List of Accidents and Disasters By Death Toll - Sporting Events

Sporting Events

  1. 1,112 – Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus, (Ancient Rome, c. 140 AD)
  2. 590 – Happy Valley Racecourse fire, (Happy Valley, Hong Kong, February 26, 1918)
  3. 328 – 1964 Lima football riot tragedy, (Lima, May 24, 1964).
  4. ~200 – Collapse of wooden bleachers at Corralejas bullring/stadium, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia, January 20, 1980.
  5. 96 – Hillsborough stadium crush (Sheffield, England, 1989)
  6. 93 - Dasarath Rangasala Stadium (Kathmandu, Nepal, 1988)
  7. 80+ – 24 hours of Le Mans auto race crash (Le Mans, France, 1955)
  8. 79 – Port Said Stadium disaster (Port Said, Egypt, February 1, 2012)
  9. 71 – Puerta 12 crush (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 June 1968)
  10. 66 – Second Ibrox stadium disaster, stairway crowd crush (Glasgow, Scotland, 1971) / Luzhniki disaster, stairway crowd crush on a stadium in Moscow, USSR (October 20, 1982)
  11. 56 – Bradford City stadium fire (Bradford, England, 1985)
  12. 43 – Ellis Park Stadium disaster, football match crush (Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 April 2001)
  13. 40 – Kayseri Atatürk Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Turkey, September 17, 1967)
  14. 39 – Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism (Brussels, Belgium, 1985)
  15. 33 – Burnden Park disaster (Bolton, England, 1946)
  16. 28 – Italian Grand Prix, Emilio Materassi and 27 spectators was killed when Materassi's car crashed into a grandstand, (Monza, Italy, 1928)
  17. 26 – First Ibrox stadium disaster, terracing collapse (Glasgow, Scotland, 1902)
  18. 24 – Drunken football fan provoked a stampede at game Deportivo Cali and América de Cali, Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, November 18, 1982
  19. 21 – Gate 7 stampede at the old Karaiskakis Stadium at the end of a football game between Olympiacos and AEK Athens (Piraeus, Greece, February 8, 1981)
  20. 18 – Temporary grand stand collapsed, before French Cup semifinal match SC Bastia and Olympique Marseille, Bastia, Corsica, France, May 5, 1992.)
  21. 17 – 1979 Fastnet yachting race storms (Fastnet Rock, Ireland, 1979)
  22. 15 – 1961 Italian Grand Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Formula 1 race): Wolfgang Von Trips and 14 spectators were killed when Von Trips' car was thrown amidst the audience (Monza, Italy, 1961).
  23. 13 – Mille Miglia road race: driver Alfonso de Portago, his co-driver/navigator, Ed Nelson and ten spectators was killed when Portago and Nelson ploughed into spectators, killing the pair, plus 9 spectators. Also includes 2 separate deaths earlier in the race. (Reggio Emilia, Florence and Guidizzolo, Mantua; Italy, May 12, 1957) / 1953 Argentine Grand Prix: driver Nino Farina ploughed into the crowds on lap 31, killing 13 spectators, Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 18, 1953. / Democratic Republic of Congo football league second division of Socozaki and Nyuki System match riot at Matokeo stadium, Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 14, 2008. / Grenzlandring, 13 killed and 42 injured including the driver himself when his car went out of control and plunged into spectators, Wegberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; August 31, 1952.
  24. 12 – Yellow River Dragstrip, an out of control dragster crashed through a chain-link fence into a spectator area, killing 11 instantly. The twelfth person died later in hospital. (Covington, Georgia, 1969) / Baker Bowl bleachers collapse, Philadelphia, August 8, 1903
  25. 11 – Egyptian Premier League cross ryval Koroum and Al-Ittihad football match stampede at Alexandria Stadium, northern Egypt, January 11, 1999. / Auto race at New York State Fairgrounds, when a car went through a rail fence into the crowd, (Syracuse, New York, 1911) / 2011 Reno Air Races crash, 11 killed including the pilot Jimmy Leeward when his aircraft plunged into VIP booths in front of the grandstands (Reno Stead Airport, Reno, Nevada; September 16, 2011)
  26. 8 – 1903 Paris-Madrid race, a chain of accidents occurred causing deaths to drivers and spectators and destruction to properties. The race which was called to a halt at Bordeaux. / 2010 Off-road_racing#Desert_racingCalifornia 200 Off Road race, eight spectators killed when an off road truck rolled into the gallery.
  27. 6 – 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, in which six sailors died and many other yachts had to retire after been caught in a large storm. / Saloon car race at the 1977 Malaysian Grand Prix, six children killed when a car struck into a fence, following a tire blowout; Batu Tiga Circuit, Selangor, Shah Alam.

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