Ghana at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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| Ghana at the Olympic Games | ||||||||||
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| At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City | ||||||||||
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| Medals | Gold 0 |
Silver 0 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 0 |
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| Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||||
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*As the Gold Coast |
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Ghana competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
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[edit] Results by event
[edit] Athletics
Men's 100 metres
- Micheal Ahey
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- Round 1 — 10.5 s (→ 3rd in heat, advanced to round 2)
- Round 2 — 10.4 s (→ 8th in heat, did not advance)
Women's 200 metres
- Alice Anum
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- Round 1 — 23.9 s (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 400 metres
- Samuel Bugri
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- Round 1 — 45.8 s (→ 4th in heat, advanced to round 2)
- Round 2 — 46.0 s (→ 4th in heat, advanced to semi final)
- Semi final — 45.9 s (→ 5th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
- John Ametepey
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- Round 1 — 1:50.7 min (→ 4th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 400 metres hurdles
- William Quaye
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- Round 1 — 51.6 s (→ 6th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres relay
- Edward Owusu, Micheal Ahey, William Quaye, James Addy
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- Round 1 — 39.8 s (→ 6th in heat, semi final)
- Semi final — 39.9 s (→ 5th in heat, did not advance)
Men's long jump
- Micheal Ahey
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- Qualification — 7.77 m (→ advanced to the final)
- Final — 7.71 m (→ 13th place)
- Johnson Amoah
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- Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)
Women's long jump
- Alice Anum
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- Qualification — 5.61 m (→ advanced to the final)
Men's triple jump
- Johnson Amoah
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- Qualification — 15.65 m (→ did not advance)
[edit] Boxing
Light flyweight (48 kg)
- Joseph Destimo
Bantamweight (54 kg)
- Sulley Shittu
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- Round 1 — Beat Dary Dasuda of Niger
- Round 2 — Beat Gyula Szabo of Hungary
- Round of 16 - Lost to Horst Rascher of West Germany
Lightweight (60 kg)
- Joe Martey
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- Round 1 — Lost to Enzo Petriglia of Italy
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)
- Emmanuel Lawson
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- Round 2 — Lost to Jaime Lozano of Mexico
Welterweight (67 kg)
- Aaron Popoola
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- Round 2 — Lost to Celal Sandal of Turkey
Light middleweight (71 kg)
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- Round 1 — Beat Abdalla Abdel of Sudan
- Round of 16 — Lost to Eric Blake of Great Britain
Middleweight (75 kg)
- George Aidoo
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- Round of 16 — DNS
Heavyweight (81 kg)
- Adonis Ray
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- Round of 16 — Lost to Joaquin Rocha of Mexico
[edit] Football (soccer)
Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group C)
- Team roster
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- ( 1.) ?
- ( 2.) ?
- ( 3.) ?
- ( 4.) John Eshun
- ( 5.) Charles Addo
- ( 6.) Ibrahim Sunday
- ( 7.) Kofi Osei
- ( 8.) Jones Atuquayefio
- ( 9.) George Alhassan
- (10.) Gbadamosi Amusa
- (11.) Sammy Sampene
- (12.) ?
- (13.) John Naawu
- (14.) Joseph Wilson
- (15.) Jabir Malik
- (16.) Olive Acquah
- (17.) Jonathan Kpakpo
- (18.) George Foley
- Gariba Abukari
- Bernard Kusi
