Ghanaian boxer Abdul Wahid Omar won his fight against Jamie Devine of the Isle of Man to reach the round of 16.
Joshua Quartey will face Nigeria’s Adeyinka Benson, while Joseph Commey meets Kiribati’s Botoro Aaree in the next fights involving Ghanaians.
Ghana has presented 9 bovers at the 22nd Commonwealth Games.
Ornella Sathoud, Ghana’s only female boxer at the 2022Commonwealth Games in Birmingham lost on points in her first bout.
The US based boxer was beaten 3-2 by England’s Kerry Davis in the Middleweight division (75 kg ).
Ranked 3rd in Africa and 10th in the World, she told reporters she wanted to be more strategic and less wild, she was also not perfect as she hoped to be in the bout.
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