Sudden death in sportsmen - 2010
14-1-2010
21-year-old American basketball player Jeron Lewis of the University of Southern Indiana dies from the effects of an enlarged heart.
17-1-2010
27-year-old American football player Gaines Adams dies from a heart attack. At the autopsy it appeared that this was a result of a cardiomyopahtie, of which the athlete and his family were not aware.
24-1-2010
17-year-old footballer Yannick Dago from Cameroon dies from a heart attack in the French league during the match of his club Arras Football against Etoile Sportive Anzin Saint Aubin.
22-2-2010
19-year-old American basketball player Raymond Dunn of the Vance-Granville Community College dies during a race from the consequences of cardiac arrest.
3-3-2010
16-year-old American basketball player Wes Leonard dies during a game from the consequences of cardiac arrest.
6-3-2010
25-year-old Nigerian footballer Endurance Idahor dies of a heart attack in a Sudanese competition
6-3-2018
17-year-old American Matthew Hammerdorfer dies from a cardiac arrest during a rugby match in Colorado. The post-autopsy showed that death was due to cardiomegaly and biventricular hypertrophy, referring to an enlarged heart and enlarged ventricles.
8-3-2010
16-year-old American basketball player Javaris Brinkley dies of cardiac arrest during a match.
8-3-2010
19-year-old Ghanaian footballer Bartholomew Opoku dies of cardiac arrest during a league match.
9-3-2010
17-year-old American athlete Sarah Landauer dies of cardiac arrest during a training session at her school.
21-3-2010
During the Rome marathon 53-year-old Belgian runner Tom Van der Gucht dies of a heart attack,
7-4-2010
A 41-year-old German runner dies during the Berlin marathon from the consequences of a heart attack.
2-5-2010
24-year-old Liberian footballer Ambrose Wieh dies in a league game from the effects of heart failure.
5-5-2010
32-year-old Croatian football player Goran Tunjic dies of cardiac arrest during a league game with his team Mladost FC. The referee gave him yellow when he fell to the floor...
8-5-2010
18-year-old Nigerian football player Wilson Mene died in the Cambodian competition from the consequences of a cardiac arrest.
15-5-2010
22-year-old Austrian footballer Besian Idrizaj dies from a heart attack.
23-5-2010
38-year-old American baseball player José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima is found dead in his bed, the cause of death was determined to be cardiac arrhythmias.
6-7-2010
24-year-old Russian ice-hockey player Igor Vladimirovich Misko dies after driving into another vehicle with his car after he has a heart attack.
22-7-2010
The 53-year-old former Dutch pilot Henk van der Vlies dies from a heart attack on his first day of a vacation while jogging.
14-8-2010
During the 41st edition of the Dodentocht in Bornem, Belgium, a 59-year-old experienced Belgian hiker collapses at 300m of the finish and dies from a cardiac arrest.
18-8-2010
22-year old British football player Victor Omogbegin dies of a heart attack during the match of his club Ilford against Lowestoft Town FC
24-8-2010
16-year-old Irishman Patrick Dinsmore dies in a Gaelic football game rom the consequences of an undetected heart defect
28-8-2010
22-year-old Spanish professional footballer Antonio Puerta suffers a cardiac arrest during a league match between Sevilla FC and Getafe FC and dies.
10-11-2010
21-year-old Ghanaian football player Benjamin Owasu dies during a game of Brescia in the Italian league.
23-10-2010
26-year-old American long distance swimmer Francis Crippen dies from the effects of a heart attack during a race in the United Arab Emirates.
2-11-2010
22-year-old American surfer Andy Irons dies from a cardiac arrest.
9-11-2010
14-year-old Belgian football international Robbe Verlee suddenly collapses during a football match and dies after a cardiac arrest.
12-12-2010
21-year old footballer Emmanuel Ogoli dies from a heart attack during a game with his team Ocean Boys in the Nigerian competition.
