Mr. Frimpong, Francis

Mr. Francis Frimpong is a Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba. With his background in human movement science and sports coaching, he lectures in exercise science and sports coaching courses including motor learning and skill acquisition, growth and motor ontogenesis, biomechanics of sports and fundamental skills, high-performance training programme planning, sports skills and tactics, and pedagogical skills in table tennis. 

Aside from lecturing, he is the honorary coach for table tennis at the University of Education, Winneba. He once served as a physical trainer for Black Loopers, Ghana's national table tennis team. 

Mr. Frimpong served as a graduate teaching assistant at the College of Physical Education, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, between September 2018 and June 2020 and as an installation officer, research and marketing assistant for Hebei Benow Sports Goods Company Limited, Shijiazhuang, China, from August 2018 to November 2022.  He was the lead project officer for equipment and flooring installation at the Trust Sports Emporium (Bukom Sports Arena) in Accra, Ghana. 

Mr. Frimpong is an internationally recognized technical official in table tennis and serves as a member of the Umpires and Referees Committee (URC), where he is also in charge of development for Anglophone countries within the ITTF-Africa / Africa Table Tennis Federation (ATTF). 

He was chosen as a technical official for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom as the sole Ghanaian to have been chosen for the events. He was appointed on the recommendation of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). 

Mr. Frimpong has served as a technical official at major table tennis events such as the 2022 ITTF Africa Cup in Lagos, Nigeria; the 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus Nigeria Open and the ITTF Africa Cup, Club Championships; the 2019 ITTF Africa Youth Championship, Accra, Ghana in April 2019; the 2019 World University Games, Napoli, Italy in July 2019; the 3rd Africa Youth Games, Algiers, Algeria in July 2018; and the 3rd Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires, Argentina in October 2018. Others are the 21st Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia in April 2018; the ITTF World Tour Platinum Open, Shenzhen, China in June 2018; the World Table Tennis Championships, Dusseldorf, Germany in May 2017; the 2016 Rio Olympics Qualification Championships & Africa Top-16 Challenge, Khartoum, Sudan in February 2016; and the 11th All Africa Games, Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo in September 2015.