Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Era |
Notes |
Bill Agee
|
USA |
ATH |
1928 |
Committed suicide by connecting car exhaust to the interior of the car. |
John Albrechtson
|
SWE |
SAI |
1968—1976 |
Committed suicide. |
Aleksandr Alenitsyn
|
RUS |
TEN |
1912 |
Committed suicide while in prison after being arrested and tortured by the Bolsheviks. |
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya
|
AUS |
FSK |
2018 |
Committed suicide. |
Percy Almstedt
|
SWE |
SAI |
1920 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Charles Aman
|
USA |
ROW |
1904 |
Committed suicide. |
Gonçalo Amorim
|
POR |
CYC |
2004 |
In 2012 he was found dead at his home in Santarém. He committed suicide apparently with a shotgun. |
Alfred Annan
|
USA |
GOL |
1904 |
Committed suicide. |
St George Ashe
|
GBR |
ROW |
1900 |
Committed suicide during temporary insanity. |
Yevgeny Babich
|
RUS
URS |
ICH |
1956 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Eugène Balme
|
FRA |
SHO |
1908 |
Committed suicide. |
Franz Barwig
|
AUT |
ART |
1928 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself |
Rex Beach
|
USA |
SWI/WAP |
1904 |
Committed suicide two years after the death of his wife. |
Heidi Becker-Ramlow
|
GDR |
DIV |
1972—1976 |
Committed suicide. |
Yevgeny Belosheykin
(DNS)
|
RUS
URS |
ICH |
1988 |
Committed suicide. |
Ahmet Bilek
|
TUR |
WRE |
1960 |
Committed suicide. |
Willi Boltze
|
GER |
ATH |
1928 |
Boltze committed suicide in 1937 for unknown reasons. |
Edith Bonlieu
|
FRA |
ASK |
1956 |
Committed suicide as member of the Order of the Solar Temple. |
Franco Bontadini
|
ITA |
FTB |
1912 |
Committed suicide after a disappointment in love. |
Erich Borchmeyer
|
GER |
ATH |
1932—1936 |
Committed suicide. |
Hugo Borja
|
MEX |
BAS |
1936 |
Committed suicide after his daughter died of an infection, date unknown |
Günter Böttcher
|
FRG |
HAN |
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 |
BAS |
1968 |
Committed suicide. |
Walter Brödel
|
SAA |
FEN |
1952 |
Committed suicide. |
Jürgen Brümmer
|
FRG |
GYM |
1988 |
Committed suicide by jumping from a bridge after having killed his son. |
Rembrandt Bugatti
|
ITA |
ART |
1912 |
Committed suicide by poisoning with gas in his Studio. |
Ricardo Cardoso
|
BRA |
JUD |
1988 |
Committed suicide in 1991 after a love disappointment. |
Kelly Catlin
|
USA |
CTR |
2016 |
Committed suicide. |
Edwin Everett Codman
|
USA |
ART |
1932 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Harry Connolly
(DNS)
|
GBR |
BOX |
1928 |
Committed suicide by poisoning himself during state of depression. |
Richard Corts
|
GER |
ATH |
1928 |
Committed suicide. |
Bob Craig
|
ANZ
AUS |
RUG |
1908 |
Committed suicide by hanging, while under treatment for mental illness. |
Ivan, Viscount d'Oyley
|
USA |
FEN |
1900 |
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
Sigi Denk
|
AUT |
CYC |
1972 |
Committed suicide by hanging. |
Ronald Desruelles
|
BEL |
ATH |
1976—1984 |
Committed suicide. |
Pyotr Devyatkin
|
KAZ |
ICH |
1998 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Gary Dighton
|
GBR |
CYC |
1992 |
Committed suicide. |
Jacques Dimont
|
FRA |
FEN |
1968 |
Committed suicide. |
John Donoghue
|
USA |
ART |
1928 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself |
György Doros
|
HUN |
ART |
1932 |
Committed suicide by poisoning himself and his wife with gas. |
Christophe Dupouey
|
FRA |
MTB |
1996—2000 |
Committed suicide. |
Knut Torbjørn Eggen
|
NOR |
FTB |
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 |
1936 |
Committed suicide by poisoning with gas. |
István Énekes
|
HUN |
BOX |
1932 |
Committed suicide. |
Jackson Fear
|
AUS |
ARC |
1996 |
Committed suicide. |
Don Fergusson
|
AUS |
ROW |
1936 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head |
Ragnar Fogelmark
|
SWE |
WRE |
1912 |
Committed suicide. |
Bradford Fraley
|
USA |
FEN |
1920 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself in his bedroom. |
Mike Fray
|
JAM |
ATH |
1968—1972 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Philip Freylinck
|
RSA |
CTR |
1908 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. |
Lucien Gaudin
|
FRA |
FEN |
1920—1928 |
Committed suicide. |
Oskar Gloeckler
|
GER |
ART |
1928—1932 |
Committed suicide. |
Karel Goppold z Lobsdorfu
|
BOH |
FEN |
1912 |
Committed suicide. |
Lajos Gráf
|
HUN |
ROW |
1912 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Allegro Grandi
|
ITA |
CYC |
1928 |
