Carl Crawford

Carl Crawford was a Guyanese boxer who competed at the 1960 Roma Olympics. A light-heavyweight, Crawford lost his first bout to Poland’s Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, who went to the final, only to lose to Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Crawford had been bronze medalist as a middleweight at the 1959 Pan American Games, which earned him the 1959 Guyana Sportsman of the Year award. After the Olympics he won a silver medal as a light-heavyweight at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Crawford left Guyana and settled in Brooklyn, New York in the United States in the mid-1960s. His son, Carl Crawford, Jr., attended Yale Medical School and became a renowned gastroenterologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.