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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![]() Clement Quartey in 1962 | ||
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Men's Boxing | ||
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Better known as "Isaac" or "Ike", he was born April 12, 1938, in Accra, Ghana. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey.[4] He not only won a medal at the Olympics, but he also won a gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Western Australia.(born April 12, 1938, in Accra)[5]
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]
Commonwealth Games Boxing Champions in Men's Light Welterweight | |
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