Today Oldest Olympians is returning to Iris Cummings, born December 21, 1920, who died January 24 as the last survivor of the 1936 Berlin Games, making her the last known survivor of any pre-World War II Olympics. Over the years, we have mentioned many Olympians from the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Games whom we could not confirm as deceased, but with no reports of survivors following Cummings’ death, we suspect that she was truly the last.

Of the 214 individuals without a known date of birth that competed in those editions, but we could not prove as either living or deceased, 58 were from 1928. Since any survivors would have had to be pre-teens to still be alive, it is probably safe to assume that they are all deceased. Thus we wanted to use this post to present those names that we were unable to learn more about.

Name	Notes
Michel Baur	Member of the France 1 four/five man bobsleigh
G. H. Bellut	Reserve for France in the modern pentathlon
A. Bié	Reserve with the French field hockey team
Isidor Bieri	Featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler for Switzerland
Brander	Ski Joring competitor for Switzerland
J. Brun	Reserve with the Swiss field hockey team
Peter Conrad	Ski Joring competitor for Switzerland
Hermann Eichholzer	Middleweight weightlifter for Switzerland
F. Fischer	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
Joseph Fischler	Member of the Swiss team pursuit, 4,000 metres squad
Robert Frédéric	Lightweight reserve with the French boxing delegation
Otto Frei	Middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler for Switzerland
Simon Frey	Swiss art competitor
Wilhelm Gasser	Heavyweight weightlifter for Switzerland
Robert Frédéric	Middleweight reserve with the French boxing delegation
Louis Giobergia	Member of Monaco’s coxed fours rowing squad
M. L. Guirard	Reserve with the French field hockey team
Hubert Guyard	Member of the French tandem sprint, 2,000 metres squad
Ion Haidu	Romanian decathlete
Anton Huber	Member of Germany’s 6 metres-class sailing crew
Auguste Hummel	Flyweight reserve with the French boxing delegation
Robert Hürlimann	Member of the Swiss water polo team
Ernest Hüttenmoser	Member of the Swiss water polo team
Kinichiro Ishii	Japanese single sculls rower
Fred Jenny	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
H. J. Ken	Austrian art competitor
Adalbert Koch	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
Fritz Kuhn	Ski Joring competitor for Switzerland
Fritz Lincke	Reserve with the German field hockey team
J. Loubert	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
Maurice Magnin	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
F. Mordasini	Ski Joring competitor for Switzerland
Saul Moyal	Egyptian foil and épée fencer
P. Neymann	Reserve with the German cycling delegation
Roland Olivier	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
G. Périer	Member of France’s military ski patrol team
Charles Piot	Member of the Swiss field hockey team
Karl Max Reinhardt	Member of the Germany 1 four/five man bobsleigh
Jean Rémusat	Reserve with the French field hockey team
Franz Riederer	Heavyweight weightlifter for Switzerland
Jacques Rivière	Member of the French field hockey team
Otto Rothman	Romanian javelin thrower
E. Ruchti	Reserve with the Swiss water polo team
Tiberiu Rusu	Romanian high jumper
Hachiro Sato	Member of Japan’s coxed fours rowing squad
Eugène Schmitt	Member of France’s gymnastics delegation
Fred Short	South African road race cyclist
Olver Silva	Bantamweight reserve with the Argentine boxing delegation
Jacques Simon	Member of the French field hockey team
Charles Six	Member of the French field hockey team
Tsukasa Sonobe	Member of Japan’s coxed fours rowing squad
Max Studer	Light-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler for Switzerland
Max Thommen	Reserve with the Swiss equestrian delegation
Ernst Trinkler	Middleweight weightlifter for Switzerland
E. Tschümperly	Reserve with the Swiss water polo team
Makoto Tsushida	Member of Japan’s coxed fours rowing squad
Hermann Volz	Heavyweight weightlifter for Germany
Rudolf Wettstein	Ski Joring competitor for Switzerland

Our next post in this series will look into the 1932 and 1936 Games, so we hope that you will join us!