Clement Quartey

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]

Clement Quartey

Clement Quartey in 1962
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  Ghana
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1960 Rome Light Welterweight

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. Adam, Hakeem (2 February 2017). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Ghana's Best Boxers".
  4. "Clement Quartey". GhanaNation Online. 13 September 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  5. Okine, Sammy Heywood (27 January 2018). "Clement Isaac "Ike" Quartey - The First Ghanaian To Win An Olympic Games Medal".
  6. "Clement Quartey - BoxRec". boxrec.com.


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