Ulitzer95 12,692 Posted February 25, 2022 46 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: From the Hooroo Mate thread above, John Landy, Australian athlete, the second to run a sub-4 minute mile and ran The Miracle Mile against Bannister at the Empire Games, reportedly dead aged 91. Herald Sun is paywalled unfortunately. Olympian in 1952 and 1956, at the latter winning a bronze in the 1500m. Edit: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/iconic-australian-athlete-john-landy-passes-away-20220225-p59zvb.html As an aside, many of the other names in the above Aussie list are dead, so who survives? Already had a full Telegraph obit 30 mins ago... pre-prepped obviously. Whether it was purely age related or they knew he was ill, who knows. I imagine the latter though. I must make a mental note to make friends with someone in the Telegraph or Guardian obits department... that way I might actually score inside the top 5 on the DDP one year. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whoismakoto 330 Posted February 27, 2022 List of known living participants of 1948 London Olympics Olympian Birth date Country Sport Comment Félix Sienra 21/01/1916 Uruguay Sailing Oldest known living olympian. Still active for his age Marko Račič 25/04/1920 Yugoslavia Athletics Yvonne Chabot-Curtet 28/05/1920 France Athletics Janine Magnin-Lamouche 06/08/1920 France Athletics Alejandro Quiroz 09/08/1920 Mexico Modern pentathlon Gebhard Büchel 21/06/1921 Liechtenstein Athletics Last known update was 2013. Possibly already dead and did not reach age 100 José Vicente 03/02/1922 Puerto Rico Athletics Herb Douglas 09/03/1922 United States Athletics Bronze medalist Karl Volkmer 20/03/1922 Switzerland Athletics Can't find much info about him Roger Lebranchu 22/07/1922 France Rowing Edna Child 10/10/1922 Great Britain Diving Niels Holst-Sørensen 19/12/1922 Denmark Athletics Bea Ballintijn 09/05/1923 Norway Swimming Renyldo Ferreira 29/06/1923 Brazil Equestrian Dave Bolen 23/12/1923 United States Athletics Abdallah Sidani 1923 Lebanon Wrestling Peter McDonald 06/01/1924 Ireland Football Charles Coste 08/02/1924 France Cycling Gold medalist Birte Christoffersen 28/03/1924 Denmark Diving Bronze medalist Robert Collins 18/04/1924 Great Britain Rowing Anna Van Marcke 18/04/1924 Belgium Canoeing Wu Chengzhang 07/05/1924 China Basketball John Peake 26/08/1924 Great Britain Field hockey Silver medalist Morville Chote 06/10/1924 Great Britain Athletics Raymond Argentin 15/10/1924 France Canoeing Elfriede Steurer 09/12/1924 Austria Athletics Stefanos Petrakis 17/12/1924 Greece Athletics Chia Boon Leong 01/01/1925 China Football Singaporean by nationality but represented China Julio César León 02/02/1925 Venezuela Cycling Arne Åhman 04/02/1925 Sweden Athletics Gold medalist. Daughter says he has Alzheimer's disease Gordy Giovanelli 11/04/1925 United States Rowing Gold medalist John Parlett 19/04/1925 Great Britain Athletics Tirso del Junco 20/04/1925 Cuba Rowing Ricardo Primitivo González 12/05/1925 Argentina Basketball Hong Jong-o 07/07/1925 South Korea Athletics Couldn't actually find info in any Korean websites Murray Waxman 10/07/1925 Canada Basketball Ilse Steinegger 08/08/1925 Austria Athletics André Marie 14/10/1925 France Athletics Cees Koch 30/12/1925 Netherlands Canoeing Suhas Chatterjee 1925 India Water polo Eddie Bowey 05/01/1926 Great Britain Wrestling Harry Marcoplos 28/01/1926 United States Field hockey Irene Camber 12/02/1926 Italy Fencing 2-time medalist Bob Richards 20/02/1926 United States Athletics 3-time medalist Adriana Millard 13/05/1926 Chile Athletics Kees Rijvers 27/05/1926 Netherlands Football Philippe Fauveau 07/06/1926 France Rowing Walter Bucher 08/06/1926 Switzerland Cycling Klara Post 05/07/1926 Netherlands Gymnastics Once listed in Wiki as dead Anthony John Richard Purssell 05/07/1926 Great Britain Rowing Stu Griffing 09/11/1926 United States Rowing Bronze medalist Ramón Wiltz 12/12/1926 Cuba Basketball George Rhoden 13/12/1926 Jamaica Athletics 2-time medalist Elspeth