nominated for the Romanian team and at the Olympic trial races in Obituaries for political reasons. Seefeld where he defeated the entire In 1957, soon after Bala? had world top class. equalled the world record of the Siebert's time did not, however, American Olympic champion come until the introduction of the Mildred McDaniel (1.76 m), she lost small calibre rifle: in 1978 world it to the Chinese Chen Feng-jung champion in the relay, in 1978/79 (1.77 m), whose performance she winner in the composite world cup, out-jumped the following year by a in 1979 world champion over 20 centimetre. From then on, she was km and in the relay. at the Olympic regarded as unbeatable. During Winter Games in 1980 in Lake Placid, the next eight years, she won 12+0 he achieved silver in the relay and competitions consecutively, as well wasfourth overio km. as triumphing at the Olympic Games A mechanical engineer and later in Rome and Tokyo and the European police officer, Siebert worked with Championships of 1958 and 1962. young athletes from 19824. Among Surprisingly, she was missing in his protégés was Ricco Gross, winner 1966 at the European Championships of four Olympic gold, three silver in Budapest, having just become and two bronze medals from 1992 to the Romanian champion with 2006. lolanda Balaj, married Söter(ROU), 1.824 m. The official reason given From 19924. to 1998 he was trainer *12 December 1936 ir Timijoara, tn was a problem with her Achilles at the Federal Performance Centre March 2016 in Bucharest. The two- tendon. But as the IAAF introduced of Altenberg and co-trainer of the time Olympic champion in high jump feminity checks at the same time, men's national team from 1998 to of 1960 and 19624.. whose father was this gave rise to speculation, as in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he Romanian, her motier Hungarian Budapest the coach and not Bala§ was responsible for the shooting and a grandmother German, began had appeared before the medical training of the Austrian biathletes. with athletics in Timisoara and commission, only to inform them After a period as chief coach in moved to Bucharest in 1951. There, that she would not compete. She the People's Republic of China, he the equally active high jumper Ion competed for the last time on iolh went to Belarus, where he coached Söter (1927-1987) became her coach - June 1967 at the International Darya Domracheva, the triple to start with unofficially and from Romanian Championships (1.68 m, Olympic champion of Sochi 20124. 1957 on a more formal basis. As a 17 second place). Shortly before his 61s’ birthday he yearold, Balas was runner-up in the Balas, who had married Ion succumbed to cancer. (VK) European Championships behind Söter in 1958, worked for a while Thelma Hopkins (GBR*. as lecturer at Bucharest University. Sarah Tait, née Outhwaite (AUS), Extraordinarily slim and 1.85 m After that she was a sports teacher *23 January 1983 in Perth, Western tall, she set the first of her 14 world at a children's and youth sports Australia (AUS), t3 March 2016 in records on it^July 1956 with an school and from 1973 was a trainer Melbourne. She began rowing old-fashioned-locking scissors with Steaua Bucharest. In 1970, her when only nine years old. She technique and cleared 1.75 m son Doru-Franky (in the photograph studied environmental science and in Bucharest. Her last and best with his parents) was born. From agriculture at school, but continued performance (1.91 n in 1961) was 1988 to 2005 lolanda Söter-Bala$ to row, making herfirst international not improved on until 1971 when the was President of the Romanian appearance at the 2000 World Austrian Ilona Gusenoauer bettered Athletics Federation. (VK) Juniors, where she won a silver in it by one centimetre. the junior women's coxless four. Although she speit a good five Klaus Siebert (GDR), *29 April She competed at three Olympics weeks in Australia before the start 1955 in Schlettau; +224 April 2016 (20024-12), the first as Sarah of the 1956 Games, Balaj had to in Altenberg/Erzgebirge. "Sieb", Outhwaite, then as Sarah Tait, accept unexpected defeat and as he was called, grew up in the finally winning an Olympic medal came only fifth. The absence of Ion Erzgebirge, where he was accepted at London with a silver in the coxless Söter contributed tc this. In 1952, into the biathlon training centre of pairs. At the senior international he was sixth in the Helsinki Games, the East German police. His first big level, her greatest victory came in and despite settirg a national year was 1975, when he came third in winning a gold medal in the eights at record (2.055 m) in 1956, he was not the World Championships oveno km the 2005 World Championships. She

IOH 2 I 2016 Obituaries added a silver medal in the coxless Yumin also tried to qualify for the (with Miltenberger) at the 1958 pairs at that event and returned 1980 Soviet Olympic team, but championships. In the 4x500 m to add a bronze in coxless pairs at finished onlythird at theigSo Soviet relay, Lange also won European ti­ the 2011 Worlds. During her second Championships. After finishing tles in 1959 and 1961 and a silver at pregnancy she was diagnosed with his sporting career, he worked the 1957. He ended his active career cervical (uterine) cancer. Sandra as a trainer, coaching the Turkish in 1963 and died after a long and Tait retired from rowing in February national team. He was inducted into serious ill ness. (RR) 2014 to concentrate on fighting the the FILA International Wrestling Hall disease, but it took her life when she of Fame in 2009. (TK) Zoltan Szarka (HUN), *12 August 1942 wasonly33yearsold. (BM) in Csorna; +18 April 2016 in Szom- Clyde Lovellette (USA), *7Septem - bathely. Goalie Szarka played most Sändor Taries (HUN), *23 September ber 1929 in Petersburg, Indiana; +9 of his career from 1960-89 with one 1913 in Budapest; t2 i May 2016 in March 2016 in North Manchester, In­ club, Szombathelyi Haladâs, ex­ Belvedere, California. Sandor, also diana. Lovellette won championship cept for th e last seasons of his ca reer, called Alex Taries, competed for basketball titles at every major level when he played with Sabaria SEfrom Hungary in water polo at the 1936 of competition - NCAA, Olympic and 1983-85 and with SC Nikitsch in Aus­ Olympics, helping his team to a gold NBA. During 2016, he was the only tria in 1988-89. With Szombathelyi, medal. He played on the national college player to lead the nation in Szarka won a runners-up medal in team through 1939, once scoring scoring while leading his team to the the 1975 Hungarian Cup. seven goals to help Hungary defeat NCAA title. He never earned a full in te r­ Germany at the (unofficial) World After his Olympic success in 1952, national cap but was selected for Student Games in Vienna, which he was drafted by the Minneapolis the Olympic squad as a reserve to made him a national hero. Lakers in 1953 and he had four good first choice keeper Kâroly Fatér. At In 1948 he moved to the USA to years for them. He subsequently the Olympics, Szarka played only teach engineering, moving to the played for both Cincinnati and St. 13 minutas, when he was subbed Bay Area of California. There, he be­ Louis, playing in three NBA All-Star in during the semi-final match came a professor of architectural games and makingsecond team All- against Japan, which Hungary engineering. He was also an earth­ NBA one year. Hefinished his career won 5-0. His team also won the quake specialist, helping develop with the Boston Celtics, as a reserve final. After finishing his sporting a revolutionary method of imple­ center to Bill Russell, and itwas with career, Szarka worked as the long­ menting seismic "base isolation" them, in 1963 and 1964, that he time goalkeeping coach with shock absorbers under large build­ played on NBAchampionshipteams. Szombathelyi Haladâs. (TK) ings, which was used on the city Lovellette was a burly fellow on halls of both San Francisco and Oak­ the court and was known as a bit of Andries Cornelis Dirk “André" land. He was the oldest living Olym­ an enforcer. He apparently tookthe Boestra (NED), *11 December 1924 in pic champion until his death at the reputation with him after his playing Bandoerg, Dutch East Indies; +17 age ofi02 years. See also JOH, Vol. 20, days - he served several years as March 2016 in The Hague. Boestra No. 1/2013, pp. 70-72. (PT) sheriff of his hometown. (BM/WR) was a member of the four-times national championship team Vladimir Yumin (URS), *18 December Paul Lange (FRG), *6 February 1931 H.H.Y.C, which later became Klein 1951 in Omsk; ti+ March 2016 in in Oberhausen; +15 March 2016 in Zwitserland in Wassenaar/The Kaspiysk, Dagestan/RUS. The Oberhausen. Lange was a bricklayer Hague. He qualified as an engineer wrestler was considered one of the by profession. In 1960 in Rome, he and worked first for the Royal Dutch world's best bantamweight, and won Olympic gold in the K-i 4X500 Shell Company, then for the Lucas later featherweight, freestylers m relay (held for the only time at Bols Company. in the 1970s. As a bantamweight these Olympics) with Dieter Krause Boerstra played as inside right he won Olympic gold in 1976, and Günter Perleberg, who both wing in :he national team at the was world champion in 1974 and came from East Germany, and the 1948 Games, where he won a European champion in 1975-76. He West German Friedhelm Wentzke. bronze medal. The Dutch team also won silver at the 1975 World This was the only gold medal won by beat Belgium 4 -1), Denmark 4 -1) Championships and bronze at the a truly unified Olympic team of the and France (2-0). The last group 1973 Worlds. After the 1976 Olympics, then separate two German states. game was lost to Pakistan (1-6). Yumin switched to featherweight Even before the Olympics, Lange Nevertheless, the team made it to and was world champion from 1977­ was K -i (+X500 m relay world cham­ the semi-final against India but 79 and European champion in 1977. pion and third in the K-2 500 m again lost, this time 1-2. for thethe bronze medal, the team had to play and scored one goal. At the 1980 Tommy Kono (USA), *27 June 1930 their former opponent, Pakistan. Olympics he won the gold medal in Sacramento, California; t 24 April This match took place in the Empire with Czechoslovakia. 2016 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pound Stadium, Wembley, and the Dutch Between 1997 and 2001 he was for pound, Kono (shown at the 1956 team now knew their adversaries General Secretary of the Czech Games in the photo) is probably the well and the final result was 1-1. Football Association, and headed greatest lifter produced by the USA. This meant a replay was required, the Referee Commission. He was Between 1953 and 1959 he was un­ which took place at Lyons' Ground relieved from his duties in 2001 and defeated in world and Olympic com­ and the Dutch team emerged the took over the training center for petition, adding six straight world winners with a score of 4 - 1. Boerstra Sparta Prague. (WR) titles to his two Olympic gold medals. scored one of the goals. He also won three consecutive gold He was again part of the Dutch Muzah ir Sille (TUR), *21 Septem­ medals at the Pan-American Games, team at the 1952 Games. However, ber 1931 in Istanbul; +17 May 2016 in 1955, 1959, and 1963. the International Federation had in Istanbul. Sille was a three-time Kono was capable of lifting at al­ decided to change the competition Olympian Greco-Roman feather­ most any bodyweight, witnessed by schedule. The k.o. system meant weight wrestler, placing fourth in his Olympic medals in three different the losing team was immediately 1956, winning the gold medal in classes. He is the only man to ever set eliminated (with exception of the 1960, he also took part in 1964 but world records in four different classes bronze medal play-off, of course). did not reach the third round. He also and won 11 AAU Championships - in The Dutch team beat Germany (1-o ) won silver at the 1955 and 1958 World three different weight classes. Dur­ and won the semi-final against Championships, and won a bronze ing his career he set 27 world records. Pakistan (1-0). The final was won by at the 1959 Balkan Championships. Kono was a very rare weightlifter India with 6-1; which brought the In 1961, he moved to later German who also competed successfully as Netherlands a silver medal. (AB) Bundesliga club KSV Witten 07. a bodybuilder, winning the AAU Mr. After his wrestling career ended, Universe title in 195A, 1955, and 1957. Tapio Mäkelä (FIN), *12 October 1926 he returned to Istanbul to start He later coached the national in Nastola; t 12 May 2016 in Jämsä. several non-profit organisations teams of Mexico and West Germany Mäkelä made his international début mainly targeted towards helping and was the USA weightlifting at the 1950 World Championships, the homeless. (WR) coach in the 1970s and at the 1976 where he was i2lh in the 18 km. At Olympics. Kono was inducted into the 1952 Winter Olympics, he won Anatoly Grishin (URS), *8 July 1939 the Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 1993 gold with the Finnish relay team, but t ia June 2016 in Moscow. Anatoly and is a member of the US Olympic lost to Norwegian Hallgeir Brenden Grishin was a sprint canoeist, Hall of Fame and the Association of by 35 s in the 18 km and had to winning the gold medal with the Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen Hall settle for a silver. At the 1954 World Soviet K -a in 1964. Two years later, of Fame. (BM) Championships, he again won a he also became world champion gold in the relay and was fifth at 15 with the K-a, and in 1963 he won Markku Siukonen (FIN), *2 February km. Mäkelä was an office worker and a bronze with the K-2 over 1000 m. 19A8 in Helsinki; tiA May 2016 in was the President of the sports club In 1967 he was European champion Muurame. A long time member of Kaipolan Vire from 1965-70. (WR) with the K-a, and also won a silver ISOH.he was author or editor of more medal in 1961 and 1967, and a bronze than 4 0 books on sports in a career Ludek Macela (TCH), *3 October 1950 in 1963, all with the K-a. He also spanningfive decades, induding the in fernolice/CZE; ti6 June 2016 in earned 15 national titles. After his essential reference works on Finnish Prague. Macela started his football active career he became a canoeing, Olym pic history. He was known career in his youth for SK Cernolice rowingand sailing coach, as well as as the Grand Old Man of Finnish and Tatran Vsenory. at the age of 16, an international referee. (WR) Olympic literature. he moved to Dukla Prague, winning Markku Siukonen graduated in the national title in 1977, 1979, Oh Se-jong (KOR), *9 October 1982 sports sciences at the University of and 1982. In 1982, he moved to SV in Seoul; t27 June 2016 in Seoul. In Jyväskylä in 1970. In 1971 he became Darmstadt 98 to play in the German 2006 this South Korean short track an editor of Urheilummekasvot Bundesliga for three seasons, speed skater won Olympic gold in (Faces of Our Sport), a compilation and then retired. He returned the 5000 m relay. He had also twice of biographical facts on Finnish to Czechoslovakia and became been world champion (in 2003 and sportspeople that grew into a series a youth coach at SK Cernolice. 2006). He lost his life in a motorcycle of 14 volumes. Before long Siukonen Internationally, he earned 17 caps accident. put his diligence and thorough

