Eddie Blay
Eddie Blay (right), 1965
Edward "Eddie" Blay (9 November 1937 – 15 October 2006) was a Ghanaian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[1]
Life
Born in Accra, Blay won a boxing bronze medal in the 1964 Olympics Games, and also twice won a Commonwealth Games gold medal (in Perth, Australia, 1962, and in Kingston, Jamaica, 1966)[2] after which was briefly a professional boxer.[3] Blay lived in Italy for some time, and after returning to Ghana established the Sole Mio restaurant at Osu, Accra.[3][4]
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- 1930 – 1938: up to 61 kg
- 1950: up to 62 kg
- 1954 – 2014: up to 60 kg
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- 1930 – 2002: up to 67 kg
- 2006 – 2014: up to 69 kg
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