• The Orienteering World Champion- Obituary • Oscar State (GBR

							                                                              International   Orienteering   Federation
                                                              •    The   Orienteering World  Champion-
                                                              ship will be organized for the first time
                                                              outside Europe by the Australian Federa-
                                                              tion from 2nd to 6th September 1985.
                                                                The site has been chosen in the State
                                                              of Victoria.
                                                                Training camps will be opened in
                                                              October 1984 and April 1985, the best
                                                              seasons.
                                                                For information, contact the Australian
                                                              Orienteering Federation :
                                                              Orienteering Federation of Australia
                                                              P. O. Box 16, Abbotsford, Victoria
                                                              3067 Australia.


Surrounding Suzanne Berlioux, from left to right,
her Olympians: Christine Caron (Tokyo and
Mexico City), Colette Libourel (Rome), Héda                                   Obituary
Frost (Rome) and Rosy Piacentini (Rome).

  Suzanne Berlioux died at the age of eighty-six on       •   Oscar State (GBR), aged 73, former Secretary
21 June 1984.                                             General of the International Weightlifting Federation,
                                                          a post which he held from 1960 to 1976. A high-level
   She was a fine coach not only because of her           officer, holder of the OBE (Order of the British
extraordinary technical knowledge, her intelligence       Empire). he was also Secretary General of the
and her culture, but also because she placed so           General Association of International Sports Federa-
much Importance and confidence in commonsense             tions
and intuition. Above all, she gave confidence, both to
the young girls, for whom she avoided the stress of
competitions by her own example of composure and
self-possessron, and for their parents. who could
                                                          •  Juhani Jaervinen (FIN), aged 49, World cham-
                                                          pion in speed skating in 1959 at Oslo (NOR). He beat
freely entrust their chridren to her care                 the world record in the 1,500 m in 2’06”3/10 during
   She was a fiery being, a born teacher, an Instructor   the pre-Olympic event at Squaw Valley (USA) the
to the very marrow, and she succeeded so well in the      same year held this record for 7 years.
swimming pools because she did not limit her
universe there.
   Her pupils’ reign over the backstroke in France,       •   Victor Avendano (ARG), aged 77, the first
constitutes an unique phenomenon in French sport,         Argentinian Olympic Boxing Champion, he won a
and perhaps in world sport From 1941 to 1969 their        gold medal in the middleweight event at the Games of
monopoly, titles and records mingled, was absolute        the IXth Olympiad at Amsterdam in 1928
over the 100 m backstroke (the only Olympic
distance up until 1964) and almost the same over
the 200 m backstroke. She made her debut with her
daughters, the youngest of whom, Monique, IS              Marie-Helene Andre (French Champion from
                                                          1953-1955) and Ginette Sendrai-Jany. whom she
endowed with many talents besides, and whose
prestigious career as a sports director IS well known     trained for the title in 1956. Then came Rosy
to all                                                    Piacentini, whose place as an Olympic finalist in the
                                                          same time as the bronze medallist was a prelude to
  Monique Berlioux, currently Director of the IOC.        the ascent of Christine Caron, stamped by the world
carried off a dozen national titles at a stretch (an      record and the silver medal at the Games in Tokyo
unbroken record) in the 100 m backstroke between          in 1964. When the latter wrihdrew from competition,
1941 and 1952, and held the French record for ten         Suzanne Berlioux ended this extraordinary barrage
years and four months                                     with an Olympic finalist and the triumph of Sylvie
                                                          Canet in 1969.
   “But”, as her mother often said, “when I was
training her, I had no experience whatsoever. I made        In this extract from a tribute to Suzanne Berlioux,
many mistakes with her. If it were not for that, she      published in “L’Equipe” on 22nd June 1984, the
would have gone a lot further” That was her regret.       journalist Eric Lahmy has conveyed some of the
Monique Berlioux having retired unbeaten. Suzanne         sadness felt by the world of sport and the secretariat
Berlioux let fly blow after blow in the arena with        of the IOC at her loss.

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