Liese Prokop
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| Olympic medalist | |||
 Liese Prokop |
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| Women’s athletics | |||
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| Silver | 1968 Mexico City | Pentathlon | |
| Liese Prokop | |
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| Born | March 27, 1941 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | December 31, 2006 (age 65) Sankt Pölten, Austria |
| Occupation | Austrian Minister of the Interior (2004 - 2006) |
Liese Prokop (March 27, 1941 — December 31, 2006) was an Austrian athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlonand, later in her life, an Austrian politician.
Born in Vienna, she competed for Austria in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the Pentathlon where she won the silver medal.
In 1965 she married her former coach, Gunnar Prokop. The couple had two sons and a daughter.
Later she started a political career in Lower Austria. Since December 2004 she had been Austrian Minister of the Interior for the conservative People's Party (ÖVP).
She died unexpectedly of aortic dissection while being rushed to a Sankt Pölten hospital on New Year's Eve, 2006.
[edit] References
- International Herald Tribune (January 1, 2007).
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