With nice disappointment, Shore Athletic Membership of New Jersey proclaims 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 certainly one of many biggest racewalkers in American
historical past; he was a tricky competitor who you realize would battle you each step of the way in which, each step of each race,” mentioned Ron
Laird of Buchanan, Michigan, Romansky’s teammate on the
1968 Olympic staff in Mexico Metropolis and on a number of different American
observe and discipline groups competing in main worldwide occasions.
“It didn’t matter what the space 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,” mentioned Elliott Denman, former Shore AC president and 1956 50K Olympian.
Properly remembered was Romansky, violently sick 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 certainly one of Romansky’s finest.
He gained 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 Monitor 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 data on the 5K, 10K, 20K, 25K, and 30 Ok.
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 Monitor and Discipline Coaches, and Salem County Corridor of Fame.
Preparations shall be introduced later, mentioned a household spokesman.
