Athletes Deaths Thread

[Dimast 88]

Alexei Paramonov, one of the best Soviet football players ever, Olympic champion Melbourne-1956, died today at the age of 93. RIP

[heywoodu 15,355]

Cross-posting this

 

 

How many Rio 2016 Olympians have passed away already, does anyone know?

 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 9/3/2018 at 7:39 AM, heywoodu said:

Cross-posting this

 

 

How many Rio 2016 Olympians have passed away already, does anyone know?

 

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David Torrance, Nicholas Bett, Ian Lariba.

[Dragon 1,899]

  On 9/3/2018 at 7:46 AM, dcro said:

 

David Torrance, Nicholas Bett, Ian Lariba.

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Plus Edwin Mosquera (Colombia-Weightlifting) and Inkululeko Suntele (Lesotho-Boxing)

2 murders, 1 car accident, 1 accidental drowning and 1 illness

[Agger 1,664]

Kurt Helmudt, part of the gold-winning coxless four in Tokyo 1964 died yesterday.

[Jur 687]

Celia Barquín (Golf), who represented Spain at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, has been found killed. They found her body in a golf course, an a man has been arrested.

 

R.I.P.

 

 

[Jan Linha 590]

Former hungarian fencer Gyözo Kulcsár passed away few days ago. He was 4 times Olympic champion. R.I.P.

  On 1/2/2018 at 1:15 AM, Dragon said:

Nobody yet..

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[heywoodu 15,355]

Bert Romp, part of the 1992 Dutch Olympic gold medal winning show jumping team in Barcelona, has died aged 59 after a horse kicked him in the head.

https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/199664/Voormalig-springruiter-Bert-Romp-overleden-na-trap-van-paard

[DaniSRB 899]

Duško Popeskov, cycling

https://bss.rs/in-memoriam-dusko-popeskov-1969-2018/

[phelps 7,862]

she did never played at the Olympic Games, but she was part of the Italian women's Volleyball team that won the 2002 World Championships...

 

Sara Anzanello died earlier today at the age of 38, after a long fight against the consequences of a fulminant epatitis she got in 2013 while playing her club Volley in Azerbaijan (she did have a liver transplant too, 5 years ago)...

 

https://www.archyworldys.com/volley-sara-anzanello-is-dead-she-was-world-champion-in-2002/

 

R.I.P.