July 18, 2022-TEAM GHANA ANNOUNCES BADMINTON TEAM SET TO COMPETE AT 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES.
Nantuo Prospera celebrates a point at the African Championship
The Ghana Badminton Association (BAG) has officially named its squad for the upcoming 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
The team includes several high-performance players in the National Federation’s 2024 High-Performance Programme.
The six-man team of four men and two women would compete in all five events of Badminton at the Games.
Coach Moses Adu, Ahmed Abdul Samad, Kelvin Evans Alphous (Captain), Cindy Esi Etornam Tornyenyor, Prospera Nantuo, and Aaron Dromo Tamakloe will lead the players to represent the National Badminton Team-Golden Shuttlers and capitalize on the once in a lifetime opportunity to bring home success in our own country.
After the national selection criteria, Linked here the Badminton players that will represent Team Ghana across Singles, Doubles, and Mixed Doubles Events are:
NANTUO, Prospera, Upper East Region–Nantuo has been holding her own on the Doubles and Mixed Doubles. It crowned championships across Africa in recent years and had been Ghana’s National champion at age 21. She hopes to make her mark at her first multi-sport Games, and she will make her Team Ghana debut.
TORNEYNOR, Esi Cindy, Volta Region–Cindy, has built a badminton history of her own, having won the National Doubles event in 2018 and represented Ghana internationally in Mix Team Events.
ALPHOUS, Kelvin Evans, Central Region–Alphous will aim for a run at a Commonwealth medal after his Mix and Men Doubles partnership with Ahmad Samad and Prospera Nantuo caught fire in its first entire season since 2018. Four years after playing together, the pair took home gold medals in international events. He is the raining Men and Mix Doubles National record title.
AHMAD Abdul Samad, Northern Region–As one of the most experienced Golden shuttlers in Ghana, Samad will aim to build on the Men Singles Achievement-The highly African-ranked Men’s Doubles and Men’s Singles Player building on the success of his Men’s Doubles highly world ranked
Samuel Lamptey-Greater Accra Region- Known for remarkable experiences in Men’s Doubles, the former National Doubles Circuit Silver Medalist, will look forward to brewing in confidence after an excellent performance in African tournaments. Together with his pair, an incredible performance will brew in their play.
TAMAKLOE, Dromo Aaron-Greater Accra Region–Having won match events at his maiden African Championships in November 2021 and made his bow in the same season, Tamakloe-now has a chance to shine at the Multi-Sport Games in Mix and Men Singles Events-One of the most successful Ghana shuttlers of the modern era and has reached the top of the three in two doubles events.
Speaking on her excitement about being part of the team, Cindy shared, “It’s such a glorious honour to be part of Team Ghana, and I can’t wait to get out there and do my very best at the Games with support from the nation, friends, and family!”
Regarding coaching, Head Coach, Moses Adu, added, “I feel incredibly proud to lead on the success of our high-performance plan with its coaching opportunity at a multi-sport level, and we will do the nation proud.”
Hoping to continue our seventh Appearance at the Commonwealth Games success, the Ghana Badminton President shared, “The Commonwealth Games is a very notable event for all of us in Ghana Badminton and the Board and all persons of the sport. Our squad is a blend of youth and experience, but all very talented players and highly world-ranked. We are highly optimistic of success in this endeavour as our long-term athlete development plan, with its success, is bringing the needed performance results across the country’s sporting popularity. We are also elated to be guided by Prof Oluwaseun O. Omotoyo, the Head of the Department of Sports and Exercise Medical Sciences (SEMS), University of Health & Allied Sciences, Ho, for his eminence as a renowned World Sports psychologist for our team.”
Ghana Badminton Association would be making their seventh appearance at the Commonwealth Games after their debut in the 1998 Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
You can be part of the team by following our social channels, where each athlete will perform in Birmingham. Ghana Badminton will compete from July 30th- August 8th, 2022, at the NEC Hall, Birmingham, after an initial 6-day training camp in the United Kingdom.
Ghana competes in Athletes, Badminton, Boxing, Cycling, Judo, Beach Volleyball, Aquatics, Squash, Triathlon, Table Tennis, Weightlifting, Hockey and 3 Para Sporting Disciplines.
The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event with a fully integrated programme of para-sport disciplines. This year’s Games promises to be extra special, with packed stadiums and arenas after Tokyo 2020 took place behind closed doors. Birmingham 2022 is set to have the most significant female and para-sport programme in history after a new discipline of Women’s T20 Cricket, Beach Volleyball and Para Table Tennis was confirmed.
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