Clive Longe
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 February 1939 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 December 1986 (aged 47) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Clive Citrine Olaf Longe (23 February 1939 – 27 December 1986) was a British athlete and coach. He represented Great Britain in the men's decathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he placed 13th. He was inducted into the Welsh Athletics hall of fame in 2024.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Longe was born on 23 February 1939 in British Guiana.[1] He attended Loughborough University.[2] He served in the Royal Air Force.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]When Longe lived in Guyana, he was a basketball player. When both him and decathlete Hywel Williams were stationed at RAF St. Athan, he began to compete in athletics. During his career in athletics, Longe held records for discus, pole vault, and decathlon in Wales, the latter of which he held the records for the entirety of Britain.
He represented the 1966 Welsh team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica,[3] participating in one event;[4] winning the silver medal in the decathlon.[5]
He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he placed 13th. [1]
After retiring from athletics, Longe served as the national athletics coach for Bermuda.[1]
Longe was inducted into the Welsh Athletics hall of fame posthumously in 2024.[6]
Death
[edit | edit source]On Christmas Eve 1986, he strangled his estranged girlfriend to death, before killing himself two days later. He was believed to suffer from depression after she broke up with him.[7][1][6]
References
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External links
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- 1986 deaths
- British Guiana people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Alumni of Loughborough University
- Welsh men decathletes
- British men decathletes
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
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- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Wales
- Guyanese emigrants to Wales
- Black British sportsmen
- British athletics coaches
- Murder–suicides in North America
- Suicides in the United Kingdom
- Suicides by poison
- Violent deaths in Bermuda
- Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics
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