Athletes Deaths Thread

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Alexander Ivanitsky. Russian freestyle wrestler. Winner of the Light heavyweight gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Age 82.

 

Russian Olympic wrestling champion Ivanitsky dies aged 82

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Doug Rogers. Canadian judoka. Winner of the silver medal in the heavyweight class at the 1964 Olympics. Age 79.

 

Tributes paid to first Canadian Olympic judo medallist Rogers after death age 79

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William Hill. Hong Kong track and field athlete. Competed in the men's 200 and 400 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games.

 

Olympian and former Hong Kong 400m record-holder William Hill dies at 75 | South China Morning Post

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Aleksandr Aksinin. Soviet Union. Track and Field. Member of the gold medal winning 4 x 100 meters men's relay team at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Fourth in the men's 100 meters at the same Games. Age 65.

 

Moscow 1980 4x100m relay gold medallist dies at age of 65

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Kurt Hennrich (Czechoslovakia) 88 - Alpine Skiing. 7th in the 1956 Cortina Downhill he finished on 1 ski

 

One of his most famous quotes about the 1956 Italian Olympic downhill won by the legendary Toni Sailer.

 

Quote

 

"Bylo patnáct pod nulou, pětačtyřicet lidí nedojelo. Já jsem jel z Čechoslováků poslední, dojížděl jsem nějakého Angličana, který startoval přede mnou. Ale nějak mi drhla pravá lyže, tak jsem zbytek závodu dojel na jedné lyži. Až v cíli jsem zjistil, že se mi vytrhla hrana," řekl Hennrich před lety Českému rozhlasu.

 

 

 

 

It was fifteen below zero, forty-five people didn't finish the race. I was the last of the Czechoslovaks to start, I rememer catching on the track one of the Englishmans who started in front of me. But somehow my right ski rubbed off, so I finished the rest of the race on one ski. Only at the finish did I find out that my edge had come out," Hennrich told to the Czech Radio years ago.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Kurt Hennrich (Czechoslovakia) 88 - Alpine Skiing. 7th in the 1956 Cortina Downhill he finished on 1 ski

 

One of his most famous quotes about the 1956 Italian Olympic downhill won by the legendary Toni Sailer.

 

 

It was fifteen below zero, forty-five people didn't finish the race. I was the last of the Czechoslovaks to start, I rememer catching on the track one of the Englishmans who started in front of me. But somehow my right ski rubbed off, so I finished the rest of the race on one ski. Only at the finish did I find out that my edge had come out," Hennrich told to the Czech Radio years ago.

 

Am I right in saying they didn’t even have ski lifts in those days?  You had to climb most of the hill yourself to start.  Ski Jumps only came in with Squaw Valley 1960.  Correct me if I’m wrong.

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16 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Am I right in saying they didn’t even have ski lifts in those days?  You had to climb most of the hill yourself to start.  Ski Jumps only came in with Squaw Valley 1960.  Correct me if I’m wrong.

 

Ski lifts were introduced here and there basically from the 30´s so I am pretty sure Cortina had at least one in 1956.

 

Seriously I have no idea, but that´s a good question, the jumps were always in downhill but I guess the skiers just didn't risk as much as they do today, so those jumps didn't look so big and dangerous. just some stopping before the jump and a then a small "hop" like this

 

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Do know for sure that the first time the Downhill was run in Garmisch 1936 they had to climb.  Or perhaps a car half-way up, or something but definitely some climbing.

 

The other thing I do know was that the tuck position was only introduced in the early 60s, so they were never going all out before that.

 

As you can see in the film, they are still racing in powder, so way slower.

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Muhammad Asad Malik. Pakistan. Field Hockey. Member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic hockey tournament and the silver medals at the 1964 and 1972 Summer Games. Age 78.

 

Olympic hockey champion Malik dies in road accident aged 78

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Deaths of Olympians in July.

 

 Alfred Kotey, 52 - Boxing

 Kevin Wickham, 80 - Rowing

 Robert Mack, 61 - Ice Hockey

Volodymyr Troshkin, 72 - Football (1×B)

 Willi Holdorf, 80 - Athletics (1×G)

 Zdzislaw Myrda, 69 - Basketball

 Wolfgard Voss, 94 - Gymnastics 

 Alex Pullin, 32 - Snowboarding

 Finn Christian Jagge, 54 - Alpine Skiing (1×G)

 Olga Tass, 91 - Gymnastics (1×G, 3×S, 2×B)

 Lara van Ruijven, 27 - Short Track Speed Skating (1×B)

 Mahmoud Reda, 90 - Gymnastics

 Ed Wild, 85 - Basketball

 Panagiotis Manias, 87 - Basketball

 Ben Acton, 92 - Ice Hockey

 Donald Whiston, 93 - Ice Hockey (1×S)

 Lajos Szucs, 76 - Football (1×G, 1×S)

 Ivar Genesjo, 89 - Fencing

 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, 20 - Figure Skating

 Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita, 73 - Athletics

 Ali Mirzaei, 91 - Weightlifting (1×B)

 Bosko Marinko, 81 - Wrestling

 Istvan Sellyei, 70 - Wrestling 

 Mikolaj Kubica, 74 - Gymnastics

 Doug Rogers, 79 - Judo (1×S)

 Margaret McIver, 86 - Equestrian

 Aleksandr Ivanitsky, 82 - Wrestling (1×G)

 Alexander Gusev, 73 - Ice Hockey (1×G)

 Charles Dewachtere, 92 - Athletics

 Jurjaan Koolen, 81 - Handball

 Ben Jipcho, 77 - Athletics (1×S)

 Janell Smith, 73 - Athletics

 William Hill, 75 - Athletics

 Muhammad Asad Malik, 78 - Hockey (1×G, 2×S)

 Khalil Taha, 88 - Wrestling (1×B)

 Aleksandr Aksinin, 65 - Athletics (1×G, 1×B)

 Anatoli Fedyukin, 68 - Handball (1×G, 1×S)

 Tamas Pomucz, 63 - Sailing

 Kurt Hennrich, 88 - Alpine Skiing

 

And one late reported death from June.

 

Fred Hammer, 90 - Athletics