Carlos Samuel Blixen Abella (27 December 1936 – 1 August 2022)[1] was an Uruguayan basketball player, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Four years later he once again competed in the Olympics.
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Full name | Carlos Samuel Blixen Abella | ||||||||||||||
Born | Montevideo, Uruguay | 27 December 1936||||||||||||||
Died | 1 August 2022 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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His nickname was "El Ingles" ("The Englishman")
References edit
- ^ "Murió el Inglés Blixen, un emblema de Trouville y medallista olímpico de 1956". www.elobservador.com.uy (in Spanish). 1 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
External links edit
- Carlos Blixen at FIBA
- Carlos Blixen at FIBA
- Carlos Blixen at Basketball-Reference.com
- Carlos Blixen at Olympedia