shares with readers images of the congress
The Ghana weightlifting federation (GWF) held its annual congress at the conference hall of the press centre of the Accra sports stadium on Tuesday.
The congress was chaired by the federation’s president, Ben Nunoo Mensah who addressed the gathered press on the 2016 plans for the weightlifting federation. The event brought together all delegates and personnels involved in the sport.
sportscrusaader.com shares with readers images of the congress
The Ghana Weightlifting Federation of Ghana on Friday 5th February officially launched the federation’s National Youth development program in partnership with Multipro ltd, makers of Indomie noodles at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The event which graced by the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports (MOYS), Hon. Vincent Oppong Asamoah as the special guest is focusing on unearthing young talents in weightlifting as the sport gathers pace with athletics and football.
Speaking at the program, the Hon. Oppong Asamoah emphasized how happy he was to be part of such a memorable course and also took the opportunity to call on corporate Ghana to imitate noodle makers, Indomie for their overall support towards youth involvement in the growth of sports across various disciplines.
Country director of Multipro Private Ltd. (Indomie) presented an amount an amount of Ghc20,0000 (Twenty thousand Ghana cedis) and Ghc10,ooo worth of Indomie products to the federation’s president, Mr. Ben Nunoo Mensah who received the cash and products on behalf of the sport discipline.
Mr. Nunoo Mensah after the presentation outlined the schedule of the youth development program for the year stating, “the school activation program has being put in place in order to measure the development of the sport will run till the end of the year.”
He added, “with the school activation program the Federation will once in every month go to the various cluster of schools to teach the sport through demonstration to enable the youth engage and participate in the sport of weightlifting.
As the the countdown to the Rio Olympic games gets closer, athletes across all the various sporting disciplines are eagerly preparing to compete in their respective qualifiers for the event.
Ghanaian weightlifters on the other hand are vigorously preparing for their qualifying rounds to be held in Cameroon in May.
In an interview with sportscrusader.com, Coach of the national weightlifters Association Abubakari Taylor emphasized the need to get more athlete to qualify for the games in Rio, he said “the athlete are very prepared for the upcoming qualifiers,but they appeal to government of Ghana to aid them in the preparation as well as various corporate organization”.
Nii Otoo Larkyne an athlete told sportscrusader.com “am fired up for the upcoming championship in Cameroon and will do anything possible to qualify the Olympic games”.
Another female athlete Ruth Baffoe showed her an overwhelming tenacity and relentless energy in her training,she told sportscrusader.com how poised she was for the upcoming qualifiers and how she hope she will make the final cut for the Rio games.
