Former NBA player Walter Davis. Member of the 1976 US men’s Olympic basketball team. Spent the majority of his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns. 69 years old.
Robbie Brightwell. Silver medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics as a member of the British 4x400m relay team. His future wife Ann Packer won the women’s 800 meters at the same Games.
Yuri Sedykh. Soviet Union. Winner of the gold medal in the men’s hammer throw at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1988 Games. Holder of the world record in the event.
Rafael Hechanova Sr. Basketball player. Competed for the Philippine national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1951 and 1954 Asian Games. Before his death at 93 years old, he was the oldest living Filipino Olympian.
Jacques Rogge. President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013. Competed for Belgium in Finn class sailing at three Olympics from 1968 to 1976.
Haydee Coloso Espino. Swimming. Philippines. Winner of ten medals at the Asian Games from 1954 to 1962, three of them gold. Competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the women’s 100 meters freestyle.
Kayla Sanchez. She swam the opening leg for the silver medal winning Canadian women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team. She was born to Filipino parents working in Singapore who then emigrated to Canada.
Crispin Duenas. Men’s archery. Born to Filipino parents who emigrated to Canada.
Murray Dowey, the last surviving member of the Canadian ice hockey team which won the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games in St Moritz, has died at the age of 95.
Ravindra Pal Singh and Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, members of the last Indian hockey team to win gold at the 1980 Olympic Games, died on the same day from COVID-19.
Former snowboard world champion Julie Pomagalski dies in avalanche
Snowboarder Julie Pomagalski, who won the women's snowboard cross world title in 1999, has died at the age of 40 after being caught in an avalanche in Switzerland.
Pomagalski was a two-time Olympian, competing at Salt Lake City 2002 and Turin 2006 in parallel giant slalom, finishing sixth on both occasions.
The French athlete was also the Snowboard Cross World Cup runner-up in 2004, five years on from winning the world title in Berchtesgaden in Germany.
She later claimed silver at the World Championships in parallel giant slalom in 2003.
Kayla Sanchez. She swam the opening leg for the silver medal winning Canadian women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team. She was born to Filipino parents working in Singapore who then emigrated to Canada.
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Former NBA player Walter Davis. Member of the 1976 US men’s Olympic basketball team. Spent the majority of his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns. 69 years old.
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