Athletes Deaths Thread

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35 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Not an athlete, but felt this was worth posting.

 

 

I already mentioned it in the football thread. but thanks to posting it also here.

 

Really sad news. He was great person, very humble, polite and so intelligent.

 

He was nicknamed "the Gentleman"

 

Enormous legend of our football is gone

 

 

[MHSN 3,632]

Mehrdad Minavand former Iran national football team player who played at the 1998 FIFA World Cup died today from COVID 19 at the age of 45.

 

he was quite famous here like every other player from that 1998 team. he got married only 2 months ago

[Monzanator 4,525]

Ryszard Szurkowski - the most famous Polish cyclist in history - passed away at the age of 75 today.

 

Double Olympic TTT silver medallist, 1973 amateur World Champion & 4 time winner of the Peace Race.

 

 

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Deaths of Olympians in January.

 

 Pablo Hernandez, 80 - Cycling

 Harald Maartmann, 94 - Cross-country skiing

 Naohiro Ikeda, 80 - Volleyball (1×G, 1×S)

 Andras Haan, 74 - Basketball & Sailing

 Nghlhav Mehtabs Singh, 72 - Boxing

 William Windham, 94 - Rowing

 Mikhail Zhelev, 77 - Athletics

 John Land, 82 - Hockey

 Elanga Buala, 56 - Athletics

Vladimir Kiselyov, 64 - Athletics (1×G)

 Jose Mendez, 83 - Rowing

 Bill Nankeville, 95 - Athletics

 Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi, 72 - Weightlifting

 Bruno Ghedina, 77 - Ice Hockey

 Kathleen Heddle, 55 - Rowing (3×G, 1×B)

 David Khakhaleishvili, 49 - Wrestling (1×G)

 Paul Kolliker, 88 - Rowing

 Wim de Graaff, 89 - Speed skating

 Alvarez Mejia, 80 - Athletics

 Bernd Kannenberg, 78 - Athletics (1×G)

 Nelson Nieves, 86 - Fencing

 Cliff Burvill, 83 - Cycling 

 Jose Luis Caballero, 65 - Football

 Simon Crosse, 90 - Rowing

 Leonidas Pelekanakis, 58 - Sailing

 Melanio Asensio, 84 - Athletics

 Muriel Grossfeld, 80 - Gymnastics

 Carlos Burga, 68 - Boxing 

 Thorsten Johansson, 70 - Athletics

 Louis Giani, 86 - Wrestling

 Danial Jahic, 41 - Athletics

 Giovanni Zucchi, 89 - Rowing (1×B)

 Jerry Kiernan, 67 - Athletics

 Anthony Mwamba, 60 - Boxing

 Ricardo Durao, 92 - Modern Pentathlon 

 Gianfranco Lombardi, 79 - Basketball

 Raimo Suikkanen, 78 - Cycling 

 Marius van Heerden, 46 - Athletics

 Sylvanus Blackman, 87 - Weightlifting

 Abukari Gariba, 81 - Football

 Harry Perry, 86 - Boxing

 Nikolay Chebotko, 38 - Cross-country skiing

 Jaoid Chiguer, 35 - Boxing 

 Margitta Gummel, 79 - Athletics (1×G, 1×S)

 Gert Blome, 86 - Ice Hockey (1×S)

 Flavio Alfaro, 59 - Baseball

 Rafael Heredia, 84 - Basketball

 Jozsef Csatari, 77 - Wrestling (2×B)

 Alejandro Gomez, 53 - Athletics

 

I think I'm not taking too much of a gamble by suggesting that Andras Haan of Hungary is the only athlete to compete in both sailing and basketball at the Olympics.

 

A late reported death.

 

Bunki Bankaitis-Davis, 63 - Cycling 

 

 

 

[MHSN 3,632]

On 28/01/2021 at 03:35, MHSN said:

Mehrdad Minavand former Iran national football team player who played at the 1998 FIFA World Cup died today from COVID 19 at the age of 45.

 

he was quite famous here like every other player from that 1998 team. he got married only 2 months ago

and another footballer from that generation just joined him today, Ali Ansarian died from COVID 19 at the age of 43.

 

not a World Cup player but still very famous and popular because of his club achievements (and also his later career as an actor and a TV host). both guys were at the same TV/internet live show few weeks ago and both got infected there.

 

 

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[phelps 7,706]

 Leon Spinks, Montreal 1976 Boxing Olympic Champion in the Light Heavyweight class and former Pro Heavyweight undisputed world champion, dies at 67 because of a cancer...

 

https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/former-heavyweight-champion-leon-spinks-dies-at-67-after-lengthy-cancer-battle/

 

R.I.P.

[thepharoah 2,405]

 

Leopolde luque another Argentinan football icon has died today cuz of Corona at age of 71 , he scored some crucial goals for Argentina in 1978 WC which they won and was 1975 Copa America top scorer, RIP 

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 Eva Maria Pracht

 

Daughter of one  Josef Neckermann, and an anchor of the Canada Seoul 1988 bronze medal team (even though she was the discard score).

 

https://www.eurodressage.com/2021/02/16/eva-maria-pracht-passed-away

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