Carlos Blixen
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| Full name | Carlos Samuel Blixen Abella | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 December 1936 Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 August 2022 (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carlos Samuel Blixen Abella (27 December 1936 – 1 August 2022)[1] was an Uruguayan basketball player, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Four years later he once again competed in the Olympics.
His nickname was "El Ingles" ("The Englishman")
References
[edit]- ^ "Murió el Inglés Blixen, un emblema de Trouville y medallista olímpico de 1956". www.elobservador.com.uy (in Spanish). 1 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Carlos Blixen at FIBA Archive
- Carlos Blixen at FIBA Archive
- Carlos Blixen – Basketball-Reference.com international player profile
- Carlos Blixen at Olympedia
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