Mary Alison Glen-H aig (nee James), Christian Hospital in Windsor. Obituaries DBE, *12 July 1918 in ; +15 Throughout this she remained at the November 201A in London. Mary heart of her sport and in 1974 was Glen-Haig's life in Olympic sport elected President of the Amateur Rudolf Schmid (AUT), *21 March extended far beyond her career as a Fencing Association, one of the first 1951 in Liezen; +20 October 201A in sportswoman. She forged a pathway women to take on such a post with Oberwart. Rudolf was the younger in sports administration and was in a national Association and two years brother of Manfred Schmid and also the vanguard of women elected as later chaired a trailblazing confer­ became a top luger. They competed IOC Members in 1982. ence on "Women in Sport" held in together in two Olympics, but did Her father was First World War London. A patron of the Women's not slide together in doubles. After veteran Captain William James, a Sport Foundation, she was a staunch winning medals at the European fencing enthusiast who established supporter of the British Associa­ Junior Championships in singles as the sport at the Polytechnic in tion for Disability Sport. She also well as in doubles, Rudolf Schmid London's Regent Street. She had served for six years as Chairman won his first senior international begun to enjoy success in junior of the Central Council for Physical medal at the 1970 European competitions before the outbreak of Recreation and Sport (CCPR) Championships. This came in the the Second World War. Only the third woman elected doubles with longtime partner Her Olympic debut was thus to the IOC, she took the oath at the Franz Schachner he took silver. They delayed until London 19^8. At Session in Delhi and her background also won bronze at the 197A and those Games the accommodation saw her become part of the Medical 1975 World Championships before for women was in Central London Commission. She held a similar winning the Olympic bronze medal and she later recalled "The British position with the British Olympic in 1976 on home ice in Innsbruck. competitors had to take their rations medical commission. Her lOC tenure Schmid also won two bronze medals and rations books with them. In lasted until 1993 when she became in single luge at the 1973 and 1974 the house next door the French an Honorary Member. At the 199A World Championships. Schmid were eating steak and chips and the Session in , held to celebrate was also a qualified electrician, wonderful smell assailed our nostrils the centenary of the IOC, and by but worked in insurance after his reminding us that we were hungry. now Dame Mary, she was presented competitive career. He retired in 2007 The smell was too much for us so with the Olympic Order by President and began growing grapes for wine. without comment we slipped into Samaranch. In 1996 he was awarded a Decoration their dining room and joined the A long standing member of of Merit in Gold for Services to the queue." ISOH, she also supported Olympic Republic of Austria. (OM) By now fencing for the Lansdowne Education through the International Club and coached by Alfred Parkins, Olympic Academy and spoke at the Rinnat Safin (URS), *29 July 19^+0 in she finished eighth in the foil, her National Olympic Academy held at Bolshiye Yaki, Tatarstan; 1 22 October best Olympic finish though she Wembley in 1998. She was still active 2014 near Kirishi, St. Petersburg. competed in three more Olympic as a fencer into her seventies. She Made his international debut in Games. She twice won gold at supported London's bid for the 2012 the biathlon at the 1967 World the British Empire Games (now Games and lived to see them staged Championships, where he won silver Commonwealth Games) and in her home city for the second time as a member of the Soviet relay team narrowly missed a medal at the 1950 in her lifetime. (PB) and was fourth in the 20 km. He was World Championships in Monaco. not selected for the 1968 Olympics, "To a casual observer, power and Jeno Buzanszky (HUN), *t+ May 1925 but did compete at the 1969 World determination would appear to be in Ujdombovar; tn January 2015 Championships, where he won a the keynote of Mary Glen-Haig's in Esztergom. After the death of silver at 20 km and a world title in Game" wrote her contemporary goalkeeper last year, the relay. He went on to w in three Charles De Beaumont after her first (JOH No. 2/2014, p. 69) Buzanszky had more world titles in the relay in 1970, big international success in 1950. been the only surviving member 1971 and 1973, but his best individual By profession a hospital adminis­ of the great Hungarian football place in those championships was trator, first with Kings College team, also known as the "Magical fifth in 1971. Safin also competed at Hospital, then the Royal Orthopaedic Magyars", or "Golden Team". They the 1972 Olympic Games, where he Hospital. She later became Assistant won Olympic gold in 1952 but were finished a disappointing 19th in the District Administrator of South defeated in th e 1954 World Cup Final, 20 km but won gold as a member of Hammersmith Health District in West known as the "Miracle of Berne" by the Soviet relay team. (TK) London and director of the Princess theWestGermans.

JOH 1 I 2015 Adefender, hedid notplayata Buda­ from Massachusetts, he chose to last 20 years of his life there after pest dub, but for Dorogi Banyasz play his college hockey at Michigan retirement. (PT) from Dorog. He was capped t+8 times State. A leftwinger, he had spent a by and played in all five season playing for Milano HC in Italy Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner (FRG), matches d uringthei95A World Cup. and actually played in the B World *16 February 1924 in Ettal; +9 He went to that tournament as an Championships for Italy in 1953. November 2014+ in Grainau. Mirl Olympic gold medallist. One year Grazia played on the national team Buchner won a silver medal in the earlier in Novemberi953, the Hun­ at the 1959 World Championships in downhill and bronze medals in the garians had defeated England 6-3 addition to his Olympic appearance, slalom and giant slalom at thei952 in a famous encounter at Wembley. as part of the gold medal w inring Winter Olympics. Four years later in Buzanszky ended his playing career United States team in 1960. Cortina d'Ampezzo she was unable after 271+ matches and began work­ Grazia later played minor league to repeat her results and finished ing as a coach. He was elected Vice- professional hockey in Toledo for 21st in the slalom and 27th in the giant President of the Hungarian Football 10 years, playing two games in 1958 slalom and fell in the downhill. Association in 1996. The FC Dorogi with the Toledo Mercurys of the Buchner was elected German stadium is named after him. (WR) International Hockey League (IHL). "Sportswoman of the Year" in He then became a hockey, baseball, 1948. From 1944-- 49 she won five Eugene "Gene" Grazia (USA), and golf coach in West Springfield, national titles in downhill, alpine *29 July 1934+ in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where he taught combination and slalom. She later Massachusetts; +9 November 201/+ physical education for 26 years. ran a sports shop in her hometown in Florida. Although Grazia was He moved to Florida and lived the of Garmisch. (WR)

Henry A. "Harry" Gordon *9 NovembeM925 in Melbourne t2i January 2014 in Gold Coast Queensland

Australian ISOH member and sports journalist Harry Gordon was In both 1956 and 2000, he had the pleasure of witnessing Olympic a proud standard bearer for the Olympic achievements of those Games celebrated in his own country. At the first of those Games under the Southern Cross. in Melbourne, c 17 year old Chinese Australian boy called John Ian Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates led the Wing suggestec the team's parade together without distinction tributes to the man he called "a loyal friend who was always there of nationality a: the closing ceremony. Wing had refused to come offering his support. Very few people go through life without forward at the time but in 1986, Gordon wrote in Time Australia making an enemy or two. Harry comes from one of the toughest "Where are you John Ian Wing? It is to be hoped that John Ian Wing businesses of all, yet everywhere you go it is hard to find anyone will please stand up for history's sake." who has an unkind word to say about Harry". Such was the low er of the article that Wing was soon discovered It had been Coates who invited him to become AOC official living in England. He'd been unable to afford a ticket to see the historian. A superb book Australia and the Olympic Games, first Melbourne Games but was later invited to the Sydney 2000 closing published in 19 % , set a benchmark for others to follow. One of ceremony as a guest. All thanks to a journalist who knew his Australia's greatest champions, 1960 gold medallist Herb Elliott history. paid his own tribute: "He was a beautiful man, and a wonderful Gordon's journalistic career took him all the way to the editor's writer, journalistand a good friend." chair. In 1970 at the Melbourne News Sun Pictorial, he launched a Harry Gordon was one of the very few journalists to receive the campaign in support of seatbelts and could therefore be credited Olympic Order and was also inducted into the Australian Sports with saving thousands of lives on the road. Hall of Fame. His wider achievements were also honoured with the He was also Editor in Chief at both Herald a n d Weekly Times and Order of Australia and die ISOH Lifetime Award in 2006. Queensland