Emmanuel Tuffour

Emmanuel Tuffour ( born December 2, 1966) is a retired Ghanaian athlete and won numerous medals at Africa games.

After a second place in the 200 -meter run at the African Championships in 1988 after the Nigerian Davidson Ezinwa Tuffour in 1988 for the first time in the Olympic Games, and in part different in the 100 -meter run in the quarter- finals. In the Africa Games in 1991 Tuffour occupied about 100 meters third place behind Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and behind Davidson Ezinwa. About 200 meters, he won silver behind Fredericks. In June 1992 Tuffour occupied at the African Championships in second place about 200 meters behind the Nigerian Victor Omagbemi. Shortly after he reached at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and missed the semi-finals three times over 200 meters into the finals only to a hundredth of a second.

In 1993 he succeeded his only finals in a world championship as a single starter, as he reached the seventh place at the World Championships in 1993. The Afrikapielen 1995 Tuffour took over 100 meters in second place behind Davidson Ezinwa. About 200 meters he lost to the Nigerian Sunday Bada in 20.29 s only by 0.01 seconds. With the Ghanaian 4 x 100 - meter relay team, he won gold. Also in his third at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 remained Tuffour a Finalist fails again, he retired three times in the semifinals. In 1997, he succeeded at the World Championships in Athens with the season of the finals and the finals in fifth place in a national record 38.12 s

Emmanuel Tuffour had a competition weight of 75 kg at a height of 1.78 m. His personal best of 10.07 s in the 100 meters he ran in 1994 in Schriesheim, his 20.15 s over 200 meters, which he achieved in Johannesburg in 1995, were and are Ghanaian national record (as of 2009 ).

Tuffour trained for many years under Eckard Schweiger in Bremen to the BTS Neustadt.