Sudden death in sportsmen - 2017
9-1-2017
55-year-old Paraguayan football player Roberto Cabañas dies from heart failure.
25-1-2017
52-year-old Japanese wrestler Junji Izumida dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
11-2-2017
27-year-old Brazilian basketball player Fabricio Paulino de Melo dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
19-2-2017
45-year old Irish footballer Paul Jason McCarthy dies from a heart attack.
25-2-2017
37-year old English basketball player Neil Fingleton dies from heart failure.
19-3-2017
28-year-old Nordern Irish footballer Ryan McBride is found dead in the vicinity of the Brandywell stadium
20-3-2017
22-year old Egyptian rider Eslam Nasser Zaki dies during the omnium of the African Continental Track Championships due to a heart attack.
24-3-2017
49-year-old Dutch cyclist Leo Peelen dies from the consequences of a heart attack in the catacombs of Omnisport Apeldoorn.
4-4-2017
50-year-old German handball player Frank Dammann dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
17-4-2017
47-year-old American wrestler Matthew Tapunu'u Anoa'i dies from the consequences of congestive heart failure.
21-4-2017
45-year-old British footballer Ugo Ehiogu dies on the training field after he has a heart attack.
26-4-2017
35-year-old Gabonese football player Moise Brou Apanga dies from a heart attack.
28-4-2017
26-year-old footballer Gofaone Tiro from Botswana tumbles to the ground during a training and dies in the ambulance on the way to the hospital from the consequences of a heart attack.
28-4-2017
58-year old Mexican wrestler Jesús Alvarado Nieves dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
6-5-2017
37-year-old American bobsled Steven Holcomb is found dead in his apartment.
15-5-2017
At a friendly soccer match of TSV Krumbach Berlin, a 48-year-old dies of a heart attack after collapsing at a throw-in.
3-6-2017
45-year-old Ethiopian footballer Aseged Tesfaye collapses during a training session and dies of the consequences of a mitral regurgitation
5-6-2017
30-year-old Ivorian footballer Cheick Tioté collapses during a training session and dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
8-7-2017
21-year-old Dutch-Moroccan football player Abdelhak Nouri of Ajax Amsterdam collapses during a match against Werder Bremen after a heart attack. Because the provided help was bad, he is left with a permanent brain injury.
8-7-2017
32-year-old Dutch football player Sylvia Nooij dies from the effects of cardiac arrhythmias.
20-8-2017
35-year-old Bulgarian European champion weightlifting Velichko Cholakov dies of the consequences of a heart attack.
9-10-2017
56-year-old Tunisian minister of Health Slim Chaker dies of a heart attack during a charity marathon in favor of the fight against cancer.
2-11-2017
17-year-old Belgian footballer Joel Lobanzo collapses during a training and dies from the consequences of a heart attack.
5-11-2017
25-year-old Slovakian football player Dionatan do Nascimento Teixeira born in Brazil dies from the effects of a heart attack.
6-11-2017
20-year-old Belgian cyclist Bjarne Vanacker is found dead in his bed.
14-11-2017
39-year-old Rwandan football player Hamad Ndikumana dies shortly after he complains of pain in the chest area.
9-12-2017
59-year-old American wrestler and bodybuilder Thomas Erwin Zenk dies from the effects of arterial sclerosis and cardiomegaly.
31-12-2017
47-year-old French basketball player Frédéric Forte dies of the consequences of a heart attack.
