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Para Badminton: Team Ghana wins 1 Silver and 4 Bronze Medals at the Uganda Para International Championships-second best result by an African Country

The National Para Badminton Team made a giant milestone of success for Ghana, last week by winning 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals at the Uganda Para International Championships, the second-best result by an Africa country at the international Championships.

135 players from 18 Countries included Scotland, Russia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Benin, Brazil, Zambia, Egypt, Uganda, India, Germany, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Congo, Italy, Mozambique, France, and Canada took part in the 10-day international event.

The five Ghanaian athletes namely Mohammed Azumah Salih, Ampofo Juliana, Ampofowaa Akosua, Abubakar Adizatu, and Awudu Asana gave national and continental bravery, when they won the podium medals even to the admiration of the 60 Indian shuttlers, including Tokyo Paralympic champion Pramod Bhagat, who also won gold for his country in his event.

Abubakar Adizatu won Silver is her WD – WH 1 – WH 2 category, whilst Juliana Ampofo and Asana Awudu also won Bronze. Abubakar Adizatu again won Bronze in the Women Singles event, having faced the experienced 9th ranked world champion Ammu Mohan from India in the semi-finals. Ampofowaa Akosua, the stalwart of the team, also won Bronze in the Mix Double category.

The international tournament also witnessed a national coaching education course for Mohammed Azumah Salih, where he also took part in a National Level 1 Classifier Workshop educational session- building up progress for Ghana to have its first para badminton certified coaching access programme.

Commenting on this achievement, the President of Ghana Badminton shared, “we are excited about this achievement from these athletes, who excelled and made Ghana proud under very difficult circumstances. The Badminton World Federation have been instrumental in this achievement by supporting these females through the Female Participation Programme since 2017, thoroughly showing us that, badminton is a sport for all, meaning that it is accessible to men and women of all ages and for people with a wide range of impairments. We will not rest on these laurels but continue to expand our Para badminton country strategy paper on Para badminton’s involvement towards 2023 African Paralympic Games and 2024 France Paralympic Games.”

We recognise para badminton as a Paralympic sport and the sport was present at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) recognises the Badminton World Federation (BWF) as the world governing body for Para badminton. Ghana Badminton promotes and develops Para badminton in the regions, including delivering a nationwide Disability Coaching Module from January 2022 as part of our coaching education programme.

Yesterday, the team made a beautiful presentation to the Ashanti Regional Sports Development Director of all the beautiful African medals won during the event.

Para badminton athletes compete in men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles, where they are classified into one of six different sport classes to ensure fairness in competition.

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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.

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2 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals marks Team Ghana’s Best Future Performance

Accra, Ghana October 30, 2021

2 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals at 2021 African Championships at Kampala, Uganda: a game changer for Ghana Badminton sport

2 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals marks Team Ghana’s Best Future Performance at the Badminton African Mixed Team Championships, recently

The Ghana Badminton Team, the Golden Shuttlers, put out a golden spirited performance in the Air Badminton Event, winning 2 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals at the recently held 2021 African Mixed Team Event- which was a 2022 Commonwealth Games qualifying event.

After Eight Days of Badminton Sport and Culture, the event ended in the heart of Kampala, from the October 20-29, 2021, with Team Ghana having well and truly raised the bar – not only in result impressiveness, but played an outstanding game – with full strength and gallant performance facts which made all the difference for team Ghana

The participation of the championship draws participation from Africa’s best badminton and commonwealth countries. They are Uganda (hosts), Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Madagascar, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Benin, Botswana, Mauritius, and Reunion.

The Event was an ambitious development project from the Badminton World Federation (BWF) designed to create opportunities for people of all ages and ability to play badminton on hard, grass and sand surfaces in parks, gardens, streets, playgrounds, and beaches around the world.

Given the diverse range of landscapes and stunning scenery offered across Africa, the alternative version of the game is an exciting opportunity for players to get involved and enjoy the multiple health and social benefits of badminton.

The fascinating sporting competition, and excellent performance in the Mix Team Individual events, where second round results was also achieved for all five events Ghana took part in- having won the hearts, admiration, and accolades of all who were present in the MTN Lugogo Arena.

Each day of the competition produced moments of glory and ecstasy that captured the imagination of the spectators with local and international media alike. Some moments, though, stood out from the rest.

During the immensely popular match between Ghana and Uganda, there was a moment on the ice — and not in the kiss and cry assembly point area of the Hall — that evoked genuine emotions of the sport.

Going into the event as the third ranked mix team event champion in Africa, the event provided a benchmark to compare as a tool for comparison to other African countries of relative program strength; it is important politically in sports for Ghana Badminton players to remain and receive key international competitions with its world ranking points, and an excellent high-level opportunity and development experience for our national athletes, technical officials, and technical team from a competitive and Multi-Sport Games perspective and largely also provided an opportunity for qualification for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, whilst preparing our high-level technical officials to officiate at the 2023 African Games.

“With the final qualifying competition to be held in February 2022, Team Ghana is positioned in qualifying for the 2022 Commonwealth Games- a major achievement by any African country in twenty-one years. Our team’s excellent performance gives success credence towards our 2024 High Performance Plan and with appreciation from MOYS, NSA stakeholders and partners, we are excited this vision is growing in leaps” said Yeboah Evans-President, Ghana Badminton.

