Sudden death in sportsmen - 2005
11-1-2005
47-year-old Italian motorcycle racer Fabrizio Meoni dies of a heart attack five days before the end of "Le Dakar", which was to be the conclusion of his career.
15-1-2005
41-year-old Irish mechanic Éamon McElroy dies during a gait training of the consequences of a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
20-1-2005
20-year-old American basketball player Antwoine Key dies of a heart attack during a match of the Eastern Connecticut State University.
15-3-2005
26-year-old Irish furniture maker Gary Duffin, who played hurling and football in his spare time, dies at home from the consequences of Brugada syndrome.
10-4-2005
27-year-old Irish salesman Richie Doyle dies during a soccer match from the effects of a myocarditis
12-4-2005
28-year-old English footballer Paul Sykes dies from a cardiac arrest during a league game.
8-5-2005
21-year-old American basketball player Danny Rumph of Western Kentucky University dies from a heart attack.
14-5-2005
63-year-old Niek Alberts and 28-year-old Bart Flinterman die during the IJsselstein run, a quarter marathon in the Netherlands.
27-5-2005
32-year-old Romanian football player Alin Paicu dies from a cardiac arrest during a game.
30-5-2005
18-year-old Irish fencing champion Darius Vasseghi dies in his bathroom from the effects of an aortic hypoplasia and left ventricular hypertrophy.
10-6-2005
23-year-old Irish rugby player Hugh Williams dies from cardiomyopathy during a race.
15-6-2005
16-year-old Irish rugby player Martin Conor dies in his bed from the consequences of a cardiac arrest.
15-6-2005
37-year-old Italian professional cyclist Alessio Galletti dies during a race in Spain from the consequences of cardiac arrest.
25-6-2005
28-year old Portuguese football player Hugo Cunha dies of a heart attack during a soccer game with some friends.
18-8-2005
27-year-old American profbasket Kenyon Jones dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
20-8-2005
23-year-old American football player Thomas Herrion dies from the effects of a clogged right heart artery in the locker room during half-time in the San Francisco 49ers-Denver match.
15-09-2005
20-year-old Irish hairdresser Marcella Doherty dies from a right ventricular cardiomyopathy a week after she had felt palpations after 40 laps in the pool.
21-9-2005
29-year-old Canadian rower Kiran van Rijn dies during a training session from the effects of arrhythmias
26-9-2005
22-year-old American basketball player Shawntinice Polk of the University of Arizona dies from the effects of a pulmonary embolism
9-10-2005
31-year old Colombian cyclist Ubaldo Mesa Estepa dies from the effects of heart failure just before the start of the last stage of the road race Clàsico Banfoandes in Venezuela.
15-10-2005
28-year-old American professional basketball player Jason Collier from the Atlanta Hawks, dies from the effects of a cardiac arrest following arrhythmias caused by an abnormally enlarged heart.
13-11-2005
38-year-old American wrestler Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes is found dead in his hotel room, the cause of death is found to be acute heart failure due to an atherosclerosic heart disease.
29-11-2005
26-year old Frenchman David di Tommaso, who plays football in Utrecht, dies in his sleep from a heart attack.
