The gallant team of the Special Olympics Ghana were given a rapturous welcome Friday at the Kotoka International Airport following their heroic performance at the just ended Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi.
Ghana won two gold medals after participating in only athletics and football.
Ghana, noted for her prowess in football lost the 3rd place game to Romania before Hannah Dantakar running a time of 29.59sec to beat off competition from St Kitts & Nevis’ Tanique Richards to grab gold in women’s 200m.
The one week games which started 14th March, 2019 at Zayed Sports City Stadium saw Joseph Tettey Amertowasi winning gold in the men’s 100m with the time of 13.13secto wrap up Ghana’s involvement in the games.
Speaking to the press at the airport, the Board Chairman of Special Olympics Ghana ACP (rtd) Augustine Kokukorkor described the whole events as a success.
‘The whole event was a success because it is an improvement over our last appearance in the Los Angeles where we had silver without gold. We could have done far better than this if we’ve had enough financial support for early camping and preparations’.
The Special Olympics World games is a sporting event organized for children living with intellectual disability.
Story: Michael Okuley
Twitter: @MikeOkuley
