Ghana at the 1968 Summer Olympics
# Ghana at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Ghana competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Results by event

### Athletics

Men's 100 metres

* Michael Ahey

   * 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

   * Round 1 — 23.9 s (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)

Men's 400 metres

* Samuel Bugri

   * 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

   * Round 1 — 1:50.7 min (→ 4th in heat, did not advance)

Men's 400 metres hurdles

* William Quaye

   * Round 1 — 51.6 s (→ 6th in heat, did not advance)

Men's 4x100 metres relay

* Edward Owusu, Michael Ahey, William Quaye, James Addy

   * 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

* Michael Ahey

   * Qualification — 7.77 m (→ advanced to the final)

   * Final — 7.71 m (→ 13th place)
* Johnson Amoah

   * Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Women's long jump

* Alice Anum

   * Qualification — 5.61 m (→ advanced to the final)

Men's triple jump

* Johnson Amoah

   * Qualification — 15.65 m (→ did not advance)

### Boxing

Light flyweight (48 kg)

* Joseph Destimo

   * Round of 16 — Beat Walter Henry of Canada

   * Quarterfinal — Lost to Servilio Oliveira of Brazil

Bantamweight (54 kg)

* Sulley Shittu

   * Round 1 — Beat Dary Dasuda of Niger

   * Round 2 — Beat Gyula Szabó of Hungary

   * Round of 16 - Lost to Horst Rascher of West Germany

Lightweight (60 kg)

* Joe Martey

   * Round 1 — Lost to Enzo Petriglia of Italy

Light welterweight (63.5 kg)

* Emmanuel Lawson

   * Round 2 — Lost to Jaime Lozano of Mexico

Welterweight (67 kg)

* Aaron Popoola

   * Round 2 — Lost to Celal Sandal of Turkey

Light middleweight (71 kg)

* Prince Amartey

   * Round 1 — Beat Abdalla Abdel of Sudan

   * Round of 16 — Lost to Eric Blake of Great Britain

Middleweight (75 kg)

* George Aidoo

   * Round of 16 — DNS

Heavyweight (81 kg)

* Adonis Ray

   * Round of 16 — Lost to Joaquin Rocha of Mexico

### Football (soccer)

Men

* Preliminary Round (Group C)

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 |
| Israel | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 4 |
| Ghana | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 2 |
| El Salvador | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 1 |

* Team roster

   * ( 1.) ?

   * ( 2.) ?

   * ( 3.) ?

   * ( 4.) John Eshun

   * ( 5.) Charles Addo

   * ( 6.) Ibrahim Sunday

   * ( 7.) Osei Kofi

   * ( 8.) Jones Atuquayefio

   * ( 9.) George Alhassan

   * (10.) Gbadamosi Amusa

   * (11.) Sammy Sampene

   * (12.) ?

   * (13.) John Naawu

   * (14.) Joseph Wilson

   * (15.) Jabir Malik

   * (16.) Oliver Acquah

   * (17.) Jonathan Kpakpo

   * (18.) George Foley

   * Gariba Abukari

   * Bernard Kusi
