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Marián Čišovský (40)  Sydney 2000, Played first 2 matches against :BRA and :JPN . Scored own goal against Brazil at 1:03 in the video

 

A long-term :SVK football representative died today after a six-year struggle with an insidious incurable disease...

 

 

RIP

 

 

 

https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/450809/zomrel-byvaly-slovensky-futbalovy-reprezentant-marian-cisovsky/

 

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There are apparently five participants of the 1936 Berlin Games still alive. None of them won a medal in 1936 though.

 

:USAJohn Lysak (canoeing)

:JPNEtsuko Komiya (athletics)

:USA Iris Cummings (swimming)

:ITA Elda Cividino (gymnastics)

:CAN Joan Langdon (swimming)

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10 hours ago, mrv86 said:

One of the last, if not the last, survivors from pre WWII Olympics. Also one of the youngest medalists ever.

 

:FRA Noel Vandernotte, Rowing, 1936 Summer Olympics

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1095768/noel-vandernotte-olympics-1936

@Dragon?

 

Apparently not the last, John Lysak is still alive for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lysak

 

Too bad this awesome page is all messed up now for some reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Canadian_Paul/Olympics

 

At least the first athlete on the list is still listed as alive and competed in 1936.

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Here's my source:

 

https://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~ptchir/

 

:USAJohn Lysak is the oldest living Olympic Games participant. He will turn 106 years old in August.

 

:SWE Folke Alnevik is the oldest living Summer Oympic medallist (bronze in 4x400 relay 1948). He turned 100 years old on New Year's Eve.

 

:HUN Agnes Keleti is the oldest living Olympic champion. She is actually older than Elda Cividino but only made her Olympic debut in 1952, some 16 years after Cividino.

 

:ITA Celina Seghi is the oldest living Winter Games participant (4th in downhill & combined in St. Moritz 1948). She turned 100 years old in March.

 

:SWE Carl-Erik Asplund is the oldest living Winter Olympic Games medallist (bronze in 10,000 speed skating 1952).

 

:URS Viktor Shuvalov is the oldest living Winter Olympic champion (Ice Hockey center, 5 goals/2 assists in the 1956 Games).

 

Apparently all the medallists from St. Moritz 1948 are no longer alive. The last Oslo 1952 champion passed away in April of last year ( :FIN  Lydia Wideman, gold in 10km cross country).

 

 

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7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

@Dragon?

 

Apparently not the last, John Lysak is still alive for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lysak

 

Too bad this awesome page is all messed up now for some reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Canadian_Paul/Olympics

 

At least the first athlete on the list is still listed as alive and competed in 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Canadian_Paul/Olympics  has been replaced by https://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~ptchir/

Same person runs it.

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