Ghana National Para-Taekwondo will depart from Ghana to Rwanda to compete in the 2nd African Para-Taekwondo Open Championships on Monday, April 03, 2017.
The two-day tournament will take place on April 1 and 2 in Kigali. Para-Taekwondo championships involve people with physical challenges, specifically persons with an amputated arm.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF), Adnan Lamptey, the trip to Rwanda is part of a larger plan to develop Ghanaian Para-Taekwondo athletes to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
He also disclosed that the GTF has secured four tickets out of five from a facility from the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and keenly looking for sponsorship for the five ticket and per diem allowances and national symbol outfits for the team.
“We can’t let the opportunity by way of assistance from the WTF go to waste for the third time in a row. The world body is paying for tickets and accommodation and it is left to the GTF to pay for food, per diem allowances and other items.”
The team will be led by the Chairman of the GTF Para-Taekwondo Committee, Mr. Lawrence Osei-Boateng, while others include the coach, Adom Mensah Latse, two male athletes, Stephen Kwasi Sansah (Brong Ahafo Region) and Azumah Salah Mohammed (Ashanti Region) and one female athlete, Kubura Awudu. (Greater Accra Region).
It would be recalled that Ghana won its first world medal (bronze) in Taekwondo in 2014 in Russia through the Para-Taekwondo athlete, Sharon Akwei.
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