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Posted on: Monday, July 20, 2009

Obit: 3-time Olympic speedskater Ed Rudolph dies


Associated Press

BOULDER, Wyo. — Three-time Olympic speedskater Ed Rudolph has died in a car accident in western Wyoming.

The Wyoming State Patrol says that 68-year-old Rudolph and his wife, Gwen, were killed Sunday afternoon when the driver of a GMC Suburban swerved to avoid a deer and collided with Rudolph’s 2005 Acura.
Fifty-two-year-old Daniel Wahlen, the Suburban driver, and 47-year-old Dani Elenga, a passenger, also died. All four lived in Colorado Springs.
Rudolph was on the 1960, 1964 and 1968 U.S. Olympic teams. He went on to become a developer in Colorado Springs and volunteered to help build the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center.