Ghana_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics

Ghana at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Ghana at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Ghana competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

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Medalists

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Results by event

Athletics

Men's 100 m:

Heats — 10.65 s (did not advance)

Men's 200 m:

  • George Kofi Daniels
  1. Heats — 21.05 s
  2. 2nd Round — 21.10 s (did not advance)
  1. Heats — 21.06 s (did not advance)
  1. Heats — 47.83 s (did not advance)
  2. 2nd Round — 47.34 s (did not advance)

Men's 1500 m:

  1. Heats — 4:08.2 (did not advance)

Men's 3000 m steeplechase:

  1. Heats — 8:57.6 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m relay:

  1. Heats — 39.46 s
  2. 2nd Round — 39.99 s (did not advance)

Men's Long jump:

  1. Heat — 7.39 m (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 7.93 m (did not advance)
  2. Final — 8.01 m (4th place)

Men's Triple jump:

  1. Heat — 15.84 m (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 15.72 m (did not advance)

Women's 100 m

  1. Heat — 11.90 s
  2. 2nd Round — 12.04 (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 11.54 s
  2. 2nd Round — 11.45 s
  3. Semifinal — 11.47 s
  4. Final — 11.41 s (6th place)
Alternate member
    • Juliana Ohemeng

Boxing

Bantamweight:

  • Destimo Joe
  1. 1/16-Final — Defeated Werner Schäfer of West Germany (3 — 2)
  2. 1/8-Final — Lost to Ferry Egberty Moniaga of Indonesia (1 — 4)

Featherweight:

  • Cofie Joe
  1. 1/32-Final — Lost to Orlando Palacios of Cuba (1 — 4)

Light Welterweight:

  • Lawson Odartey
  1. 1/16-Final — Lost to Issaka Dabore of Niger (RSC, 3. RD)

Welterweight:

  1. 1/16-Final — Lost to Damdinjav Bandi of Mongolia (2 — 3)

Light middleweight:

  1. 1/32-Final — Lost to Rolando Garbey of Cuba (0 — 5)

Middleweight:

  • Prince Amartey → Bronze medal
  1. 1/8-final — Defeat José Luis Espinosa of Mexico (5 — 0)
  2. 1/4-final — Defeat Poul Knudsen of Denmark (3 — 2)
  3. Semi-Final — Lost to Reima Virtanen of Finland (2 — 3)

Football

Men

  • First Round (Group D)
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Attendance: 40.000
Referee: Michael Wuertz United States
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Attendance: 2.200
Referee: Kan-Chee Lee Hong Kong
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Attendance: 25.000

Group D

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  • Team Roster

References

  1. [1]
    "Flagbearers for Ghana". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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