Jaime Ostos | |
Birth Name: | Jaime Ostos Carmona |
Birth Date: | 1931 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | Écija, Spain |
Death Place: | Bogotá, Colombia |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Occupation: | Bullfighter |
Jaime Ostos Carmona (8 April 1931 – 8 January 2022) was a Spanish bullfighter.[1]
Ostos made his debut in Écija on 1 June 1952 alongside Bartolomé Jiménez Torres. His debut with picadors took place in Osuna on 5 April 1953 again with Torres.[2] His bullfighting debut came on 13 October 1956 in the Plaza de Toros de Zaragoza alongside his godfather, Miguel Báez Espuny.[3] He was awarded the Trophea Manolete in 1959.[4]
He was gored by a bull while participating in a fight in Tarazona on 17 July 1963 and presumed dead. However, thanks to a blood transfusion of ten liters, he was saved.[5] In 1974 he announced his full-time retirement, and participated in his last event in 2003.[6]
In 1967, he was honored with an induction into the Cross with Distinctive of the .[7]
In March 2020, he was admitted to the Hospital de la Zarzuela in Madrid for being infected with COVID-19 during the beginning of the pandemic in Spain, and was discharged two months later.[8] Ostos died of a heart attack in Bogotá on 8 January 2022, at the age of 90.[9] He was visiting the country with his wife and a group of friends.[10]