2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES: GHANA BADMINTON’S NANTUO/TORNYENYOR INCHES CLOSER TO A MEDAL ZONE IN THE WOMEN’S DOUBLE EVENT FACING JAMAICA IN NEXT ROUND
Women’s Double event at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham will see Ghana’s Prospera Nantuo and Cindy Tornyenyor battle it out with Jamaica’s top seed Richardson Tahlia and Wynter Katherinein towards the quarterfinals of the women’s Double event.
NANTUO/TORNYENYOR moved safely through their opening match against Falkland Islands in the opening of the Women’s Double match at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, though not without a scare at the hands of the islanders from Latin America.
Ghana had today lost to Scotland, Maldives, Malaysia, and Cyprus in the Singles event and lost narrowly to Zambia and Uganda in the Men’s Double and Mix Double Events. Ghana’s hitman, Kelvin Alphous, managed to play with a hamstring strain injury around his biceps’ femoris drilling to the admiration of the packed hall of crowd bruising with excitement. It was a tactically savvy performance too from the team and fought across all fronts to level it up.
Afterwards, Nantuo said: “Our opponents had an awkward style, with more flat backhand drives. My partners in Men and Mix Doubles played very well, but I would have love to close it out earlier on the tight drops and more smashes. I also reckon that injuries are part of the process, but I managed to complete my matches on a very long day.”
Despite some wonderful rallies and shots from the last match played, the Women Double event could even stretch to a rubbers game.
Ghana’s Nantuo/Tornyenyor will look horns with the Jamaicans who are the best and highly ranked from Latin America, but the Ghanaian team can be proud of their performances, having been at its best since Ghana’s participation in the 1998 Commonwealth Games, as they are more than ready against some world-class opposition, and it will take great confidence into the match with focus and determination from all Ghanaians.
The last 16 match is tomorrow, August 5th, 2022, at 11:00 BST.
GHANA BADMINTON AFFAIDU’s LAST SERVE TO GLORY BOWS TO THE SPORT
July 10, 2022-Accra-Ghana-Ghana Badminton Veteran’s Star Ebenezer Affaidu down’s the court during the 2022 Open All Ghana Championship game, serving his last serve and catches an alley shuttle -over serve to go down on an emphatic sit down, and, having earlier taken part in a regular aerobics’ session lasting an hour and pre-game warmup to the rear court area. Although he briefly regained consciousness, we rushed him to the Emergency Unit Korle Bu Teaching hospital in a 530 meters distance where medical staff tried to resuscitate him on abrupt loss of heart function, breathing and unconsciousness.
Affaidu, the 59-year-old was a veteran of the sport of Badminton, having led its promotion and development of the sport the last three decades in central region of the Country, teaching the sport in schools, craving and budding young lads was his passion-some of whom are playing in the national Badminton Team. He also led our Badminton in Schools Shuttle Time Project in the Central Region having taking part in our maiden 2018 Shuttle Time Coaching Education initiatives.
As customary as we are, we have reached out to the family and our hearts goes out to them in this trembling difficult times, some of whom were with us during the medical closing session. Affaidu’s name is often brought up as a cautionary tale of any sports person diagnosed with a recurrent heart condition whose passion for sport drove love, peace, and harmony to all.
Ghana Badminton family in announcing this tragic circumstance, that, Affaidu died, leaving us the memory of an incarnation of sport essence in life, and that we are all better people with our maker having the opportunity to know him and be his friend, brother, and wise counsel.
The 2022 All Ghana Open Championship event ended on July 11, 2022 and the largest participants of 683 matches in a thrilled pack Sub Juniors, Juniors , Seniors and Veterans from the across all the 16 regions of Ghana.
The National Association is directing all shuttles in play to observe a minute silence for the next 30days of playing activity across the county. In our solemn grace of condolence, we will await more information and direction from the family-Indeed we are all in shock, hurt and our soul bruised but the Lord heals-may his soul rest in perfect peace.
Accra, Ghana April 19, 2022– GHANA BADMINTON PLANS FOR A MORE DIVERSE GOVERNING BODY WITH 15 NATIONAL COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN.
The Governing and Supervisory Body of Badminton in Ghana has expanded its diversity of inclusiveness, with a more diverse working group and the Board has today launch volunteer recruitment applications for these working groups in all its playing, shared interest groups and the public.
Badminton Ghana also seeks to broaden diversity across its structures to ensure it is more representative of the age, gender, and diverse backgrounds who play or are associated with Badminton.
In line with its 2027 Strategic Mission Plan, these diverse working groups will focus on achieving an action thematic plan with the aim to: increase representation and increase the diversity of representation with a key criterion for selection of quality, skills, and eaxperience; great badminton people who add value rather than hitting numbers and quotas.
Ghana Badminton President & Board Chair Yeboah Evans said: “We are very pleased to share how we will communicate and bring together everyone on board through these national committee’s formation following our independent review of our reporting structures, diversity, and inclusiveness. This is a part of Ghana Badminton’s renewed commitment to open communication with our stakeholders; a crucial element in connecting the badminton community towards our aims to grow participation, support the core of the sport and expand our major laurels for the country in line with our 2027 Mission Strategic Plan Programme. We aim to compete and win at the very highest level, and this will help us learn from other sports and independent experts in creating a world-leading sports performance environment.”
The 15 Committee working groups will advise on a series of recommendations to help Badminton Ghana create an optimal and some exceptional talent in a variety of roles like 60th Anniversary Dinner & Awards Committee, Badminton in Schools Project -Shuttle Time Board, Coaching Commission, Development, Events Competitions Committee, Finance & Admin, High-Performance Commission and Marketing, Media Communication Committee. The rest are Medical and Sports Science Commission, Members Advisory Group, National Premier League Board, Para Badminton Board, Sponsorship Committee, Technical Officials, Women in Badminton Commission and Legal, Governance Review.
Through these involving structures, and the use of mentoring and leadership support, focusing on developing a strong pipeline of diverse talent, which helps to strengthen diversity enabling in our 2027 Mission Plan to ensure safeguarding protocols are developed, clearly communicated, and appropriately implemented. The Success outcomes for these committees works will improve the current relationships between structures on the programme, undertake a review of the leadership and governance structure of the National High-Performance Programme-Integrating a comprehensible world class Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) support, including industry standards for sports science, medicine and wider education and our supporting leadership and general outreach support for non‐centralized coaches and players across the country.
The National Federation is proud to deepen its support to all applicants with one of the nation’s most popular sports and believe together it will reap a significant increase in engagement of its constituents.
We are Ghana Badminton, the Governing Body of Badminton in Ghana formed in 1962. We are the supreme national sports governing body that has regulatory function for the Olympic Sport of Badminton in Ghana. We do this by preparing and implementing a vision and strategic plan for the national sport and determine how it will be implemented nationally, regionally, and local.
With Olympic success at the heart of our ambitions, we are investing our knowledge and expertise in rebuilding build a quality future for our sport by strengthening and developing the domestic game and developing talent to achieve success on the international stage, inspiring the next generation of players and local fans and corporate community in line with the global vision of giving every child a chance to play for life by leading and inspire all stakeholders; to deliver entertainment through exciting events to drive fan experience; and to create innovative, impactful and sustainable development initiatives.
With thousands of Ghanaians playing every year, badminton is looking forward to being the nation’s favourite racket sport by 2024. We want to inspire everyone to play more, support louder and love badminton, from this generation to the next as the world’s fastest racket sport.
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Ghana Badminton and Badminton World Federation offering 100 Scholarships for Young Athletes to benefit from World Academy of Sport Programme and the Federation University, Australia – Applications open.
Ghana Badminton-the governing and supervisory body of the sport in Ghana, is excited to announce today, in collaboration with the World Federation, is offering 100 Scholarships for Young Athletes to benefit from World Academy of Sport Programme and the Federation University, Australia. Ghana Badminton, together with BWF & WAoS, is offering 100 scholarships for a WAoS Athlete Certificate and four full fledge degree programmes for Ghanaian young athletes, administrators, and officials of the sport of Badminton.
The scholarship which is an online course developed for aspiring young athletes aged between 15 to 18 years of age who want to gain a broader understanding of the tools needed to become successful and knowledgeable athletes.
Content writers who work regularly with athletes have designed and written the course and overseen by an expert reference group representing several International Federations. They can complete the online course within 4.5 hours.
