Long jumper Deborah Acquah recorded Ghana’s fifth and final medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after coming in third with a leap of 6.94m in the final on Sunday, August 7.
Deborah, who holds the national record in long jump, came in behind Australia’s Brooke Buschkuehl, who won silver, and Nigeria’s Ese Brume, who recorded a leap of 6.99m to win gold.
Deborah’s leap of 6.94 metres was a new national record, obliterating her previous mark of 6.89 metres, set on April 4 at the Texas Dual Meet, which made her the seventh-best collegian of all time.
The bronze medal-winning feat makes her the first Ghanaian woman in history to win a long jump medal at the Commonwealth Games.
She joins Team Ghana medalists Joseph Commey, who won silver in boxing; Abraham Mensah, who won silver in boxing; Abdul Wahid Omar, who won bronze in boxing; and Joseph Paul Amoah, who won bronze in athletics, on the medal podium in Birmingham.
