Team Ghana closed out the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with two medals, a silver from para shot putter Zinabu Issah and a bronze from boxer Amadu Mohammed, finishing 30th on the final medal table of the multi-sport event that ran from July 23 to August 2 in Scotland.
Issah’s silver in the women’s F57 shot put, won on July 27 at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, was Ghana’s first medal of the tournament and its lone athletics podium finish. Mohammed’s bronze in the men’s 55kg boxing division followed on July 31, sealing Ghana’s campaign with its second and final medal.
Zinabu Issah’s silver in the F57 shot put
Issah, a 46-year-old Paralympian who represented Ghana at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, threw 8.65 metres, a season’s best, to finish second behind India’s Sharmila Dhankar, who won gold with 9.81m. Bronze went to India’s Shilpa Kanchugarakoppalu Shyla, who was promoted into the medal positions after Nigeria’s Eucharia Iyiazi had her only valid throw ruled a foul.
Speaking after her event, Issah said the medal carried special weight given how competitive the field was. “I feel extremely excited. I have won several gold medals at different competitions, but winning silver at my first Commonwealth Games is rare. It fills me with so much excitement,” she said, adding thanks to Ghana’s National Paralympic Committee president Samson Deen and the Ghana Olympic Committee.
The silver capped a strong year for Issah, who had already claimed silver in the F57 discus at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai in February 2026 with a throw of 29.2 metres. Ghana’s National Sports Authority described her Glasgow medal as a landmark for the country’s para-sport programme, noting it echoed Ghana’s first-ever para-athletics Commonwealth Games medal, won at New Delhi in 2010.
A record Para sport programme
Issah’s medal came inside a Games that carried the largest Para sport programme in Commonwealth history, with 47 finals across six sports. Her result gave Ghana’s para-athletics contingent an early highlight and set the tone for the rest of the team’s push through the competition.
Amadu Mohammed’s road to bronze
Mohammed, 21 and the reigning African Games champion in his weight class, stopped Fiji’s Eriu Temakau in just 57 seconds and then edged England’s Ellis Trowbridge on a 4-1 split decision to reach the semifinals of the men’s 55kg bantamweight division.
His run ended there against Australia’s Jye Dixon, who took a 4-1 split decision. Mohammed won the opening round on all five judges’ cards, 10-9, but Dixon took control from the second round onward, winning it on four of five cards before sweeping the third round unanimously. Under Commonwealth Games boxing rules, both losing semifinalists receive bronze medals, guaranteeing Mohammed a place on the podium.
Where Ghana finished overall
With Issah’s silver and Mohammed’s bronze as its only medals, Ghana finished the Games with no gold, one silver and one bronze, placing 30th on Ghana’s final medal table. Australia topped the standings with 171 total medals, followed by England with 110, while India secured a landmark fourth place with 39 medals.
Ghana came agonisingly close to a third medal. The men’s 4x100m relay quartet of Joseph Paul Amoah, Mustapha Bokpin, Saminu Abdul-Rasheed and Benjamin Azamati initially appeared to have won bronze after Canada was disqualified for a lane violation, a result that would have ended Ghana’s 52-year wait for a relay medal at the Games. Canada’s successful appeal restored their result, though, dropping Ghana to fourth place.
Officials react
The Ghana Olympic Committee said the team’s effort went beyond the medal count. “Despite the intensity of the competition, Ghana’s athletes rose to the challenge, working harder, pushing their limits and delivering respectable results,” the committee said, pointing to the “courage, unity, resilience and fighting spirit” shown by athletes across athletics, boxing, cycling, judo and swimming.
Officials framed the Glasgow outing as part of the build-up toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, with the relay squad’s near-miss and Mohammed’s run to the semifinals cited as signs of depth beyond the medal winners.
What comes next for Ghana’s medalists
Issah’s silver comes with tangible reward at home. She is in line for a $3,000 statutory prize from Ghana’s Ministry of Sports and Recreation and a £2,000 bonus from the African Paralympic Committee under its Samson Deen Special Winning Bonus scheme, on top of the recognition already extended by the National Sports Authority and the National Paralympic Committee.
For Mohammed, the bronze adds to an already decorated year as African Games champion and positions him among the boxers Ghana will look to going into the next major continental and global qualifying cycles. Both athletes now head back into domestic and continental competition with Glasgow behind them and Ghana’s next major assignments, including preparation toward Los Angeles 2028, already on the horizon.