Clive Longe Explained

Clive Longe
Nationality:British
Sport:Athletics
Event:Decathlon
Birth Date:23 February 1939
Birth Place:British Guiana
Death Place:Hamilton, Bermuda

Clive Citrine Olaf Longe (23 February 1939  - 27 December 1986) was a British athlete.

Early life

He attended Loughborough University.[1]

Career

He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2] Competing for Wales, he won a silver medal in the decathlon at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

On Christmas Eve 1986, while he was Bermuda's national athletics coach, he killed his girlfriend, before killing himself two days later.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 6 August 1968, page 34
  2. Clive Longe Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041444/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/clive-longe-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 26 January 2018.
  3. Web site: December 31, 1986 . Los Angeles Times . 31 December 1986 . 26 January 2018.