Person    | Male  Born 31/1/1954  Died 6/9/1972

Mark Slavin

Categories: Sport / Games, Tragedy

Countries: Germany, Israel/Palestine

Wrestler. Born in Minsk, Belarus SSR. Winner of the Soviet Greco-Roman wrestling middleweight junior championship in 1971. He moved to Israel to join their Olympic team. Murdered by Palestinian terrorists with ten other team members in Munich.

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Mark Slavin

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Munich Olympics 40 years

The Hackney Gazette give the unveiling date as 25th but we believe Boris John...

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Kensington Hippodrome

Kensington Hippodrome

A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike ...

Place, Sport / Games

2 memorials
National Sporting Club

National Sporting Club

Founded by John Fleming and A. F. "Peggy" Bettinson. First president Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale. It became the home of modern glove boxing, with bouts taking place in silence, after...

Group, Community / Clubs, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Harry Mallin

Harry Mallin

Boxer and policeman. Born Henry William Mallin in Hackney. Although primarily a policeman, he took part in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, winning gold. He also participated in the 1924 Olympics in P...

Person, Armed Forces, Sport / Games, TV & Radio, Belgium, France

1 memorial
Ben Helfgott

Ben Helfgott

Holocaust survivor and British Olympian (1956 and 1960) who knew the murdered Israeli athletes.

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Aneurin Wood

Aneurin Wood

A carrier of the 2012 Paralympic Flame. At that time he was the Inclusion Manager at Hackney Learning Trust, where he created the Hackney School Sports Championships, the largest inclusive sports c...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial