Latest report gathered by Pinaxnews.com indicates that Ghanaian amateur boxer Samuel Takyi has officially won his Olympic quarter-final to secure himself a medal at Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, the very first Olympic medal in 29 years.
Samuel Takyi (red) of Team Ghana praises triumph over Ceiber David Avila Segura of Team Colombia during the Men’s Feather (52-57kg) quarter final on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Kokugikan Arena on August 01, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan
Samuel Takyi defeated Colombia’s 32-year-old southpaw David Ceiber Avila, an undeniably more experienced fighter, in the quarter-final, taking 2 of 3 rounds to send the Ghanaian in jubilation.
Comparable jubilations were occurring across Ghana on a notable day in the ring, and they might get stronger as Takyi continues on to the semi final where he’ll battle USA’s Ragan Duke. Duke wiped out Irish fighter, Kurt Walker, in his quarter-final fight.
The 20-year-old Samuel Takyi has since created an uproar by making the platform after his choice for the enclosing group Tokyo at first became a bone of contention.
Presently he has been crowned as “The Golden Ring Warrior” for bringing the medal home, the primary Olympic award since the football squad won bronze at Barcelona 1992.
What’s more, the first boxing medal since middleweight Prince Amartey who took the bronze somewhere in 1972.
Samuel Takyi now joins Ghanaian Olympic greats Clement Quartey, a light welterweight who won silver in Rome 1960, Eddie Blay a bronze light welterweight medallist from Tokyo 1964 and Prince Amartey who left a mark on the world in Munch 1972.