Accra, May 28, GNA – Weightlifter Chris Amoah has left Accra for Kenya to participate in Tokyo Olympic Qualifiers.
Amoah would now join his Christopher Forester Osei, for the final Tokyo Olympics qualifiers currently ongoing in Kenya.
The Ghanaian, who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics Games left Accra on Wednesday in the company of national team coach Johnson Abotsi.
Initially, United Kingdom (UK)-based Osei was the nation’s sole representative at the Kenya qualifiers, having been offered the country’s solitary slot by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to compete in the 89kg weight category in view of his current rankings.
This was due to Osei’s total points of 2,397.7108 points as well as ratings as the 13th in his category.
“However, after further deliberations between the chieftains of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF) and the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) it was agreed that Amoah could join his colleague to fight for a slot at the Japan Olympics,” officials of the GWF disclosed.
At the Kenya qualifiers, Amoah and Osei will be competing in the 89kg and 96kg categories respectively.
In February 2019, Amoah grabbed two bronze medals at the 6th Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation Annual Weightlifting Championship in Uzbekistan.
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