Athletes Deaths Thread

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K.C. Jones. American basketball player and coach. Member of 1956 Olympic gold medal winning US basketball team in Melbourne. Winner of two NCAA titles with the University of San Francisco in 1955 and 1956. Winner of 11 NBA titles with the Boston Celtics, eight as a player, one as an assistant coach and two as a head coach. He also won an NBA title as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972. Age 88.

 

Legendary Boston Celtics player, coach K.C. Jones dies at 88

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Deaths of Olympians in December.

 

 Maria Itkina, 88 - Athletics

 Arnie Robinson, 72 - Athletics (1×G, 1×B)

 Sol Tochinsky, 91 - Basketball

 Karim Salman, 55 - Football

 Alfred Kucharczyk, 83 - Gymnastics

 Karin Lindberg, 91 - Gymnastics (1×G, 1×S)

 Mohamed Abarhoun, 31 - Football

 Rafer Johnson, 86 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S)

 Bill Spencer, 84 - Biathlon

 Huba Rozsnyai, 77 - Athletics

 Kinuko Tanida, 81 - Volleyball (1×G)

 Henryk Kukier, 90 - Boxing

 Wojciech Zablocki, 89 - Fencing (2×S, 1×B)

 Dejan Dabovic, 76 - Water polo (1×G)

 Laszlo Kuncz, 63 - Water polo (1×B)

 Neil Robbins, 91 - Athletics 

 Clem Eischen, 93 - Athletics

 Malcolm Simpson, 87 - Cycling

 Ildegarda Taffra, 86 - Cross-country skiing

 Aslanbek Fidarov, 47 - Wrestling

 Osvaldo Cochrane Filho, 87 - Water polo

 Andrzej Showronski, 67 - Rowing

 Jimmy McLane, 90 - Swimming (3×G, 1×S)

 Barry Sonshine, 72 - Equestrian

 Sepp Vaino, 83 - Ice hockey

 Paul Nihill, 81 - Athletics (1×S)

 Namat Abdullah, 74 - Football 

 Pelle Svensson, 77 - Wrestling (1×S)

 Charlie Brooker, 88 - Ice hockey (1×S)

 Marta Norberg, 98 - Cross-country skiing

 Maria Piatkowska, 89 - Athletics

 Alberto Valdes Jnr, 70 - Equestrian (1×B)

 Hamish McLachlan, 53 - Rowing

 Arkady Andreasyan, 73 - Football (1×B)

 Ivan Bogdan, 82 - Wrestling (1×G)

 Danny Hodge, 88 - Wrestling (1×S)

 K C Jones, 88 - Basketball (1×G)

 Maria Gasienica Bukowa-Kowalska, 84 - Cross-country skiing

 Marian Jochman, 85 - Athletics

 Csaba Ali, 74 - Swimming

 Nikhil Nandy, 88 - Football

 Jos Compaan, 62 - Rowing

 Michael Lindo, 73 - Hockey (1×B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The 1980 Olympic shot put champion Vladimir Kiselyov has died at the age of 65 in Ukraine.

 

Moscow 1980 men's shot put gold medallist dies at age of 65

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Hall of Fame manager and Los Angeles Dodger icon Tommy Lasorda dies at 93

 

Tommy Lasorda, the charismatic former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who maintained a relationship with the franchise as a player, coach, manager and executive for 71 seasons, has died at the age of 93.

 

Lasorda posted a career record of 1,599-1,439 (.526) as the Dodgers' manager from 1976 to 1996. During that span, his teams won eight division titles, four National League pennants and two World Series championships. 

 

Four years after his retirement as a major league skipper, Lasorda returned to the dugout as the manager of the 2000 United States Olympic baseball team, leading them to the gold medal at the Summer Games in Sydney, Australia.

 

Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame Los Angeles Dodgers manager, dies at 93

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Not professional athlete but Juan Martin del Potro's father Daniel Del Potro who was semi-professional rugby player passed away  

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Greek Olympian Leonidas Pelekanakis lost the battle with Covid-19 today. He was 58, heathly and athletic.

 

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Cross-country skier Nikolay Chebotko () has died in a car crash.

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Not an athlete, but felt this was worth posting.