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Ghana first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, when it was known by the colonial name of Gold Coast.The nation has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then, missing the 1956 Games, boycotting the 1976 Games in protest of the participation of New Zealand (who still had sporting links with apartheid South Africa), and joining the American-led boycott of the 1980 ...
Dezső Gyarmati is the first and only athlete (man or woman) to win five Olympic medals in water polo (three gold, one silver and one bronze). [1] Filip Filipović, Duško Pijetlović and Andrija Prlainović, all representing Serbia, won four consecutive Olympic medals between 2008 and 2021. [3] [4] [5] Legend – Hosts
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
The Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 is a rally car built by Volkswagen Motorsport and based upon the Volkswagen Polo road car. It is built to R5 regulations and is a successor to the Volkswagen Polo R WRC. [1] The Polo GTI R5 made its competitive début at the 2018 Rally Catalunya, where it was driven by 2003 World Drivers' Champion Petter Solberg and ...
Ghana at the 2020 Summer Olympics; IOC code: GHA: NOC: Ghana Olympic Committee: in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 () – August 8, 2021 () Competitors: 14 in 5 sports: Flag bearers (opening) Nadia Eke Sulemanu Tetteh: Flag bearer (closing) Samuel Takyi: Medals Ranked 86th: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1: Summer Olympics appearances
Men's 10 km walk Gold: Sydney Atkinson: 1928 Amsterdam: Athletics: Men's 110 m hurdles Bronze: Marjorie Clark: 1932 Los Angeles: Athletics: Women's 80 m hurdles Gold: Esther Brand: 1952 Helsinki: Athletics: Women's high jump Silver: Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger: 1952 Helsinki: Athletics: Women's 100 m Gold: Abebe Bikila: 1960 Rome: Athletics: Men's ...
The top country medal winner was Great Britain with six medals. No equestrian had more than two medals, but four riders, all from Great Britain, won two medals each. [1] In 1900, at the first appearance of the sport, all medals went to "mixed teams", [3] while in the second appearance at the 1908 Games, all medals went to British teams. [4]
Cape Coast, Ghana 4 × 100 m relay: 38.08 Ghana Sean Safo-Antwi Benjamin Azamati-Kwaku Emmanuel Yeboah Joseph Amoah: 5 August 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [24] [25] 38.07 Ghana Sean Safo-Antwi Benjamin Azamati Joseph Oduro Manu Joseph Amoah: 23 July 2022 World Championships: Eugene, United States [26] 4 × 400 m relay: 3:04.76 Ghana George ...