Ghana Olympic Committee President Ben Nunoo Mensah and a small delegation have held talks with the International Olympic Committee President in Lausanne ©GOC

Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President Ben Nunoo Mensah has met Thomas Bach at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne.

Mensah was accompanied by Richard Akpokavie, the general secretary of the GOC, Fred Lartey Otu, the treasurer and lawyer, and Jerry Ahmed Shaib, Ghana's Chef de Mission at Pyeongchang 2018 in what was only the country's second appearance in the Winter Olympic Games. 

Olympic Solidarity, communications, legal and constitutional issues were among the topics the GOC delegation discussed with the IOC President. 

Akpokavie told Bach that Ghana needed to be trying to win more Olympic medals. 

Ghana made its debut in the Olympic Games under their colonial name Gold Coast at Helsinki 1952.

Olympic Solidarity, communications, legal and constitutional issues were among the topics discussed when a team from the Ghana Olympic Committee visited the IOC in Lausanne to meet its President Thomas Bach ©GOC
Olympic Solidarity, communications, legal and constitutional issues were among the topics discussed when a team from the Ghana Olympic Committee visited the IOC in Lausanne to meet its President Thomas Bach ©GOC

They first appeared as Ghana at Rome 1960 where boxer Clement Quartey won a light welterweight silver medal.

There were bronze medals for two other boxers, Eddie Blay at Tokyo 1964, also in the light welterweight division, and Prince Amartey as a middleweight at Munich 1972.

A men's football bronze was the last Olympic medal won by Ghana at Barcelona 1992.

Ghana came nowhere near a medal at Rio 2016.

Javelin thrower John Ampomah achieved their best result of 19th in qualifying.