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Athletes Deaths Thread

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Rafael Hechanova Sr. Basketball player. Competed for the Philippine national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1951 and 1954 Asian Games. Before his death at 93 years old, he was the oldest living Filipino Olympian.

 

https://www.rappler.com/sports/basketball-hall-famer-rafael-hechanova-dies

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Leopoldo Serantes. Philippines. Won the bronze medal in boxing’s light-flyweight class at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

 

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On 9/5/2021 at 9:31 AM, IoNuTzZ said:

Ivan Patzaichin :ROU . Won 7 medals at the Olympics (4 golds)between 1968-1984 which is more than any other canoeist has ever achived.

Over the years, I have thought about Ivan Patzaichn for an interesting fact - He was one of just 6 men, I believe, who won a gold medal in both 1980 and 1984.  

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Josephine Medina. Philippine Paralympian. Winner of a bronze medal in table tennis at the 2016 Paralympics.

 

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Yuri Sedykh. Soviet Union. Winner of the gold medal in the men’s hammer throw at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1988 Games. Holder of the world record in the event.

 

https://european-athletics.com/news/world-hammer-record-holder-sedykh-dies-at-the-age-of-66

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Juri Tamm :URS  Bronze Hammer 1980 and 1988 then :EST  5th Hammer 1992 26th Hammer 1996

First Sedykh, then Tamm 2 of the 3 Hammer medalists in 1980 and 1988 pass away 8 days apart.

 

Orlando Martinez :CUB  Gold Boxing Bantamweight 1972. also competed 1968 and 1976.  

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Juri Tamm :URS  Bronze Hammer 1980 and 1988 then :EST  5th Hammer 1992 26th Hammer 1996

First Sedykh, then Tamm 2 of the 3 Hammer medalists in 1980 and 1988 pass away 8 days apart.

 

Orlando Martinez :CUB  Gold Boxing Bantamweight 1972. also competed 1968 and 1976.  

And only three years or so after the other medalist of both those Games, Litvinov.

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