Sudden death in sportsmen - 2015
10-3-2015
During the half-marathon City Pier City in The Hague, a participant dies after a heart attack.
20-3-2015
41-year-old American wrestler Gregory Scott Daves dies from a heart attack.
30-4-2015
24-year old Belgian football player Gregory Mertens collapses in the Lokeren-Genk competition and dies a few days later from a heart failure.
3-5-2015
29-year-old Welsh rugby player Danny Jones suffers a heart attack during a match. He is taken to the hospital, where he dies on arrival.
11-5-2015
23-year-old Belgian footballer player Tim Nicot suffers a cardiac arrest during the Hemiksem tournament and dies two days later
24-5-2015
27-year-old Argentinian footballer Cristian Gomez dies from heart failure during a game.
31-5-2015
16-year-old Nigerian-Irish footballer Shetemi Ayetigbo collapses during a match and dies from heart failure.
13-6-2015
Three minutes in the game, 30-year-old Nigerian footballer David Oniya collapses in the match T-Team against Kelantan in Malaisia and dies from a cardiac arrest.
15-6-2015
55-year-old Belgian runner Jean-Pierre Paumen dies from the consequences of a heart artery rupture.
26-6-2015
36-year-old American football player Damion Lamar Cook dies from a heart attack.
3-7-2015
29-year-old Serbian footballer Goran Gogic collapses after an evening training and dies from heart failure.
7-7-2015
23-year-old British football player Junior Dia dies from heart failure during a match.
1-10-2015
30-year-old Iranian footballer Hadi Norouzi dies from a heart attack in his sleep.
15-10-2015
44-year-old Russian footballer Sergio Filippenkov dies from a heart attack during a friendly match.
10-11-2015
31-year-old French triathlete Laurent Vidal dies from heart failure.
13-11-2015
29-year-old five-time Swiss wrestling champion Silvan Odermatt dies a heart attack.
29-11-2015
22-year-old Russian modern pentathlete Alexander Koekarin dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
29-12-2015
47-year-old Czech goalkeeper Pavel Srnícek dies from a heart attack during a jogging session.
