Athlete | Nation(s) | Sport(s) | Role(s) | Era | Notes |
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Bill Agee | USA | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide by connecting car exhaust to the interior of the car. |
John Albrechtson | SWE | SAL | Olympics | 1968—1976 | Committed suicide. |
Aleksandr Alenitsyn | RUS | TEN | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide while in prison after being arrested and tortured by the Bolsheviks. |
George Alexander | GBR | LAX | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by slitting his throat with a carving knife |
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya | AUS | FSK | Olympics | 2018 | Committed suicide. |
Percy Almstedt | SWE | SAL | Olympics | 1920 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Charles Aman | USA | ROW | Olympics | 1904 | Committed suicide. |
Gonçalo Amorim | POR | CRD | Olympics | 2004 | In 2012 he was found dead at his home in Santarém. He committed suicide apparently with a shotgun. |
Alfred Annan | USA | GLF | Olympics | 1904 | Committed suicide. |
St George Ashe | GBR | ROW | Olympics | 1900 | Committed suicide during temporary insanity. |
Yevgeny Babich | RUS URS |
IHO | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Eugène Balme | FRA | SHO | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide. |
Franz Barwig | AUT | ART | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide by shooting himself |
Johanna Bassani | AUT | MIX/NCB | YOG | 2020 | Committed suicide. |
Rex Beach | USA | SWM/WPO | Olympics / Non-starter | 1904 | Committed suicide two years after the death of his wife. |
Heidi Becker-Ramlow | GDR | DIV | Olympics | 1972—1976 | Committed suicide. |
Frederick Bedborough | GBR | FFG | Non-Medal | 1900 | Commiited suicide by shooting himself in the head during a period of temporary insanity according to the coroner's inquest. |
Yevgeny Belosheykin | RUS URS |
IHO | Non-starter | 1988 | Committed suicide. |
Ota Benga | COD | ATH | Non-Medal | 1904 | Shot himself in the heart due to depression |
Werner Beumelburg | GER | ART | Referee | 1936 | Committed suicide being politically discredited after the fall of the Nazi regime. |
Ahmet Bilek | TUR | WRE | Olympics | 1960 | Committed suicide. |
Mikhail Biryukov | RUS | TEN | YOG | 2010 | |
Leszek Błażyński | POL | BOX | Olympics | 1972—1976 | |
Willi Boltze | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | Boltze committed suicide in 1937 for unknown reasons. |
Edith Bonlieu | FRA | ALP | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide as member of the Order of the Solar Temple. |
Franco Bontadini | ITA | FBL | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide after a disappointment in love. |
Erich Borchmeyer | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1932—1936 | Committed suicide. |
Hugo Borja | MEX | BKB | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide after his daughter died of an infection |
Günter Böttcher | FRG | HBL | Olympics | 1976 | In 2012 Böttcher had a car accident and was severely injured. He suffered pulmonary bruises, head injuries, and vertebral injuries, and fell into a coma for several days. A few months later he committed suicide in a rehabilitation clinic. |
Enrico Bovone | ITA | BKB | Olympics | 1968 | Committed suicide. |
Walter Brödel | SAA | FEN | Olympics | 1952 | Committed suicide. |
Jürgen Brümmer | FRG | GAR | Olympics | 1988 | Committed suicide by jumping from a bridge after having killed his son. |
Rembrandt Bugatti | ITA | ART | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide by poisoning with gas in his Studio. |
Sabahattin Burcu | TUR | BOX | Olympics | 1976 | Shot himself in the head due to a deteriorating finacial situation |
Ricardo Cardoso | BRA | JUD | Olympics | 1988 | Committed suicide in 1991 after a love disappointment. |
Kelly Catlin | USA | CTR | Olympics | 2016 | Committed suicide. |
Henry Chaney | GBR | SHO | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple during temporary insanity, according to the coroner's report. |
Aurelio Chu Yi | PAN | JUD | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Edwin Everett Codman | USA | ART | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Joseph Collomb | FRA | CTR | Non-Medal | 1900 | |
Harry Connolly | GBR | BOX | Non-starter | 1928 | Committed suicide by poisoning himself during state of depression. |
Richard Corts | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide. |
Bob Craig | ANZ AUS |
RGB | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by hanging, while under treatment for mental illness. |
Ivan, Viscount d'Oyley | USA | FEN | Olympics | 1900 | Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
Rui de Abreu | POR | SWM | Olympics | 1976—1980 | Found dead with a trash bag around his head. Coroner ruled the death a suicide. |
