Athletes Deaths Thread

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Quite a saddening statistic from @Dragon here. I fear @Nickyc707 will have a long list this month 

 

[Nickyc707 382]

17 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Quite a saddening statistic from @Dragon here. I fear @Nickyc707 will have a long list this month 

 

Sadly you're right. I already have 32 deaths to report including those already mentioned in this thread.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Another one 

 

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

On 23/04/2020 at 02:00, Olympian1010 said:

 

Sorry, but is another fake new. He is not died for virus. 

https://www.filodirettomonreale.it/2020/04/10/papa-non-aveva-il-coronavirus-una-fake-news-che-ci-ha-fatto-molto-male-lui-adesso-e-morto/

In Italy, is full of fake news. All died are for coronavirus!!! Is clearly not true. Situation is very very trouble for democracy.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

2 minutes ago, Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo said:

Sorry, but is another fake new. He is not died for virus. 

https://www.filodirettomonreale.it/2020/04/10/papa-non-aveva-il-coronavirus-una-fake-news-che-ci-ha-fatto-molto-male-lui-adesso-e-morto/

In Italy, is full of fake news. All died are for coronavirus!!! Is clearly not true. Situation is very very trouble for democracy.

I’ll tag @Dragon so you can pass that message on to him too.

[heywoodu 15,135]

12 minutes ago, Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo said:

Sorry, but is another fake new. He is not died for virus. 

https://www.filodirettomonreale.it/2020/04/10/papa-non-aveva-il-coronavirus-una-fake-news-che-ci-ha-fatto-molto-male-lui-adesso-e-morto/

In Italy, is full of fake news. All died are for coronavirus!!! Is clearly not true. Situation is very very trouble for democracy.

 

But where did it say Hartwig Gauder died of COVID-19? As far as I can see, it only says he died, unless I'm missing something.

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

25 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

But where did it say Hartwig Gauder died of COVID-19? As far as I can see, it only says he died, unless I'm missing something.

Sorry,i mistake link... wait...:) This is the right one
 

Hilary Evans

 

@OlympicStatman

·

28 apr

 

The 14th reported death of an Olympic competitor due to Covid 19

Cita Tweet

 

 

 

FArrechea

 

@FArrechea

· 28 apr

DEP Francesco Perrone (atleta italiano olímpico en Roma 1960, maratón). Otra víctima del Covid-19 https://brindisioggi.it/muore-lex-ispettore-e-campione-di-corsa-delle-fiamme-oro-francesco-perrone/

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

17 hours ago, Nickyc707 said:

Sadly you're right. I already have 32 deaths to report including those already mentioned in this thread.

 

1 minute ago, Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo said:

Sorry,i mistake link... wait...:) This is the right one

 

[Nickyc707 382]

Deaths of Olympians in April.

 

 Goyo Benito, 73 - Football

 Keizo Yamada, 92 - Athletics

 Eric Verdonk, 60 - Rowing (1×B)

 Thio Gim Hock, 82 - Water Polo

 Kenneth Farnum, 89 - Cycling

 Borje Stattin, 90 - Gymnastics

 Ferenc Fuzesi, 59 - Handball

 Adlin Mair-Clarke, 78 - Athletics

 Donato Sabia, 56 - Athletics

 Fariborz Esmaeli, 79 - Football

 Roger Chappot, 79 - Ice Hockey

 Lars-Eric Lundvall, 76 - Ice Hockey (1×S)

 Guy Miserque, 74 - Hockey

 Marianne Lundquist, 88 - Swimming

 Alfred Hagn, 72 - Alpine Skiing

 Francisco Aritmendi, 81 - Athletics

 Alfonso Marquez, 82 - Basketball

 Peter Whiteside, 67 - Modern Pentathlon

 Nate Brooks, 86 - Boxing (1×G)

 Vesa Tornroos, 37 - Shooting

 Eric Mergenthaler, 56 - Sailing

 Bojana Milosevic, 54 - Basketball (1×S)

 Victor Hendrix, 84 - Rowing

 Walter Hoover, 85 - Rowing

 Lukman Niode, 56 - Swimming

 Francois Lafortune, 87 - Shooting

 Margit Otto-Crepin, 75 - Equestrian (1×S)

 Kevin Gill, 58 - Shooting

 Noureddine Diwa, 83 - Football

 Hartwig Gauder, 65 - Athletics (1×G, 1×B)

 Edward Winchester, 49 - Rowing

 Zarbeg Beriashvili, 80 - Wrestling

 Abolfazi Salabi, 96 - Basketball

 Francesco Perrone, 89 - Athletics

 Maryna Bazhanova, 57 - Handball (2×B)

 Luigi De Rossa, 84 - Athletics

 Janis Lusis, 80 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S, 1×B)

 Gerson Victalino, 60 - Basketball

 Billy Ringrose, 89 - Equestrian

 Chuni Goswani, 82 - Football

 Doug Anakin, 89 - Bobsleigh (1×G)

 Robert Beck, 83 - Modern Pentathlon (2×B)

 

And four late reported deaths from March.

 

 Alain Macle, 75 - Ski Jumping

 Mykhaylo Storozhenko, 82 - Athletics

 Bruce MacDonald, 92 - Athletics

 Jim Bailey, 90 - Athletics

 

As @Olympian1010 surmised there has been a significant rise in the number of deaths this month with forty two reported to date.

 

They include three former Olympic champions. Eric Gauder of the former East Germany won a gold medal in the 50 km walk at the 1980 Games in Moscow. As at all the Games between 1976-84 the athletics programme was diminished by significant political boycotts but Gauder demonstrated his class at the highest level by winning the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships and followed this up with a further bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics.

 

Janis Lusis was a Latvian who represented the former Soviet Union at four games between 1964-76. A javelin thrower he won the Olympic title in Mexico city in 1968 and followed this up with a silver in 1972. He had earlier won the bronze in Tokyo in 1964. Finally, Nate Brooks of the USA won the gold medal in the flyweight boxing class in 1952.

 

The Belgian shooter Francois Lafortune never won an Olympic medal but with appearances at seven Games between 1952-76 he is his country's record holder. Only fourteen athletes have competed at more Games. However, he was not the only Olympian in his family as his father competed at five Games between 1924-60 and his uncle at four between 1936-60. They too were shooters and all three competed together at the 1960 Games in Rome. In addition, another uncle won a silver medal for gymnastics on home soil at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Altogether the four men competed at seventeen Olympic Games between them which is a record for any family from any country.

 

Lastly it was particularly sad to note the death of 37 year old Vesa Tornroos of Finland from cancer. He is the third athlete to compete at the last summer Olympics to have died in the past three months.

 

UPDATED to include the death of Doug Anakin who was a member of Canada's gold medal winning four man bob team at Innsbruck in 1964.

 

UPDATED to include the death of Robert Beck of the USA who won bronze medals in both the individual and team modern pentathlon events in 1960.

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

Do you have a list of 2016 Olympians who have died?