Eddie Blay

Blay in 1965
Personal information
Born	9 November 1937 Accra,Gold Coast (nowGhana)
Died	15 October 2006 (aged 68) Accra, Ghana
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Representing Ghana Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Light Welterweight Commonwealth Games 1962 Perth Lightweight 1966 Kingston Welterweight

Edward Blay (9 November 1937 – 15 October 2006) was a Ghanaianboxer. 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-timeCommonwealth 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 inItaly for some time, and after returning to Ghana established the Sole Mio restaurant atOsu, Accra.^[3][4]

Below is the record of Eddie Blay, a Ghanaian lightweight boxer who competed at the1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy:

• Round of 32: defeated Gualberto Gutierrez (Uruguay) by decision, 4-1
• Round of 16: lost to Richard McTaggart (Great Britain) by decision, 0-5

Wikimedia Commons has media related toEddie Blay.

• "Eddie Blay", Box Rec.
• "A Tribute To Eddie Blay", GhanaWeb, 12 November 2006.

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