Athletes Deaths Thread

[Agger 1,700]

Former biathlon champion Halvard Hanevold has died

[ChandlerMne 1,204]

R.I.P

6 olympic medals.:(

One of my biathlon legends.

[Monzanator 4,768]

Hanevold was probably the best shooter on the tour back in the day.

 

RIP.

[hckošice 15,520]

RIP

 

 

 

[Federer91 3,024]

What a terrible loss 

[Jur 689]

Spain's only female winter olympic medallist, Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, bronze in Albertville 1992 in Slalom, has been found dead at 56 years.

 

 

She was quite a celebrity here, and very loved, so her going missing since the 23 in August has been fully covered in the media. Searching teams have been working hard these days in some mountains looking for her, but sadly her body was found today 

[hckošice 15,520]

 

 

Today it´s already 8 years, but the memories remain

 

RIP Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 2011 squad

 

 

 

Mikhail Balandin (31), Gennady Churilov (24), Alexander Galimov (26), Marat Kalimulin (23), Alexander Kalyanin (23), Andrej Kiryukhin (24), Nikita Klyukin (21), Maxim Shuvalov (18), Pavel Snurnitsyn (19), Ivan Tkachenko (31), Pavel Trakhanov (33), Yuri Urychev (20), Alexander Vasyunov (23), Artem Jarchuk (21)

 

 

 

Jan Marek (31), Karel Rachůnek (32), Josef Vašíček (30)

 

 

Vitalii Anikeenko (24), Daniil Sobchenko (20)

 

 

Sergei Ostapchuk (21), Ruslan Salei (36)

 

 

Pavol DEMITRA (36)

 

 

Robert Dietrich (25)

 

 

Karlis Skrastins (37)

 

 

Stefan Liv (30)

 

 

RIP Legend, RIP Champion, RIP our #38

 

[Grassmarket 4,030]

On 03/09/2019 at 19:59, ChandlerMne said:

R.I.P

6 olympic medals.:(

One of my biathlon legends.

 

He was one of the key guys in the era when Biathlon was transformed from this weird obscure military sport into one of the world’s most exciting and popular professional sports.

[ChandlerMne 1,204]

7 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

 

He was one of the key guys in the era when Biathlon was transformed from this weird obscure military sport into one of the world’s most exciting and popular professional sports.

Great post.

My first biathlon memories were his success and glory. And i am happy that i could watch him competing. 

[phelps 8,285]

not the greatest athlete in the world of Gymnastics (I don't think he ver took part into the Games as an athlete), but surely a man that heavily influenced this Sport, being the world federation's President for about 20 years...

 

Bruno Grandi died earlier today at the age of 85...

 

https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?idNews=2612