Clement Quartey
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Clement Isaac Quartey (12 April 1938 – 2 November 2024) was a Ghanaian boxer. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, thus becoming Ghana’s first Olympic medalist.[1][2][3] and the first Black African to win an Olympic medal.[4]
Life and career
Better known as "Isaac" or "Ike", he was born in Accra, Ghana on 12 April 1938. Clement was an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey.[5] He was the first Ghanaian to win a medal at the Olympics, and he also won a gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Western Australia.[6] Quartey died in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2024, at the age of 86.[7]
Fights
Olympic games results 1960 (as a Light welterweight)
Defeated Mohamed Boubekeur (Romania) 5-0
Defeated Khalid Al-Karkhi (Iraq) 5-0
Defeated Kim Deuk-Bong (South Korea) 3-2
Defeated Marian Kasprzyk (Poland) walk-over
Lost to Bohumil Nemecek (Czechoslovakia) 0-5[8]
References
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- 1938 births
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- Ga-Adangbe people
- Olympic boxers for Ghana
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Ghana
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Ghana
- Boxers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Boxers from Accra
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Ghanaian male boxers
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Ghanaian sportsmen
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in boxing