Whyte 24/12/1926 Great Britain Athletics Arnold Parsons 25/12/1926 Great Britain Wrestling Jaime Piqueras 08/01/1927 Peru Athletics Mario Rosas 14/01/1927 Colombia Athletics John Giles 09/02/1927 Great Britain Athletics Ásmundur Bjarnason 17/02/1927 Iceland Athletics Trevor Harrop 19/04/1927 Great Britain Swimming Greta Andersen 01/05/1927 Denmark Swimming 2-time medalist Marie Kovářová 11/05/1927 Czechoslovakia Gymnastics Gold medalist Yvette Trombetta 16/05/1927 France Athletics Ronald Stedman 03/06/1927 Great Britain Swimming Gunnar Sandborg 07/06/1927 Norway Rowing Kjell Tånnander 25/06/1927 Sweden Athletics Pat McGeer 29/06/1927 Canada Basketball Tommy Proffitt 13/07/1927 Great Britain Boxing Marija Radosavljević 18/07/1927 Yugoslavia Athletics Can't find much info about her Robert Boutigny 24/07/1927 France Canoeing Bronze medalist Giuseppe Moioli 08/08/1927 Italy Rowing Gold medalist Carmen Phipps 09/10/1927 Jamaica Athletics John Healey 25/10/1927 Great Britain Rowing Don Gehrmann 16/11/1927 United States Athletics Laurie Birks 07/01/1928 Australia Boxing Herb Barten 13/01/1928 United States Athletics János Toldi 22/01/1928 Hungary Canoeing Can't find much info about him Betty Kretschmer 24/01/1928 Chile Athletics Álvaro Vicente 25/01/1928 Spain Boxing Ron Cooper 05/02/1928 Great Britain Boxing Paulette Veste 24/02/1928 France Athletics French Olympic Committee has listed her as dead in 2014 but a 2018 article was able to interview her in 2016 Isidoro Pérez 05/03/1928 Spain Athletics Cees Gravesteijn 21/04/1928 Netherlands Canoeing Olga Šicnerová 01/06/1928 Czechoslovakia Athletics Otto Michtits 20/06/1928 Austria Boxing Elaine Silburn 29/07/1928 Canada Athletics Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones 08/08/1928 Bermuda Athletics John Wade 13/08/1928 United States Rowing Liliana Tagliaferri 20/08/1928 Italy Athletics William Leckie 25/08/1928 Great Britain Rowing Carlos Vera 30/08/1928 Chile Athletics Glyn Hopkins 01/10/1928 Great Britain Gymnastics Adolf Weinacker 29/10/1928 United States Athletics George Stanich 04/11/1928 United States Athletics Bronze medalist Mabel Walker 11/12/1928 United States Athletics Yvonne Van Bets 14/12/1928 Belgium Gymnastics Bruce Bourke 05/02/1929 Australia Swimming Enriqueta Duarte 26/02/1929 Argentina Swimming Vilhjálmur Vilmundarson 17/04/1929 Iceland Athletics Penny Pence 11/05/1929 United States Swimming Sylvia Cheeseman 19/05/1929 Great Britain Athletics Bronze medalist Joseph Bernardo 31/05/1929 France Swimming 2-time medalist Mario Ghella 23/06/1929 Italy Cycling Gold medalist John De Saram 27/06/1929 Sri Lanka Athletics Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger 02/07/1929 South Africa Athletics Silver medalist Jaime Aparicio 17/08/1929 Colombia Athletics Aram Boghossian 19/11/1929 Brazil Swimming Evert Gunnarsson 28/12/1929 Sweden Rowing Silver medalist Lilo Kobi 15/02/1930 Switzerland Swimming Robert Bintz 16/02/1930 Luxembourg Cycling Joe Birrell 11/03/1930 Great Britain Athletics Blind Elizabeth Church 11/03/1930 Great Britain Swimming Lenie Gerrietsen 28/03/1930 Netherlands Gymnastics Ruža Vojsk 31/03/1930 Yugoslavia Gymnastics Vivian King 04/04/1930 Canada Swimming Raúl García 09/04/1930 Cuba Swimming Nancy Lyons 12/04/1930 Australia Swimming Silver medalist Elena Santoni 30/04/1930 Italy Gymnastics Ibone Belausteguigoitía 23/05/1930 Mexico Diving Adolfo Mancuso 13/06/1930 Argentina Swimming Annegret Weller-Schneider 11/07/1930 Chile Athletics Ilo da Fonseca 18/07/1930 Brazil Swimming Norma Icardi 16/08/1930 Italy Gymnastics Fred Daigle 07/09/1930 Canada Boxing Marion Huber 26/09/1930 Chile Athletics Panagiotis Khatzikyriakakis 13/04/1905 Greece Swimming Eric Jubb 17/01/1931 Canada Swimming Also known as Eric Lamont André Moccand 25/01/1931 Switzerland Rowing Silver medalist Muriel Pletts 23/02/1931 Great Britain Athletics Laura Micheli 21/04/1931 Italy Gymnastics Joyce Court 12/06/1931 Canada Swimming Doreen Dredge 14/07/1931 Canada Athletics Eleonora Schmitt 23/08/1931 Brazil Swimming Gerti