President Akufo-Addo Announces $150,000 Package For Olympic Games Participants

 

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August 20, 2021

By@kennethmedia

President Akufo-Addo has reportedly announced a $150,000 packages for all the participants of the just-ended 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Ghana sent a 14-member contingent to the Olympic Games in Tokyo in disciplines such as running, swimming and boxing which resulted in the winning of a bronze medal.

 

According to journalist Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo, Samuel Takyi — the only medal-winning contestant will receive a car, $10,000 and another $20,000 will be put in a fund for him.

Also the rest of the team will receive $5,000 each for their participation. Each member of Ghana’s Olympic contingent was also given a medal by the president in recognition of their efforts in Tokyo 2020.

Samuel Takyi clinched Ghana’s first bronze medal in 29 years of Olympic Games history.

He joins the pantheon of Ghanaian Olympic boxing greats Clement Quartey, a light welterweight who won silver in Rome 1960, Eddie Blay a bronze light-welterweight medallist from Tokyo 1964 and Prince Amartey who made history in Munch 1972.

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