The Closing Ceremony of the Competition captured the spirit perfectly too. Attended by Uganda Sports officials, Ambassadors of teams and Uganda Badminton Officials, the Ceremony ended with a demonstration of the best moments of the games: the joy of victories, the agony of loss, beautiful amalgamation of music, dance, culture, and the nations’ parade- a warm welcome to everyone by the locals and participants from the 16 countries.

Team Ghana was welcome on arrival over the weekend by Board members and some government officials with beaming smiles having been elated in podium success on achievement at the 2021 African Championships at Kampala, Uganda.

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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.

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 Ghana Badminton and Badminton World Federation offering 100 Scholarships – Applications open.

 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.

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Speech by Ghana Badminton President at Medal Presentation Ceremony of 19 Medal Winners to Government of Ghana

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Accra-Ghana September 14, 2021

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

  1. Dear NSA Director-General, Management and Staff of NSA, Board, and Members of Ghana Badminton, players and staff, my fellow team members.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  1. Thank you

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Badminton Benin International: Ghana’s Senior’s Team Wins Two Bronze Medals

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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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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.

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Ghana’s Mixed Team settles for third position in All Africa U-15 Championship

Ghana’s Mixed Team settles for third position in All Africa U-15 Championship

By Edna A. Quansah, Ghana News Agency

   Ouidah, Benin, Aug. 31, GNA- Ghana’s Mixed team settled for the third position and would bag a bronze medal in the All-Africa U-15 Championship which was played yesterday at the Stade de l’amitié Générale Mathieu in Benin. The best performance in twenty years history of Ghana at the U-15 African championships.

     After playing in the Mixed Doubles, Men’s Doubles, Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles event against Mauritius in the semi-finals, Ghana lost 1-3 which halted the team’s progression to the finals.

     It was Ghana’s new young sensation, Francis Obeng Shang who won the Men’s Singles event against Mauritius’ Men’s Singles Champion after the team’s excellent performance at the Group stage.

     Ghana was housed in Group A with Niger, South Africa, and Benin. Ghana topped the table with 381 points beating all three competitors 5-0 each in the group stage of the competition.

     Mauritius progressed to the finals and meet with Egypt in the All-Africa U-15 Championship which played on Tuesday, August 24.

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 also took 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.

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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.

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Ghana Badminton’s Top Female Junior player Racheal Quarcoo gets a five-year sponsorship deal.

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 internationals
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Ghana Badminton Association and University of Education’s Winneba Signs MOU

Ghana Badminton Association and University of Education’s Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports Department Signs MOU to Showcase Badminton’s Teaching and Sports Promotion  

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ACCRA, 11 April 2021

Ghana Badminton Association, the national governing and supervisory body of Badminton sport in Ghana, announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Education’s Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports (HPERS) Department.

At a signing ceremony at the University of Education, Winneba the MOU will establish and undertake cooperative programmes in the areas of badminton research, badminton university course, training, scholarships, technical and physical education for athletes and technical development in sport management, and administration.

Following the announcement, Ghana Badminton President Evans Yeboah said:

“Our collaboration with the University of Education is another great step forward for Ghana Badminton’s growth. We are hopeful about his development and the partnership with the University is in line with our 2024 strategic growth of building partnerships with educational institutions in the country. This MOU agreement will not only promote educational research and sports development for Ghana Badminton ecosystem but offers opportunities and access for our Badminton World Federation (BWF) University course for the students at the University.”

The Ghana Badminton’s BWF Shuttle Time University Course on graduation will offer two national and International Certification to HPERS students at the university, while as the national federation we will provide the knowledge and support required to deliver fun, safe, and enjoyable badminton lessons assisting the university and college students undertaking to teach physical education and sports-related courses at the University of Education, Winneba.

The University of Education HPERS Head of Department, Dr Ernest Yeboah Acheampong commented: “This MOU brings together our expanding core values as a sports department of the University of Education. This partnership includes the exchange of expertise, programmes, training and helping our University students with a leap head in research, sports management with a well-organised national sporting association. Already the BWF Research Grant is something we look forward to some of our students to identify themselves with Badminton related research proposals. We have also availed our facilities and management with the national association, and we will want to work with the best in sports management and Ghana Badminton Association delights us to have this agreement in place. We’re looking forward to working alongside the Ghana Badminton offering as the first-ever sporting association in this mammoth collaboration for our mutual benefit.”

A senior lecturer at the HPERS Department, Prof. Humphrey Pufaa also shared his highlights on the need for national associations to partner with University’s for scientific methods of approach and guidance in benefiting from the accredited programmes that the Universities offer, he was elated about this beginning path between the two organisations.

The Shuttle Time University Course had grown its popularity mainly in the Pan Am region, with 68% of the courses delivered, followed by 29% delivered in Europe and 3% in Asia regions.

With the spurring growth of Badminton Sport, the University of Education will be the first University in Africa in the last decade to run the national and international Badminton Course and are on the road to be globally accredited for the teaching of Badminton in a university.

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About Ghana Badminton Association-www.ghanabadminton.org

We are Ghana Badminton, the Governing Body of Badminton in Ghana formed in 1972 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 racket sport.

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