Solly Tolchinsky (2 January 1929 – 1 December 2020) was a Canadian
basketball
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player who competed in the
1948 Summer Olympics
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.
Born in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, he was part of the Canadian basketball team, which finished ninth in the
Olympic tournament. His brother was
Jewish
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comedy writer
Mel Tolkin
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.
Tochinsky died from complications of
COVID-19
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in Montreal, on 1 December 2020, at the age of 91, during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Montreal. He was the son of Nessie Cartman and Mendel "Max" Tolchinsky, a labourer and door-to-door salesman.
References
1929 births
2020 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Basketball players from Montreal
Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Canadian men's basketball players
Canadian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Jewish Canadian sportspeople
Jewish men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Canada
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
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