Older Than Rhoda Wurtele

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

NameCountryYearEventBirthday
Hassan Abdel FattahIndia1952AthleticsOctober 23, 1920
Boris BeladaArgentina1956, 1968SailingSeptember 29, 1920
Carlos BragaPortugal1960SailingDecember 4, 1920
Alfonso CastañedaMexico1956Sport shooting1920
Óscar CervoArgentina1952, 1956, 1960, 1968Sport shootingOctober 6, 1920
P. S. CheemaIndia1960Sport shootingSeptember 26, 1920
Emil GrubSwitzerland1948Field hockeyNovember 17, 1920
Abdul Ghafoor KhanPakistan1948Field hockey1920
Silvio MerloArgentina1948SailingDecember 6, 1920
Rolando MosqueiraChile1952EquestrianSeptember 30, 1920
Supaat NadarajahMalaya1956Field hockey1920
Mahmud OsmanEgypt1948, 1952WrestlingJuly 10, 1920
Pedro OteroCuba1948BasketballJune 20, 1920
Marianne SchlägerAustria1948AthleticsNovember 22, 1920
Sein PeMyanmar1948Athletics1920
Isamu ShiraishiJapan1952WeightliftingDecember 18, 1920
Rodrigo da SilveiraPortugal1956EquestrianNovember 22, 1920
Karl-August StolzeGermany1960, 1968SailingAugust 28, 1920
Tiến VìnhSouth Vietnam1952BoxingOctober 1, 1920
Manuel VidelaChile1948Boxingc. 1920
Jaime VillafuertePhilippines1968Sport shootingAugust 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

NameCountryYearEventBirthday
Mohammad Abdul RazzaqPakistan1948Field hockey1921
Jahar AhirIndia1948Water polo1921
Muhammad AslamPakistan1952, 1956AthleticsOctober 10, 1921
João AzevedoPortugal1956Equestrian1921
Azmi Isma’ilUnited Arab Republic1960Water polo1921
Gebhard BüchelLiechtenstein1948AthleticsJune 21, 1921
Chan Kooi ChyeMalaya1960Sport shootingJune 20, 1921
Charif DamageLebanon1948, 1952Wrestling1921
Andrei CovaciRomania1952Alpine skiingNovember 23, 1921
Heinrich EneaRomania1956BobsleighDecember 18, 1921
Eduardo EstradaMexico1948WrestlingOctober 12, 1921
Dionisio FernándezArgentina1948Sport shooting1921
Joaquín HermidaMexico1964EquestrianAugust 16, 1921
Ivan IvanovBulgaria1952Sport shootingDecember 6, 1921
Lee Jong-GukSouth Korea1948Speed skatingDecember 15, 1921
Boris LobashkovSoviet Union1952SailingApril 3, 1921
Ibrahim MahgoubLebanon1948Wrestling1921
Carlos MercaliArgentina1948Field hockeyc. 1921
Mohamed MoussaEgypt1948, 1952WrestlingDecember 27, 1921
Agustín MuñizUruguay1948BoxingAugust 28, 1921
Jiří NovotnýCzechoslovakia1948BobsleighApril 2, 1921
Lutz PetersGermany1952Field hockeyMarch 31, 1921
Daniel Pon MonyIndia1948,1952WeightliftingAugust 12, 1921
Héctor RuizUruguay1948Basketballc. 1921
Lukman SaketiIndonesia1956Sport shootingMarch 20, 1921
Karl Heinz SchäferGermany1952CanoeingMay 3, 1921
Karl SchmidSwitzerland1952AthleticsJuly 23, 1921
Hermann SchneiderSwitzerland1948Boxing1921
Nasser SharifiIran1964Sport shootingJuly 4, 1921
Remat Ullah SheikhPakistan1948Field hockeyFebruary 1921
Ernesto SilvaChile1952EquestrianMay 4, 1921
Atanas TasevBulgaria1968Sport shootingMay 24, 1921
Abebe WakgiraEthiopia1960AthleticsOctober 21, 1921
Win MaungMyanmar1948Weightlifting1921

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

NameCountryYearEventBirthday
Vasile IonescuRomania1948Alpine skiingJanuary 1, 1922
Pyeon Chang-NamSouth Korea1956Speed skatingJanuary 11, 1922
Rolf StoltenbergGermany1952Field hockeyJanuary 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!

5 thoughts on “Older Than Rhoda Wurtele”

  1. Hola.
    El jugador de hockey sobre césped Carlos Alberto Mercali falleció el 10 de junio de 1976, nació en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, en la localidad de San Martín en 1921.
    El tirador Óscar Rosendo Cervo falleció en 1984.
    El boxeador Agustín Muñiz, nació y represento a Uruguay, no a Argentina.
    Luego paso info de Dionisio Epifanio Fernández y del basquetbolista uruguayo Héctor Ruiz

  2. Hola.
    El boxeador chileno Manuel Arturo Videla Castillo, nació en Valparaíso en 1920 y falleció el 23 de julio de 1993 en Valparaíso.
    Boris Aloisio Belada falleció en el año 2000.

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