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On 27/02/2022 at 13:26, whoismakoto said:

List of known living participants of 1948 London Olympics

Olympian

 

Birth date

 

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Sport

 

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Mabel Walker

 

11/12/1928

United States

Athletics

 

 

 

 

Mabel Walker Thornton women's 100m athlete, reportedly dead: https://www.al.com/sports/2023/09/alabama-olympic-sprinter-dead-at-age-94.html

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Hana Doušová was born in Turnov, Czechoslovakia and died at the age of 74. She was a basketball player and competed in the 1976 Olympics, Doušová won silver in the 1971 WC in Brazil and bronze four years later in Colombia. She has two silver and one bronze medals from European championships.

https://www.idnes.cz/sport/basket/hana-dousova-umrti.A230915_153832_sport-basket_rou

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German swimmer Ingrid Schmidt, who won a Bronze Medal in 4x100 m medley relay with the Unified Team of Germany in the 1960 games, has died on 6 August aged 78.

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Ryszard Jedliński was born in Płock, Poland and died at age 70 on 17/Sep. He was a handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics (7th place) and the 1982 World Men's Handball Championship (bronze)

https://zprp.pl/archiwa/255343

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On 9/13/2023 at 5:13 PM, Gisooo said:

 

Tirso del Junco (Wikidead at 98

He was the oldest Cuban Olympic athlete (born on April 20, 1925), it is believed that now the oldest Cuban athlete is the sports shooter Enrique Guedes, born on July 17, 1932, represented his country in the small caliber rifle, prone, 50 meters at the 1968 Mexico City Games, where he placed 61st

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Bo Åhlen was a Swedish track and field athlete (sprinter), he participated in the 1952 Olympics in the 100m and the 4x100m sprint, he died on August 23 in Älvsjö at the age of 92.

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/923338

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Vitaly Dubko was born in Krasnodar and died on September 19 at the age of 87. He coached several Russian champions such as Alexander Moskalenko, Irina Karavayeva, Natalia Chernova, and others at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics and was also vice-president of the Russian Federation In 2000, Dubko was named the best trampoline coach of the 20th century by the International Gymnastics Federation.

https://tass.ru/sport/18783225

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Walewska Oliveira, who was Olympic Champion with Brazil in volleyball in 2008, has died aged 43. 
She’s the first member of the 2008 Brazilian volleyball team to die.

 

She is the first female 2008 Olympic champion to die, and the fifth overall after Samuel Wanjiru, Kobe Bryant, Tibor Benedek and Markis Kido.

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Turkish Football player Galip Haktanir, who was an unused substitute at the 1948 Olympic Football Tournament, has died aged 102.

He was the last known* male Turkish Olympian from the 1948 Games.

Now the last known* 1948 Turkish Olympian is Uner Teoman. She ran the 100 metres.

 

Haktanir was Turkey’s longest lived Olympian ever.

 

He was also the longest lived and only centenarian Olympic football player, though he was a substitute.

 

Now the last known** living member of the 1948 Olympic Football Tournament is Dutch Kees Rijvers, who played Netherlands only game against Great Britain.

 

* Mustafa Batman whereabouts are unknown. Olympedia gives his birth date, 1927, but does not mention anything about his death. His Turkish wiki doesn’t say his birth nor death dates. He is not listed here either.

He was member of the Athletic team but didn’t took part in the tournament.

 

**Several 1948 football players whereabouts are unknown : the whole Afghanistan squad, and a few Chinese and Egyptian. However they’re most likely dead as they don’t appear on this or that list.

 

 

 

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Vilém Mandlík, was a Czech runner and died at the age of 87. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he was a semi-finalist in the 200 meters and ran in the 4x400m relay. He also competed in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He was the father of tennis player Hana Mandlíková

https://www.sport.cz/clanek/atletika-zemrel-mnohonasobny-domaci-sampion-a-rekordman-otec-grandslamove-sampionky-5014192

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Swedish canoer Agneta Andersson, 3 times Olympic Champion in 1984 and 1996 has died aged 62. She won a total of 7 Olympic medals.

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Rupert Hoilette, who died in Kingston on 6 October aged 77, was a Jamaican sprinter who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics, runner-up in the 400 meters and gold medalist in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games. He also won relay bronze at the 1963 Pan American Games. Hoilette was 400 m champion at the 1964 British West Indies Championships

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20231007/kc-great-rupert-hoilett-dead

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Aldo Cosentino was born in Tunis, Tunisia and on October 8 at the age of 75, he was a boxer and competed for France in the 68, 72 and 76 Olympics. In 73 he was European amateur boxing champion in men's bantamweight

https://www.boxeringweb.net/index.php/notizie/ultime-notizie/46727-e-scomparso-aldo-cosentino-campione-europeo-dilettanti-e-allenatore-della-nazionale-francese.html

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Petar Porobić born in Kotor, PR Montenegro, was a Montenegrin professional water polo coach,died in 9/oct. He has been the president of the World Water Polo Coaches Association (WWPCA) since 2015, was the selector of Montenegro's champion generation at the 2008 European Championships. He also won world gold with the selection of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2005. the head coach of the China women's national water polo team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where the team finished in eighth place. He also coached Germany

ttps://sportal.blic.rs/sportske-vesti/tuzne-vesti-preminuo-petar-porobic-cuveni-trener-bivsi-selektor-srbije-i-crne-gore/2023100909373024767

Petar Porobić (fórum: Pedja Milosavljević)

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French Gérard Fenouil, who won the bronze in the 4x100 metres relay at the 1968 Games, has died aged 78.

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1 hour ago, Thatcher said:

Mary Lou Retton, American gymnastic and gold medalist at the 1984 LA Olympics, in the ICU suffering from a rare form of pneumonia. 

The New York Times app just gave her hospitalisation a breaking news notification so that shows how big a name she is in the USA. 

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23 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

The New York Times app just gave her hospitalisation a breaking news notification so that shows how big a name she is in the USA. 

 

Well, they beat the Soviets at their own game in '84. Oh wait (checks pages)...erm Romania*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Yeah I know they had Nadia Comaneci but she was well gone by then.

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