1992 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ghana)

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Ghana took part in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona , Spain , with a delegation of 34 athletes (32 men and two women) in 14 competitions in four sports. The youngest athlete was the footballer Samuel Kuffour (15 years and 325 days), the oldest athlete was the track and field athlete Francis Dodoo (32 years and 111 days). A bronze medal could be won by the men's soccer team. It was the eighth Summer Olympics participation for the country.

Medalist

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Simon Addo	Soccer	Men's
Sammi adjei	Soccer	Men's
Mamood Amadu	Soccer	Men's
Frank Amankwah	Soccer	Men's
Bernard Aryee	Soccer	Men's
Isaac Asare	Soccer	Men's
Kwarne Ayew	Soccer	Men's
Ibrahim Dossey	Soccer	Men's
Mohammed Gargo	Soccer	Men's
Mohammed Kalilu	Soccer	Men's
Maxwell Konadu	Soccer	Men's
Samuel Kuffour	Soccer	Men's
Samuel Kumah	Soccer	Men's
Nii Lamptey	Soccer	Men's
Anthony Mensah	Soccer	Men's
Alex Nyarko	Soccer	Men's
Yaw Preko	Soccer	Men's
Shamo Quaye	Soccer	Men's
Oli Rahman	Soccer	Men's
Joachim Yaw	Soccer	Men's

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men's

• Stephen Ahialey
  • Light flyweight

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: eliminated by Rowan Williams from Great Britain on points (3:11)

  Ninth place

• Alex Baba
  • Flyweight

  Round one: eliminated against Paul Ingle from Great Britain on points (7: 9)

  Rank 17

• Joseph Laryea
  • medium weight

  Round one: Eliminated against Ariel Hernández from Cuba on points (0: 6)

  Rank 17

• Dong Seidu
  • Light welterweight

  Round one: Eliminated against Christopher Henry from Barbados by disqualification

  Rank 17

Soccer

Men's

• Results

  Group stage: Group D, first place, 4: 2 points and goals, qualified for the quarter-finals

  Game one: 3-1 win against Australia

  Game two: 0-0 draw against Denmark

  Game three: 1-1 draw against Mexico

  Quarter-finals: 4-2 aet. Victory against Paraguay , qualified for the semi-finals

  Semi-finals: 2-0 defeat against Spain

  Bronze match: 1-0 win over Australia

  3rd place

• Squad

  Simon Addo

  Sammi adjei

  Mamood Amadu

  Frank Amankwah

  Bernard Aryee

  Isaac Asare

  Kwarne Ayew

  Ibrahim Dossey

  Mohammed Gargo

  Mohammed Kalilu

  Maxwell Konadu

  Samuel Kuffour

  Samuel Kumah

  Nii Lamptey

  Anthony Mensah

  Alex Nyarko

  Yaw Preko

  Shamo Quaye

  Oli Rahman

  Joachim Yaw

athletics

Men
4 × 100 meter relay

• Results
• team

  Eric Akogyiram

  Nelson Boateng

  John Myles-Mills

  Emmanuel Tuffour

singles

• Eric Akogyiram
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run six (third place), 10.60 seconds

  Quarterfinals: Eliminated in race one (seventh place), 10.68 seconds

• Solomon Amegatcher
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run one (third place), 45.42 seconds

  Quarter-finals: eliminated in race three, race not finished

• Nelson Boateng
  • 200 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarterfinals in run six (third place), 21.03 seconds

  Quarterfinals: Eliminated in run two (sixth place), 21.04 seconds

• Francis DoDoo
  • Triple jump

  Qualifying round: eliminated without a valid distance, not qualified for the final

  Attempt one: invalid

• Timothy Hesse
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run eight (fifth place), 46.67 seconds

• John Myles-Mills
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run five (third place), 10.64 seconds

  Quarterfinals: Eliminated in run two (fifth place), 10.41 seconds

• Kennedy Osei
  • 800 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the semifinals in run four (second place), 1: 47.17 minutes

  Semi-finals: eliminated in race two (fourth place), 1: 46.20 minutes

• Emmanuel Tuffour
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run nine (third place), 10.45 seconds

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semi-finals in run three (third place), 10.31 seconds

  Semi-finals: eliminated in run two (sixth place), 10.34 seconds

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run nine (third place), 21.07 seconds

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semi-finals in run five (fourth place), 20.58 seconds

  Semi-finals: eliminated in run two (fifth place), 20.78 seconds

Table tennis

Ladies
doubles

• Results

  Group stage: Group B, fourth place, eliminated without a win

  Game one: 0-2 defeat in sets against Qiao Hong and Deng Yaping from the People's Republic of China

  Game two: 0-2 defeat in sets against Yukino Matsumoto and Rika Sato from Japan

  Game three: loss to Otilia Bădescu and Maria Bogoslov from Romania , not started

  Rank 25

• team

  Helen Amankwah

  Patience Opokua

singles

• Helen Amankwah

  Group stage: Group H, fourth place, eliminated without a win

  Game one: 0-2 defeat in sets against Yu Sun-bok from North Korea

  Game two: 0-2 defeat in sets against Chunli Li from New Zealand

  Game three: 0-2 defeat in sets against Lily Hugh-Yip from the United States of America

  Rank 49

• Patience Opokua

  Group stage: Group E, fourth place, eliminated without a win

  Game one: 0-2 defeat in sets against Chen Zihe from the People's Republic of China

  Game two: 0-2 defeat in sets against Rika Sato from Japan

  Game three: 0-2 defeat in sets against Ling Ling Minangmojo from Indonesia

  Rank 49

Web links

• Ghana Olympic team from 1992 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )