Ghana competed in badminton for the first time in addition to the traditional disciplines of boxing and athletics.

It was a disastrous debut for badminton as Ghana lost all three games 5-0 to South Africa, 5-0 to Mauritius and 5-0 to New Zealand.

Once again boxing topped the medal table haul – one gold and three bronze with athletics netting one silver.

The golden boy was lightweight Raymond Narh who outpointed Ali Asghar of Pakistan in the final. Narh had earlier disposed of McAllister of Northern Ireland in the semis.

The boxing bronze medallists were super heavyweight Alloyi Moyoyo, light-welterweight Charles Adamu and middleweight James Toney.

On his way to the medal zone Alloyi stopped Mark Flynn of Wales in the second round and outpointed P. Williams of Western Samoa. Charles Adamu beat Paul Peters of Grenada and James Toney beat Kweaneeti Elijah of Botswana.

Flyweight Abdulai Aminu outpointed Katiso Tsendi of Lesotho in his first fight but lost to Phumzile Matyhila of South Africa in the susbsequent fight.
All the remaining boxers lost in the preliminaries.

Featherweight Charles Quartey lost to Mark Simmons of Canada; light flyweight Joseph Agbeko lost to Gary Jones of England,Featherweight Alfred Tetteh, welterweight Kpakpo Allotey, middleweight Anyetei Laryea, light middleweight Joshua Okine and bantamweight Daniel Sackey all lost.

Athletics
Ghana’s lone medallist was triple jumper Andrew Owusu who won silver with a leap of 17.03 metres.The biggest disappointment was the performance of top star Leonard Myles Mills who finished fifth in the 100m final in 10 secs

.Earlier compatriots Eric Nkansah had clocked 10.11 secs in the semi and Aziz Zakari 10.29secs.Both had won their respective heats in 10.25secs and 10.29 secs.

In the women’s division, Vida Nsiah placed 6th in the 200m final clocking 23.17secs and Monica Twum was 8th in 23.7sces. Monica had earlier crashed out of the 100m in 11.62secs with Vida clocking 11.34secs to win her heats.

The side attraction was that two defected Ghanaian athletes, Philomena Mensah and Martha Edusei ran for Canada.

Cheers everyone and keep loving sports.