African Paralympic Committee President Samson Deen has lavished reward on the management of Farida Idris, who has been instrumental in Ghana’s profitable para swimming qualification forward of the 2026 Commonwealth Video games.
Para sport within the nation has reached a historic milestone as Promise Ahet turned the primary Ghanaian to qualify for the Commonwealth Video games in para swimming.
Ahet earned her spot after a powerful efficiency on the World Para Swimming Sequence in Australia earlier this yr.
He recorded private greatest occasions of 1:38.58 within the males’s 100m breaststroke S9 and 31.72 seconds within the males’s 50m freestyle S13, cementing his place on the planet championships.
This feat was achieved below the management of Ms. Idris, who assumed the function of President of the Affiliation in 2025.
Talking through the unveiling of the para-athletes for the worldwide exhibit, Dean stated: “It is wonderful that it could actually occur in nearly three years, as a result of so many nations take part and attempt to do not get it. However for getting it this time, I commend and thank (Farida) for it. Now we have to see her once more.”
Ms Idris has served as Vice-President of Africa Swimming Zone 2 since 2022 and as Director of Africa Swimming since 2024.
She additionally serves on the World Aquatics Masters Technical Committee, a place she has held since 2025.
The nation’s representatives who will compete within the upcoming competitions additionally embrace Zinab Isah in girls’s F57 para athletics, Botuyo Nkebe in males’s T54 wheelchair racing, Hayford Addai in males’s T47 para athletics, and Haruna Tahir in males’s 100+ kg para powerlifting.