Nev/spapers. He first reported the Olympics in 1952, travelling straight to He attended t ie 2012 Games as guest of the AOC. They were to be from his duties as a war correspondent in Korea. Journalism his last, but he was soon embarking on an updated history of the provides a most wonderful world of contrasts," he said later. Australian Olympic Movement, a considerable undertaking. "Twice during my career I moved from covering a war to covering an In 2013, he was inducted into the Melbourne Press Club's Hall Olympic Games. Each time I was coming from a savage battlefield of Fame and barely had the flame extinguished in Sochi, his new where people were intent on killing each other and doing it pretty volume From Athens with Pride hit the presses. It had a gold cover, well, to an Olympic Village in which the overwhelming mood was appropriate in so many ways for an author who had in the words of one of peace and goodwill. The difference in atmosphere was his friends, lived his life as "a gold medal performance"

profound." Philip Barker Yevgeny Viktorovich Korolkov (URS), his playing career, he emigrated in West Littleton, Gloucestershire. *15 September 1930 in ; +24 to Australia, where he worked as a Meade remains Britain's most December 2014 in Sergiyev Posad. football coach in Sydney. (OM) successful Olympic equestrian A gymnast from Moscow's Dinamo competitor. He was the first British sports club who made his mark at G rahan and an Nandy Singh (IND), rider to win an individual Olympic two major competitions. At the 1952 *18 February 1926 in Faisalabad; t 7 gold medal and his total of three Helsinki Games, he won a team December 2014 in New Delhi. The gold medals is also the best by a gold and pommelled horse silver Indian began playing hockey while Briton. He made his Olympic debut and finished sixth in the individual studying at the Government College in 1964 and won team gold in the all-around. At the 195A World in Lahore, serving as captain of th ree-day event in 1968. He helped Championships he won team gold their hockey team in 1945 a n d 1946. retain the team title in 1972 where and silver in the rings. He finished After the partition of British India he also won individual gold riding ^ seventh in individual all-around. into India and Pakistan in 1947, he Laurieston. At the 1976 Olympics Korolkov never did win a Soviet moved to Calcutta and played for he matched showjumper David title. The closest he came was silver Bengal. He was selected for the 1948 Broome's as the only other Briton on three occasions (195A individual Indian Olympic team. at the Games to compete in four Olympic Games. all-around, 195/+-55 rings). He also in London, he played in India's 2-0 (Broome did eventually compete won two bronzes (1955 individual preliminary round victory over Spain. in a fifth Games in 1988.) Despite a all-around, 1956 pommelled horse) The team went on to win a gold disappointing competition for the at the national championships. He medal. British team, Meade finished fourth also won bronze in the parallel bars In 194 9 Singh joined the Indian in the individual competition. and rings at the 1957 . After Navy and from 1949-58 played Meade was also a member of the finishing his active sporting career, for Services, captaining the team w in n in g team at the 1967 and 1971 he worked as a gymnastics coach in 1952-54 and 1957-58. He was European Championships and the in Moscow. His most famous pupils selected for the Olympic team for the 1970 World Championships and were Mikhail Voronin and Sergey second time in 1952. He again played placed second individually in the Diomidov. (TK) in one match, this time a semi-final 1966 and 1970 World Championships. against Great Britain which India He won at Burghley in 196A and at Antun "Ante" Zanetic (YUG), *18 won 3-1, earning his second gold Badminton in 1970, a competition November 1936 in Blato (CRO); +18 medal. he won for a second time in 1982 December 201A in Wollongong, A career military man, Singh retired aged 4 3 Meade, whose parents were NSW (AUS). A m idfielder who began from the Indian Navy with the rank Joint-Masters of the Corre Hounds his football w ith GOSK Dubrovnik of commander. During his military in Monmouthshire, was educated in 1953, he moved to Hajduk Split service, he had been secretary of the at Lancing and Magdalen College, in 1954 and