Ghana’s weightlifter, Winnifred Ntumi, has credited her outstanding performance at the ongoing 13th African Games to an intensive training camp held in Cape Coast before the competition commenced.
The 21-year-old athlete secured a silver medal in the 49kg snatch category, amassing 63 points, just one point behind gold medalist Sheridane Pasnin from Mauritius.
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Additionally, Ntumi claimed second place in the clean-and-jerk event, earning 81 points.
Impressively, she emerged as the overall leader in the total count with 144 points, securing a gold medal for Ghana.
Winnifred Ntumi has surpassed her achievements from the 2019 African Games in Rabat, where she clinched three bronze medals.
Ghana, initially without any medals since the start of the games on March 3, has now accumulated a total of four medals, with Abeiku Jackson the latest to increase the tally on the medal table.
Ghana is optimistic about adding more to its medal tally before the conclusion of the games on March 23.