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Simon Dunn (27 July 1987 – 21 January 2023) [1] was an Australian bobsledder and amateur rugby player. Raised in Wollongong, in 2014, he was the first openly gay male to represent any country in the sport of bobsled. [2] After several years in London, he lived in Sydney and played amateur rugby before his death. [3]
In 1972, during the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist organisation Black September killed 11 members of the Israeli team. The 11 Israeli Olympic Team members who were murdered in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are: Mark Slavin, 18, wrestler; Eliezer Halfin, 24, wrestler; David Mark Berger, 28, weightlifter; Ze'ev Friedman, 28 ...
Pre's Rock, a memorial to Steve Prefontaine who died after finishing 4th in the 1972 Olympic 5000 m Memorial to Bronisław Malinowski, who died one year after winning an Olympic gold medal Plaque commemorating Ryan Shay, who died while running the 2008 United States Olympic trials marathon. A number of athletics competitors have died during ...
Edwin Harold Flack (5 November 1873 – 10 January 1935) [1] was an Australian athlete and tennis player. Also known as "Teddy", [2] he was Australia's first Olympian, being its only representative in 1896, [3] and the first Olympic champion in the 800 metres and the 1500 metres running events.
Devitt at the 1960 Olympics. John Thomas Devitt, AM [1] (4 February 1937 – 17 August 2023) was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Phillip Walter Coles AM (20 July 1931 – 28 January 2023 [1]) was an Australian sports administrator and canoe sprinter.Competing at the 1960 Rome, 1964 Tokyo, and 1968 Mexico City Olympics, he earned his best finish of ninth in the K-4 1000 m event at the Tokyo games, where he was also the team captain.
After failing to make the Australian rowing team for the Sydney Olympics she quit the sport [2] but was identified as a cyclist with potential. She was an Australian Institute of Sport rowing and cycling scholarship holder. [6] In 2002, Gillett was first in the Individual Pursuit Australian Titles, held in Victoria. [7]
At the time of her death, she was the youngest ever 200m gold medallist in Olympic history. She won a gold medal at the inaugural Australian All Schools in 1951. Cuthbert was the first Australian Olympian to win three gold medals at a Games (Murray Rose achieved this later in the 1956 Games).