For the degree programme, one (1) fully funded scholarship and four (4) 25% scholarships are available for the Bachelor of International Sports Management degree offered by WAoS and Federation University. This course appeals to individual players and administrators looking to launch their careers in the sports industry and builds upon the Athlete Certificate and Post Graduate Certificate Scholarship Programmes previously offered by BWF and WAoS.
Ghana Badminton President Evans Yeboah said: “Together with BWF and Federation University, Australia, we are excited to have delivered this opportunity for our young and aspiring administrators of our sport across the nation-helping build a better sporting Ghana-with a hundred scholarships and five-degree programmes available. We look forward to integrating this tacit knowledge into our Badminton Ghana family in the medium to long term, knowing that sport and education enhance each other.”
All applicants will need to be in good standing with their Badminton Community Clubs, or School to be eligible. Successful applicants will be selected and will receive a full scholarship to allow them to take part in the university programme and the World Academy of Sport. With the application deadline being October 6, 2021, approaching, more information is available on the Ghana Badminton Website. http://99g.ghanabadminton.org/join-us/badminton-scholarship-application/
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About Ghana Badminton Association-www.ghanabadminton.org
We are Ghana Badminton, the Governing Body of Badminton in Ghana formed in 1962 and affiliated with the Badminton Confederation of Africa, International Olympic Committee, and International Paralympic Committee through the Badminton World Federation
The unique qualities of badminton make it accessible and enjoyable for anyone and everyone. And we work collaboratively with our partners and stakeholders to provide traditional and innovative opportunities for all to be involved; from Basic, Senior High and Tertiary School programs to seniors and Veterans social badminton, from School, community, and regional clubs and our national class coaching development to the delivery of our major events.
With Olympic success at the heart of our ambitions, we are investing our knowledge and expertise in rebuilding build a quality future for our sport by strengthening and developing the domestic game and developing talent to achieve success on the international stage, inspiring the next generation of players and local fans, and corporate community.
With thousands of Ghanaians playing every year, badminton is looking forward to being the nation’s favourite racket sport by 2022. We want to inspire everyone to play more, support louder and love badminton, from this generation to the next as the world’s fastest exercise and racket sport.
Speech by Ghana Badminton President at Medal Presentation Ceremony of 19 Medal Winners from 2021 Benin Internationals to Director-General, NSA – Part of the targeted three series 2022 Commonwealth Games Qualifiers
Dear NSA Director-General, Management and Staff of NSA, Board, and Members of Ghana Badminton, players and staff, my fellow team members.
I wish you a warm welcome and congratulations for the grandeur honour of these medals. It is a great pleasure to see you and the sports authority for this rainy-day presentation of our international laurels. Our team’s overall results were modest and did not live up to the hopes we placed in these 2022 commonwealth competitions, but all of you present today put on excellent performances and your achievements are indisputable. Once again, I congratulate you on these historic country achievements.
Director-General, of course, as the national and supervisory governing body of the sport, the purpose of today’s meeting is for us to present to you these medals won, but this is not all. I would like to discuss with you, as our best athletes, what we can do to prepare for the subsequent events. Who is better to discuss this subject with than you.
Today’s modern top-level sport is always a tremendous amount of hard work plus a little bit of luck. But clearly, without concrete and systematic effort, and without unflagging will to achieve results, we would not have succeeded in doing what we did, and we displayed precisely this kind of will in Benin a fortnight ago- winning 18 Bronze Medals and 1 Silver Medal in Seniors and Juniors categories for the two-week event. We also achieved Africa’s second-best player at the tournament in the person of Francis Obeng Shang- the last notable of this was 10 years ago in 2011 in Mauritius.
I want to address a separate thanks to your coaches, management team and our indefatigable High-Performance Committee of the Association. They are always there not only to help the athletes develop their physical capabilities but also maintain them in good mental shape too – it is essential for the athletes after all to be able to keep a balanced state and withstand the intense psychological pressure they come under. Our Road to Africa Games in Ghana and the 2022 Commonwealth Games, of course, represent the peak of this kind of pressure, and so the coaches also made a very important contribution to your victories as a nation.
