1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Cameroon)

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Cameroon took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , Mexico , with a delegation of five athletes (all men) in five competitions in two sports. A medal (silver) could be won. The youngest athlete was the boxer Inoua Bodia (20 years and 315 days), the oldest athlete was the boxer Joseph Bessala (27 years and 178 days). It was the country's second participation in the Summer Olympics after the 1964 Summer Olympics .

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Joseph Bessala	Boxing	Welterweight

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Antoine Abang
  • medium weight

  Rank 16

  Round one: eliminated on points against Alexei Ivanovich Kisseljow from the Soviet Union (282: 300 - 56:60, 58:60, 56:60, 57:60, 55:60)

• Joseph Bessala
  • Welterweight

  Rank two

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: points victory against Luis González from Chile (299: 284 - 59:57, 60:57, 60:57, 60:55, 60:58)

  Round three: Victory by technical knockout in the second round against Julius Luipa from Zambia

  Quarterfinals: won against Victor Zilberman from Romania by technical knockout in the third round

  Semi-finals: Victory on points against Mario Guilloti from Argentina (299: 288 - 60:57, 60:57, 59:58, 60:58, 60:58)

  Final: points defeat against Manfred Wolke from the GDR (289: 297 - 57:60, 58:59, 59:59 (round won), 58:59, 57:60)

• Inoua Bodia
  • lightweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: knockout loss in the first round against Anthony Quinn from Ireland

• Ernest Dong
  • Light welterweight

  Rank 32

  Round one: eliminated by Antoniu Vasile from Romania by knockout in the first round (2:50 minutes)

athletics

• Esau Adenji
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (twelfth place), 15: 46.2 minutes (hand-stopped), 15: 46.21 minutes (automatically stopped)

Web links

• Cameroonian Olympic team from 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).