JOH 2 I 2 0 1 6 O b itu a ries 73 attention to detail to the service collecting anything available about sold. Several Dutch organisations like of Olympic history. The first two the Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games. the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, volumes of Suuri Olympiateos (Great Visited flea markets, auctions the City of Amsterdam, the Amster­ Olympic Book) were published and digital websites and bought dam Museum and NOC NSF, com­ in 1978 and followed by a new anything available that fitted in his bined to make a joined effort in volume after each Olympic Games collection. securing important items, which until 2000. The 13th and last part of After his pension, he moved to a indeed succeeded in attaining the series was published in 2012, new house in Harderwijk, where he some of the most important items. bringing the story up to date up to could show his collection in a special Unfortunately, Jaco Treurniet himself and including the London Games. room; his private museum. A couple did not have the benefit from this Editor-in-chief and later sole of years ago, Parkinson’s disease was sale for long. We will remember him author of the monumental work, discovered, which made him think as a friend. (AB) Siukonen became the leading about what to do with his collection. interpreter of all things Olympic From 2008 onwards, he tried to sell (AB = Anthony Th. Bijkerk, for generations of Finnish sports it to several Dutch organisations, BM = Bill M iHon, PB = Philip Barker, PT = Paul Tchir, RR = RalfRegnitter, enthusiasts. including the Netherlands Olympic TK = Taavi kalju, V K -Volker Kluge, Writing on sports was not only Committee, but not one of them was VT = Vesa Txander, WR = Wolf Reinhardt) Siukonen's passion but also his interested. livelihood. He became a full-time Last year, 2015, he finally decided author of sports books, the only one to auction the collection by MPO of his kind in Finland. In addition to Auctions in Nieuwegein. Many The ISOH offers the families Suuri Olympiateos, the cornerstone collectors attended the auction and of the deceased its sincere of his work was Urheilunvuosikirja, most of the important items were condolences. yearbook of Finnish sports inaugu­ rated in 1979. He authored 35 ed i­ tions of the yearbook before retiring from active duty in 2014. Markku Siukonen was an active member and recognised Finnish correspondent of the international network of Olympic historians ever since his early correspondence with Erich Kamper in the 1970's. He became a member of ISOH in 1996. He received an Olympic Movement Unity award from the IOC in 1995. Siukonen spent his retirement years at his home on the shore of Lake Päijänne in Central Finland, attending to music, nature, photo­ graphy and to h is family of five chil­ dren and ten grandchildren. (VT)

Jacobus Adrianus "Jaco" Treurniet (NED), *8 Dec. 1933 in Rotterdam; +17 May 2016 in Ermelo. After his basic and further education, he joined the SHELL Company and worked his whole life for this company. He became famous for his collection of memorabilia from the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He originally started with collecting books on sport, but later sold most of them. He then changed over to Carlo Pedersoli (alias: Bud Spencer) his father-in-law he founded his own (ITA), *310 ctober 1929 in Naples; t27 June production company. In 1967 he received 2016 in Rome. With his family Pedersoli an offer to act in a "spaghetti western”. went to South America after the Second That was the birth of "Bud Spencer" World War, where among other things he (named after his favourite actor Spencer worked as an assembly line worker in Rio Tracy), a hardhitting, stubborn but deianeiro. In 1948 he returned to Italy to took part in the Olympics in 1952 and good-hearted roughneck. Together with study law. On 19 September 1950 he was 1956. Through his marriage to the "Terence Hill” (also an Italian swimmer the first Italian to swim the 100 m free in daughter of a well-known Italian film called Mario Girotti) he made up a under a minute. After he had won a silver producer, Pedersoli came into contact congenial duo in 16 film comedies which at the Mediterranean Games in 1951, he with showbusiness. After the death of celebrated triumphs. (VK)

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