A country with a strong sporting history has surprisingly won only four Olympic medals since it made its first appearance in 1952. Meet the FOUR medallists of Ghana sports.

CLEMENT QUARTEY (BOXER)

The elder brother of legendary welterweight boxing king Ike Quartey, Clement can perhaps lay justifiable claim to being Ghana's greatest Olympian. After all he is the only Olympic silver medallist in the history of the country. A hard hitting puncher, Quartey was entered in the light welterweight division of the 1960 games in Rome and blitzed his way through the early rounds. He annihilated Romania's Mohammed Boubekeur 5-0, then repeated the same margin of victory over Iraq's Khalid al-Karkhi. South Korea's Kim Deuk-Bong provided a sterner test but still lost 3-2 before a walker over win over Poland's Marian Kasprzyk set Quartey up for a date with amateur star Bohumil Nemecek. The boxer from then Czechoslovakia dominated Quartey as he won 5-0. It was a disappointing end for Quartey but his place among the pantheon of Olympic legends was assured with his silver medal.

EDDIE BLAY (BOXER)

Ghana had a talented stock of boxers in the light welterweight division and four years after the heroics of Clement Quartey, returned to Tokyo with Eddie Blay in 1964. Blay was a part of the 1960 team but had failed to progress into the medal zone. He returned to Tokyo in 1964 as the reigning Commonwealth king of the division and a medal favourite. His campaign to win gold would however end at the fists of the "Golden Scot" Richard McTaggart of Great Britain who whipped him 5-0.

PRINCE AMARTEY (BOXER)

After a period of  drought Ghana would return to the 1972 Olympics in Munich.Again boxing would be Ghana's saving grace with a battering ram of a middleweight named Prince Amartey .Born in 1944, Amartey was a corporal in the army and had already competed  and won several accolades for Ghana. He began his campaign with a walk over before defeating Mexico's Jose Luis Espinosa 5-0.Denmark's Paul Knudsen would follow in defeat before Finland's Reima Virtanen put paid to Amartey's efforts in with a 3-2 over the Ghanaian.

BLACK METEORS (FOOTBALL)

Barcelona in 1992 coincided with a talented generation of Ghanaian footballers who had conquered the world at youth level.Samuel Kuffour, Nii Odartey Lamptey and Mohammed Gargo headlined a powerful Ghana team. The Meteors started out in group D where they defeated Australia and were held by Denmark and Mexico. Paraguay were swept away 4-2 in the quarter finals to set up a mouth-watering clash with an equally talented Spanish side. Defeat to the Spaniards meant Ghana had to repeat a win over group rivals Australia in order to win a medal and they duly obliged to seal a bronze medal.