stayed there for seven Services Sport Control Board from Cambridge, where he took an years. With Hajduk, he won a 1970-74, was commandant of the engineering degree. After Cambridge national title in 1955 and a runners Naval School of Physical Training, he served in the n lh Hussars and later up medal in the Yugoslav Cup the and was a member of the Board of worked in the City. At London 2012, same year. 2anetic was capped 15 Governors of Indira Gandhi College Meade worked as a volunteer at the times with the Yugoslav national of Physical Education and Training equestrian events in Greenwich team between 1959-60 and scored from 1993- 9 A- Singh also remained Park. His son Harry followed him into two international goals. He was part active in Indian hockey circles. He the sport. (HE) of the squad at the i960 European was Vice-President of the Asian Nations' Cup. Yugoslavia were Hockey Federation from 197A-78 Bruno Visintin (ITA), *23 November runners-up to the . At and was Vice-Chairman of the 1932 in La Spezia; til January 2015 the 1960 Olympics, he played in all National Selection Committee for the in La Spezia. The Italian boxer won five matches for Yugoslavia's gold Indian Hockey Federation in 1981, the Italian league as an amateur medal winningside. and then Chairman from 1983-85. featherweight in 1951 and became In 1961, while Hajduk Split were He also managed the Indian 198A lightweight champion at the touring Denmark and Germany, Olympic team and organised many European Championships in Milan. Zanetic fled to the west and settled tournaments in India. (OM) The following year he won light in Belgium. He played with Club welterweight bronze at the Olympics Brugge from 1961-6A and then Richard John Hannay Meade (GBR), in Helsinki. finished his career with RWD OBE, *4 December 1938 in Chepstow, He then turned pro, and was Molenbeek from 196^-66. After Monmouthshire; + 8 January 2015 Italian lightweight champion (1955- 1956), welterweight (1958-1961), He never did win World Champion­ were sensationally beaten by a USA then super welterweight (1963-1964) ship gold, but he did ended his team made up of college players. and also European champion in the amateur career with a bronze The match dubbed "The Miracle on super welterweight (196/+-1966). He medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics, lce"by the Americans, came at the won 77 of his 90 fights. (VZR) having previously finished 9th at the height of the Cold War. Tikhonov 1972 Games. Over the course of his was considered by some to be a career Cranston paved the way for tyrant who drilled his players by any future generations of male figures means. Corporal punishment and to be freer and more open in their even the monitoring of family mem­ routines, and added a high degree of bers of the players were not uncom­ artistry to the sport. After his Olympic mon. Parallel to his job as national medal, he received many more coach, he also took charge of his accolades: he was inducted into the home club in Moscow, CSKA from Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1976-200/*. 1976, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame After the dissolution of the Soviet Vlastim il Bubm'k (TCH), *18 March in 1977, Skate Canada's Hall of Fame Union, perestroika and its conse­ 1931 in Kelc; t 6 January 2015 in in 1977, and Canada's Walk of Fame quences considerably weakened his . A dual international who in 2003, in addition to being made authority. In 199/4, he was released had a very long career he represent­ an Officer of the Order of Canada in after a disappointing fourth place ed Czechoslovakia at both football 1977 and receiving a Special Olympic at the Games in Lillehammer but in and ice hockey. In football he played Order from the Canadian Olympic 200/4 he made a brief comeback. His for Czechoslovakia at the i960 Euro­ Association in 1 9 9 5 - He was also son Vasily, who died in 2013 was also pean Nations'Cup. named "ska ter of the century" by the ice hockey player and coach, while He was capped 11 times and scored European press. his grandson Victor is still a profes­ 4 goals from 1957-60. He was a for­ He turned professional at the age sional ice hockey player. (WR) ward who had a very long career. of 27 and continued to skate a major He ended his playing days in Austria ice shows for the next two decades Peder Pedersen (DEN), *3 November with VEU Feldkirch, retiring after the before taking up painting and 19/45 in Nprre NcerS; tg January 1970-71 season. building a reputation as an artist. 