February 7

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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018
• L-R-Victor Baiden, President of WABBA,
Michael Ahorlu, Vice President of WABBA
and a body builder
Elite Bodybuilding
Open set for March
BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH
THE WORLD Amateur
Bodybuilding Association
(WABBA),
Ghana Chapter will
from Friday, March
23, 2018 through to
Sunday, March 25, 2018 organise
Elite Bodybuilding Championship
at Oyarifa, a suburb in Accra.
The three-day event will see
both female and male bodybuilders
from the various weight categories
in the country compete for a spot in
the national event set for later in the
year.
The event will open with a seminar
on weight training, judging and
fitness awareness for bodybuilding
athletes, gymnasium and climaxed
with the Elite Bodybuilding Championship.
The president of WABBA, Mr
Victor Baiden told the DAILY
HERITAGE in Accra yesterday
that the competition is opened to all
bodybuilders in the country and it
would serve as a qualification platform
for the athletes to participate
in the national competition later in
the year.
“The head of judging at
WABBA, Mr Prevor Chang from
the United Kingdom will be the one
to take the potential judges in
Ghana through tutorials of the
game and would also score the athletes,”
he said.
He said registration form could
be acquired at their offices or on
www.facebook.com/wabbagh.
In a related development, Mr
Michael Ahorlu who is the vice
president of the association and
also the head of branding and
strategic marketing for WABBA,
Ghana chapter said on Saturday,
February 17, 2018 that the executives
of the association would engage
the bodybuilders to know and
understand their grievances in the
sport.
He said the meeting would take
place at Bond Gymnasium at Adentan
Barrier in Accra where they
would also reveal their progressive
plans to the athletes who would be
attending.
“We want to understand their
grievances, listen to them and also
tell them of our expectations and
the plans we have for them.
“We want the bodybuilders in
Ghana to grow from one level to
another internationally. They should
not only compete in Ghana but
transcend their art to other parts of
the world,” he said.
He added that the executives
would soon organise a community
audition in the Greater Accra,
Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Western
Regions in the coming months.
Mr Ahorlu called for corporate
bodies and individuals in the country
to support WABBA Ghana Federation
by donating monies to
MTN mobile money number
0240760124.
He also said corporate bodies
could advertise their products and
services and individuals in the
country to take advantage of bodybuilding.
Aduana Stars
Announce
Squad for CAF
Champions League
GHANA PREMIER
League champions,
2016/17, Aduana Stars have
named an 18-man squad for
their forthcoming CAF
Champions League match
against Libyan side Al
Tahadi in the first leg of
the preliminary round in
Egypt due to the unstable
political situation in Libya.
The Fire Boys will commence
their CAF Champions
League campaign this
weekend as they set to lock
horns with their Libyan
counterparts.
Head coach of Aduana
Stars, Yusif Abubakar has
named a strong squad for
their trip as they poised to
achieve positive results in
the first leg.
Aduana Stars will face
the winner of the tie between
ES Setif of Algeria
and Olympique de Bangui
of Central African Republic
if they beat Tahaddy.
Below are the
names of players:
Tijani Ahmed
Joseph Addo
Akuoko Emma.
Farouk Adams
Caleb Amankwaa
Paul Aidoo
Justice A
Abdul Rashid
Anokye Badu
Emmanuel Boateng
Sam Adams
Gockel Ahortoh
Elvis Opoku
Noah Martey
Zakaria Mumuni
Nat. Asamoah
Bright Agyei
Derick Sasraku.
Black Bombers B in Hungary for boxing tournament
SPORTS DESK
SIX BOXERS and four officials
of the junior national boxing
team, Black Bombers B, are in
Debrecen, Hungary to participate
in the Bocskai Istvan Memorial
International Boxing tournament.
The Ghanaian team, which includes
Shakul Samed, kid brother
of the Samir brothers, joins the
tournament which began on
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 and
will end on Sunday, February 11,
2018. It is under the auspices of
the Hungary Boxing Association.
The junior Black Bombers
were led by Abdul Samadu Mohammed,
Vice-President of the
Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF)
and Coach Charles Quartey.
The competition intends to enable
the young boxers get the
needed exposure to help hone
their budding skills to take over
from the regular Black Bombers
team who are currently camping
in Cape Coast ahead of the 2018
Commonwealth Games in Australia
in April this year.
The GBF Vice-President said
the tournament had come at the
right time for the young boxers to
gain the needed international exposure,
to train and also fight
with better facilities.
“We know how good they are,
we believe they will win gold
medals to make Ghana proud and
also get us invited to more such
competitions in future,” he said.
He thanked the Hungarian
Embassy in Ghana for their assistance.
• The Black Bombers B team