Abdul Wahid Omar (right) won his second bronze medal in two appearances at the Commonwealth Games
On the other hand, Omar failed to live up to expectation being the most experienced member of the Black Bombers team having already appeared at the 2014 and 2018 editions of the games respectively.
The 28-year-old was defeated by Mauritius’ Louis Richarno Colin in the semi-finals to deny him a chance at challenging for gold.
With Team Ghana competing in 13 sporting disciplines with over 100 athletes, athletics joined boxing as the only sport to win a medal for the country.
But for the technical violation by the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), Team Ghana could have secured another medal in the 4x100m relay.
A quartet of Benjamin Azamati, Sean Safo-Antwi, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu and Barnabas Agerh were disqualified despite finishing third with a national record time of 39.05s in Heat 1 of the 4x100m relays.
Responding to the disappointment that led to Ghana being disqualified, the leadership of Team Ghana in Birmingham called for the GAA to provide them with an extensive report detailing what led to the unfortunate incident.
But the GAA in a statement apologised to the athletes and the entire nation for what they described as a technical oversight that led to Ghana’s disqualification.
In the men’s 100m race, Azamati came close to snatching a bronze medal but missed out on the finish line to place fourth in a time of 10.16 seconds, as Kenya’s Ferdinand Omayal stormed to a gold medal in a time of 10.02 seconds.
Meanwhile, the women’s 4x100m relay team managed to finish seventh in the final race in what ended their hopes of winning a medal at the Games.
In high jump, Abigail Kwarteng and Rose Yeboah of Ghana failed to win a medal in the women’s high jump competition despite the former clearing the height of 1.85m.
Having gone ahead to clear the bar at 1.91 metres, Kwarteng failed to pull off the height of 1.92 metres as she missed out on a place in the medal zone.
Yeboah, on the other hand, had a personal best as she cleared the height of 1.85metres but struggled with the bar at 1.89 metres.
Team Ghana struggled to make headway in disciplines such as swimming, table tennis, badminton, squash, weightlifting, hockey, beach volleyball, and , among others.
Source: graphic.com.gh
