Ghana at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Between 25 July and 12 August 2012, the West African nation of Ghana took part in the 30th Olympic Games in the British capital London. For the thirteenth participation of West Africans Summer Olympics, the Ghana Olympic Committee nominated three athletes and six athletes in four sports.

The team prepared in Plymouth, about 310 kilometers southeast of London, and the Welsh capital city of Cardiff on the competitions before and moved on 24 July in the Olympic Village. At the opening ceremony the following day, the heavyweight boxer Maxwell Amponsah was the standard-bearer of Nations invasion. Besides Amponsah also Heptathlete Margaret Simpson said her participation in the Games after the nomination injury from, so that a total of seven athletes from Ghana denied a competition.

The latest member of the team was the 17 -year-old weightlifter Alberta Ampomah, the oldest member of the 29 -year-old judoka Emmanuel Nartey. As the most successful athletes showed the flyweight boxer Duke Micah, who retired in the second round and thus finished ninth.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Amponsah was initially set for the first round of competition in the heavyweight division, where he was to meet on the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk. Due to a not fully healed jaw fracture, which he had sustained in a qualifying competition two months earlier, the Ghanaians had to withdraw his participation three days before the fight against Usyk.

Weightlifting

Judo

Athletics

On the day before the start of the Seven struggle acute pyelonephritis was diagnosed with Simpson, who can not possibly made ​​her to take part in the competitions.