Sudden death in sportsmen - 2008
19-1-2008
24-year-old football player Marco Randriana from Madagascar is hit by a cardiac arrest in the French league match Niort-Sedan, but he is saved thanks to a defibrillator.
28-1-2008
23-year-old Dutch world champion kickboxing Ginty Vrede collapses during training and dies of cardiac arrest.
9-2-2008
22-year-old Gabonese football player Guy Tchingoma dies of cardiac arrest during a game .
16-2-2008
27-year-old British footballer Hervé King dies during a league match from the consequences of a heart attack.
18-2-2008
18-year-old Canadian ice hockey player Mickey Renaud dies from the consequences of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
21-2-2008
20-year-old American basketball player Jonathan Davis of Ohio University dies during a training session from the consequences of a cardiac arrest.
2-3-2008
27-year-old American Adam Nickel dies of a heart attack during the Little Rock Marathon.
23-3-2008
24-year-old American football player Heath Benedict dies from the consequences of an enlarged heart
1-4-2008
26-year-old American basketball player Marvin Stone dies from a heart attack during his very first match with his Arab team Ittihad.
23-4-2008
19-year-old American basketball player Deshean Porchea dies during a game at Alabama State University from the consequences of cardiac arrest.
15-7-2008
36-year old Hungarian Olympic canoe champion György Kolonics dies from the consequences of cardiac arrest during a training session.
12-8-2008
31-year-old rugby player Adam Watene of the Cook Islands dies from the consequences of a heart attackduring a training session.
12-10-2008
After the half marathon in Eindhoven, a 55-year-old Dutch participant dies from the consequences of cardiac arrest
13-10-2008
19-year-old Russian hockey player Alekseï Tcherepanov dies during a match from the consequences of a heart attack.
2-11-2008
18-year-old American basketball player and football player Tamir Phillips of the Community College of Beaver County dies from a heart attack during a training session.
2-11-2008
66-year-old American Joseph Marotta, his 41-year-old compatriot Fred Costa and 58-year-old Brazilian Carlos Jose Gomes die from a heart attack during the New York marathon.
14-12-2008
29-year-old American Erin Lahr dies from cardiac arrhythmias during the Dallas Marathon.
