Athletes Deaths Thread

[FC Mezhgorye 135]

13 минуты назад, Dragon сказал:

I only wrote the boring ones...

ideal for Wikipedia

[dcro 10,210]

24 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

One of the best websites ever, not only the stats, but also the (sometimes small, sometimes big) texts about the athletes

 

And sometimes no texts at all.

[Dragon 1,847]

26 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

And sometimes no texts at all.

We'll have texts for everyone by 2050...

[Dimast 88]

 

Iconic Weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist-1980, the hero of Moscow Olympics Yurik Vardanyan died at the age of 62, RIP

 

 

[intoronto 5,677]

 Dionne Rose

[hckošice 14,897]

/   Yevgeni Zimin (2 Times Olympic Champion 1968/1972) passed away yesterday 28th December suffering a fatal heart attack. He was 71 years old.

 

[phelps 7,706]

Matti Nykänen: Finland ski jumping great dies aged 55 

[EselTheDonkey 824]

German Olympic Champion in Rowing, Maximilian Reinelt, died yesterday at the age of 30:  https://www.tz.de/sport/mehr/maximilian-reinelt-ruder-olympiasieger-mit-30-jahren-gestorben-zr-11754053.html

 

Reinelt won the gold in London 2012 and silver in Rio 2018 with the german eight. According to the media, he died during a skiing holiday in St. Moritz. The cause of his death is not yet known.

Edited February 11, 2019 by EselTheDonkey

[phelps 7,706]

Maura Viceconte died yesterday at the age of only 51...

in the last few years she was fighting against breast cancer and yesterday she committed suicide at her home near Turin...

no further details have been released...

she has been for a while the Marathon Italian Record holder (in this discipline she was 12th in Sydney 2000 and she won the Individual Bronze and Team Silver at the 1998 Europeans in Budapest), meanwhile, desòpite not winning any major international medal, she's still our National Record holder in the 10,000m on the Track (31.05.57 her PB/NR)...

[heywoodu 15,174]

20 hours ago, EselTheDonkey said:

German Olympic Champion in Rowing, Maximilian Reinelt, died yesterday at the age of 30:  https://www.tz.de/sport/mehr/maximilian-reinelt-ruder-olympiasieger-mit-30-jahren-gestorben-zr-11754053.html

 

Reinelt won the gold in London 2012 and silver in Rio 2018 with the german eight. According to the media, he died during a skiing holiday in St. Moritz. The cause of his death is not yet known.

Apparently he collapsed while cross-country skiing?