Ugandan IOC Member Dies at 72

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Longtime International Olympic Committee member Major General Francis Nyangweso of Uganda has died at the age of 72. The IOC announced his death Wednesday.

Nyangweso had been an IOC member for the past 23 years, serving on the Culture and Education Commission and the Olympic Solidarity Commission.

He spent 28 years as the head of Uganda's National Olympic Committee, from 1975-2009. He was also vice president of the International Amateur Boxing Association from 1986 to 2006 and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa from 1974 to 1978.

Nyangweso competed in boxing at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He later worked as a banker and had a long and distinguished military and political career.