Fesl 29/09/1931 Austria Gymnastics Allen Gilchrist 23/11/1931 Canada Swimming Ginette Jany-Sendral 12/01/1932 France Swimming Üner Teoman 10/10/1932 Turkey Athletics Robert Cook 11/10/1932 Bermuda Swimming Esme Harris 1933 Great Britain Swimming Doris Gontersweiler-Vetterli 21/08/1933 Switzerland Swimming 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheCemetaryMan 53 Posted February 27, 2022 Jean-luc Cairon - French cyclist dies at 60. Also a convicted sexual offender. Good riddance, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,987 Posted March 2, 2022 Kathleen Feldvoss (born "Nord"), gold medal winning swimmer for East Germany at the 1988 games, dead of illness at 56: https://www.sport.de/news/ne4827752/olympiasiegerin-kathleen-feldvoss-verstorben/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,987 Posted March 3, 2022 Dean Woods, Australian cycling giant and gold medal winner, dies at 55 after battling ill health for a while: https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/story/7644156/olympic-cycling-gold-medallist-woods-dies/?cs=11042 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,081 Posted March 5, 2022 More Scavvy Hunt miss fodder as Paula Marosi, Hungarian Gold medallist in fencing at the 1964 Olympiad and silver in 1968, reported dead: https://hunfencing-hu.translate.goog/hir/elhunyt-marosi-paula-4773?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,692 Posted March 9, 2022 On 18/10/2020 at 11:03, Deathrace said: Ann Packer and Robbie Brightwell both look in decent shape for 78 and 80 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/me-and-my-medals-ann-packer-and-robbie-brightwell-x5wqgk7tt Robbie Brightwell MBE (wiki) not in such decent shape now as he's died aged 82. Silver medalist sprinter for GB at Tokyo 1964. Also won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in Perth in '62. Not picked in this year's DDP. Pity, because I'd be surprised if he didn't pull an obit. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,611 Posted March 9, 2022 9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: Robbie Brightwell MBE (wiki) not in such decent shape now as he's died aged 82. Silver medalist sprinter for GB at Tokyo 1964. Also won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in Perth in '62. Not picked in this year's DDP. Pity, because I'd be surprised if he didn't pull an obit. I can see him getting the Times and also SPORTY round up as a minimum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,692 Posted March 9, 2022 On 27/02/2022 at 13:26, whoismakoto said: List of known living participants of 1948 London Olympics Olympian Birth date Country Sport Comment *snip* John Parlett 19/04/1925 Great Britain Athletics *snip* John Parlett (wiki), British Olympic and Empire Games runner, being reported dead at 96 on Twitter. His wife, fellow Olympian Dorothy Manley, died last year aged 94. She was a DDP pick then (and a hit). He hasn't been picked this year. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,641 Posted March 15, 2022 US 4x100m relay gold medallist (1968) and one-time world record holder Charles (Charlie) Greene has died age 76. Not A Scavvy pick. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whoismakoto 330 Posted March 18, 2022 Joan Langdon, one of last 2 known living competitor of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dead at 99. This leaves Iris Cummings as the sole living competitor left. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/chilliwack-bc/joan-mclagan-10631251 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whoismakoto 330 Posted March 25, 2022 Alejandro Quiroz, Mexico's oldest living Olympian, passed away on January 10, 2022 at the age of 101 due to Covid. https://www.facebook.com/145364012824690/posts/922600798434337/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