It is no secret for anyone that sport in our country is going through a change in generations today. In one sense, you could say that a change of generations is always taking place, of course, only sometimes it happens quicker, and sometimes it is a slower process. But whatever the case, many of our young athletes have shown that our African Games team does have good potential, that our young sports people do have talent, and in maturity in the next three years to the 2024 France Olympics through our High-Performance Plan.
DG, I nevertheless want to note the memorable performance that we saw from our young medallist winner, Racheal Quarcoo. Her admiration won her, and her team a five-year scholarship to participate in the Benin Internationals annual event.
She will be turning 13 years this week, and we hope that tomorrow will find her in the best of spirits. We will put her in a good mood today and tomorrow you can add to it. Congratulations! The example set by the renowned mixed team also played a big part in these victories. We saw this in the stubborn determination of our mixed team and seniors winning bronze medals respectively in the competition.
We are the only Mix team sport in the country. It is very important to see that our athletes are also competitive in what are relatively revamped sports for our country. Ghana Badminton is on the rise again, after almost sixty years of our existence in Ghana. It is an excellent synthesis when we win medals in sports in which we have never achieved high results in the past and win medals in events of the sports in which we have always been strong.
We have analysed our results, both objective and subjective. We have made commitments of greater value in funds and appeal to your office to assist us in defray the cost we incurred. We are grateful for the help given to us by the Ministry of Youth & Sports and the National Sports Authority and expecially also for our major food sponsor Stallion Distributors. We are grateful
This has not been easy managing creditors and we appeal to your office to assist us in defraying this cost. Much sadness is that no team member has even received a penny from this tournament in allowances and your fatherly love to us should shine on us this rainy day.
Overall, DG we have excellent potential. No matter how much emotion gets vented on our team, on specific heads of federations, on sports officials, you know that we all realise what you are capable of, and we clearly have enough time to prepare for the next games to put forward our best team and put on our best performance, even more so as this will be our qualifiers.
I hope that by then everyone who will compete will be familiar with all the nuances of our center. They have done well, work hard and are doing everything possible to achieve results and show what our country is capable of.
Director-General, our sports provide for internal appeals and resolution mechanisms per the Constitution for all members who are in good standing, and we ask all persons to use these avenues in grievances from members if only they are in good standing. Our constitution has been for the last two years a model for even other federations in the country, who are rewriting their constitution using ours as a model-This every member who is a citizen of our sport is revered.
We have a lot of work ahead. Once more, we congratulate all of you on the team and sincerely on what is perhaps a very significant occasion for most of us. I wish on behalf of all of us my sincere congratulations! To your office and for the best interest in the development of sport in our country.
From the hills, street training and gulley soils of Agona Nyakrom through to Osu Kinkawe, from Agotime Kpetoe, and Bimbilla- we present to you our 18 Medals and 1 Silver won from our recent international event, which is unprecedented in twenty years in the annals of the Sport.
Badminton Benin International: Ghana’s U35 Team wins two Bronze Medals
By Edna A. Quansah, Ghana News Agency
Ouidah, Benin, Aug. 24, GNA- Ghana’s quest to win a gold medal in the ongoing Badminton Benin International ended yesterday following Ghana’s topmost athlete Abdul Ahmad-Samad elimination by a Kazakhstan and South Africans at the semi-final stage. The first of any Ghanaian in Benin Internationals in ten years.
Despite their impressive performance in the round 16 stage, the team faced a Herculean task against experienced sides who have had many international tournament exposures- with some counting thirty-two appearances in one year alone. In furtherance to this performance, no player got below the quarter final stage of the international competition
In the Men’s Singles event, Ghana’s number one rising badminton player Abdul Ahmad-Samad was ousted by a Kazakhstan player, Dmitry Panarin, who has tasted over 43 international competitions in two years and winning a bronze medal at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Argentina. The Ghanaian athlete lost with a score of 21-19, 21-18 at the semi-final stage.
Prospera Nantou, Ghana’s Women Singles prospect, also succumbed to South African’s Johanita Scholtz in a game which ended 21-5, 21-8 in the Women’s Single.
