• Won a silver medal as a 400m runner
  • Went on to have a long and stellar career in sport 

By Steve Larkin For Australian Associated Press

Australian Olympic powerbroker and medallist Kevan Gosper has passed away, aged 90, after a career that stamped him as a giant of Aussie sport.

Gosper won an Olympic silver medal on Australia’s 4x400m relay team at the 1956 Melbourne Games before being renowned as one of the nation’s top sports administrators.

A long-time International Olympic Committee member, Gosper was also the inaugural chairman of the Australian Institute of Sport from 1980.

Gosper served as Australian Olympic Federation president and was a pivotal figure in delivering Sydney’s Olympics in 2000 when he was vice-president of the organising committee.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) confirmed that Gosper passed away on Friday after a short illness.

Gosper was on the AOC board for decades, while also working as a high-powered corporate executive.

He is a former Shell Australia chairman and chief executive, then headed up the company’s Asia Pacific operations when based in London.

Gosper was also a director of companies including Crown Resorts and Lion Nathan, but throughout his business life remained passionate to the Olympic cause.

His work on the Sydney Olympics played a large role in them famously being branded the ‘best Games ever’ by then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.  

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Kevan Gosper: Aussie Olympic medal winner who played a huge role in the Sydney Games dies after an incredible career

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