Summer Olympic Deaths/Dead Medallists

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Jorge Roldán died on June 8, was born in Guatemala City at the age of 82, played in the 1968 Olympics as a player and in 1988 as a coach and was also coach of the Guatemalan national team, he was the first Guatemalan soccer player to play professionally for a club from Spain, when he was a member of Hércules CF in 1972

https://www.lared1061.com/deportes/fallece-jorge-el-grillo-roldan/

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Véronique Jardin died aged 56, was a freestyle swimmer from France who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics

https://www.lequipe.fr/Natation/Actualites/La-nageuse-veronique-jardin-gastaldello-vingt-quatre-fois-championne-de-france-n-est-plus/1401528

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Helmar Müller has died aged 85, he competed for West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in the 4 × 400 meter relay, where he won a bronze medal with teammates Manfred Kinder, Gerhard Hennig and Martin Jellinghaus

https://www.vfb.de/de/vfb/aktuell/neues/club/2023/trauer-um-helmar-mueller/

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On 03/05/2023 at 12:56, YoungWillz said:

American athlete Tori Bowie, silver in the women's 100m, bronze in the women's 200m and gold in the women's 4 x 100m relay all at Rio 2016, reportedly dead: 

 

 

On 03/05/2023 at 15:05, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

Aye, Beeb have nowt on the cause - only 32

 

On 03/05/2023 at 15:35, Ulitzer95 said:

One of her friends commented saying that "depression is a terrible thing" so willing to bet she offed herself.

Tori Bowie cause of death determined to be complications of childbirth.

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Vyacheslav Zaytsev died at age 60, he was born in Leningrad (Soviet Union) and represented the country in volleyball at the Olympics in 76 (silver), 80 (gold) and 88 (silver) in addition to being world champion in 78 and 82 and runner-up in 74 and 86, and world cup champion in 77 and 81 and silver in 85 and European champion between 75 and 85, the championship was played every 2 years and he was champion of all at that time.

https://tuttoggi.info/e-morto-slava-zaytsev-con-lui-spoleto-anticipo-la-fine-della-guerra-fredda/759506/

[Toast 16,140]

2 hours ago, time said:

Tori Bowie cause of death determined to be complications of childbirth.

 

That's dreadful, seeing as she was found dead at home having not been seen for several days.

"she was estimated to be 8 months pregnant and undergoing labor at the time of her death" so the baby died too. 

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9 hours ago, Toast said:

 

That's dreadful, seeing as she was found dead at home having not been seen for several days.

"she was estimated to be 8 months pregnant and undergoing labor at the time of her death" so the baby died too. 

Sadly, yes. This online notice refers to her having been predeceased by a daughter Ariana.

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On 07/06/2023 at 05:46, Superstar said:

Harvey Glance, American sprint runner who won a gold medal twice at the Olympics, reportedly dead at 66

Harvey Glance now dead for real.

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Viktor Lisitsky died aged 83, was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia SFSR, USSR and died in Moscow, was a gymnast, he competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games and won five silver medals, three individual titles in 1964 and two for the Soviet national team, in 1964 and 1968, at the European championships, Lisitsky won three titles in 1965 (washers, vaulting and pommel horse), three in 1967 (barrels, vaulting and horizontal bar) and one in 1969 (horizontal bar), and finished second five times. At the world championships, he won only two team silver medals, in 1962 and 1970.

https://www.rah.ru/news/detail.php?ID=59485

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Nikolai Sviridov was born in Staraya Veduga (RUS), and died in Voronezh, (RUS), aged 84, he competed in the 5000 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics

 

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One of the 1972 men's team pentathlon Olympic champions died on June 14, 2023 at the age of 76 in Moscow oblast, he was Soviet Vladimir Shmelyov, born in Magadan, present-day Russia

https://moslenta.ru/news/lyudi/smert-shmeleva-15-06-2023.htm

 

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James Hardy was born in Seacliff, South Australia, Australia and died aged 90 in Adelaide, he was a yachtsman and represented Australia at two Olympic Games (1964 in Tokyo and 1968 in Mexico City), captained three challenges in the America's Cup (in 1970, 1974 and 1980) [4] and competed in four Admiral's Cup Ocean Racing Championships

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8235485/superb-yachtsman-vintner-sir-james-hardy-dies-aged-90/

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János Söre was a Hungarian cyclist, born in Budapest. He competed in the 1000m time trial at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He died aged 88 on 11/Jun/2023

 

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Italian rower and twice Olympic champion Davide Tizzano recently underwent bone marrow transplant.

