Summer Olympic Games the strict quarantine laws of Australia, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm. At the 1960 Rome Games a young light-heavyweight boxer named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, arrived on the scene. Ali would later throw his gold medal away in disgust after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky. He was awarded a new medal 36 years later at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Other performers of note in 1960 included Wilma Rudolph, a gold medallist in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. The
Carl Crawford (boxer) Carl Crawford (boxer) Carl Crawford (born September 6, 1935 in Georgetown, British Guiana) is a retired Guyanese light-heavyweight boxer, who represented his country at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was in fact the first boxer to compete for his native country in the Olympics. There he was eliminated in the first round of the men's light-heavyweight division by Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland. Crawford won a bronze medal at the 1959 Pan American Games in the middleweight class, defeating Robert Piau of Canada in his first bout before being eliminated by Bob Foster of the United States. Crawford then won the