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Robert Kotei 1960.
The son of a district officer, Robert Ebenezer Abossey Kotei was born in the Gold Coast on 15th July 1935. Educated in Nigeria, he was an outstanding schoolboy athlete. After training at the Officer School in Accra he was selected to attend Sandhurst but deferred for an intake to compete in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1958. Placed third with a jump of 2 metres, he was Ghana’s only medallist at the Games.
Entering Sandhurst on Intake 25 on 17th September 1958, he was a member of Dettingen Company, rising to the rank of cadet sergeant. At the 1960 Academy Athletics Championship, Kotei, not surprisingly, won the high jump with a leap of 2.06 metres. This has never been beaten and remains the oldest Academy athletics record. Immediately before commissioning on 22nd July 1960, Kotei was given leave to compete at the AAA Championships, where he won the high jump with a height
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