Athletes Deaths Thread

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Jordi Llopart , Moscow 1980 Silver Medallist, 50km Race Walk

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Giuliana Minuzzo - first female Winter Olympics medalist, first woman to take the Olympic Oath - Corina 1956, 50 years later she was holding the flag for Giorgio Rocca on the same occasion in Turin. Died at 88.

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Double Olympic medallist and former world record-holder Foulds dies

 

British sprinter June Foulds, who won Olympic medals in 1952 and 1956 and set numerous world records in relay events, died this week at the age of 86.

 

Foulds was a member of the Great Britain team that won the bronze medal in the 4x100m relay in 1952 and the silver medal in 1956.

 

 

Double Olympic medallist and former world record-holder Foulds dies| News

 

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Helsinki 1952 Olympic high jump champion Walter Davis dies at age of 89

 

Walter “Buddy” Davis, the 1952 Olympic high jump champion, has died at the age of 89, it has been announced.

 

After winning his Olympic gold medal in Helsinki, he played a role in helping the Philadelphia Warriors and St. Louis Hawks win National Basketball Association (NBA) championship titles.

 

 

Helsinki 1952 Olympic high jump champion dies at age of 89

 

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One of the last heroes of Mexican Race Walking, Ernesto Canto  passed away today due to liver and panchreas cancer, aged 61.

 

He was 1984 Olympic champion in the 20km event, winning gold in most major competitions during that Olympic cycle:

 

• 1981 World Race Walking Cup
• 1982 Central American & Caribbean Games
• 1983 Pan American Games
• 1983 World Championships

 

May he rest in peace.

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Not an Olympian, but someone who played an important role in many torch relays.

 

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James Wolfensohn, World Bank President and Olympic fencer, dies aged 86

 

James Wolfensohn competed for Australia in epee fencing at the 1956 Summer Games. He went on to serve as the ninth president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.

 

James Wolfensohn, World Bank President and Olympic fencer, dies aged 86

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  Kevin BURNHAM, 63, Sailing

 

1992 Silver Medalist 470 Class

2004 Gold Medalist 470 Class

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1101427/olympic-sailing-champion-burnham-dies

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Tan Eng Bock. Water Polo. Singapore. 1956 Summer Olympics

 

SINGAPORE - Former national water polo captain and coach Tan Eng Bock died on Monday (Nov 30) morning after suffering a stroke. He was 84.

 

Along with his brothers Eng Chai and Eng Liang, who were also part of the national team, Tan excelled in the sport. He captained the national team to their first South-east Asian Peninsular (Seap) Games title in 1965, starting a glorious undefeated run that ended only last year.

 

Besides being a three-time Seap Games winner (1967 and 1969), he was also an Asian Games gold medallist in 1954 and an Olympian at the 1956 Melbourne Games.

 

 

Obituary: Tan Eng Bock, 'Mr Water Polo', dies at 84, Sport News & Top Stories - The Straits Times