the "Manifesto of the 2000 words" hurled through the windscreen, Obituaries in 1968, in which the continuation so that he suffered a severe brain of the process of démocratisation inJury. Three days later he died was demanded. When thereupon despite an emergency operation. As Jack Gunthard (SUI), * 8 January her husband was dismissed from he had an organ donor card, other 1920 in Hirzel; + 7August 2016 in Biel. the army, she sent back President seriously ill patients could be saved The gymnast participated in the 1952 Svoboda all the orders awarded using his organs. Helsinki Olympics winning a gold to her by the state. After that she Henze, who won a silver medal in medal in the horizontal bar and a was considered for some years as the C-2 a: the 2004 Olympics, came silver in the team all-around. In 1957 an "unwanted person". But in 1978 from a family of canoeists. His father he was European Champion, from she had the chance to go to Mexico Jurgen took part in 1972 in the GDR 1956-58 also Swiss Champion. with her family for two years as a Olympic team and came 18th also in Gunthard later coached the men's gymnastics coach. the C-2. His brother Frank competed national team from Italy to prepare With the Prague revolution of in 2012 in the same Canadian event for the 1960 and 1964 Olympic 1989 she was the only woman in and finished eleventh. (VK) Games, and from 1965 to 1980, the the advisory team of State President national team of Switzerland at the Vaclav Havel. From 1990 to 1993 she Giacomo Fornoni (ITA), *26 sports school in Magglingen. With was President of the Czechoslovakian December 1939 in Gromo; +26 his radio programme "Fit with Jack” NOC, then, afterthe division of the Septemter 2016 in Rogeno. The he became well-know n in 1975 and country, of the Czech NOC until 1996. Italian cyclist was a Olympic gold became a pioneer of the fitness From 1995 to 2001 she was a Member medallis: in the 100 km team time movement in the Switzerland. (WR) of the IOC. trial in 1960. He later competed for A blow of fate overtook her on 6th nine years as a professional, all with Caslavska, Vera (TCH), *3 May 1942 August 1993, when her husband, the Molteni team. Fornoni competed in Prague/CZE; +30 August 2016 in from she had meantime been four times at the Giro d’ltalia, in Prague.The Czech gymnasttook part divorced, who had Just returned in 1962-63 and 1965-66, with a best three times in Olympic Games from July from his UNO service as a "Blue GC placement of 51st in 1965. He also 1960 to 1968. With seven gold and Helmet" in Iraq, was struck down raced three times at both Milano- four silver medals she was behind by his own son Martin in a family San Remc and the Giro di Lombardia. Larissa Latynina (URS/9-5-4) the dispute. After Odlozil had died from In 1964 he won the Trofeo Baracchi second best athlete in her sport. the consequences a month later, two-mar time trial alongside Gianni At the World Championships of his son was given a prison sentence, Motta. Fornoni was fourth at the 1962 and 1966 she won five titles; which he did not have to serve after 1963 World Championships on the between 1959 and 1967 she was the Intervention of President Havel. track in the individual pursuit. After eleven times European champion. Vera Câslavskâ, who in 2013 had retirement he opened a restaurant Her name is closely connected donated two of her Olympic gold in Rogeno, and named it "Cinque with the "Prague Spring" of the year medals to the Slovakian Sports Cerchi" orfive rings, in honourof his 1968 and the invasion of the troops Museum, died of pancreatic cancer. Olympic victory. (BM) of the Warsaw Pact, with which the The national memory ceremony, reform process of Czechoslovakia which was broadcast live on televi­ Allen Kelley (USA), *2k December led by KPC Chairm an Alexander sion, took place on 12th September 1932 in Dearing, Georgia; +13 August DubCek was ended. When, a in Prague's National Theatre, in the 2016 in Lawrence, Kansas. Kelley few weeks later, she became presence of government officials in - was a 1.83 m guard at the University four times Olympic champion in dudingthe Prime Minister. (VK) of Kansas, graduating in 1954. He Mexico City, she dedicated the gold was a pa't of the Kansas team that medal In the all-around-event Stefan Henze (GER), *3 May 1981 lost in the final of the 1953 NCAA to Dubcek. The other gold medals Halle/Saale, +15 August 2016 Rio de Championships, and was a two­ she sent in a symbolic act to three Janeiro. Henze, who since 2013 had time All-Conference