In the Men’s Double, Ruan Snyman and Robert Summers, also from South Africa beat Ghana’s pair, Ebenezer Korampong and Samuel Lamptey 21-11, 21-13 whilst the latter’s compatriot Daniel Steyn and Bogani Von defeated Ruddock Quarcoo and Aaron Tamakloe with a score of 21-12, 21-14 and Cameron Coetzer and Jarred Eliot eliminated Emmanuel Amoako and Elvis Osei with 21-12, 21-14
In the Women’s Double, Amy Ackerman and Diane Olivier (South Africa) posted a painful defeat to Ghana’s Prospera Nantuo and Cindy Tornyenyor in the semi-finals. The game ended 21-9, 21-10, whilst Demi Botha Deidra and Laurens Jordaan (South Africa) conquered Gloria Nyame and Racheal Quarcoo from Ghana, with 21-10, 21-2 in the quarterfinals.
Having lost in the other events, South African’s pair Robert White and Diane Olivier inflicted more pain to Team Ghana to thrash Cindy Tornyenyor and Ahmad Abdul-Samad with 21-7, 21-16 in the Mixed Double category.
Also in that category, Alphous and Prospera outclassed compatriots Aaron Tamakloe and Gloria Nyame 21-15, 21-11 to pick a semi-final slot but lost out to South African Jarred Elliot and Deidre Laurens Jordaan after recording 21-7, 21-16.
Despite losing, per the Badminton rules, Ghana was awarded two bronze medals for reaching the semi-final stage in the Mixed Doubles and Women’s Double Event, giving the country the needed round one of cumulative points towards the Badminton Mixed Team Event qualification for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham-United Kingdom.
Ghana begun her campaign for the African U-15 Championship on Sunday, August 22, at the Stade de l’amitié Générale Mathieu. In furtherance to this, Ghana is also taking part in an international training camp for the sub-juniors age category- building up the essence of Badminton technique play at the world class level for its national athletes. The 2020-2024 High Performance Plan by the association (linked here) is making continuous progress as the national Badminton team is exceeding target.
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About Ghana Badminton Association-www.ghanabadminton.org
We are Ghana Badminton, the Governing Body of Badminton in Ghana formed in 1962 and affiliated to the Badminton Confederation of Africa, International Olympic Committee, and International Paralympic Committee through the Badminton World Federation
The unique qualities of badminton make it accessible and enjoyable for anyone and everyone. And we work collaboratively with our partners and stakeholders to provide traditional and innovative opportunities for all to be involved; from Basic, Senior High and Tertiary School programs to seniors and Veterans social badminton, from School, community, and regional clubs and our national class coaching development to the delivery of our major events.
With Olympic success at the heart of our ambitions, we are investing our knowledge and expertise in rebuilding build a quality future for our sport by strengthening and developing the domestic game and developing talent to achieve success on the international stage, inspiring the next generation of players and local fans, and corporate community.
With thousands of Ghanaians playing every year, badminton is looking forward to being the nation’s favourite racket sport by 2022. We want to inspire everyone to play more, support louder and love badminton, from this generation to the next as the world’s fastest exercise and racket sport.
Ghana Badminton’s top female junior player Racheal Quarcoo gets a five-year sponsorship deal.
By Edna A. Quansah, GNA
Accra, Sept. 3, GNA- The Benin Badminton Federation (BBF) has offered 13-year-old Racheal Quarcoo a five-year sponsorship following her impressive performance in the Badminton Benin International and the All-Africa U-15, U-19 championships which just ended on September 1 in Ouidah, Benin.
Quarcoo, in her first international appearance, excelled in the All-Africa U-15 championship and the Benin International (U-35) where she reached the quarterfinal stage and was eliminated by much older experienced opponents.
Following her marvellous exploits in the competitions, the BBF offered her a sponsorship which includes taking care of her accommodation, feeding and tournament entry fee for the next five years when she takes part in the Benin International. This will offer her the needed support for her tournament points and ranking build up in qualifying towards the 2023 African Games, 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games, 2024 Olympic Games, and 2026 Youth Olympic Games to be held in Senegal for the first time on the African soil.
The budding talent was a member of the Mixed Team that won bronze in the All Africa U-15 championship.
She told the GNA Sports, the offer will spur her on to do better in her subsequent competitions for the nation.
Meanwhile, Team Ghana has arrived from Benin after bagging 1 Silver and six bronze medals. The star of the tournament was Francis Obeng Shang-the current Silver medalist ranked player in Africa.
Racheal In action during internationalsRacheal Reaches QuartersBronze medallist U-15 African Champions
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