Liese Prokop
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 Liese Prokop |
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Competitor for  Austria |
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| Silver | 1968 Mexico City | Pentathlon | |
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| Gold | 1969 Athens | Pentathlon | |
| Liese Prokop | |
| Born | March 27, 1941 Vienna, Austria |
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| Died | December 31, 2006 (aged 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 pentathlon and, later in her life, an Austrian politician.
Born as Liese Sykora 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.
She was the sister of Maria Sykora, who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and aunt of Winter Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Sykora.
[edit] References
- International Herald Tribune (January 1, 2007).
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| Preceded by Olga Pall |
Austrian Sportspersonality of the year 1969 |
Succeeded by Karl Schranz |
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