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Ghana at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Ghana competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Ghana at the
1972 Summer Olympics
IOC codeGHA
NOCGhana Olympic Committee
in Munich
Flag bearer Sam Bugri[1]
Medals
Ranked 43rd
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event
  Bronze Prince Amartey Boxing Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

Results by event

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Athletics

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Men's 100 m:

Heats — 10.65 s (did not advance)

Men's 200 m:

  • George Kofi Daniels
  1. Heats — 21.05 s
  2. 2nd Round — 21.10 s (did not advance)
  1. Heats — 21.06 s (did not advance)
  1. Heats — 47.83 s (did not advance)
  2. 2nd Round — 47.34 s (did not advance)

Men's 1500 m:

  1. Heats — 4:08.2 (did not advance)

Men's 3000 m steeplechase:

  1. Heats — 8:57.6 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m relay:

  1. Heats — 39.46 s
  2. 2nd Round — 39.99 s (did not advance)

Men's Long jump:

  1. Heat — 7.39 m (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 7.93 m (did not advance)
  2. Final — 8.01 m (4th place)

Men's Triple jump:

  1. Heat — 15.84 m (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 15.72 m (did not advance)

Women's 100 m

  1. Heat — 11.90 s
  2. 2nd Round — 12.04 (did not advance)
  1. Heat — 11.54 s
  2. 2nd Round — 11.45 s
  3. Semifinal — 11.47 s
  4. Final — 11.41 s (6th place)
Alternate member

Boxing

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Bantamweight:

  1. 1/16-Final — Defeated Werner Schäfer of West Germany (3 — 2)
  2. 1/8-Final — Lost to Ferry Egberty Moniaga of Indonesia (1 — 4)

Featherweight:

  1. 1/32-Final — Lost to Orlando Palacios of Cuba (1 — 4)

Light Welterweight:

  1. 1/16-Final — Lost to Issaka Dabore of Niger (RSC, 3. RD)

Welterweight:

  1. 1/16-Final — Lost to Damdinjav Bandi of Mongolia (2 — 3)

Light middleweight:

  1. 1/32-Final — Lost to Rolando Garbey of Cuba (0 — 5)

Middleweight:

  • Prince Amartey → Bronze medal
  1. 1/8-final — Defeat José Luis Espinosa of Mexico (5 — 0)
  2. 1/4-final — Defeat Poul Knudsen of Denmark (3 — 2)
  3. Semi-Final — Lost to Reima Virtanen of Finland (2 — 3)

Football

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Men

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  • First Round (Group D)
East Germany  4–0  Ghana
Kreische   19'   89'
Streich   45'
Sparwasser   66'		 Report
Attendance: 40.000
Poland  4–0  Ghana
Lubański   40'
Gadocha   59'   89'
Deyna   86'		 Report
Attendance: 2.200
Referee: Kan-Chee Lee  
Colombia  3–1  Ghana
Morón   56'
Torres   60'
Montano   82'		 Report Sunday   79'
Attendance: 25.000

Group D

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　 Pld W D L GF GA Pts
  Poland 3 3 0 0 11 2 6
  East Germany 3 2 0 1 11 3 4
  Colombia 3 1 0 2 4 12 2
  Ghana 3 0 0 3 1 10 0
  • Team Roster

References

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  1. ^ "Flagbearers for Ghana". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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