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Bret Hudson was born in Sydnei (AUS) 49 years ago, died on 14/jun, competed in men's artistic competition at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and finished 51st in men's individual all-around, represented Australia at six world championships - 1991, 1992 , 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997, competed in two Commonwealth Games:
- 1994 Victoria - Gold medal in vault, silver medal in team event.
- 1998 Kuala Lumpur - Silver Medal in Team Event, Bronze Medal in Parallel Bars, Bronze Medal in Vault

https://commonwealthgames.com.au/athletes/bret-hudson/

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Jim McCourt boxing bronze medalist for Ireland in reportedly controversial circumstances at the 1964 games in Tokyo Dead aged 79

 

Ireland's only medal at those games too

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Report of the death of Della Pascoe (nee James), former British women's 100m record holder who competed for GB at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics: https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/olympic-sprinter-della-pascoe-dies-aged-74-1039968882/

 

Complications from Parkinson's disease.

 

She was married to team GB hurdler and Olympic medallist Alan Pascoe. 

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Gabriella Csapó-Fekete was a Hungarian volleyball player born in Nyíregyháza, she died on June 19 at the age of 68, she played in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics ranked fourth both times

https://www.nyiregyhaza.hu/post/elhunyt-a-nyiregyhazi-szarmazasu-roplabdas-2023-06-22

 

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Jimmy Kim died on 23/jun/2023 born in Cerritos, California died aged 56, was an American taekwondo practitioner and instructor who won the gold medal in the heavyweight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea South, in 1987 he won the Taekwondo World Cup and the Pan American in his category

https://enews.com.ng/2023/06/jimmy-kim-cause-of-death-taekwondo-master-ca-dies-after-battling-with-a-rare-lung-disease/

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Rocky Gatellari was a boxer born in Oppido Mamertina, Italy and died in Sidney (AUS) aged 81, Olympic athlete, political candidate and businessman. He was the 2010 inductee into the Veterans category of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame, at the 1960 Olympics he defeated Abdelkader Belghiti of Morocco before losing to eventual gold medalist Gyula Török of Hungary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Gattellari

https://7news.com.au/video/sport/boxing/rocky-gattellari-passes-at-81-bc-6329993697112

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I received a letter informing me that footballer Ron McKinven (Wiki) died in November 2022

[Ulitzer95 12,623]

32 minutes ago, whoismakoto said:

I received a letter informing me that footballer Ron McKinven (Wiki) died in November 2022

Interesting. Any idea where? He didn't die in Scotland, just checked the records there.

[Sinbabad 1,124]

2 hours ago, whoismakoto said:

I received a letter informing me that footballer Ron McKinven (Wiki) died in November 2022

@whoismakoto, I’ve noticed that you received several letters from football players or their relatives or you wrote to them. How do you make that happen ? Do you write to football federations and they give you their address ?

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2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Interesting. Any idea where? He didn't die in Scotland, just checked the records there.

He was living in a retirement home located in Cheltenham, so he probably died there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220126212645/https://www.sanctuary-retirement-living.co.uk/living-with-us/resident-stories/ron

 

37 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:

@whoismakoto, I’ve noticed that you received several letters from football players or their relatives or you wrote to them. How do you make that happen ? Do you write to football federations and they give you their address ?

It's a matter of research. Most of the time, this site https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk records almost all people who became officers of a company including those who have long resigned, retired, and even dead. It usually lists the individual's birthday and correspondence address. Otherwise, a little help from 192.com and phonebooks.

[Sinbabad 1,124]

16 minutes ago, whoismakoto said:

It's a matter of research. Most of the time, this site https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk records almost all people who became officers of a company including those who have long resigned, retired, and even dead. It usually lists the individual's birthday and correspondence address. Otherwise, a little help from 192.com and phonebooks.

Ok, thank you for your answer and the informations.