Rio 2016 : Ghana"s Weightlifter Bows Out With an Unfortunate Decision By Jury

Ghana’s sole representative in weightlifting,Christian Amoah has failed in his quest to reach the next round of the men 85Kg category as his 157kg Clean & Jerk was declared as a No lift by a 5 member Jury.

 

Amoah’s 157kg Clean & Jerk was unanimously adjudged a GOOD LIFT  by the 3 referees but

unfortunately, 5 minutes later, the 5 Member Jury overruled the decision,therefore making his previous attempt of 130kg Snatch and 153kg Clean & Jerk to stand which was not enough to grant him qualification.

If that lift should have  stood it would have been his seasonal and  personal best  after his previous best stood at 155kg

 

According to the revised rules, the Jury’s decision cannot be challenged.

Elsewhere Ghana’s Alex Amankwah could not progress to the latter stages of the men’s 800m event after he finished 7th in the heats.

Rio 2016 : Ghana"s Weightlifter Bows Out With an Unfortunate Decision By Jury

Massive Boost for Ghanaian Weightlifter Ahead of Rio Olympics

Ghana’s sole representative in weightlifting at this year’s summer Olympic Games has received a massive boost for his pre-games preparation from Kofikrom Pharmacy.

The support from Kofikrom Pharmacy will take care of his dietary supplements and camping allowance before joining Team Ghana in Rio.

According to the CEO of Kofikrom Pharmacy, Mr Kofi Addo Agyekum his company is aimed at supporting the least financed sports.

“We want to help the least financed sports to grow that is why we have come on board to support weightlifting, he noted.”

On his part Christian Amoah thanked the company for their kind gesture and assured them and Ghanaians as a whole that he will do his best to raise Ghana’s flag at the Games.

Christian Amoah will be competing in the 85kg category at the Games in Rio.

Massive Boost for Ghanaian Weightlifter Ahead of Rio Olympics

Amoah Selected To Represent Ghana in Weightlifting At the Rio Olympics

The Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF) has selected Master Christian Amoah as Ghana’s representative for this year’s Olympic Games to be staged in Rio, Brazil next month.

 

The 17year old weightlifter started his journey in the sport in 2013. He participated in the Nanjing Youth Olympic qualifier in Tunisia in 2014 and placed 5th in the 77kg category and also took part in the Africa Youth Games in Botswana in 2014 where he placed 3rd in the 77kg category.

 

Amoah is currently credited with three silver medals and is ranked 28th in the world in the 85kg category

 

In an interview with Sportscrusader.com, Amoah said : “i am delighted with me being selected,it another chance for me to make my country proud, i wouldn’t promise a medal, but i will surely make them proud”.

 

The youngster also reiterated the need to stay focus ahead of the games which is less than a month to go.

 

Amoah represented Ghana in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland and also the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Championship in USA in 2015.

 

Amoah Selected To Represent Ghana in Weightlifting At the Rio Olympics

Overview of the 2016 Phoenix Life Weightlifting Media Seminar

The 1st Phoenix Life Weightlifting Media Seminar ended very successful at Accra Sports Stadium as numerous sports journalist where educated on how to impact on the development of sports in Ghana.

In attendance was the President of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF) Mr Ben Nunoo Mensah, Youth and Sports Minister Honorable Nii Lantey Vanderpuye ,Dr.Kwaku Ofosu Asare,The General Secretary of GWF Mr. Husseni Akueteh Addy,and GWF communications Director Mr Charles Osei Asibe who graced the occasion.

The Sports Minister in his speech praised the initiative of the GWF for their efforts in the educating the new generation of sports journalist who lacked the in-depth knowledge of accurately disseminating information to the public in their reportage.

He said “Sports is a discipline,and because is a discipline it has it own characteristics, so you need to understand the ‘head’, stomach, and the ‘tail; of the sports,because you cannot transport the language of football into athletics and the same way you cant do same with other sports”.

“So if you want to be a professional you need to be abreast with the characteristics of that discipline,” he ended.

Dr. Asare in his lecture reiterated the role sports journalist play in impacting on the overall development of the sports in Ghana.He highlighted on the various component that assesses the impact and various recommendations that will help thrive the development of sports

Mr Nunoo Mensah in his lecture also highlighted on the need for sports branding and used how the success of weightlifting and cricket in Ghana as a case study. He went on to discuss the various techniques tha accounted for success of this two brands.

 

The Seminar ended with Mr. Husseni demonstrating various technicalities that accompanies weightlifting as a sports which was very helpful to numerous sports journalist who lacked the technical know in their reportage of the sports.

 

This year’s maiden  event was sponsored by  Phoenix Life Assurance Company a subsidiary of CDH Holdings.

Overview of the 2016 Phoenix Life Weightlifting Media Seminar

Ghanaian Weightlifter Wins Three Medals

Ghana’s female weightlifter, Ruth Baffoe, has won three bronze medals in the ongoing Africa Senior Weightlifting Championship in Yaounde, Cameroun.

 

Ruth won her first bronze medal with a lift of 53 kg, added the second with a snatch of 69 kg and followed it up with a clean jerk of 82 kg at the championship, which also serves as the African qualifier for the Rio Olympic Games.

 

The female weightlifter was the only female athlete going to the competition hopeful was among a 10-member delegation, comprising seven weightlifting athletes and three officials who left the country last Friday for the competition which ends on Friday, 14 May 2016.

 

The other participant which include Christian Amoah, Forrester Osei, Prince Nyarko, Theophilus Tackie, Nii Dario Dodoo, David Akwei will be looking forward to improve their points build system to increase their chances of going to the mega sporting event in Rio which less than 100 days away

 

Ghanaian Weightlifter Wins Three Medals

Ghanaian Weightlifters Depart To African Olympic Qualifiers

The national weightlifting team of Ghana, the Black Cranes have departed from the shores of Ghana to the African Olympic qualification in Cameroon which starts tomorrow in Yaounde.

Below is the list of athlete going to partake

The Black Cranes for Cameroon

Athletes

1. Forrester Osei

2. Christian Amoah

3. David Akwei

4. Theophilus Tackie

5. Prince Nyarko

6. Nii Dodoo Darku

7. Ruth Baffoe

Officials

Head Coach- Prof. Kyle pierce

Asst. Coach- Abubakar Taylor

In an interview with Sportscrusader.com  the Technical of Director of the Ghanaian Weightlifting Federation , Professor Kyle Pierce was very confident about getting as many athlete as possible for the mega sporting event in Rio

Ghanaian Weightlifters Depart To African Olympic Qualifiers

Video : Ghanaian Weightlifters Final Preparation Before The African Olympic Qualifiers

The national weightlifting team of Ghana  where led by the technical Director of the Ghana Weightlifting federation Professor Kyle Pierce at yesterday’s last training session and was very confident ahead of the African Olympic qualifiers in Yaounde, Cameroon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZuMgFjsrhs

 

Video : Ghanaian Weightlifters Final Preparation Before The African Olympic Qualifiers