In 2003, the South African Jacques Freitag defeated Stefan Holm at a height of 2.35 meters and took WC gold.
Now he is dead and the police are investigating murder, it reports Netwerk24.
– It is shocking, of course. He was quite a few years younger than me, people shouldn’t die at that age, says Holm Sportbladet.
The Swede was pushed by the South African in view of his gold.
The newspaper states that he was shot and the body was found on Monday in Pretoria.
His sister reported him missing on June 17 and appealed for the public’s help in finding her brother.
After his career, the sister says that Freitag had major drug problems.