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Péter Kovács was born in Heves, Hungary and died at the age of 64. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won the bronze medal with the Hungarian team. Individually, her best achievement was fifth place on the floor exercise.  An element in the horizontal bar is named after Kovács.

https://24.hu/sport/2024/06/22/kovacs-peter-torna-meghalt/

 

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Dragan Kapičić was born in Belgrade and died aged 75 in the same city, was a Serbian professional basketball player and executive. He won two Yugoslav National League championships, three Yugoslav National Cup titles and one FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup championship secondary level (later called the FIBA Saporta Cup). He is the Red Star club's all-time leader in total points scored. He played 169 matches for the Yugoslavia senior team. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. [3] With Yugoslavia he won gold medals at the 1970 FIBA World Championship and 1975 EuroBasket. was the President of the Basketball Federation of Serbia, from April 2007 to April 2011. His son Stefan (b. 1978) is an actor best known for playing his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).

https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/620145/Sport/Kosarka/Preminuo-nekadasnji-jugoslovenski-kosarkaski-reprezentativac-Dragan-Kapicic

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The first Portuguese woman to compete in fencing at the Olympic Games was Maria José Nápoles and she died at the age of 87, she competed in the Olympics in 1960

Esgrima de luto | A BOLA (BR) (nordot.app)

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