African athletes

Profile Akwasi Frimpong: Ghana’s skeleton racer who went from Kumasi to the Winter Olympics Akwasi Frimpong, born in Ghana and raised partly in the Netherlands, became the first Ghanaian to compete in skeleton at the Winter Olympics, at Pyeongchang in 2018. In 2020 he became the first African to win an elite skeleton race sanctioned by USA Bobsled and Skeleton.