title: Clement Quartey
text: # Clement Quartey
  
  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.
  
  ## History
  
  Better known as "Isaac" or "Ike", he was born 12 April 1938, in Accra, Ghana. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey. He is the first black Ghanaian to win a medal at the Olympics, and he also won a gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Western Australia.(born 12 April 1938, in Accra)
  
  ## 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
  
  