Sigi Denk | AUT | CRD | Olympics | 1972 | Committed suicide by hanging. |
Ronald Desruelles | BEL | ATH | Olympics | 1976—1984 | Committed suicide. |
Pyotr Devyatkin | KAZ | IHO | Olympics | 1998 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Gary Dighton | GBR | CRD | Olympics | 1992 | Committed suicide. |
Herbert Dill | GER | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide by gas poisoning. |
Jacques Dimont | FRA | FEN | Olympics | 1968 | Committed suicide. |
John Donoghue | USA | ART | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide by shooting himself |
György Doros | HUN | ART/FEN | Olympics / Referee | 1932—1936 | Committed suicide by poisoning himself and his wife with gas. |
Christophe Dupouey | FRA | MTB | Olympics | 1996—2000 | Committed suicide. |
Knut Torbjørn Eggen | NOR | FBL | Olympics | 1984 | Committed suicide. Noted of him that he "had come to the point of life where he was more afraid to live than to die" |
Änne Ehscheidt | GER | DIV | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide by poisoning with gas. |
István Énekes | HUN | BOX | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide. |
Craig Fallon | GBR | JUD | Olympics | 2004—2008 | Committed suicide. |
Jackson Fear | AUS | ARC | Olympics | 1996 | Committed suicide. |
Don Fergusson | AUS | ROW | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head |
Ragnar Fogelmark | SWE | WRE | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide. |
Carl Folcker | SWE | GAR | Olympics | 1908 | Folcker was a lieutenant in Värmland's regiment three years after the Olympic victory when he committed suicide at Trossnäs field, just west of Karlstad. |
Bradford Fraley | USA | FEN | Olympics | 1920 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in his bedroom. |
Mike Fray | JAM | ATH | Olympics | 1968—1972 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Philip Freylinck | RSA | CTR | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. |
Lucien Gaudin | FRA | FEN | Olympics / Non-starter | 1908—1928 | Committed suicide. |
Hans Gill | AUT | WLF | Olympics | 1924 | |
Oskar Gloeckler | GER | ART | Olympics | 1928—1932 | Committed suicide. |
Karel Goppold z Lobsdorfu | BOH | FEN | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide. |
Lajos Gráf | HUN | ROW | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Allegro Grandi | ITA | CRD | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide at his cycle shop in Caracas |
Daan de Groot | NED | CTR | Olympics | 1952 | Committed suicide. |
Max Guilleaume | GER | EDV | Olympics | 1900 | Shot himself, committing suicide on a porch of his country house |
David Guttman | SWE | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Markku Hakulinen | FIN | IHO | Olympics | 1980 | Committed suicide when he jumped in front of a train. |
Robert Hallaran | CAN | SWM | Olympics | 1932 | Jumped out of a fourth floor window |
Simon Hallenbarter | SUI | BTH | Olympics | 2006—2014 | Committed suicide. |
Howard Hayes | USA | ATH | Olympics | 1900 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in washroom of Martin's Grill in Chicago. |
Jerry Heidenreich | USA | SWM | Olympics | 1972 | Committed suicide. |
Claudia Heill | AUT | JUD | Olympics | 2004—2008 | Fell from the sixth floor of her flat. It is possible that she committed suicide, per original press reports. |
Gabriel Hernández | DOM | BOX | Olympics | 1996 | He committed suicide by hanging, aged 27, nine days after his last bout against Ralph Monday. |
Ondřej Hodboď | CZE | ATH | YOG | 2018 | Committed suicide. |
Lutz Hoffmann | GDR | GAR | Olympics | 1980 | Committed suicide. |
Steve Holcomb | USA | BOB | Olympics | 2006—2014 | Had a fatal combination of a prescription sleep aid and a 0.18 percent blood alcohol concentration in his system at the time of his death. History of previous suicide attempt 2007. |
Robert Howard | USA | ATH | Olympics | 1996—2000 | Committed suicide after murdering his wife. |
Herbert Huber | AUT | ALP | Olympics | 1968 | Committed suicide by hanging. |
Isao Inokuma | JPN | JUD | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide by seppuku. |
Yelena Ivashchenko | RUS | JUD | Olympics | 2012 | Jumped from her apartment window, which was on the 15th floor. |
Harald Jährling | GDR | ROW | Olympics | 1976—1980 | |
Peter Jaks | SUI | IHO | Olympics | 1988—1992 | Committed suicide by train. |
Jaakko Jouppila | FIN | ATH | Olympics | 1948 | |
Pavle Jovanovic | USA | BOB | Olympics | 2006 | Committed suicide by hanging. |
Hamilton Jukes | GBR | IHO | Olympics | 1924 | Committed suicide. |
Jo Kaiser | GER FRG |
ATH | Olympics | 1960 | Committed suicide. |
Sami Kallunki | FIN | NCB | Olympics | 1992 | |
Joachim Karsch | GER | ART | Olympics | 1932 | After the Russian Army occupied his residence Groß Gandern in February 1945, destroying his works, he and his wife, Liesbeth, committed joint suicide to avoid deportation. |
