Today on Oldest Olympians, we have two milestone birthdays to celebrate so, as usual, we are going to cover both in a single blog entry!
First, we are wishing a happy 100th birthday to Trude Klecker, the oldest survivor of the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games! Klecker represented Austria in the downhill and the giant slalom in both 1952 and 1956, and just missed the podium in fourth in the giant slalom in 1952. She was more successful at the 1954 World Championships, where she won the slalom and took silver in the downhill. She was also a seven-time national champion across various disciplines, and later became a German language teacher.
We are also celebrating the 95th birthday of Dick Deaver, the oldest living Olympic sailing medalist! Deaver represented the United States in the Dragon class at the 1964 Tokyo Games, where he won the bronze medal. By career, he was a sailmaker.
On the topic of the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games, we have an update on an Olympian that we discussed many years ago. Mahmoud Beiglou, born in 1929, represented Iran in three alpine skiing events at those Games and was still alive in 2010. By 2020, however, we had not seen further updates from him and thus removed him from our tables. As it turns out, however, Beiglou died well before turning 90, on January 18, 2013.