Today on Oldest Olympians we have the same two milestone birthdays as last year, so we are again continuing our trend of covering both in a single blog post rather than choosing between them!
First, we want to wish a happy 95th birthday to Miguel Seijas, the oldest living Uruguayan Olympian! Seijas represented his country in the double sculls at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Games, winning bronze in the former and being eliminated in the round one repêchage in the latter.
Second, Chiharu Igaya is turning 94 as Japan’s oldest Olympic medalist! Igaya represented his country in nine alpine skiing events across three editions of the Games – 1952, 1956, and 1960 – and won a silver medal in the slalom in 1956. He also took bronze at the World Championships in that event in 1958. By career he worked in insurance, but also served in sport administration, most notably as a member of the IOC since 1982.
(Willy Senn)
Finally, we were able to confirm that the Rico Bianchi who died March 26, and who we mentioned in our last blog entry, was the Swiss silver medal-winning Olympian. We can also add Willy Senn to the list of Swiss updates, as Connor Mah was able to confirm him as being born May 25, 1920 and dying on October 27, 1989, as we suspected in an earlier blog post.