Clive Citrine Olaf Longe (23 February 1939 – 27 December 1986) was a British

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

Early life

He attended

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

.''Birmingham Daily Post'' Tuesday 6 August 1968, page 34

Career

He competed in the men's decathlon at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

. Competing for Wales, he won a silver medal in the decathlon at the

1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Kingston, Jamaica, from 4 to 13 August 1966. This was the first time that the Games had been held outside the so-called White Dominions. They were followed by the 1966 Commonwealth P ...

Personal life

On Christmas Eve 1986, while he was Bermuda's national athletics coach, he killed his girlfriend, before killing himself two days later.

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Great Britain Athletes At Mexico Olympics 1968 Form Jazz And Blues Band
1939 births 1986 suicides 1986 deaths British Guiana people Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Alumni of Loughborough University Welsh male athletes British male decathletes Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales Guyanese emigrants to Wales Black British sportsmen British athletics coaches Murder–suicides in North America Suicides in the United Kingdom Suicides by poison Violent deaths in Bermuda Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Welsh decathletes {{Wales-athletics-bio-stub