May1986

Athletes Who Died in May 1986

May 2 Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (3 x World Rally C'ship round wins for Talbot, Opel, Porsche, Lancia), dies in a rally accident at 29

Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986)

May 9 Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71

Tenzing Norgay

May 11 Fritz Pollard, early African American NFL star and coach, dies at 92
May 15 Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
May 17 Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Alexandr Gorshkov), dies from leukemia at 39

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