Olympic history of Ghana

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Ghana , whose NOK , the Ghana Olympic Committee , was founded in 1952 andrecognizedby the IOC in the same year, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1952. The state became independent in 1957. In 1952, Ghanaian athletes competed under the name Gold Coast . In 1956 they did not participate, and in 1976 and 1980 Ghana joined the calls for boycotts. In 2010 a delegation was sent to the Winter Games for the first time.

Overview

Summer games

Clement Quartey (1962 in a fight with the German Wilfried Rühl) was the first Ghanaian medalist

Welterweight boxer Eddie Blay wins bronze in 1964

Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong as the standard bearer at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

The Olympic team of the Gold Coast entered the Helsinki Games in 1952 with seven athletes . Four athletes are considered to be the first Ghanaian Olympians: the 100-meter runner Gabriel Laryea and George Acquaah, the 800-meter runner Mohamed Sanni-Thomas, and the long jumper James Owoo. All four competed on July 20, 1952.

Participation in the Melbourne Games in 1956 was waived. In 1960 in Rome , under the name Ghana , 13 athletes were used, among them boxers for the first time. Clement Quartey was able to win the first Olympic medal in his country in the light welterweight division with silver. In athletics there was a final participation by the high jumper Robert Kotei . Kotei was ranked 10th.

In 1964 in Tokyo a Ghanaian team took part in the Olympic football tournament for the first time. Long jumper Alice Annum was the first woman to compete in the Olympic Games for Ghana. The long jumper Mike Ahey qualified for the final, in which he was seventh. The second Ghanaian medal was won in boxing. Eddie Blay won the bronze welterweight medal. It was also Mike Ahey who ensured the only final participation of a Ghanaian in Mexico City in 1968 . He was 13th in the long jump.

1972 in Munich the country won the third medal in boxing. Prince Amartey won bronze in the middleweight division. In addition, there were three finals in athletics. Alice Annum reached the finals over 100 m and 200 m. She finished sixth over 100 m and seventh over 200 m. Long jumper Joshua Owusu jumped just past a medal . He finished 4th, he was two centimeters short of the bronze medal.

Ghana participated in the Africa boycott of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and the US-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games . In 1984 in Los Angeles , Ghana returned to the Olympic stage, but remained unsuccessful. In 1988 in Seoul , a Ghanaian table tennis player was used for the first time.

In 1992 in Barcelona the Ghanaian soccer team won the bronze medal. With one win and two draws, the team was able to prevail in the group games. In the quarterfinals Paraguay were beaten 4-2 after extra time. In the semifinals, Spain lost 2-0. Ghana won the bronze medal game 1-0 against Australia. One of the team members was Samuel Kuffour , who was only 15 at the time , making him the youngest Olympian in Ghana to date.

Both in Atlanta in 1996 and in Sydney in 2000 , the Ghanaian Olympic team remained unsuccessful. It was not until 2004 in Athens that the long jumper Ignisious Gaisah managed to take part in the finals, where he reached 6th place. The only nine-member delegation in Beijing in 2008 had no chance.

In 2012 in London a judoka and a weightlifter from Ghana took part for the first time, in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro a swimmer and a swimmer took part. Swimmer Kaya Forson was 14 years old, undercutting Kuffour's record as the youngest Olympic participant.

Winter games

With Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong , a Ghanaian winter sports enthusiast took part for the first time in Vancouver in 2010 . He competed in cross-country skiing. After Ghana decided not to participate in 2014, Akwasi Frimpong, a skeleton rider, came into action in Pyeongchang in 2018 .

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports							Medals
	total	m	w												total	rank
1896-1948	not participated
1952	7th	7th	0		7th
1956	not participated
1960	13	13	0		7th	6th							1		1	32
1964	33	30th	3		12	7th	14th							1	1	35
1968	31	30th	1		8th	7th	16
1972	35	33	2	Sam Bugri	13	6th	16							1	1	43
1976-1980	not participated
1984	21st	14th	7th	Makarios Djan	15th	6th
1988	16	10	6th	John Myles-Mills	11	3		1
1992	34	32	2	John Myles-Mills	8th	5	20th	2						1	1	54
1996	35	33	2	Moro Tijani	15th	2	16	2
2000	22nd	16	6th	Kennedy Osei	18th	4th
2004	26th	23	3	Andrew Owusu	10		16
2008	9	8th	1	Vida Anim	3	6th
2012	7th	5	2	Maxwell Amponsah	2	3			1	1
2016	14th	7th	7th	Flings Owusu-Agyapong	9	1			1	2	1
total												0	1	3	4th	112

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports		Medals
	total	m	w							total	rank
1924-2006	not participated
2010	1	1	0	Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong	1
2014	not participated
2018	1	1	0	Akwasi Frimpong		1
total							0	0	0	0	-

List of medal winners

Gold medals

So far (as of 2017) no gold medals

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Clement Quartey	1960 Rome	Boxing	Light welterweight

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Eddie Blay	1964 Tokyo	Boxing	Light welterweight
Prince Amartey	1972 Munich	Boxing	medium weight
National soccer team U 23	1992 Barcelona	Soccer

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
Taekwondo	0	1	2	3
Soccer	0	0	1	1
total	0	1	3	4th

Web links

• Ghana in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ghana on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)