1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Guyana)

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British Guyana took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of five athletes, four men and one woman, in six competitions in two sports.

The youngest athlete was the high jumper Brenda Archer (17 years and 356 days), the oldest athlete was the boxer Carl Crawford (24 years and 356 days). It was the fourth Summer Olympics for the country.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men's

• Carl Crawford
  • Light heavyweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: eliminated against Zbigniew Pietrzykowski from Poland on points (279: 300 - 56:60, 56:60, 55:60, 56:60, 56:60)

athletics

Ladies

• Brenda Archer
  • high jump

  Qualifying round: 1.55 meters, ranked 20th, not qualified for the final

  1.50 meters, valid, no failed attempt

  1.55 meters, valid, a failed attempt

  1.60 meters, invalid, three failed attempts

Men's

• George De Peana
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run four (rank 13), 15: 54.2 minutes (hand-stopped)

• Clayton Glasgow
  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run three (third place), 22.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 22.75 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run five (fifth place), 50.7 seconds (hand-stopped), 50.84 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Ralph Gomes
  • 800 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run nine (second place), 1: 52.9 minutes (hand-stopped), 1: 53.06 minutes (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: eliminated in run two (fifth place), 1: 52.3 minutes (hand-stopped), 1: 52.47 minutes (automatically stopped)

Web links

• British-Gyan Olympic Team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )