Following up on a previous post, today on Oldest Olympians we are looking into those Olympians who may still be alive and were born between Yvonne Chabot-Curtet, the former Oldest Olympian titleholder, and the current oldest living Olympian, Rhoda Wurtele. There are 58 Olympians who fall into this category, as well as 10 demonstration event competitors and non-starters. There is also one art competitor, Wilhelm Andreas Herdey, born January 4, 1922, who represented Austria in the architecture competition in 1948. As a reminder, discussing these individuals in no way represents any belief on the part of Oldest Olympians that these athletes are still alive; we simply cannot confirm that they are deceased.

1920

Name	Country	Year	Event	Birthday
Hassan Abdel Fattah	India	1952	Athletics	October 23, 1920
Boris Belada	Argentina	1956, 1968	Sailing	September 29, 1920
Carlos Braga	Portugal	1960	Sailing	December 4, 1920
Alfonso Castañeda	Mexico	1956	Sport shooting	1920
Óscar Cervo	Argentina	1952, 1956, 1960, 1968	Sport shooting	October 6, 1920
P. S. Cheema	India	1960	Sport shooting	September 26, 1920
Emil Grub	Switzerland	1948	Field hockey	November 17, 1920
Abdul Ghafoor Khan	Pakistan	1948	Field hockey	1920
Silvio Merlo	Argentina	1948	Sailing	December 6, 1920
Rolando Mosqueira	Chile	1952	Equestrian	September 30, 1920
Supaat Nadarajah	Malaya	1956	Field hockey	1920
Mahmud Osman	Egypt	1948, 1952	Wrestling	July 10, 1920
Pedro Otero	Cuba	1948	Basketball	June 20, 1920
Marianne Schläger	Austria	1948	Athletics	November 22, 1920
Sein Pe	Myanmar	1948	Athletics	1920
Isamu Shiraishi	Japan	1952	Weightlifting	December 18, 1920
Rodrigo da Silveira	Portugal	1956	Equestrian	November 22, 1920
Karl-August Stolze	Germany	1960, 1968	Sailing	August 28, 1920
Tiến Vình	South Vietnam	1952	Boxing	October 1, 1920
Manuel Videla	Chile	1948	Boxing	c. 1920
Jaime Villafuerte	Philippines	1968	Sport shooting	August 26, 1920

Kiyotsugu Iho, who represented Japan in the kendo demonstration event at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was born in either 1919 or 1920. Óscar Arata, born c. 1920, was a reserve with the field hockey squad at the 1948 London Olympics. An Jong-Su, born December 7, 1920, was a reserve with the Korean football squad in 1948. Hans Mäder of Switzerland, born August 4, 1920, was a weightlifting non-starter at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

(Manuel Videla represented Chile in the featherweight boxing tournament at the 1948 London Olympics)

1921

Name	Country	Year	Event	Birthday
Mohammad Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	1948	Field hockey	1921
Jahar Ahir	India	1948	Water polo	1921
Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	1952, 1956	Athletics	October 10, 1921
João Azevedo	Portugal	1956	Equestrian	1921
Azmi Isma’il	United Arab Republic	1960	Water polo	1921
Gebhard Büchel	Liechtenstein	1948	Athletics	June 21, 1921
Chan Kooi Chye	Malaya	1960	Sport shooting	June 20, 1921
Charif Damage	Lebanon	1948, 1952	Wrestling	1921
Andrei Covaci	Romania	1952	Alpine skiing	November 23, 1921
Heinrich Enea	Romania	1956	Bobsleigh	December 18, 1921
Eduardo Estrada	Mexico	1948	Wrestling	October 12, 1921
Dionisio Fernández	Argentina	1948	Sport shooting	1921
Joaquín Hermida	Mexico	1964	Equestrian	August 16, 1921
Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	1952	Sport shooting	December 6, 1921
Lee Jong-Guk	South Korea	1948	Speed skating	December 15, 1921
Boris Lobashkov	Soviet Union	1952	Sailing	April 3, 1921
Ibrahim Mahgoub	Lebanon	1948	Wrestling	1921
Carlos Mercali	Argentina	1948	Field hockey	c. 1921
Mohamed Moussa	Egypt	1948, 1952	Wrestling	December 27, 1921
Agustín Muñiz	Uruguay	1948	Boxing	August 28, 1921
Jiří Novotný	Czechoslovakia	1948	Bobsleigh	April 2, 1921
Lutz Peters	Germany	1952	Field hockey	March 31, 1921
Daniel Pon Mony	India	1948,1952	Weightlifting	August 12, 1921
Héctor Ruiz	Uruguay	1948	Basketball	c. 1921
Lukman Saketi	Indonesia	1956	Sport shooting	March 20, 1921
Karl Heinz Schäfer	Germany	1952	Canoeing	May 3, 1921
Karl Schmid	Switzerland	1952	Athletics	July 23, 1921
Hermann Schneider	Switzerland	1948	Boxing	1921
Nasser Sharifi	Iran	1964	Sport shooting	July 4, 1921
Remat Ullah Sheikh	Pakistan	1948	Field hockey	February 1921
Ernesto Silva	Chile	1952	Equestrian	May 4, 1921
Atanas Tasev	Bulgaria	1968	Sport shooting	May 24, 1921
Abebe Wakgira	Ethiopia	1960	Athletics	October 21, 1921
Win Maung	Myanmar	1948	Weightlifting	1921

Hideo Muto and Hatsue Takahashi were both kendo demonstration competitors for Japan at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics who were born in either 1920 or 1921. Parly Jensen, born January 31, 1921, was a reserve with the Danish artistic gymnastics squad in both 1948 and 1952. Albert Dzhartsans, born January 17, 1921, and Villy Emborg Nielsen, born September 8, 1921, were non-starters with the 1952 Soviet and 1948 Danish cycling teams respectively.

(Mohamed Moussa represented Egypt in wrestling at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics)

1922

Name	Country	Year	Event	Birthday
Vasile Ionescu	Romania	1948	Alpine skiing	January 1, 1922
Pyeon Chang-Nam	South Korea	1956	Speed skating	January 11, 1922
Rolf Stoltenberg	Germany	1952	Field hockey	January 8, 1922

Hikmet Alpaslan, born January 1, 1922, was a reserve with the Turkish football team at the 1948 London Olympics.

(Rolf Stoltenberg represented Germany in field hockey at the 1952 Helsinki Games)

This finally catches us up with this style of updates on Oldest Olympians, so tune in next time for something completely different!

Today we have the same two milestone birthdays among the Oldest Olympians as last year so, as is our tradition, we are combining them into a single blog post rather than choosing between them!

(The 1964 Hong Kong Olympic field hockey team, pictured at The Olympians)

First, we are wishing a happy 94^rd birthday to Lionel Guterres, the oldest living Olympian to have represented Hong Kong! Guterres was a member of Hong Kong’s field hockey delegation to the 1964 Tokyo Games, which finished last in its preliminary round pool and was eliminated. Guterres later emigrated to the United States and now lives in Vallejo, California.

We also want to wish a happy 93^nd birthday to Otto Ammermann, the oldest living Olympian to have represented a West German team, rather than a unified one! He did so in the eventing tournament at the 1976 Montreal Games and, while he was disqualified individually, he won a silver medal with the team. He had also taken team silver at the World Championships the year before and was West German champion in 1969, 1978, and 1980.

Finally, we have a quick update to share regarding one of our mystery 1936 art competitors. We have learned that Italian painter Piero Fervelli, for whom we previously had no biographical details, was born July 31, 1905 and died March 11, 1970, at the age of 64.