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On 14/08/2023 at 15:26, diego said:

Allan Smith died aged 94 on 12/aug, was a scuba diver from Sri Lanka. He competed in the men's 3 meter springboard event at the 1952 Summer Olympics

 

 

Fair play to him. It can't have been easy doing a somersault in the tuck position with an oxygen tank strapped to his back! I bet it made a hell of a splash on entry!.

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John Devitt dead. He won two Olympic gold medals in swimming. The 4x200m freestyle relay in 1956 and the 100m freestyle in 1960.

 

I had come to hear he was in poor health 2 years ago from an acquaintance who is a neighbour to him. Looks like it was true in this case.

 

EDIT: Fixed the link

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Gabriella Kotsis, Hungarian volleyball coach, died aged 95 on August 17. Along with Lang Ping, she was one of only two volleyball coaches to lead teams at multiple Olympics. Kotsis coached Hungary at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 2010, Kotsis was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.Born and died in Budapest

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2400068

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On 7/12/2023 at 10:52 AM, Ulitzer95 said:

Someone who appears to be a relative has been editing the page of British middle-distance runner Bill McKim (wiki) to say he died on 28 May, aged 81.

One for you to look into @Canadian Paul (if you're still reading).

The British athlete who ran the 1500m in 1964 died in June

https://runningtales.substack.com/p/bill-mckim-the-olympic-runner-who

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Jean-Claude Nallet was born in Champdor and died aged 76 on 19/Aug, the French sprinter competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relays and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 400 m hurdles and reached to the end in the relay. He won two golds (69 4x400 relay and 71 400m hurdles) and two silvers (69 400m and 74 400m hurdles) at the European Championships and 1 bronze out of 66 in the 200m

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/08/20/athletisme-jean-claude-nallet-champion-deurope-1971-et-star-francaise-des-annees-60-70-est-mort-11405387.php

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Latvian Aivars Lazdenieks, who represented USSR in the 1976 Games and won a silver medal in quadruple scull rowing, has died yesterday aged 69. His three others teammates are still alive.

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American Tom Courtney, 2 Times Olympic Champion in 800 metres and 4x400 metres relay at the 1956 games, has died aged 90.

He was the earliest surviving 800 metres Olympic Champion and Medalist. Now the earliest surviving Champion is Australian Ralph Doubell (winner at the 1968 Games) and the earliest surviving Medalist is Belgian Roger Moens (silver at the 1960 Games).

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Anvar Ibragimov, who represented USSR at the 1988 games, has died  aged 57. He won a gold medal in team’s foil fencing.

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Doug Kyle, Canadian athlete who represented his country at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in both the 5000m and 10000m, reportedly dead following a car accident, aged 91: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/olympian-and-calgary-marathon-founder-douglas-kyle-remembered-following-crash-1.6538594

 

Life was not a sprint for this guy.

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Gennady Sapunov born in the Muysky District (USSR) and died aged 84, was a Greco-Roman wrestler, competed in the 1968 Olympics and won two gold medals (63 and 65 in -68kg) and one silver (in 66 in - 70kg) at the World Wrestling Championship. From 1979 to 1990 he coached the Soviet Greco-Roman wrestling team.

https://www.wrestrus.ru/news/17287

Gennady Sapunov se foi...

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On 15/08/2023 at 00:57, diego said:

he was the champion of an older edition of the Olympics in the double skiff modality, now the champion of an older edition is Anatoliy Sass, the Russian (competed for the Soviet Union) was champion in 1968 (he was born in 1935), he partnered with Aleksandr Timoshinin, who died in 2021

 

Now Anatoliy Saas (Wikidead at 87

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3 hours ago, Gisooo said:

 

Now Anatoliy Saas (Wikidead at 87

Gennadiy Korshikov born in Leningrad (now Russia) is now the winner of the oldest edition double skiff modality, he won in 1972 with Aleksandr Timoshinin also, for the USSR

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On 04/09/2023 at 06:47, YoungWillz said:

Mick Molloy, competed for Ireland at the 1968 Olympics in the marathon, reportedly dead: https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/ireland-news/legendary-galway-athlete-dies-tributes-8725397

The pop-ups on this site made it unreadable for me.  Could be effecting this side of The Pond only, I dunno.  

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8 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

He was Olympic ring champion of an older edition of Olympics still alive (56 and 60), now this champion is Takuji Hayata (JAP), champion in 64
He was also the living world champion of an older edition in the ring modality (in 1954 and 58), now this position belongs to Yuri Titov (USSR) champion in 62.
Yuri was also an Olympic team champion in '56 and is the only one still alive on that team after Albert's death.
Albert was the first European ring champion in 1955, the champion of an older edition is now Yuri Titov as well

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László Hódy (Wiki) later known as Les Hody, Hungarian basketball player, died on 26 May 2023. He first represented Hungary at the 1952 Olympics. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he sought refuge and emigrated to Australia. There he changed his name to Les Hody and was able to acquire Australian citizenship. He then played for Australia in 1964 Olympics. In doing so, he became the first Olympian to compete for 2 countries. Fun fact, he was the youngest player for the 1952 Hungary team while he was the oldest for the 1964 Australian team.

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On 27/02/2022 at 14:26, whoismakoto said:

 Tirso del Junco

 

20/04/1925

Cuba

Rowing

 

Tirso del Junco (Wikidead at 98

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18 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

Tirso del Junco (Wikidead at 98

The link says that the funeral mass will be on 13th October ??? One month after his death ??

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