The oldest living Olympic champion Sandor Tarics, who was a member of Hungary's gold-medal winning waterpolo team at the 1936 Games, has died aged 102.
Tarics, who was born in 1913 in Budapest, passed away at his home in San Francisco, according to a statement by the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) Saturday.
A keen mathematician from an early age and an engineer by profession, he left Hungary after the Communist Party takeover in 1948 and settled in San Francisco where he worked as a university professor.
He later achieved fame for his work in earthquake research, and in particular his design of earthquake-proof building technologies.
A recipient of official honours in both the US and Hungary, he also served for a period as the UN's earthquake advisor.
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After the death in 2011 of Italian cyclist Attilio Pavesi, who won two golds at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, Tarics became the oldest living Olympic champio
