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Pat McCormick, famed Seal Beach diver who won gold medals in the sport at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympic Games, has died at the age of 92.
According to Olympic diving champion Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, Chalibashvili went to the Universiade without a coach. [5] According to reports, Chalibashvili's coach was his mother, Thais Muntean, who worked at the department of water sports at the Georgian State Institute of Physical Education (now dissolved and converted into a chair at the ...
A champion rower has died while free-diving. According to a GoFundMe page, shared last week, 27-year-old Austin Regier died in the Philippines on November 14, 2024. "He was swimming with new ...
Died: July 27, 2022 (aged 77) Topanga, California, U.S. ... In his youth, he trained as a swimmer and was a Junior Olympics diving champion. [4] Screen career
Billingsley served as the Indiana Hoosiers’s diving coach from 1959 to 1989, leading the Hoosiers to six NCAA and 23 Big Ten team championships. [6] During his time at Indiana, he coached the United States Olympic diving team at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Games. Divers under his tutelage won 115 national diving titles and seven Olympic ...
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968.
Gregory Efthimios Louganis (/ l uː ˈ ɡ eɪ n ɪ s /; [1] born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games.
Sophie Hediger, an Olympic snowboarder who competed for Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympics, has died in an avalanche. She was 26 years old. Hediger’s death was confirmed by the Swiss-Ski ...