weight birth_place height sport birth_date article_title name
64 kg lb on hamilton , ontario , canada 1.78 m ftin on water polo 11 june 1947 robert thompson -lrb- water polo -rrb-
 robert thompson
robert thompson -lrb- water polo -rrb-

robert thompson -lrb- born june 11 , 1947 -rrb- is a retired canadian water polo player and coach .
he competed at the 1972 olympics in munich where his team finished in 16th place .
he was one of the unsuspecting athletes who helped the munich massacre terrorists to climb over the fence into the olympic village .
thompson was born in a swimming family -- his father james and elder sister patty were olympic swimmers and coaches -- and started training in swimming at four years of age .
he later changed to water polo , and already by 1961 competed at the national level .
he was a member of the national teams that competed at the 1967 and 1971 pan american games and 1972 olympics .
in 1969 he started coaching water polo and later prepared the canadian team for the 1980 and 1984 olympics and 1983 pan american games .
for his coaching achievements he was inducted into the mcmaster university hall of fame in 1989 and into the ontario aquatic hall of fame in 1995 .
