Sudden death in sportsmen - 2016
13-2-2016
50-year-old Bulgarian football player Trifon Ivanov dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
25-2-2016
20-year-old American football player Will Trevillion dies from the effects of a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
28-2-2016
55-year-old Briton Mike Freeman dies from the effects of heart failure during the Vodafone Malta Marathon.
16-3-2016
26-year-old Cameroonian football player Patrick Ekeng dies during a match of his club Dinamo Bucharest against FC Viitorul Constanta from the consequences of a heart attack.
28-3-2016
22-year-old Belgian rider Daan Myngheer becomes unwell during the International Road Criterion in Corsica. He gets off the bike and gets a cardiac arrest in the ambulance. He dies in hospital
24-4-2016
31-year-old Brit David Seath dies during the London Marathon due to a heart attack.
7-5-2016
26-year-old Brazilian football player Bernardo Ribeiro colapses during a friendly match and dies in the hospital from the consequences of a heart attack.
9-5-2016
26-year-old Cameroon goalkeeper Jeanine Christelle Djomnang collapses during the warm-up of a match and dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
9-5-2016
22-year-old Dutch cyclist Gijs Verdick gets two heart attacks at night during the Polish Carpathian Couriers Race where he sustains brain damage. After his transfer from Poland he dies in the Isala hospital in Zwolle.
12-6-2016
44-year-old American wrestler Jonathan Rechner dies at home from the effects of a heart attack while watching TV.
13-6-2016
24-year-old Ghanaian footballer Uriah Asante dies from the effects of a heart attack.
3-7-2016
30-year-old Filipino basket player Gilbert D. Bulawan dies during the training of his team Blackwater Elite from the consequences of a heart enlargement.
16-7-2016
26-year-old Australian football player Antony Stott collapses ten minutes after the start of a match and dies on the way to the hospital from the consequences of a cardiac arrest.
23-7-2016
31-year-old South African footballer Boy-Boy Mosia dies from the consequences of cardiac arrest.
15-8-2016
20-year-old Nigerian football player Michael Umanika collapses during a training and dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
11-9-2016
34-year-old footballer Ben Idrissa Dermé from Burkina Fasso dies from a heart attack during a match.
13-9-2016
26-year-old British footballer Dan Wilkinson gets a heart attack during the Integro League Cup. He dies shortly thereafter in the hospital.
13-9-2016
37-year-old Ukrainian Russian footballer Artjom Bezrodny dies from a heart attack while jogging .
17-9-2016
48-year-old Iranian paralympic Bahman Golbarnezhad, who did cycling and weightlifting, died during a road race from the consequences of a second cardiac arrest.
26-09-2016
A 25-year-old Dutch participant at the Dam tot Damloop dies from the consequences of a cardiac arrest.
16-11-2016
44-year-old Romanian football player Daniel Prodan dies from the effects of a heart attack.
27-12-2016
46-year-old German mayor Markus Kennerknecht dies during jogging from the consequences of a heart attack..
