
BOXING: BLACK BOMBERS AND HITTERS ROUND UP RESIDENTIAL CAMPING IN CAPE COAST AHEAD OF THEIR DOUBLE MISSION
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- February 9, 2024
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The male and female National Boxing Teams, the Black Bombers and Hitters, are on the verge of rounding up the 1st stage of their high intensity residential camping in Cape Coast.
The team has been training at the Cape Coast sports stadium for the past 3 weeks and will soon return to Accra for another 3 weeks of residential camping at the games village of the ACCRA2023 on the campuses of the University of Ghana from 12th February, 2024. An arrangement which would also be used to test the venues and training facilities for the upcoming All Africa Games scheduled to start next month in Accra-Ghana
The special camping is aimed to fully prepare the Boxers for the following major international competitions: that is,
1st World Qualifying Tournament Boxing Road to Paris – Busto Arsizio – Italy from 4 -11 March, 2024 and
Road to Africa, Seeking Gold Medals in Accra 2023 – 13th Africa Games from 15 – 23 March, 2024.
However, the team had earlier undertaken 3 months of non-residential training activities at the Accra Sports Stadium, just few weeks after the debacle at the Africa Olympic Qualifiers in Dakar-Senegal, September -2024 where none of the 12 boxers both male & female qualified for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic games.
Reinforced with the likes of Tokyo 2020 Ghana’s sole medalist and Africa’s only boxing medal winner – Samuel Takyi, who will now be fighting at the Light Welterweight -63.5Kg category, Amadu Mohammed and his cousin hard fighting light Flyweight – Mohammed Aryeetey, Welterweight Henry Malm, and also British born Ghanaian Heavyweight -92Kg Mark Kojovi Ahondjo have all determined to make the nation proud in the two major events ahead.
Ghana will likely feature a limited number of boxers (7 males & 2 Females) at the Italy qualifiers. with focus and priorities on categories that the country has comparative advantages, since the leadership of the Ghana Boxing Federation(GBF), Managers of the National Boxing Teams, Ghana Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Youth & Sports were not impressed with the output of the whole sale participation of boxers at the Dakar challenge especially the females boxers and will rather prefer parade them at Africa games in Accra for the needed exposure and build on that for other international future engagements.
Meanwhile, UK based Ghanaian boxer- SETH GYIMAH also known as Freezy Macbones, has withdrawn from the national team to focus on his professional boxing & promotional activities, thus truncating his dream of fighting at the Olympic games.
For the records, The National Boxing Team, Black Bombers remains Ghana’s most successful sporting national team in the country’s participations at major Elite international competitions like the Olympic and Commonwealth games as showcased at the immediate past editions where Samuel Takyi(Featherweight) won Bronze to break the nation’s 29years medal drought at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, which also represented Africa’s only boxing medal at the Japanese capital taking the West Africa nation’s Olympic medal haul to Five(5) with boxing alone producing four(4) medals with 80% mark.
From the Commonwealth games, boxing has won 35 out 60 medals for Ghana since independence that’s 60% including the very recent successes that produced the most valuables of 2 Silvers from Abraham Mensah(Bantamweight) and Joseph Commey(Featherweight) & bronze through Abdul Walib Omar(Lightweight). Out of the total, Ghana won 5 medals at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth games.
Without argument, amateur boxing remains Ghana’s leading medal prospects at future major international competitions and the sustainability of such records hinges on a deliberate, planned and systematic preparations.
Source: GBF MEDIA

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