![]() Quartey in 1962 | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Ghanaian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana) | 12 April 1938||||||||||||||
Died | 2 November 2024 United Kingdom | (aged 86)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Clement Isaac Quartey (12 April 1938 – 2 November 2024) was a Ghanaian boxer. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, thus becoming Ghana’s first Olympic medalist.[1][2][3] and the first Black African to win an Olympic medal.[4]