P94 41 Posted April 4, 2022 Egon Franke, Polish fencer of German descendant, passed away last Wednesday at age 86. https://www.rmf24.pl/sport/news-nie-zyje-egon-franke-polski-mistrz-olimpijski,nId,5927965 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,419 Posted April 4, 2022 John McNally, Irish boxer who won Silver in the bantamweight at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died aged 89. The first Irish boxing medalist, and he was also Ireland’s oldest living medalist. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Khthonia 101 Posted April 5, 2022 Josef Panáček 4, Czech sport shooter, Olympic champion dead by wiki report. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Khthonia said: Josef Panáček 4, Czech sport shooter, Olympic champion dead by wiki report. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,692 Posted April 5, 2022 Times death notice for John Peake CBE (wiki), aged 97, British Olympic field hockey player and silver medallist (1948). A unique DDP pick. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,206 Posted April 5, 2022 4 hours ago, Khthonia said: Josef Panáček 4, Czech sport shooter, Olympic champion dead by wiki report. Horrible way to die 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,611 Posted April 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said: Times death notice for John Peake CBE (wiki), aged 97, British Olympic field hockey player and silver medallist (1948). A unique DDP pick. I wonder if he will get an Obit in time? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 8, 2022 Mark Conover, who stunned the American running world when he won the 1988 Olympic Marathon Trials in 1988, died on Wednesday, April 6, at age 61, of a recurrent cancer. A distinguished college coach, Conover also became an inspiring advocate of running as a positive force in times of ill health. He was still at the peak of his running, having placed 10th at the 1992 Olympic Marathon Trials, when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1993. He recovered, after extensive treatment, and qualified for and ran in the 1996 Olympic Marathon Trials. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,641 Posted April 11, 2022 Tunisian sailor Eya Guezguez, the youngest female competitor (along with her twin sister Sarra) at Tokyo 2020, died yesterday, aged 17. The sisters were training at sea yesterday when the boat capsized. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,692 Posted April 12, 2022 On 06/04/2022 at 01:17, The Old Crem said: I wonder if he will get an Obit in time? Yup. Times obit for John Peake. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,206 Posted April 13, 2022 Desai Williams achieved his highest accolade at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles when he was part of the bronze-medal winning 4 x 100m Canadian relay team. He then took a Commonwealth Gold Medal in 1986 in Edinburgh and a silver in Brisbane in 1982, again in the 4 x 100m relay. However, two of his team-mates were Ben Johnson and Tony Sharpe, and all three of them were eventually proven guilty of doping. He rehabilitated himself as a respected athletics sprint coach before being fired in 2015 for sexual harrassment. He was given a lifetime ban in 2018 by Athletics Canada. That lifetime ban only lasted four years as Williams has died, aged 62. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/trackandfield/desai-williams-obit-1.6417244 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,206 Posted April 13, 2022 Sigh. Stupid software. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 15, 2022 The Norfolk-born former Olympian Mary Tagg has died at the age of 78. The athlete, who competed at the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico, remains one half of the only brother-and-sister duo to have represented Great Britain in athletics at the Games. Born on November 10, 1943 in East Runton, near Cromer, Mary became a British sprinter and competed in the women’s 400 metres and relay. The sprinter was joined at her one and only Olympics by her younger brother, Mike Tagg – who was running the 10,000m. SC 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
