Athletes Deaths Thread

[Makedonas 1,584]

 Sasa Zivoulovic (handball) died yesterday at age 50 in Athens. He competed on the Greek team at Athens 2004 which got 6th place.

 

In case you were wondering about his name, he was born in Serbia but lived in Greece for many years and still did until his death and was involved in Greek handball. He coached the women's team of Nea Ionia, and just on Sunday they won the Greek Cup and now a few days later he is dead...

[rafalgorka 1,385]

Shevah Weiss

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevah_Weiss

 

I will mention Him here because many say that when he immigrated to Palestine in 1947, he became a promising athlete (in the sport of athletics).

 

One of my favourite politicians ever.

 

And - without any doubt - the most respected by me ambassador of any country in Poland in recent history.

[Dragon 1,702]

 Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby player Charlie Faulkner has died at the age of 81

 

[dcro 10,182]

London 2012 Olympian  Mikaela Fabricius-Bjerre. One of my personal favorites back then.

[Monzanator 3,599]

Tim Lobinger (pole vault) passed away from cancer which was public knowledge for some time.

[heywoodu 13,560]

The body of footballer Christian Atsu of Hatayspor (former Newcastle United, among others) has been recovered from rubble in Turkey. In the past almost two weeks, he was reported missing, reported rescued, reported still missing and so on, but now he has sadly been confirmed dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Atsu

[Grassmarket 2,759]

Greg Foster, one of those great 110m hurdlers who never quite got that big Olympic Gold - silver at LA84, but missed out at the US trials a few times.  3 times World Champion, though.

 

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/02/20/greg-foster-dies-olympics-hurdles-track-and-field-ucla/

[thepharoah 2,289]

 

body of Taner Savut the Sporting director of Hatay Spor in Turkey was found under rumples in Turkey some hours after body of the star of the team Christian Atsu was found , he was a previous player of Fenerbache 

[Monzanator 3,599]

Ex-F1 driver and ABBA drummer Karl Edward "Slim" Borgudd passed away at the age of 76.

 

[Olympian1010 7,479]