The Ghana Athletics Association was founded in 1944 as the ''Gold Coast Amateur Athletics Association''.On the part of the

Ghana Olympic Committee The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), formally known as Gold Coast Olympics Committee was established in 1950 and recognized the following year by International Olympic Committee. The Ghana Olympic Committee is committed to developing, organizing, ...

, the Ghana Athletics Association is the only Athletics Association authorized to send athletes to the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

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Ghana Athletics Association
{{National Members of the International Association of Athletics Federations, state=collapsed Sports organizations established in 1944 National members of the Confederation of African Athletics

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

1940s establishments in Gold Coast (British colony) 1944 establishments in Africa