PHI2019 188 Posted July 27, 2020 #381 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Alexander Ivanitsky. Russian freestyle wrestler. Winner of the Light heavyweight gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Age 82. Russian Olympic wrestling champion Ivanitsky dies aged 82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted July 27, 2020 #382 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Doug Rogers. Canadian judoka. Winner of the silver medal in the heavyweight class at the 1964 Olympics. Age 79. Tributes paid to first Canadian Olympic judo medallist Rogers after death age 79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted July 29, 2020 #383 Share Posted July 29, 2020 William Hill. Hong Kong track and field athlete. Competed in the men's 200 and 400 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games. Olympian and former Hong Kong 400m record-holder William Hill dies at 75 | South China Morning Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted July 30, 2020 #384 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Aleksandr Aksinin. Soviet Union. Track and Field. Member of the gold medal winning 4 x 100 meters men's relay team at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Fourth in the men's 100 meters at the same Games. Age 65. Moscow 1980 4x100m relay gold medallist dies at age of 65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,206 Posted July 31, 2020 #385 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Kurt Hennrich (Czechoslovakia) 88 - Alpine Skiing. 7th in the 1956 Cortina Downhill he finished on 1 ski One of his most famous quotes about the 1956 Italian Olympic downhill won by the legendary Toni Sailer. Quote "Bylo patnáct pod nulou, pětačtyřicet lidí nedojelo. Já jsem jel z Čechoslováků poslední, dojížděl jsem nějakého Angličana, který startoval přede mnou. Ale nějak mi drhla pravá lyže, tak jsem zbytek závodu dojel na jedné lyži. Až v cíli jsem zjistil, že se mi vytrhla hrana," řekl Hennrich před lety Českému rozhlasu. It was fifteen below zero, forty-five people didn't finish the race. I was the last of the Czechoslovaks to start, I rememer catching on the track one of the Englishmans who started in front of me. But somehow my right ski rubbed off, so I finished the rest of the race on one ski. Only at the finish did I find out that my edge had come out," Hennrich told to the Czech Radio years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,744 Posted July 31, 2020 #386 Share Posted July 31, 2020 12 minutes ago, hckosice said: Kurt Hennrich (Czechoslovakia) 88 - Alpine Skiing. 7th in the 1956 Cortina Downhill he finished on 1 ski One of his most famous quotes about the 1956 Italian Olympic downhill won by the legendary Toni Sailer. It was fifteen below zero, forty-five people didn't finish the race. I was the last of the Czechoslovaks to start, I rememer catching on the track one of the Englishmans who started in front of me. But somehow my right ski rubbed off, so I finished the rest of the race on one ski. Only at the finish did I find out that my edge had come out," Hennrich told to the Czech Radio years ago. Am I right in saying they didn’t even have ski lifts in those days? You had to climb most of the hill yourself to start. Ski Jumps only came in with Squaw Valley 1960. Correct me if I’m wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,206 Posted July 31, 2020 #387 Share Posted July 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, Grassmarket said: Am I right in saying they didn’t even have ski lifts in those days? You had to climb most of the hill yourself to start. Ski Jumps only came in with Squaw Valley 1960. Correct me if I’m wrong. Ski lifts were introduced here and there basically from the 30´s so I am pretty sure Cortina had at least one in 1956. Seriously I have no idea, but that´s a good question, the jumps were always in downhill but I guess the skiers just didn't risk as much as they do today, so those jumps didn't look so big and dangerous. just some stopping before the jump and a then a small "hop" like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,744 Posted July 31, 2020 #388 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Do know for sure that the first time the Downhill was run in Garmisch 1936 they had to climb. Or perhaps a car half-way up, or something but definitely some climbing. The other thing I do know was that the tuck position was only introduced in the early 60s, so they were never going all out before that. As you can see in the film, they are still racing in powder, so way slower. hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted July 31, 2020 #389 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Muhammad Asad Malik. Pakistan. Field Hockey. Member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic hockey tournament and the silver medals at the 1964 and 1972 Summer Games. Age 78. Olympic hockey champion Malik dies in road accident aged 78 thepharoah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted August 1, 2020 #390 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Deaths of Olympians in July. Alfred Kotey, 52 - Boxing Kevin Wickham, 80 - Rowing Robert Mack, 61 - Ice Hockey Volodymyr Troshkin, 72 - Football (1×B) Willi Holdorf, 80 - Athletics (1×G) Zdzislaw Myrda, 69 - Basketball Wolfgard Voss, 94 - Gymnastics Alex Pullin, 32 - Snowboarding Finn Christian Jagge, 54 - Alpine Skiing (1×G) Olga Tass, 91 - Gymnastics (1×G, 3×S, 2×B) Lara van Ruijven, 27 - Short Track Speed Skating (1×B) Mahmoud Reda, 90 - Gymnastics Ed Wild, 85 - Basketball Panagiotis Manias, 87 - Basketball Ben Acton, 92 - Ice Hockey Donald Whiston, 93 - Ice Hockey (1×S) Lajos Szucs, 76 - Football (1×G, 1×S) Ivar Genesjo, 89 - Fencing Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, 20 - Figure Skating Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita, 73 - Athletics Ali Mirzaei, 91 - Weightlifting (1×B) Bosko Marinko, 81 - Wrestling Istvan Sellyei, 70 - Wrestling Mikolaj Kubica, 74 - Gymnastics Doug Rogers, 79 - Judo (1×S) Margaret McIver, 86 - Equestrian Aleksandr Ivanitsky, 82 - Wrestling (1×G) Alexander Gusev, 73 - Ice Hockey (1×G) Charles Dewachtere, 92 - Athletics Jurjaan Koolen, 81 - Handball Ben Jipcho, 77 - Athletics (1×S) Janell Smith, 73 - Athletics William Hill, 75 - Athletics Muhammad Asad Malik, 78 - Hockey (1×G, 2×S) Khalil Taha, 88 - Wrestling (1×B) Aleksandr Aksinin, 65 - Athletics (1×G, 1×B) Anatoli Fedyukin, 68 - Handball (1×G, 1×S) Tamas Pomucz, 63 - Sailing Kurt Hennrich, 88 - Alpine Skiing And one late reported death from June. Fred Hammer, 90 - Athletics bmo and Gianlu33 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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