African Has Potentials To Become World's Best In Armwrestling, Says Charles Osei-Asibey

Ghana Armwrestling Federation GAF,  says Africa will produce world class athletes who could be rated among the best in the world if the sport is adequately financed.

Its President, Charles Osei-Asibey, who noted Africa is well blessed with physically and fit athletes who could compete with the best armwrestlers in the world, said the athletes needed exposure to seminars, workshops in order to have mastery of Armwrestling techniques.

Osei-Asibey, who is optimistic that that an African armwrestler, would in the enxt five years become a world champion, said the continental body, African Armwrestling Federation, AAF, should continue working hard to make the sport popular and acceptable in other African countries.

Osei-Asibey said GAF would use the next edition of the championship to be staged in Ghana in twenty- eighteen to develop and spread the sport in Ghana.

Nigeria Wins African Armwrestling Championship.

Nigeria's Armwrestlers have emerged overall champion of the just concluded Eight edition of African Armwrestling Championship at the Sir Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sportshall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.

Nigeria's Armwrestling athletes top the medals table with a total of Nineteen gold, sixteen silver and eleven bronze medals to amass forty- six medals, while Ghana is second with ten gold, five silver and six bronze medals just as Mali is third with eight gold, four silver and one bronze medals in competition which attracted Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana and Mali.

President of Nigeria Armwrestling Federation, NAF, Samuel Jackson,  who is delighted over the feat recorded by the athletes, said the federation needed the financial support of the National Sports Commission, NSC, corporate bodies and government all levels to assist the federation to lift the standard of armwrestling to greater heights.

Jackson, said the federation had been able to achieve its set objectives in the five years road plans, stressing that plans were in top gear to set another five years target aimed at improving the status of Armwrestling in Nigeria.

The second vice president of African Armwrestling Federation, said NAF would not relent in its effort to stage a world class Armwrestling Championship in the next five years, stressing that NAF intended to spread te sports in twenty- four states of the federation.


He said Nigeria formerly ranked twenty- second in the world and third in Africa, would now be rated first based on the feat recorded by Nigeria's Armwrestlers at the tournament, adding that the federation had been training hard ahead of the World Armwrestling Championship in Hungary, in October.

Ghana Armwrestling Federation, GAF, will host the Nineth edition in Twenty- eighteen.