{"id":164920,"date":"2024-03-24T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/24\/ghana-records-highest-medal-haul-in-history\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:23:37","slug":"ghana-records-highest-medal-haul-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/24\/ghana-records-highest-medal-haul-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana records highest medal haul in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana has recorded her largest medal haul in the history of the African Games at the 13th edition of the event that ended in Accra at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Accra 2023, marked the first time Ghana was hosting the Games, hauling a total of 68 medals- 19 gold, 29 silver and 20 bronze- the largest in the history of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the nation\u2019s most successful participation since the Games\u2019 inception in 1965, surpassing its previous best of 27 medals attained during the 1973 Games in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With the nation waiting for success to begin the celebrations, Winnifred Ntumi delivered the first medal in weightlifting to kick off Ghana\u2019s historic haul.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s most popular sport, football made history with both male and female teams winning gold at stake in their respective categories over three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In other team sports, the female hockey team also took home gold. In an unprecedented performance, arm-wrestling took the Games by storm with eight gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing also stepped up to take its place in the history of the Games with four gold medals, where Samuel Takyi, Ghana\u2019s sole Olympic medalist in Tokyo, and Joseph Commey, a recent Commonwealth Games medalist delivered yet again.<\/p>\n<p>One area that pulled the most crowd and attention and got rewarded for its resilience was athletics. With fans filling every space at every event, the athletes put on a show, claiming three gold medals spectacularly.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, hosting the highest number of disciplines since the inception of the Games finished sixth out of 53 participating nations, marking a significant improvement from her 15th position in the 2019 Rabat edition, where the team returned with 13 medals.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Accra 2023 Games hosted three disciplines more than the Rabat event of 26 disciplines. Until the Rabat event, host countries had been averaging 20 disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>The just-ended edition brought together 5000 elite athletes and coaches from 54 African countries in 29 multi-sports disciplines over three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The event held over two cities; Accra and Cape Coast was used as an official qualifier for the XXXIII Olympic Games Paris 2024. The Olympic qualifying events comprised athletes, swimming, cycling, badminton, wrestling, tennis, table tennis\u00a0and\u00a0triathlon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has recorded her largest medal haul in the history of the African Games at the 13th edition of the event that ended in Accra at the weekend. 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