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Clement Quartey

Clement Quartey

Ghanaian boxer


Clement Isaac "Ike" Quartey is a former Ghanaian boxer and Ghana's first Olympic medalist. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.[1][2][3]

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History

Better known as "Isaac" or "Ike", he was born 12 April 1938, in Accra, Ghana. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey.[4] He is the first black 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.(born 12 April 1938, in Accra)[5]

Fights

Quartey (left) in a fight against Wilfried Rühl, 1962

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[6]


References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ike Quartey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  2. "Clement Quartey - Me Firi Ghana". mefirighana.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  3. "Clement Quartey". GhanaNation Online. 13 September 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.



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