{"id":41800,"date":"2024-03-11T06:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41800"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:11","slug":"african-games-winnifred-ntumi-wins-ghanas-first-gold-and-silver-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/03\/11\/african-games-winnifred-ntumi-wins-ghanas-first-gold-and-silver-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"African Games: Winnifred Ntumi wins Ghana\u2019s first gold and silver medals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana&#8217;s Winnifred Ntumi has secured Team Ghana&#8217;s first medals at the ongoing Africa Games, clinching silver in the women&#8217;s 46kg weightlifting category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ntumi&#8217;s achievement extends beyond just the snatch discipline; she also excelled in the clean and jerk, contributing to her impressive total score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, Ntumi secured two silver medals and one gold, marking a significant milestone for both herself and Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ntumi emerged as one of Ghana&#8217;s leading contenders for medals, building on the success of her previous performance at the 2019 Games in Morocco, where she secured Ghana&#8217;s first medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s Winnifred Ntumi has secured Team Ghana&#8217;s first medals at the ongoing Africa Games, clinching silver in the women&#8217;s 46kg weightlifting category. Ntumi&#8217;s achievement extends beyond just the snatch discipline; she also excelled in the clean and jerk, contributing to her impressive total score. In total, Ntumi secured two silver medals and one gold, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[1648,11073,4899,11049,13076,7090,192,5918,5457,11973,9030,5320],"class_list":["post-41800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-africa-games","tag-african","tag-african-games","tag-discipline","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-gold","tag-morocco","tag-one","tag-success","tag-women"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41802,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41800\/revisions\/41802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}