With nice disappointment, Shore Athletic Membership of New Jersey declares the passing of Dave Romansky, its distinguished teammate and
USA Olympian, Nationwide Champion, USA internationalist, and Corridor of Famer.
Romansky, who was born on April 8. 1938, handed away on October
31, 2024, on the age of 86.
“Dave was absolutely one of many biggest racewalkers in American
historical past; he was a troublesome competitor who you recognize would battle you each step of the best way, each step of each race,” stated Ron
Laird of Buchanan, Michigan, Romansky’s teammate on the
1968 Olympic group in Mexico Metropolis and on a number of different American
observe and subject groups competing in main worldwide occasions.
“It didn’t matter what the gap of the race was, something as brief as one mile or so long as 50 kilometers (31.1. miles), you all the time knew that Dave was all the time going to be proper up there,” stated Elliott Denman, former Shore AC president and 1956 50K Olympian.
Properly remembered was Romansky, violently unwell with the flu-induced results of “Montezuma’s Revenge,” gamely fought on to complete twenty sixth within the 1968 Olympic 50K.
Born within the South New Jersey city of Penns Grove (additionally the house of 1960 Olympic pole vault champion Don Bragg), Romansky and his household lived a lot of life in close by Pennsville.
The 1970 season was one in every of Romansky’s greatest.
He received Nationwide AAU titles at 10K, 15K, 20K, 25K, 45K, and 40K and positioned eighth within the IAAF Racewalk Cup 20K in Eschborn, Germany.
He initially represented the Delaware Observe Membership and Penn Athletic Membership earlier than attaining different important successes for the Shore Athletic Membership.
As a competitor within the Masters Division (40 and up), he smashed information on the 5K, 10K, 20K, 25K, and 30 Okay.
For all these – and extra – he was inducted into the Nationwide Masters Corridor of Fame.
He was a member of the Shore Athletic Membership, Penns Grove Excessive College, Delaware Observe and Area Coaches, and Salem County Corridor of Fame.
Preparations can be introduced later, stated a household spokesman.
