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Richard ("Rick") Sanders (January 20, 1945 – October 18, 1972) was an Olympic wrestler from the United States. He won the a silver medal in both the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Germany.[1] After the Munich Olympics, he was killed on October 18, 1972 while hitch-hiking to Greece when a Land Rover he was riding in hit a bus head-on in Yugoslavia [2]. He had been wrestling since a freshman at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon. He won the Oregon High School State Championship when he was a freshman at Lincoln. He was sponsored by the Multnomah Athletic Club and later wrestled for Portland State University.
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