Wales’ former Commonwealth Video games shot put bronze medallist and ex-Olympian Shaun Pickering has died on the age of 62.
Pickering received bronze on the 1998 Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur having completed twenty seventh within the shot put on the Atalanta Olympics in 1996.
He later changed into UK Athletics’ nationwide match trainer for heavy throws.
“Our ideas are with Shaun’s pals & circle of relatives at this unhappy time,” Welsh Athletics mentioned.
“Everybody at Welsh Athletics is gloomy to listen to the inside track that ‘Corridor of Status’ inductee, a couple of Welsh Champion & File Holder Shaun Pickering has passed on to the great beyond,”
His father used to be the past due BBC commentator and presenter Ron Pickering, who as Wales nationwide trainer coached Lynn Davies when he received Olympic lengthy soar gold in 1964.
His mom Jean represented Nice Britain on the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki and received gold within the lengthy soar on the 1954 Eu Athletics Championships.
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