Excellent Ghanaian Athletes With Many World Records

African athletes always leave a deep impression in the hearts of fans not only because of their achievements but also because of the skills and abundant physicality they possess.

Most sports such as athletics, basketball, or boxing confirm score records from African athletes. Not only that, athletes from the black continent are always at the top of the favorite athletes to bet at famous bookmakers such as Betway Sports.

Ghana is also an honorable country to contributes many famous names to the world sports arena, so who are they? Let's find out in the article below.

Leonard Myles-Mills

Leonard Myles-Mills is an athlete who has left a very special mark in athletics around the world. Born in 1973 in the same Accra, the Ghanaian athlete soon showed his world-class running skills and set many new records that made athletics fans not only in Ghana but also around the world.

He is an expert on the 100m track and is the first Ghanaian to break the 10s for the 100m race that for decades no other athlete has been able to do. Particularly in this run in the tournaments of the country.

At the national level, Leonard Myles-Mills can only compete with himself to break his record.

His ability reached out to the world with a record of 6.45 seconds for the 60m run, a result that broke the record of the entire continent. Not only stopping there, but he also continued to conquer the 100m race with a record time of 9.98 seconds.

That number was only later broken by an athlete participating in the tournament in Texas. Leonard Myles-Mills is the pride of Ghanaian athletics and is a world athletics icon to this day.