Clement Isaac "Ike" Quartey is a former

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and Ghana's first Olympic medalist. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the

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History

Better known as "Isaac" or "Ike", he was born April 12, 1938, in

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. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion

Ike Quartey Isufu "Ike" Quartey (born 27 November 1969) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006. He held the WBA welterweight title from 1994 to 1998, and challenged once for IBF junior-middleweight title in 2000. Early year ...

. He not only won a medal at the Olympics, but he also won a gold medal at the

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held in

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.(born April 12, 1938, in

)

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

References

1938 births Living people Ga-Adangbe people Olympic boxers of 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 Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic medalists in boxing Ghanaian male boxers Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Light-welterweight boxers Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{Ghana-Olympic-medalist-stub