Alfredo Jadresic

Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine. As a high jumper he competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, and placed ninth.

Jadresic was born in Iquique in September 1925. He came from a family of Croatian (Dalmatian) origin. He died in Santiago on 1 October 2021, at the age of 96. According to another source the date was 30 September.

His personal best in high jump was 1.95 metres set in 1947.

Jadresic got his Doctorate in medicine and was a professor of medicine at the University of Chile, and then Dean of Medicine from 1968 to 1972. In September 1973, after the coup d'état, he was arrested and spent 51 days in the National Stadium of Chile. He was released with no charges, but was forced to leave the country. He spent his exile in the Royal Sussex Hospital in Hastings, England. When democracy was restored he returned to Chile, where he specialized in endocrinology at the University of Chile. Jadresic gave an account of his career and life in a book published in 2007.