Birth Date: | 9 November 1937 |
Birth Place: | Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana) |
Death Date: | 15 October 2006 (aged 68) |
Death Place: | Accra, Ghana |
Height: | 1.72m (05.64feet) |
Weight: | 57kg (126lb) |
Sport: | Boxing |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Edward Blay (9 November 1937 – 15 October 2006) was a Ghanaian boxer. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the light welterweight (63.5 kg) category in 1964.[1] Blay was a two-time Commonwealth Games champion, in 1962 and 1966,[2] and amateur boxer from the late 50s to 1968, and later briefly fought as a professional boxer.[3] He lived in Italy for some time, and after returning to Ghana established the Sole Mio restaurant at Osu, Accra.[4]
Below is the record of Eddie Blay, a Ghanaian lightweight boxer who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy: