Ghana’s Table Tennis Team marched into the finals after they defeated Jamaica in their semi final game 3:1 in the ongoing Commonwealth Games at the Scotstoun Campus in Glasgow.
Ghana’s win is seen as revenge after losing to the Jamaican’s in previous editions of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Melbourne prior to this encounter.
Meanwhile, the Swimming team continued their progress in the Games with two swimmers breaking national records and another setting a new personal best. Ophelia Swayne led the brilliant performances; blazing to a new national record and a personal best of 29.66 seconds in the women’s 50m butterfly event. she erased her own previous mark of 29.86 with a 6th place finish in Heat 3. She placed 31st overall in the event.
Ghana’s win is seen as revenge after losing to the Jamaican’s in previous editions of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Melbourne prior to this encounter.
Meanwhile, the Swimming team continued their progress in the Games with two swimmers breaking national records and another setting a new personal best. Ophelia Swayne led the brilliant performances; blazing to a new national record and a personal best of 29.66 seconds in the women’s 50m butterfly event. she erased her own previous mark of 29.86 with a 6th place finish in Heat 3. She placed 31st overall in the event.
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Similarly, Abeiku Jackson set a new national record in the men’s 100m freestyle event after placing third in Heat 3 with a time of 56.47 seconds to improve his previous personal best of 56.71 seconds, which he set at an international competition in Germany a month before the Games.
By: Sahr Morris Jr. in Glasgow
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