death_date death_place birth_place weight article_title birth_date college name
18 october 1972 skopje , yugoslavia lakeview , oregon , u.s. 52 kg rick sanders -lrb- wrestler -rrb-
 january 20 , 1945 portland state university rick sanders
rick sanders -lrb- wrestler -rrb-

richard `` rick '' sanders -lrb- january 20 , 1945 -- october 18 , 1972 -rrb- was an olympic wrestler from the united states .
he won a silver medal in the 1968 mexico city olympic games , the flyweight division , and a silver medal in the 1972 munich olympic games in germany in the bantamweight division .
both medals were won in freestyle wrestling .
after the munich olympics , while traveling to greece , he was killed in an automobile accident on october 18 , 1972 in skopje , yugoslavia .
