, GNA – The Ghana Cycling Association (GCA) will participate in the 10th edition of the Africa Continental Cycling Championship in Rwanda, this year. The competition which is scheduled for November 9-14, will see Ghana competing for honours with 14 other African countries. Ghana’s delegation which is made up of four cyclists and an official [...]
Read the rest of this story »Kofi Owusu Aduonum The National Sports Council (NSC) is to evolve strategies towards effective sports development and promotion with a concerted emphasis on the disabled and the lesser known sporting events. The Council, to this end, is to initiative a programme of re-branding of its activities and facilities, and to re-orient the staff to play [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – The Netball Association of Ghana (NAG) will organize a special tournament on Saturday, October 30 at the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex, Kaneshie Accra as part of its preparations for international competitions. The one-day tourney dubbed, “Pure Joy Netball Tournament” is being sponsored by T.T Brothers Limited and is also geared towards the promotion [...]
Read the rest of this story »Keta Senior high retained the 2010 Volta regional Sprite Ball Championship on technical grounds while Awudome girls also halted the dominance of Nkwanta by lifting the trophy on Saturday at the Mawuko Girls senior high basketball court. Ketasco won the competition for the third time running after they accumulated the highest point build up in [...]
Read the rest of this story »credit: Orkula Shaagee Twelve players have so far reported to the Lagos camp of the Nigeria scrabble team in preparation for the forthcoming Africa Scrabble Championship slated for Accra, Ghana from October 21 to October 24. The camp, which opened last Monday, has top scrabble players Jighere Wellington, Balogun Rasheed, Emmanuel Umujose, Eta Karo, Cyril [...]
Read the rest of this story »(AP)—Results of finals Monday on the eighth day of competition at the 19th Commonwealth Games (distances in meters): SHOOTING Men Pairs Skeet Gold: Georgios Achilleos and Andreas Chasikos, Cyprus, 194. Silver: Jason Caswell and Richard McBride, Canada, 191 Bronze: Richard Brickell and Clive Bramley, England, 191. Women Pairs 50-Meter Rifle Prone 1. Scotland (Jan McIntosh [...]
Read the rest of this story »World Champion Cameron van der Burgh secured South Africa’s third gold at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday after surging to victory in the 100m breaststroke final in New Delhi. The 22-year-old won in a time of 1:00.10, lowering the Commonwealth Games record for the third time in two days. Australia’s Christian Sprenger won silver followed [...]
Read the rest of this story »By KEVIN NORQUAY in Delhi – NZPA Kiwi youngster sets NZ weightlifting records NZ badminton players gather round ‘strong’ Rankin NZ squash rivals but brace for Comm Game step up Kiwi table tennis players emerge from cauldron victorious Kiwi archers on target for Comm Games medals Marina Erakovic through in Comm Games mismatch Boxing weigh-in [...]
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