Boxer Abdul Omar gave Team Ghana its second medal in the Commonwealth Games after he won bronze in the Men’s Flyweight 52kg.<\/p>\n
Omar lost his semi-finals to Pakistan’s Muhammad Waseem in three rounds and picked up the medal for his efforts.<\/p>\n
He joins Razak Abugri, the judoka, as the only medal winners in Ghana’s contingent at the Games.<\/p>\n
Omar’s conqueror, Waseem will take on Andre Moloney in the final on Saturday 2nd August at the SECC Hall in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
OMAR’S PATH TO BRONZE<\/strong><\/p>\n Round of 32- He had a bye and got a “free” pass to the next round<\/p>\n Round of 16- He beat J.K. Raka of Papua New Guinea in three rounds (29-27, 30-26 and 29-28)<\/p>\n Quarter final- He beat Sri Lanka’s Anurudha Rathnayake \u00a0in a split decision (30-27, 28-29, 30-27)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boxer Abdul Omar gave Team Ghana its second medal in the Commonwealth Games after he won bronze in the Men’s Flyweight 52kg. Omar lost his semi-finals to Pakistan’s Muhammad Waseem in three rounds and picked up the medal for his efforts. He joins Razak Abugri, the judoka, as the only medal winners in Ghana’s contingent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,38,31],"class_list":["post-36365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}