The Chief Executive Officer of Black Star Water Polo, Nana Asante Sefa-Boakye has broken the record for swimming across the biggest lake in West Africa, Lake Bosumtwi. This feat was achieved on Sunday when he swam across from Abono to Ankaase.
The distance was 32km and he used 7 hours
14m to cross from Abono to Ankaase and back. He used 4 hours 10minutes for the first 16km and did 3 hours 4 minutes to return back . Nana Asante Sefa-Boakye doubles as a coach for all the water polo clubs in Ghana and also an open water swimmer as well.
Nana Asante Sefa-Boakye is a son of the soil from the Asante Kingdom but he was born and breed in the United States of America. He has played water polo to the highest in countries like Brazil, Czech Republic etc. He has held so many water polo clinics and seminars in Africa and beyond.
Ghana is proud to have such a Sporting Personality changing the lives of young kids into budding sports men and women through water polo.
Story by Cecil Stanley Tagoe.
