Other Sports
- Harry Chamberlin, 56–57, American show jumping rider, unknown illness (1944)
- Jill Costello, 22, American rowing coxswain, University of California, lung cancer (2010)
- Patrick Dinsmore, 16, Irish Gaelic football, undetected heart condition (2010)
- Shane Drury, 27, American rodeo performer, cancer (2006)
- Lane Frost, 25, American rodeo performer, gored by bull after completing a ride (1989)
- Kurt Hasse, 36, German show jumping rider, KIA during World War II (1944)
- Tommy Hitchcock, Jr., 44, American polo player, test plane crash (1944)
- Michael Hogan, 23–24, shot by British forces in the Croke Park massacre on Bloody Sunday (1920)
- Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, cancer (2006)
- Zdzisław Kawecki, 37, Polish show jumping rider, Katyn Massacre (1940)
- Yeardley Love, 22, American lacrosse defender, University of Virginia, murdered (2010)
- Jesse Marunde, 27, American strongman, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2007)
- Cormac McAnallen, 24, Irish gaelic football player, undetected heart condition (2004)
- Takeichi Nishi, 42, Japanese show jumping rider, KIA during Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
- Svend Pri, 38, Danish badminton player, suicide, 1983
- Todd Skinner, 47, American free climber, fell from cliff (2006)
- Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic strongman, heart failure (1993)
- Jannes van der Wal, 39, Dutch Draughts (or Checkers) player, leukemia (1996)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sportspeople Who Died During Their Careers
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)