Fritz Kaufmann | SUI | NCB/SJP | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide. |
Kentaro Kawatsu | JPN | SWM | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide. |
Gustaf Kilman | SWE | EJP | Olympics | 1912—1920 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Per Kinde | SWE | SHO | Olympics | 1920 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Asaji Kobayashi | JPN | ART | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide. |
František Kobzík | CZE TCH |
ROW | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide to avoid capture during World War II. |
Yoshio Kojima | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide. |
Jeremi Kubicki | POL | ART | Olympics | 1932—1936 | Kubicki died fairly young at the age of 27 quite unexpectedly shooting himself in the temple. |
Christiane Lanzke | GDR GER |
DIV | Olympics | 1964 | Drowned herself in the Baltic Sea near Rostock. |
Jani Lehtonen | FIN | ATH | Olympics | 1992 | |
Miklós Lendvai | HUN | FBL | Olympics | 1996 | Committed Suicide |
Viljo Leskinen | FIN | SHO | Olympics | 1936 | In a dispute, killed a woman named Sylvia Savolainen and then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide. |
Pedro Lima | ANG | SWM | Olympics | 1988—1992 | Died from drowning following self-inflicted injuries. |
Mikael Ljungberg | SWE | WRE | Olympics | 1992—2000 | Committed suicide. |
Clive Longe | GBR | ATH | Olympics | 1968 | Committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend. |
Frank Mackey | GBR USA |
POL | Olympics | 1900 | Committed suicide, shot himself while suffering from a terminal illness. |
Lajos Malanotti | HUN | EJP | Olympics | 1928 | |
Ferenc Manglitz | HUN | ATH | Non-starter | 1908 | Manglitz ended his life by a shot in his head. |
Kersten Meier | FRG | SWM | Olympics | 1972 | Committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. |
Christa Merten | FRG | ATH | Olympics | 1972 | Committed suicide in Marbella, Spain. |
Eugenio Monti | ITA | BOB | Olympics / Other | 1956—1968 | Committed suicide. |
Miljan Mrdaković | SRB | FBL | Olympics | 2008 | Committed suicide. |
Nero, Emperor of Roma | ROM | AAR/ACB/AEQ | Ancient | 67 | |
Herbert Niemann | GDR GER |
JUD | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Takeichi, Baron Nishi | JPN | EJP/EVE | Olympics | 1932—1936 | Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Jack Page | GBR | FSK | Olympics | 1924—1928 | Committed suicide by gassing himself in his office "While the balance of his mind was disturbed." |
Arnaldo Pambianco | ITA | CRD | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide by jumping. |
Marco Pantani | ITA | CRD | Olympics | 2000 | Committed suicide. |
Alexandru Papană | ROU | BOB | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide by taking poison. |
Dušan Pašek | TCH SVK |
IHO | Olympics | 1984—1988 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Mark Pavelich | USA | IHO | Olympics | 1980 | His death was ruled a suicide by the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka County. |
Alan Pennington | GBR | ATH | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while staying at a luxury hotel in Lisboa. |
Víctor Peralta | ARG | BOX | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide, shot himself while suffering from terminal prostate cancer |
Itzhak Peretz | ISR | FBL | Olympics | 1976 | Committed suicide. |
Nils Persson | SWE | SAL | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Jeret Peterson | USA | FRS | Olympics | 2002—2010 | Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, found in Lambs Canyon, Utah. |
Alois Petřina | CZE TCH |
BOX | Olympics | 1948 | |
Antonio Pettigrew | USA | ATH | Olympics | 2000 | Committed suicide by an overdose of pills containing diphenhydramine. |
John Pike | GBR | SHO | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home. |
Dan Pippin | USA | BKB | Olympics | 1952 | Committed suicide. |
Thomas Pleisch | SUI | IHO | Olympics | 1936 | Pleisch committed suicide only a few weeks after the 1936 Winter Olympics |
Liv Podmore | NZL | CTR | Olympics | 2016 | Committed suicide. |
Vladimír Podzimek | CZE TCH |
SJP | Olympics | 1984 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Andrey Prokofyev | RUS URS |
ATH | Olympics | 1980 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Gert Puzicha | FRG | BOX | Olympics | 1968 | Committed suicide. |
Pierre Quinon | FRA | ATH | Olympics | 1984 | Committed suicide. |
Fausto Radici | ITA | ALP | Olympics | 1976 | Committed suicide by shooting himself with a handgun. |
Rhoda Rennie | RSA | SWM | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide by shooting herself. |
