Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
competed at the
1964 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo
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, Japan.
Medalists
Results by event
Athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
Men's 100 metres
* Stanley Fabian Allotey
:* Round 1 — 10.7 s (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)
*
Michael Ahey
:* Round 1 — 10.6 s (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 200 metres
*
Michael Okantey
:* Round 1 — 21.9 s (→ 6th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 400 metres
*
Ebenezer Quartey
:* Round 1 — 47.1 s (→ 2nd in heat, advanced to 2nd round)
:* Round 2 — 47.0 s (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)
* Samuel Owusu-Mensah
:* Round 1 — DNS
Men's 1500 metres
*
Eric Amevor
:* Round 1 — 3:58.4 min (→ 11th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres relay
*
Michael Okantey,
Michael Ahey, Ebenezer Charle O. Addy, Stanley Fabian Allotey
:* Round 1 — 40.8 s (→ 5th in heat, advanced to semi-final)
:* Semi-Final — 40.7 s (→ 8th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 4x400 metres relay
*
James Addy,
Brobbey Mensah, Samuel Zanya Bugri,
Ebenezer Quartey
:* Round 1 — 3:10.4 min (→ 5th in heat, did not advance)
Men's long jump
*
Michael Ahey
:* Qualification — 753 cm (→ advanced to the final)
:* Final — 730 cm (→ 7th place)
Women's 100 metres
*
Rose Hart
:* Round 1 — 11.9 s (→ 5th in heat, advanced to 2nd round)
:* Round 2 — 11.9 s (→ 6th in heat, did not advance)
*
Christiana Boateng
:* Round 1 — 12.9 s (→ 8th in heat, did not advance)
Women's 80 metre hurdles
*
Rose Hart
:* Round 1 — 11.3 s (→ 3rd in heat, advanced to semi-finals)
:* Semi Final — 11.1 s (→ 8th in heat, did not advance)
Women's long jump
*
Alice Anum
:* Qualification — 545 cm (→ did not advance)
Boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...
Flyweight
*
Sulley Shittu
Sulley Shittu (born 15 April 1946 in Koforidua) is a Ghanaian amateur fly/bantamweight, and professional bantamweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s who as an amateur represented Ghana at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in T ...
:* Round 1 — defeated Jumaat Ibrahim (MAL) KO-1 2:17
:* Round 2 — lost to John Anthony McCafferty (IRL) 2:3
Bantamweight
*
Cassis Aryee
:* Round 1 — defeated
Thein Myint
Thein Myint ( my, သိန်းမြင့်) born January 14, 1937 in Yangon) is a retired amateur boxer from Burma, who won the gold medal at the 1958 Asian Games in the men's bantamweight
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat s ...
(BIR) KO-2 2:03
:* Round 2 — lost to
Takao Sakurai (JPN) 0:5
Lightweight
*
Sammy Lee Amekudji
:* Round 1 — bye
:* Round 2 — lost to Kanemaru Shiratori (JPN) KO-1 1:27
Light welterweight
*
Eddie Blay
Edward "Eddie" Blay (9 November 1937 – 15 October 2006) was a Ghanaian boxer. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the light welterweight (63.5 kg) category in 1964. Blay was a two-time Commonwealth Games ...
:* Round 1 — bye
:* Round 2 — defeated Preben R.S. Rasmussen (DEN) 5:0
:* Round 3 — defeated Nol Touch (CAM) KO-2 1:34
:* Quarterfinals — defeated Joao Henrique Da Silva (BRA) 5:0
:* Semi-finals — lost to
Jerzy Kulej
Jerzy Zdzisław Kulej (; 19 October 1940 – 13 July 2012) was a Polish boxer, politician and sports commentator.[Boris Lagutin
Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin (russian: Борис Николаевич Лагутин; 24 June 1938 – 4 September 2022)Joe Darkey
Joe Darkey (born 22 May 1942) is a former Ghanaian professional boxer who competed in the 1960s. A middleweight he competed in Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Middleweight, but was defeated in the third round. However two years late ...]
:* Round 1 — bye
:* Round 2 — defeated James Columbus Rosette (USA) 3:2
:* Quarterfinals — lost to
Valery Popenchenko
Valeri Vladimirovich Popenchenko (russian: Валерий Владимирович Попенченко, 26 August 1937 – 15 February 1975) was a Soviet Olympic boxer who competed in the middleweight division (−75 kg). During his caree ...
(SOV) 0:5
Light Heavyweight
* Thomas Arimi
:* Round 1 — bye
:* Round 2 — lost to Sayed Mersal (UAR) 0:5
Football
Group D
Quarterfinals
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Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
1964 in Ghanaian sport