News on former stars
Atiso runs his way through national team
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Atiso Amoroso of the Class of 2005 returned from Ghana's national athletics trials in
Togo having qualified to represent the nation. He placed 2nd in
the 1500m and 3rd in the 800m races. They took only the first to third persons
as qualifiers for the Commonwealth Games.
Prempeh's Atiso - 2005 Athlete of the Year.
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Eric Goloe could not go to Togo because of an injury he had during the
interco athletics the week before. But because of his outstanding merits as the "nation's fastest youth," -- an appellation
Prempeh's Samuel Adade previously held -- Goloe will likely be included in the national lineup.
Atiso and Goloe will represent Ghana on the youth side at the next Commonwealth
Games in Melbourne, Australia, if Gole is eventually selected.
Ghana has won 48 medals in the Commonwealth Games since 1954, including 13 gold, 17 silver
and 18 bronze medals. But Ghana holds only two records in the games: the 220m yard dash
and the 4 x 100m yard relay.
Both of these two Commonwealth Games records for Ghana are
held by Prempeh stars.
Senior Stanley Fabian Allotey of Serwah House secured the 220 yard Commonwealth record with a time of 20.7seconds while
Fabian Allotey anchored the relay quartet of Bonner Mends-Eben Addy-Charles Addy-Stanley Allotey to set the relay record
in the 1966 Commonwealth Games with a time of 39.8s.
Ghana Review cited Prempeh's Allotey as the "the greatest athlete Ghana has produced to date." But a section of the Ghanaian media considers Prempeh's
National Hall of Famer Michael Kofi Ahey as "the greatest of all time."
Ahey won the gold in the 1962 Games' long jump and a silver in the 1962 4 x 110 relay as
well as a silver in the relay in 1970. The great Ahey's long jump record of jump of 8.17, which was set in Kampala in 1962 was only broken 42 years later in 2004, and remains the longest held record in the history of Ghana's athletics. Even his worst jump of 7.97 (set on 5/5/74) ranks 4th on Ghana's all-time list.
Goloe, Atiso and Adade have the opportunity to emulate their footsteps.
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