Louis Joseph Baise (4 May 1927 – 11 May 2020) was a South African Olympic wrestler.
Biography
Baise was Jewish, and won gold medals at the 1950 Maccabiah Games and the 1953 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki for South Africa, coming in 6th in the Men's Flyweight, Freestyle. Baise won the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Flyweight (−52.0 kg) Freestyle gold medal in Vancouver.
Baise died in Australia on 11 May 2020, aged 93.
References
- ^ "Louis Baise Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics t". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- "The Canadian Jewish Chronicle - Google News Archive Search". The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- Leon Feldberg (1976). South African Jewry. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- "Commonwealth Games Medallists – Wrestling". Gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town. 1971. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
External links
- Louis Baise at the International Wrestling Database
- Louis Baise at Olympedia
- Louis Baise at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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