1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Gold Coast)

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The British crown colony Gold Coast took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with seven male athletes.

The Ghana Olympic Committee was founded in 1952 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year . For the first and last time, athletes flying the Gold Coast flag took part in the Olympic Games, as eight years later the independent state of Ghana took part in the 1960 Summer Games in Rome instead of the Crown Colony .

Participants by sport

Only the high jumper James Owoo could reach the final of a competition; two sprinters, a middle-distance runner and a three-jumper each and a relay team were eliminated in the preliminary run and qualification.

athletics

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100 m

• George Acquaah

  Preliminaries: Eliminated with 11.1 s

• Gabriel Laryea

  Prelims; Eliminated with 11.2 s in the lead

800 m

• Mohamed Sanni-Thomas

  Preliminaries: Eliminated with 2: 05.8 minutes

4 × 100 m relay

• Gabriel Laryea, George Acquaah, John Owusu, and Augustus Lawson

  Preliminaries: Eliminated with 42.1 s

high jump

• James Owoo

  1.80 m

  Rank 20

Triple jump

• William Laing

  14.09 m - eliminated in qualification

  Rank 25

Web links

• Gold Coast participants in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• XVth Games Helsinki 1952 ( English ) In: kenbediako.com . Retrieved January 8, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The name of the sprinter is also given as Gabriel Lareya .