Heinz Kluetmeier, a prominent photographer for Sports Illustrated who captured the exultation of the United States men’s Olympic hockey team when it upset the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Games and the swimmer Michael Phelps’s minuscule margin of victory in a gold medal race at the 2008 Summer Olympics, died on Tuesday at his loft in Manhattan. He was 82.
His daughter Jessica Kluetmeier said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
For decades, even as television imagery grew more influential, Sports Illustrated’s star photographers, including Mr. Kluetmeier, Neil Leifer and Walter Iooss Jr., provided sports fans with weekly doses of sharp-eyed action shots and portraits.