death_place death_date birth_place weight height sport birth_date image article_title
london , united kingdom 21 april 2005 -lrb- aged 56 -rrb- milan , italy 64 kg lb on 1.75 m ftin on figure skating 29 may 1948 giordano abbondati 1966.jpg giordano abbondati

giordano abbondati

giordano abbondati -lrb- 29 may 1948 -- 21 april 2005 -rrb- was an italian figure skater and seven-time national champion in 1961 -- 66 and 1968 .
he competed in several european and world championships in the 1960s , in addition to the 1964 and 1968 winter olympic games , in both of which he placed 14th .
giordano retired from figure skating in 1968 to pursue a career in medicine but continued to be involved in figure skating as an international competition judge for many years .
he married fellow judge hely rainesalo-abbondati of finland in 1974 and moved to helsinki , finland .
he later moved to the uk with his wife and two children , where he practised as a consultant anaesthetist at central middlesex hospital in london , becoming head of anaesthetics and later clinical director of the pioneering ambulatory care and diagnostics centre -lrb- acad -rrb- which opened in 1999 .
he suffered an untimely but natural death in 2005 .
