Table tennis player Joanita Borteye has also been appointed deputy captain, while badminton player Obapomba Adu-Mintah has been selected as Ghana’s flag bearer for the Games, scheduled from of October 31 to 13 November.
Ghana will compete in eight disciplines: athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, judo, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo.
Team Ghana has participated in all three previous editions of the Youth Olympic Games, with its best performance coming in 2014, when Martha Bissah won gold in the women’s 800 metres at the Games in Nanjing, China.
–ChannelAfrica–