2015. A track cyclist, he participated On the ice, he represented Czecho- He has also worked as a skating in three consecutive Olympic slovakia at four Winter Olympics, choreographer and a commentator Games from 196/4-72 in the sprint winning bronze medals in i960 and for CBC, for whom his final Olympics competition. He was a member of 1964; and at the World Champion­ were the 2014 Games in Sochi. In the gold medal winning pursuit ships in 1953-55,1961, and 1963, later life, he split his time between team in 1968 and took part in the winning a silver medal in 1961 and Mexico and Canada. (WR) sprint competitions in each of his bronze medals in 1955 and 1963. In three Olympics. In 1972 he was the 1961 he was named the best forward Viktor Vassilyevich Tikhonov (RUS), Danish flagbearer at the opening at the World Championships. He % J u n e i9 3 0 in Moscow; +24 Novem­ ceremony. was inducted into the International ber 201/4. in Moscow. Tikhonov was a In 1970 he was runner-up at the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997 and legendary-Russian ice hockey coach World Amateur Championships and remains Czechoslovakia's all-tim e in the Soviet era. He had been a d e - 1975 at the World Pro Championships. Olympic leading with 37 goals in his fenceman but his playing career was In 197/4 he had his greatest moment four appearances. (WR) not outstanding. As a coach, how­ as an individual winningthe World ever, he was considered the best in Pro Cham pionships. In 1971 he was Toller Cranston (CAN/Photo right), the world. Tikhonov was considered also runner-up In thei km timetrial. *20 April 19/4.9 in Hamilton, Ontario; a seminal figure of hockey history Domestically he claimed 12 national +2A January 2015 in San Miguel de and won three Olympic gold medals titles, mostly in the sprints. Allende (MEX). Considered a revo­ 198/4,1988 and 1992 and eight World After his career on the track lutionary in the world of men's fig­ Championships 1978-1979,1981- Pedersen became national coach ure skating and an artistic pioneer, 1983,1986,1989, and 1990. from 1977-92. He also served as a his career began at the age of six, but However, he was also the coach board memberof the Danish Cycling his rise to fame was slow. He per­ held responsible for possibly the Union from 1977-90 and became its formed poorly at his first national darkest hour in Soviet ice hockey his­ President from 1990-2006. From championship and failed to make tory. lni98othefabled "red machire" 1 9 9 3 -9 7 he was a board member the Canadian Olympicteam ini968. lost afterfour consecutive wins. They for the amateur section of the UCI. By profession he was a policeman Raymond George "Ray" Lumpp Jouko Sihveri Tormanen (FIN), and eventually rose to Chief of Traffic (USA), *11 July 1923 in Brooklyn, NY; *10 A p ril 19 5A in Rovaniemi; Police at Fiinen. (WR) t i 6 January 2015 in Mineola, NY. t3January 2015 in Rovaniemi. Lumpp was a basketball star at New A Finnish ski-jumper made his

Olga Nikolayevna Knyazeva York University in the late a o s and at international debut at the 197A (URS), *9 A ugust 195A in Kazan, the 19A8 Olympics he was a member World Championships, where he Tatarstan; t 3 January 2015 in Kazan. of th e US team w h ich becam e was fifth on the large h ill. At his first Knyazeva took up fencing when Olympic champion. After the Games Olympics in 1976 Winter Olympics she was 12-years-old and was he turned pro, m ainly with the New he was tenth on the large hill and part of the Soviet team from 1972- York Knicks (19A9-52), but also briefly iAth on the normal hill. His first 78. Her best year was 1975, when with the Indianapolis Jets (19A8 -A 9) international medal came at the 1978 she won the World Cup, individual and the Baltimore Bullets (1952-53). World Championships, a silver in the silver and team gold at the World After his basketball playing days team event. In the individual while Championships and was named best ended he was director of the New placing sixth on the large hill and female fencer of the year by the FIE. York Athletic Club for almost 50 years, i5 lhon the normal h ill, but it was at She became Olympic champion in and in his honour, the club had his