golds in 1992 and 2000 and bronze in 2004, while being fifth at the 1996 News Olympics. Kudinov was also the world Mohammed Nassiri Seresht from champion in 1993 and 1997 and Iran, triple Olympic medallist European champion in 1996. He was in weightlifting, has donated the top goalscorer with 50 goals at his silver medal from the 1972 the 1994 European Championship Games Munich 1972 to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. There is an and was selected to the all-star team amazing story behind this medal, as the best left backcourt player at which was stolen many years the 1994 European and 1997 and 1999 ago. After searching for it over a World Championships. long period of time, an Olympic From 1993-1997 he played in France fan discovered the medal up for with US Ivry and won the French auction on the internet. The fan title in 1997 and French Cup in 1996. bought it and brought it back to Iran. After 30 years, the medal was From 1997-2001, Kudinov played in finally presented back to Nassiri. Germany, first with VfL Hameln until 2000 and then one season with Aldons Vrublevski is of course SC Magdeburg. With Magdeburg, After he had concentrated in the President of the Latvian Olympic Kudinov won both the German next years on his medical studies Committee and not of that of title and EHF Cup in 2001. From 2001 at the Southern California School, Lithuania, as was mistakenly to 2004 Kudinov played in Japan, which he concluded with an MD in stated in a photo caption in the last edition. We apologise. with Honda Suzuka and won three 1947, he managed a comeback. In

Japanese titles in a row from 2002 1946 and 1947 he won the national Stockholm is interested in holding to 2004, before finishing his career championships at the platform the 2026 Winter Games. In autumn again with Dynamo Astrakhan in event. 2017 the government will decide 2004-2005 season. Lee went to the US Army Medical whether the Swedish capital should After that he worked as a child­ Corps in from 1953 to 1955, apply. There is also interest in ren’s coach with Zarya Kaspiya in where he specialized in diseases of Switzer­­land, where “Sion 2026” offer themselves as possible hosts. Astrakhan. His son Sergey belongs to the ear. As a coach he looked after in A first step would be the Youth the Russian team since 2014. (TK) 1960 the Olympic champion in high Olympic Winter Games, which were Robert Webster. He wrote given to Lausanne for 2020. The Samuel Lee (USA) *1 August 1920 in a popular book about diving and Winter Universiad in 2021 will take Fresno, Cal.; †2 December 2016 in in 1971 discovered , place in Lucerne. The decision will Newport Beach, Cal. The Olympic at that time only eleven, whom be taken at the 132nd IOC Session in champion in high diving of 1948 and he coached from 1975 to 1978 and 2019, for which Milan has applied. 1952 as well as bronze medallist in who became four times Olympic After a controversial planning London in the 3-metres springboard champion. At the Games of 1956, phase the foundation stone for was the son of Korean immigrants. 1964 and 1968, Lee was used as a the new National Stadium in Tokyo Although his father was qualified in judge. In ‘ Koreatown for the 2020 Olympics was laid on civil engineering, he found no work there has been a Sammy Lee Square 11th December 2016. The building in California, whereupon he opened at the corner of Olympic Boulevard/ work began around 14 months later a chop suey restaurant and market. Normandie Avenue. See also: JOH, than planned. After the design of the now deceased British-Iraqi After the family had moved Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 15-21. (VK) Architektin Zada Haid of 2015, which to Highland Park, a suburb of had been rejected because of the Los Angeles, Sammy Lee got the exploding costs, the Japanese opportunity to take part in an (BM = Bill Mallon, BvH = Bep van Houdt, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided “international day“, where he was PT = Paul Tchir, TK = Taavi Kalju, in an anonymous competition on discovered for diving. Under the VK – Volker Kluge, WR = Wolf Reinhardt, the latticed timber stadium of the tutelage of the coach Jim Ryan, Lee ZL = Zdenka Letenayová) architect Kengo Kuma. The contract, concluded in October, envisages in 1938 was the first diver to perform costs of 149 billion Yen ($1.33 the two-and a half salto backwards billion). Completion is predicted for and in 1940 the two-and a half The ISOH offers the families November 2019. Auerbach salto. In 1942 he became US of the deceased its sincere champion for the first time. condolences.

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