Clive Longe

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

Early life

He attended Loughborough University.

Career

He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics. 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.

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Great Britain Athletes At Mexico Olympics 1968 Form Jazz And Blues Band

1939 births

1986 suicides

1986 deaths

British Guiana people

Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Alumni of Loughborough University

Welsh male athletes

British decathletes

Olympic athletes for Great Britain

Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics

Commonwealth Games silver medallists 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