Athletes Deaths Thread

[Nickyc707 382]

20 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

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

Only the ones that have died this year so far.

 

 Abadi Hadis, 22 - Athletics (long term illness)

 Braian Toledo, 26 - Athletics (traffic accident)

 Vesa Tornroos, 37 - Shooting (cancer)

 

I could probably provide you with information for the intervening years but you may have to wait a week or two as I am fairly busy at the moment.

 

[heywoodu 16,000]

14 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

Only the ones that have died this year so far.

 

 Abadi Hadis, 22 - Athletics (long term illness)

 Braian Toledo, 26 - Athletics (traffic accident)

 Vesa Tornroos, 37 - Shooting (cancer)

 

I could probably provide you with information for the intervening years but you may have to wait a week or two as I am fairly busy at the moment.

 

 

That would be interesting, but it's obviously not something for which I'm in a hurry. If you could at some point post it, I'd be very grateful!

[Nickyc707 382]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

That would be interesting, but it's obviously not something for which I'm in a hurry. If you could at some point post it, I'd be very grateful!

 

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A late report from April 2

 

 Robert Beck, 83, COVID 19

Modern Pentathlon, 1960 (2 bronze medals) & 1968 Summer Games

[heywoodu 16,000]

American bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic - who was succesful as part of Steven Holcomb's crew, and at the end had a few less succesfull appearances for Serbia as well - has ended his life at the age of only 43, as announced by his former teammate Steven Mesler.

 

 

[Nickyc707 382]

Austria's Johanna Bassani who won a silver medal in the Nordic Combined Mixed Team event at this year's Winter Youth Olympic Games has been found dead just a few weeks after her 18th birthday.

 

https://www.web24.news/u/2020/05/great-hope-of-austrian-skiing-found-dead.html

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Pavle Jovanovic  - Bobsled. He took his own life on May 3. He was a competitor at the 2006 Winter Olympics. 
 

More info: https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/8-bobsleigh/21704-bobsleigh-community-mourns-world-championships-bronze-medallist-pavle-jovanovic

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1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Pavle Jovanovic  - Bobsled. He took his own life on May 3. He was a competitor at the 2006 Winter Olympics. 
 

More info: https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/8-bobsleigh/21704-bobsleigh-community-mourns-world-championships-bronze-medallist-pavle-jovanovic

 

And a pretty strong testimonial about him from a former teammate is two posts above here. Very open and honest, both about the highs and the lows.

[Griff88 2,008]

 Chung Hae-won (football, 1988) died due to cancer on May 1

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20200505031700007

 

 

 

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Antonio Piraino (equestrian, 1968) died on May 6.