Louis Baise

Louis Joseph Baise (4 May 1927 – 11 May 2020) was a South African Olympic wrestler.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/louis-baise-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074744/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/louis-baise-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Louis Baise Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics t |publisher=Sports-reference.com |access-date=28 October 2013}}

Biography

Baise was Jewish, and won gold medals at the 1950 Maccabiah Games and the 1953 Maccabiah Games in Israel.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19540730&id=6vFOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e0wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1804,1911973 |publisher=The Canadian Jewish Chronicle |access-date=28 October 2013|title=The Canadian Jewish Chronicle - Google News Archive Search }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Ae8AAAAIAAJ&q=louis+baise+wrestler |title=South African Jewry |author=Leon Feldberg |access-date=28 October 2013|year=1976 }} He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki for South Africa, coming in 6th in the Men's Flyweight, Freestyle. Baise won the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Flyweight (−52.0 kg) Freestyle gold medal in Vancouver.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/wrestle.htm |title=Commonwealth Games Medallists – Wrestling |publisher=Gbrathletics.com |access-date=28 October 2013}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CURRAQAAIAAJ&q=louis+baise+wrestler |title=Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town |access-date=28 October 2013|year=1971 }}