the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid saw the 1976 team event, w hile finishing name engraved on the gym floor. He the highlight of Tormanen's career. ninth individually. She won further was also active on the board of the He became Olympic champion on world team titles in 197A, 1977 and US Olympians Society, and served as the on the large hill and a creditable 1978. After finishing her sporting an official at track meets and was, eighth on the normal hill. His last career, Knyazeva worked as a fencing for a time, meet director of the US international appearance came in coach in Kazan, and also taught Olympic Invitational Track Meet. 1982 at the World Championships, physical education at the Kazan State In 2012, Lumpp was honoured by placing22nd on the large hill. Institute of Economics and Finance. US basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski By profession an engineer, he be­ (WR) with an invitation back to London as came a distinguished administrator a special guest of the US basketball in sport. He became a board mem­ team. (WR) ber of the Finnish Skiing Federation in 1988, and served as Vice-Presi­ Hermanus Pieter "Dick" Loggere dent from 1993-2002. In 1992 he was (NED), *6 May 1921 in Amsterdam; named Chairman of the Ski Jump­ t30 December 201A in Hilversum. ing and Nordic Combined Commit­ The Dutman played for Mixed tee and in 200A was named Chair­ Hockey Club "Laren" and already man of theSkiJumpingCommittee of was selected for the first team the Federation Internationale de Ski of this club by 1937. Loggere was (FIS). (TK) chosen for the national team in 19A6 and participated in the 19A8 Franjo Mihalic (YUG), *9 March 1920 Hitoshi Saito (JPN), *2 January 1961 Olympic team, which won a bronze in Kutina (CRO); tiA February2015 in in Aomori; +20 January 2015 in in London. In 1952, he was again Belgrade. A Croat who was among Higashiosaka. The Japanese judoka selected for the Dutch team, that the best long-distance runners won the heavyweight judo gold went to Helsinki and won a silver. of the 1950s. He took part in three medals at thei 9 8 A and 1988 Olympic In 1956 he would surely have been Olympic Games and won silver in Games. He was the first Japanese part of the Netherlands team in the marathon behind O'Kacha Alain Olympic champion in this weight Melbourne, but the Netherlands Mimoun (FRA) at the 1956 Games in category. A year earlier he earned the NOC then decided to boycott the Melbourne. In 1952 he had finished world champion in the open class Olympics, because of the Russian i 8 ,hin the 10,000 metres, in 1960 he and in 1985 he was runner-up in the invasion of Hungary. Missing those was twelfth in the marathon. heavyweight. Games was one of the greatest Mihalic sporting career began as After his active career he became disappointments in his sporting a footballer and cyclist; in 19AO his an instructor for Kokushikan life. He finished his international athletics talent was discovered at a University and the All Japan Judo career in 1958, having played 85 cross-country race in Zagreb. After Federation. He was also coach of the international matches. the Second World War he moved Japanese team at the 200A Olympics. Away from hockey, he was a direc­ to Belgrade, where in 19A7 he be­ He was only 5A years old when he tor of the family business "Loggere came a member of the sports club died of cancer. (WR) Metaalwerken". (AB) Partizan. His first big success came

30H 1 I 2015 Obituaries 75 at 1951 at the Mediterranean Games as a pro wrestler for the New Japan After he had ended his sporting in Alexandria when he was second Pro Wrestling and World Wrestling career in 1996, he ran a business to Mimoun over 1 0 ,0 0 0 metres. In Federation promotions. He had for canoe equipment in - 1953 he won the International Cross fourteen pro wrestling matches. Kreuzberg together with Frank Country Championships in Paris, In 2001 he suffered a major stroke Fischer, with whom he had become the equivalent of today's IAAF Cross which left him physically disabled. world champion in K-2 in 1983. Country World Championships. In 2013 he was inducted in the Wohllebe, who was by nature, a He twice won the traditional Sao Hall of Fame of the International cheerful optimist, died aged 52 of Silvestre Road Race in Sao Paulo, Judo Federation. He was admitted pancreatic cancer. (VK) Brazil (in 1952 and 1954+. In the inter­ to a nursing home in Hoorn in 2014+. vening yea r h e lost to the three times Ruska died at the age of 74+ and is Gerardus Petrus "Gerrit" Voorting Olympic champion Emil Zatopek). survived by his wife, two children (NED), 18 January 1923 in Velsen; +30 He ran himself into the role of and five grandchildren. (AB) January 2015 in Heemskerk. During favourite for the Olympic gold medal the Olympic Games in London 194+8, at the 1956 Balkan Games. He won Philipp Furst (FRG), * 8 November Voorting won silver in the Olympic the marathon in a sensational world 1936 in Oppau; t 6 November 2014+ road race. best time 2:16:25. It improved on in Ludwigshafen. A qualified mason He became a professional cyclist in the previous best, set by Briton Jim and later a civil engineer, he took 194 9 - In 1950 he participated in the Peters (2:17:39.4) in 195A by more part in the Olympic Games in 1960 Tour de France for the first time the than a minute. However post-race and 1964 with the unified German first often consecutive appearances. measurements showed the course gymnastics team. He was part of the In 1952, he won his first stage, the to be short. Another high point of his team and won a bronze medal in one to Dieppe. Six years later he sporting career was his victory in the Tokyo. In the individual all-ro jnd did it again by w inning the stage to Boston Marathon in 1958 (2:25:54). he finished well down the field on Dunkirk. His best overall finish was Mihalic, who won 14+ n a tio n a l each occasion. In 1960 he placed 76th seventh place in 1954. championship titles (but never the and in 1964 finished 24,h. In the Tour of 1956, he wore the marathon), retired in 1966 and be­ at the German championships he yellow jersey for several days and came coach to Partizan Belgrade, but achieved 18 individual titles. at the repeated the feat again in the 1958 rem ained loyal to running. He won 1959 European Championships he race. He also participated in the Giro his last race over 5 kilometres in 2005 was third In the individual all-ro jnd D'ltalia on three occasions. (AB) at the Veterans' Balkan Games. (VK) and on the pommelled horse. In 1961 he had his greatest success on this Olga Toros (HUN), m a r r ie d Willem "Wim" Ruska (NED), *29 apparatus as runner-up to European Szemereyne, * 4 A ugust 1914+ in Augusti94+o in Amsterdam; tii+ Feb­ champion Miroslav Cerar (YUG). ; +16 February 2015 in ruary 2015 in Hoorn. He w astheonly After being trained as a gymnastics Kecskemet. The gymnast competed athlete to win two judo medals at and sports teacher he was coach to at the 1936 Olympics and won a one Olympics - in the heavyweight the West German men's team from bronze medal in the women's team and open divisions in 1972. He start­ 1969 to 1985. Thereafter he worked at competition. She received a degree ed mastering in 1960 and traveled to the Regional Performance Centra in in physical education in 1934 and Japan fortraining. In the 1960s and Ludwigshafen-Oppau. (VK) moved to Kecskemet in 1939 where 1970s he won seven European titles, she worked as a sport teacher until five in the +93 kg category (1966-67, Andre Wohllebe (GDR/GER), *8 1974 - When she turned 100 in 2014 she 1969,1971-72) and two in the open January 1962 in Berlin; t29 December received the Lifetime Achievement category (1969 and 1972). He further­ 2014 + in Berlin. A model athlete Award from the Hungarian NOC. (VK) more won two world titles (1967 took part in the last GDR team at and 1971) and two Olympic titles. His the Olympic Games of 1988 and (AB=Anthony Th. Bijkerk, success at thei 972 Summer Olympics won bronze medals for K-1 500m HE = Hilary Evans, OM = Olym pedia, PB = Philip Barker, PT = Paul Tchir, was overshadowed by the and in K -4+. In 1992 in Barcelona, TK = Taavi Kalju, VK = Volker Kluge, massacrethattook place days before. where a unified German team WR = W olf Reinhardt) He retired after the 1972 Olympics went to the start for the first time and later took part in a number of since 1964+, W ohllebe, a qualified style-vs.-style fights. In August plumber became Olympic champion 1976, he defeated Ivan Gomez in a in Kayak-Four. He gained eight The ISOH offers the families ValeTudo match in Brazil. Between World Championship titles and was of the deceased its sincere 1976 and 1980, Ruska competed runner-upfourtimes. condolences.