Bodybuilding of Wednesday, 12 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>GNA<\/p>\n 2022-01-12<\/p>\n The National Weightlifting Team, Black Cranes ended the year 2021, on a high note after being ranked among the top 25 athletes in their competing categories.<\/p>\n The Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation (CWF) released their final rankings for the year 2021, with two Ghanaian weightlifters ranked.<\/p>\n The most decorated Ghanaian weightlifter, Christian Amoah, who competes in the men\u2019s 96kg bodyweight category, was ranked eighth in the Commonwealth but was number two in Africa.<\/p>\n His record was a snatch of 194kg, clean and jerk of 184kg making a total of 333kg. This was made at the Africa Weightlifting Championships held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021.<\/p>\n The top spot on the continent is held by Cameroonian, Cyrille Tchatchet, who did a snatch of 155kg, clean and jerk of 195kg to make a total of 350kg. he made this record at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.<\/p>\n Winnifred Ntumi, a powerhouse in Ghana weightlifting, is also ranked fourth on the continent and 23rd in the Commonwealth nations.<\/p>\n She competed in the 49kg women\u2019s bodyweight category and made a snatch of 59kg, clean and jerk of 76kg to make a total of 135kg. She made this at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n In a related development, Ghana is yet to secure qualification to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n They have the opportunity to compete in the 2022 Mauritius International Open Championship in February.<\/p>\n This competition would boost Ghana\u2019s chances at qualifying to the Games after competing in Uzbekistan last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bodybuilding of Wednesday, 12 January 2022 Source: GNA 2022-01-12 The most decorated Ghanaian weightlifter, Christian Amoah The National Weightlifting Team, Black Cranes ended the year 2021, on a high note after being ranked among the top 25 athletes in their competing categories. The Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation (CWF) released their final rankings for the year 2021, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1917,1918,1750,1919,1920],"class_list":["post-752451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletes","tag-commonwealth","tag-ghanaian","tag-improve","tag-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/68244385.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The most decorated Ghanaian weightlifter, Christian Amoah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n