{"id":3874,"date":"2024-03-11T05:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2024-03-11T05:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T05:20:55","slug":"2023-african-games-winnifred-ntumi-wins-ghanas-first-three-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"2023 African Games: Winnifred Ntumi Wins Ghana\u2019s First Three Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Weightlifter Winnifred Ntumi has clinched Ghana\u2019s first three medals (one gold and two silver medals) at the 2023 African Games.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 21-year-old first won silver in the 49kg snatch, earning 63 points, just one-point shy of Mauritius athlete and gold winner, Sheridane Pasnin. Ntumi also placed second in the clear and jerk with 81 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-d6f9aa7f65b7f495f76e41debfb785d9 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mQaaltEIRI?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winnifred came tops in the total count with 144, going on to claim a gold medal for Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She improved on her medal haul from the 2019 African Games in Rabat, where she won three bronze medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana were without a medal since the start of the games on March 3 and now have a total of three medals with hopes of winning more before the games end on March 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weightlifter Winnifred Ntumi has clinched Ghana\u2019s first three medals (one gold and two silver medals) at the 2023 African Games. The 21-year-old first won silver in the 49kg snatch, earning 63 points, just one-point shy of Mauritius athlete and gold winner, Sheridane Pasnin. Ntumi also placed second in the clear and jerk with 81 points. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11],"tags":[1304,1305],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-sports","tag-2023-african-games","tag-winnifred-ntumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}