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<\/div>\nGhanaian athletes, Sarfo Ansah and Rose Yeboah, will not participate in the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Budapest after they were both denied visas by the Hungarian Embassy in Accra.<\/p>\n
Newly-elected Ghana Athletics President, Bawa Fuseini, was also denied a visa to lead the team to the same competition.<\/p>\n
Yeboah is the African Champion in the women\u2019s high jump and just\u00a0won gold at the World University Games\u00a0in China with a new national record of 1.94m.<\/p>\n
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Ansah is a late replacement for the\u00a0injured Benjamin Azamati\u00a0and was expected to join Ghana\u2019s 4x100m relay team.<\/p>\n
Both athletes\u2019 applications were submitted two weeks ago, following the late confirmation of their participation.<\/p>\n
With accreditation from competition organizers, World Athletics, the visa issuance was expected to be a routine process, but on Monday, the Hungarian Embassy in Accra communicated to the team that visas for the two athletes had been refused.<\/p>\n
Bawa Fuseini, Ghana Athletics\u2019 President, was also denied a visa, but he will still be able to travel to Hungary for the competition because he possesses a French-issued Schengen visa, Joy Sports understands.<\/p>\n
The rest of team Ghana\u00a0is currently camping in France and will fly out to Budapest on Friday, ahead of the 10-day competition which starts on Saturday, August 19, 2023.<\/p>\n
The team is led by Ghana\u2019s 200m record holder, Joseph Paul Amoah (20.08s), who won bronze at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the country\u2019s first since 1978.<\/p>\n
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