World's oldest Olympic champion dies at 103

Sandor Tarics, the oldest living Olympic champion, has died. He was 103.

The Hungarian Olympic Committee announced Saturday on its website that Tarics died in San Francisco. Tarics competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a member of the Hungarian water polo team. In 1949, he left Hungary for the United States, where he ended up designing earthquake-proof building technologies, Reuters reports.

In an interview with the Hungarian Olympic Committee last year, Tarics said he continued to drive (his license plate read "Gold36"), swim, and solve math problems. In 2012, he attended the London Olympics.

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