Sudden death in sportsmen - 2006

7-1-2006

31-year-old Hungarian footballer Gábor Zavadszky dies from the effects of an embolism.

6-2-2006

23-year old Dutch amateur cyclist John Sulkers dies from the effects of a heart attack on training camp.

26-2-2006

26-year-old Dutch professional cyclist Arno Wallaard dies on the consequences of cardiac arrest during a training

6-3-2006

20-year-old American basketball player Davis Nwankwo gets a cardiac arrest during a game, but his life is saved with a defibrillator thanks to his coach Mike Meyer.

19-3-2006

60-year-old American James Leone and his 53-year-old compatriot Raul Reyna die of a heart attack during the Chicago marathon.

11-4-2006

17-year-old Colombian football player Victor Alfonso Guerrero dies of a heart attack during the training of his club.

12-6-2006

 26-year old Danish footballer Rasmus Green dies of a heart attack during training.

30-7-2006

 43-year-old American William Goggings dies from the effects of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy during the San Francisco marathon.

4-8-2006

16-year-old English footballer Radwan Hamed gets a cardiac arrest during the international Junior Tournament in the Belgian Oostduinkerke. After only 6 minutes of play in the game against Cercle Brugge, the Tottenham Hotspur player suddenly collapses. He was taken to the hospital where he arrives 16 minutes later and thus incurs an irreparable brain injury. After ten years of litigation, the Supreme Court awarded him seven million pounds in compensation, because the then sports physician had approved him for play despite an abnormal cardiac scan.

23-8-2006

54-year-old Pakistan cricket player Wasim Hasan Raja dies of a heart attack during a match of his club Surrey.

31-8-2006

23-year-old Egyptian footballer football player Mohamed Abdelwaheb dies of cardiac arrest during a training.

9-9-2006

27-year-old British footballer Matthew John Gadsby dies on the effects of an arrhythmic right ventricular cardiomyopathy during a league game.

18-9-2006

30-year-old Brazilian footballer Nilton Pereira Mendes dies of a heart attack during a training in Kazakhstan.

1-10-2006

49-year-old American George Spears dies of a heart attack during the Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis.

8-10-2006

21-year-old American basketball player Haris Charalambous of the University of Toledo dies from the consequences of a heart attack during a training.

20-10-2006

56-year-old American Earl Seyford dies of a heart attack during the Marine Corps Marathon of Washington.

10-12-2006

40-year-old American Marc Wilkes dies from the consequences of congenital heart defects during the Tucson Marathon.

21-12-2006

30-year-old Brazilian and naturalized Macedonian football player Rogério Oliveira da Costa dies from the effects of a heart attack.


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