Guy Revell | CAN | FSK | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Jesús Miguel Rollán | ESP | WPO | Olympics | 1988—2004 | Died after a fall from a balcony of a rehabilitation clinic where he was treated for depression - possibly he committed suicide. |
Shizuko Sakashita | JPN | GAR | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide by gas poisoning |
Ludwig, Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten | AUT | TEN | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide by jumping to avoid capture by Nazis. |
Robert Sassone | FRA | CTR | Olympics | 2000 | Committed suicide. |
Stephen Scherer | USA | SHO | Olympics | 2008 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Thomas Schleicher | AUT | JUD | Olympics | 1996 | Committed suicide while in prison. |
Uwe Schmitt | FRG | ATH | Olympics | 1984 | Committed suicide by taking poison. |
Andreas Schnieders | FRG | BOX | Olympics | 1988 | Committed suicide. |
Otto Schöpp | ROU | ATH | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide by hanging. |
Vladimir Sedov | KAZ | WLF | Olympics | 2008 | Committed suicide. |
Pietro Segantini | SUI | Administrator | 1990—1995 | ||
Shamil Serikov | KAZ URS |
WRE | Olympics | 1980 | Committed suicide. |
Janet Sheather | CAN | SWM | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide by shooting herself in the head at home. |
Narinder Singh | IND | JUD | Olympics | 1992—1996 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Christine Smith | AUS | ALP | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Paget Stewart | CAN | BTH | Olympics | 1988 | Committed suicide. |
Boris Strel | SLO YUG |
ALP | Olympics | 1980—1984 | Committed suicide. |
Doc Strong | USA | WRE | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide in a jail cell where he sat for public drunkenness. |
Ron Stuart | CAN | BKB | Olympics | 1956 | Committed suicide by running his car in the garage. |
Remig Stumpf | FRG | CRD | Olympics | 1988 | Committed suicide after killing his wife due to separation disputes. |
Willy Sulzbacher | FRA | FEN | Olympics | 1900 | Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Darren Sutherland | IRL | BOX | Olympics | 2008 | Committed suicide. |
Ferenc Szobota | HUN | ATH | Olympics | 1912 | In 1939 he committed suicide |
Gholam Reza Takhti | IRI | WRE | Olympics | 1952—1964 | Officially he committed suicide, but a lot of sources mention theories about being murdered for his political activities. |
Hidemitsu Tanaka | JPN | ROW | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide. |
Harold Thomas | NZL | BOX | Olympics | 1932 | Committed suicide by jumping from a train few hours after his fiancee's death. |
Adán Torres | ARG | ATH | Olympics | 1948 | Committed suicide upon becoming disabled after being struck by a vehicle, date unknown. |
Fritz Traun | GER | ATH/TEN | Olympics | 1896 | Committed suicide. |
Kokichi Tsuburaya | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Ernst Udet | GER | ART | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide, shot himself after years of alcoholism and drugs. |
Antal Ujváry | HUN | HBL | Olympics | 1936 | Committed suicide |
Tarmo Uusivirta | FIN | BOX | Olympics | 1980 | |
Carlos Vaca | MEX | ARC | YOG | 2018 | Committed suicide by jumping. |
Frans Van Looy | BEL | CRD | Olympics | 1972 | Committed suicide. |
Vladimír Vávra | CZE TCH |
WRE | Olympics | 1928 | Committed suicide. |
Albert Venn | USA | LAX | Olympics | 1904 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Maura Viceconte | ITA | ATH | Olympics | 1996—2000 | Committed suicide by hanging herself. |
George Vivian | CAN | SHO | Olympics | 1908 | Committed suicide by shooting himself at his home, for unknown reasons. |
Claiborne Walker | USA | FEN | Olympics | 1920 | Committed suicide aboard ship in Shanghai Harbour, shooting himself. |
Sammy Wanjiru | KEN | ATH | Olympics | 2008 | Committed suicide after being found in love triangle by his wife. |
Billy Ward | AUS | BOX | Olympics | 2012 | Committed suicide. |
Eric Wauters | BEL | EJP | Olympics | 1972—1996 | Committed suicide at his home. |
Ludwig Weinacht | GER | ROW | Olympics | 1912 | Committed suicide. |
Mike Whitmarsh | USA | VBV | Olympics | 1996 | Committed suicide. |
Percy Williams | CAN | ATH | Olympics | 1928—1932 | Committed suicide. |
John Wood | CAN | CSP | Olympics | 1968—1976 | Committed suicide. |
Steve Wood | AUS | CSP | Olympics | 1988—1992 | Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Stephen Wooldridge | AUS | CTR | Olympics | 2004 | Committed suicide. |
Hiromi Yamafuji | JPN | CTR | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Ikuko Yoda | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1964 | Committed suicide. |
Masami Yoshida | JPN | ATH | Olympics | 1984—1992 | Committed suicide. |
Florin Zalomir | ROU | FEN | Olympics | 2012 | Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. |