Emmanuel Aryee Quaye

Emmanuel Aryee Quaye (* before 1947 ) is a former Ghanaian table tennis player .

Career

In January 1961 Quaye won the Kent Open with a three-set win over Adam Lindsay from Middlesex . At the end of 1962 he was beaten by his younger, 15-year-old brother Ebenezer Okine Quaye in the final of the West African Championship . Together with his compatriot Ethel Jacks , the Ghanaian won in mixed doubles at the 1968 West African Championship in Cotonou, Benin . At the African Championships in 1962 and 1968 Quaye won the individual competition, in the first final against the Egyptian Fawzi El-Abrashy and six years later against the Nigerian Lassey Wilson . In 1962 he had also won the silver medal in doubles with his brother Ebenezer and with the men's team. Between 1961 and 1973 Quaye also took part in the World Cup six times , but without achieving any notable success.

During his active career, the Ghanaian had been invited several times by world champion Richard Bergmann to training camps in the United States and Europe, and in 1969 he acted as the Ghanaian national coach . Since 2004 the national championship has been carrying the "EA Quaye Table Tennis Open Championship" in recognition of his services to the development of table tennis in Ghana. In 2010 Quaye was chairman of the technical committee of the national Ghana Table Tennis Association (GTTA).

Results

competition	year	place	singles	Double	Mixed	team
African Championship	1962	Alexandria	gold	silver		silver
African Championship	1964	Accra			Semifinals
African Championship	1968	Lagos	gold
World Championship	1961	Beijing	Round of 256	Round of 64	Round of 64	21st
World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	qualification	Round of 64	Round of 64	32.
World Championship	1967	Stockholm	Round 1	Round 1	scratched	31.
World Championship	1969	Munich	qualification	qualification	qualification	37.
World Championship	1971	Nagoya	Round of 128	Round of 128	Round of 128	30th
World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	Round of 128	qualification	DNP	36.

Web links

• Emmanuel Aryee Quaye biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English) - Emmanuel Aryee Quaye
• Emmanuel Aryee Quaye biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English) - EA Aryee
• Table Tennis (The Official Magazine of the English Table Tennis Association). Edition January 1962, p. 1 (photo).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Bateman: Quaye collects a title. In: Table Tennis , March 1961, p. 23.
2. ↑ Around the world. In: Table Tennis , January 1963, p. 13.
3. ↑ Ghana wins 4 trophies. In: Daily Graphic of March 3, 1968.
4. ↑ ITTF Database: QUAYE Emmanuel Aryee (GHA). In: ittf.com , archived on May 4, 2003.
5. ^ Quaye for UK today. In: Daily Graphic of May 23, 1969.
6. ^ First National Sports Awards held in Accra. In: modernghana.com (November 29, 2004).
7. ↑ Donkor wins EA Quaye tennis tourney. In: ghanaweb.com (September 10, 2006).
8. ↑ Ping-pong training camp launched. In: Daily Graphic of February 10, 2010.