Rainer Osselmann (25 July 1960 – 23 April 2023) was a German

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player who competed in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

and in the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. Osselmann was born in

Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...

. His father, Friedrich Osselmann, played water polo for West Germany at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, whereas his mother,

Birgit Klomp Birgit Klomp (born 27 April 1940) is a retired German freestyle swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 1954 European Aquatics Championships. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 4×100 m freestyle events and finished fourth in ...

, competed in swimming at the 1956 Games. Osselmann died in

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on 23 April 2023, at the age of 62.

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* 1960 births 2023 deaths German male water polo players Olympic water polo players for West Germany Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Olympic medalists in water polo Sportspeople from Duisburg Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics 20th-century German people {{Germany-waterpolo-bio-stub

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