selection. After Czechoslovakian statesmen. After been federal trainer of the German graduation he was drafted in the the conclusion of the competitions canoe slalom athletes, had an seventh round by the Milwaukee she married the Olympic runner-up accident on 12th August during the Hawks but spurned their offers. in the 19641500 m, Josef Odlozil, in Olympic Games in Rio with a taxi, Instead he played AAU ball until 1960 the cathedral of Mexico City. whose driver drove into a wall on for the Peoria Caterpillars. He was a Vera Caslavska was one of the the way to the Olympic Village. By member of the US Olympic team, prominent people who had signed the force of the collision he was which won gold in 1960. His brother Dean Kelley (1931-1996) was a 1952 quite angrily to win his first Olympic beating Italian Guglielmo Pesenti in gold medallist. After his sport career gold. In the relay, snow conditions the final, although he was informed he was a long-time employee of the became increasingly difficult. closely to the final, that his parents Caterpillar Tractor firm. (BM) Lundstrom stopped on the anchor had a serious car accident. Earlier in leg and re-waxed his ski, probably the semifinals Rousseau defeated Anatoly Isayev (URSi, *19 July 1932 the only time this happened in an New Zealander Warren Johnston in Zamoskvorechye; +10 July 2016 In Olympic relay race. Nevertheless, easily in two straight races. Moscow. Isayev won the gold medal Sweden's winning margin was by After the 1957 season he turned with the Soviet football team at the far the greatest in the history of this professional. In 1958 he won the 1956 Melbourne Olympics beating event in Olympic history. world title, and was runner-up in Yugoslavia 1-0 in thz final. In the Victory at Holmenkollen in 191*8 1959 and 1961 to the redoubtable single elimination they also beat over 18 km cemented his status as Antonio Maspes from Italy. (WR) the German team 2 -'. From 1953 to a "ski king". At the 1952 Olympics in 1962 he played for Spartak Moscow Oslo, he competed only in the relay, Norbert Schemansky (USA),*30 and won the Soviet title in 1953, again running anchor, to secure the May 1921* in Detroit, M ichigan; 1956,1958 and 1962 1958 Moscow bronze medal. Between his two t 7 September 2016 in Dearborn, also won the Soviet Cup. He earned Olympics he was less successful at Michigan. Norb Schemansky worked 16 international cups and scored the 1950 World Championships. He as a fireman early in his career, but six goals. After his active career he continued to compete in the Veteran was fired when he took leave to became a well-known coach. In World Championships, winning attend the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, 1990 he had two short stints with the another 27 gold medals, the last one at which he won gold. He was Iraqi Olympic team end the Soviet in 1999 at the age of 8o. (PT) the first weightlifter to win four one. (WR) Olympic medals, and nobody has Berit Mprdre-Lammedal (NOR), *16 won more, although the record has Martin Lundstrom (SWE),*30 May April 191*0 in Nes, t23 August 2016 in been equaled several times. He first 1918 in Tvarliden, NorsJo; t30June Nes. Berit Mordre was a dominant became prominent internationally 2016 in Ume3 . Lundstrom was born figure in women's cross-country when he finished second in the 191*7 as one of 15 children, and he and skiing from 1965-79. She skied World Championships, behind John his two brothers had to work on the the anchor leg for the victorious Davis. farm, thus developing strong arms Norwegian relay team at the 1968 Though he had several second- and legs. In 1939 he was stricken Olympic Winter Games. In 1969 she place finishes, both at the Olympics with tuberculosis end spent six married, and competed as Berit and Worlds. He won three World months in a sanatcrium, but he Mordre-Lammedal the rest of her Championships - 1951, 1953, and recovered and in 1991 won his first career, through 1978. In 1976 - the 1951*. He also won the heavyweight contest as a senior. Besides skiing, first year women were allowed to gold medal at the 1955 Pan American he was active in race-walking in the start in the Birkebeiner - she won Games. During his career, he set 29 early 1990s and during the 1950s in the women's class eight minutes world records, including in 1969 orienteering as a summer sport. His ahead of her closest opponent. becoming the first man to record a breakthrough came in 1993 when Berit Mordre was born and raised 3-lift total of over 595.5 kg.