Female athletes of the armwrestling team

The Golden Arms, Ghana’s arm-wrestling team revived Team Ghana’s fortunes at the 13th African Games with a 41 medal haul in arm-wrestling.

That raised Ghana’s tally to 45 having earlier garnered gold and two silver from female weightlifter Winnifred Ntumi and a silver from swimming sensation, Abeiku Jackson.

That switched attention to boxing and athletics, the two disciplines with a competitive advantage.

But Benjamin Azamati and Barnabas Aggerh’s fifth and sixth placement in the 100m men’s finals dampened the spirit of Ghanaians in athletics.

Few hours later, Rose Amoaniwaa Yeboah revived emotions again with a splendid high jump performance to add a gold medal to Ghana’s haul which would go into Ghana’s history in the competition as the most successful in terms of the laurels won.

Yeboah cleared the bar at 1.90m.

As of press time, six members of Ghana’s boxing team were also getting ready for semi-final clashes that guaranteed medals irrespective of the outcomes although wins would put them in contention for either gold or silver.

That would mean six additional medals while the men’s 4x100m also look very promising to deliver another medals.

That aside, other disciplines are working extremely hard to join the after party