The team prepared for the competitions in Plymouth , about 310 kilometers southeast of London, and the Welsh capital Cardiff , and moved to the Olympic village on July 24th . At the opening ceremony the following day, the heavyweight boxer Maxwell Amponsah was the flag bearer for the march of nations. In addition to Amponsah, the heptathlete Margaret Simpson also canceled her participation in the games after being nominated due to injury, so that a total of seven athletes from Ghana competed.
The youngest member of the team was the 17-year-old weightlifter Alberta Ampomah , the oldest member of the 29-year-old judoka Emmanuel Nartey . The most successful athlete emerged from the flyweight boxer Duke Micah , who was eliminated in the round of 16 and thus finished ninth.
Amponsah was initially set for the 1st round of the heavyweight competition, where he was supposed to meet the Ukrainian Oleksandr Ussyk . Due to an incompletely healed broken jaw that he sustained in a qualifying competition two months earlier, the Ghanaian had to withdraw three days before the fight against Usyk.
The day before the heptathlon began, Simpson was diagnosed with acute kidney inflammation , which made it impossible for her to participate in the competitions.
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