Rick Sanders
Olympic athlete
1945 – 1972
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Who was Rick Sanders?
Richard Sanders was an Olympic wrestler from the United States. He won a silver medal in both the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, the flyweight division, and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Germany in the bantamweight division. Both medals were won in freestyle wrestling. After the Munich Olympics, while traveling to Greece, he was killed in an automobile accident on October 18, 1972 in Skopje, Yugoslavia.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1945
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Lincoln High School
- Portland State University
- Died
- Oct 18, 1972
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on July 23, 2013
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