Committed suicide at his cycle shop in Caracas |
Daan de Groot
|
NED |
CTR |
1952 |
Committed suicide. |
David Guttman
|
SWE |
ATH |
1912 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Markku Hakulinen
|
FIN |
ICH |
1980 |
Committed suicide when he jumped in front of a train. |
Robert Hallaran
|
CAN |
SWI |
1932 |
Jumped out of a fourth floor window |
Howard Hayes
|
USA |
ATH |
1900 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in washroom of Martin's Grill in Chicago. |
Jerry Heidenreich
|
USA |
SWI |
1972 |
Committed suicide. |
Claudia Heill
|
AUT |
JUD |
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 |
1996 |
He committed suicide by hanging, aged 27, nine days after his last bout against Ralph Monday. |
Lutz Hoffmann
|
GDR |
GYM |
1980 |
Committed suicide. |
Steve Holcomb
|
USA |
BOB |
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 |
1996—2000 |
Committed suicide after murdering his wife. |
Herbert Huber
|
AUT |
ASK |
1968 |
Committed suicide by hanging. |
Isao Inokuma
|
JPN |
JUD |
1964 |
Committed suicide by seppuku. |
Yelena Ivashchenko
|
RUS |
JUD |
2012 |
Jumped from her apartment window, which was on the 15th floor. |
Peter Jaks
|
SUI |
ICH |
1988—1992 |
Committed suicide by train. |
Jaakko Jouppila
|
FIN |
ATH |
1948 |
|
Pavle Jovanovic
|
USA |
BOB |
2006 |
Committed suicide by hanging. |
Hamilton Jukes
|
GBR |
ICH |
1924 |
Committed suicide. |
Jo Kaiser
|
GER
FRG |
ATH |
1960 |
Committed suicide. |
Sami Kallunki
|
FIN |
NCO |
1992 |
|
Joachim Karsch
|
GER |
ART |
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. |
Kentaro Kawatsu
|
JPN |
SWI |
1932 |
Committed suicide. |
Gustaf Kilman
|
SWE |
EQU |
1912—1920 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Per Kinde
|
SWE |
SHO |
1920 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Asaji Kobayashi
|
JPN |
ART |
1936 |
Committed suicide. |
František Kobzík
|
CZE
TCH |
ROW |
1936 |
Committed suicide to avoid capture during World War II. |
Yoshio Kojima
|
JPN |
ATH |
1956 |
Committed suicide. |
Jeremi Kubicki
|
POL |
ART |
1932—1936 |
Kubicki died fairly young at the age of 27 quite unexpectedly shooting himself in the temple. |
Christiane Lanzke
|
GDR
GER |
DIV |
1964 |
Drowned herself in the Baltic Sea near Rostock. |
Jani Lehtonen
|
FIN |
ATH |
1992 |
|
Viljo Leskinen
|
FIN |
SHO |
1936 |
In a dispute, killed a woman named Sylvia Savolainen and then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide. |
Pedro Lima
|
ANG |
SWI |
1988—1992 |
Died from drowning following self-inflicted injuries. |
Mikael Ljungberg
|
SWE |
WRE |
1992—2000 |
Committed suicide. |
Clive Longe
|
GBR |
ATH |
1968 |
Committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend. |
Frank Mackey
|
GBR
USA |
POL |
1900 |
Committed suicide, shot himself while suffering from a terminal illness. |
Lajos Malanotti
|
HUN |
EQU |
1928 |
|
Kersten Meier
|
FRG |
SWI |
1972 |
Committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. |
Christa Merten
|
FRG |
ATH |
1972 |
Committed suicide in Marbella, Spain. |
Eugenio Monti
|
ITA |
BOB |
1956—1968 |
Committed suicide. |
Miljan Mrdaković
|
SRB |
FTB |
2008 |
Committed suicide. |
Nero, Emperor of Roma
|
ROM |
AAR/ACB/AEQ |
67 |
|
Herbert Niemann
|
GDR
GER |
JUD |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Takeichi, Baron Nishi
|
JPN |
EQU/EVE |
1932—1936 |
Possibly committed suicide during the Battle of Iwo Jima. |
Jack Page
|
GBR |
FSK |
1924—1928 |
Committed suicide by gassing himself in his office "While the balance of his mind was disturbed." |
Marco Pantani
|
ITA |
CYC |
2000 |
Committed suicide. |
Dušan Pašek
|
TCH
SVK |
ICH |
1984—1988 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Mark Pavelich
|
USA |
ICH |
1980 |
His death was ruled a suicide by the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka County. |
Alan Pennington
|
GBR |
ATH |
1936 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while staying at a luxury hotel in Lisboa. |
Víctor Peralta
|
ARG |
BOX |
1928 |
Committed suicide, shot himself while suffering from terminal prostate cancer |
Nils Persson
|
SWE |
SAI |
1912 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Jeret Peterson
|
USA |
FRS |
2002—2010 |
Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, found in Lambs Canyon, Utah. |
Antonio Pettigrew
|
USA |
ATH |
2000 |
Committed suicide by an overdose of pills containing diphenhydramine. |
Dan Pippin
|
USA |
BAS |
1952 |
Committed suicide. |
Vladimír Podzimek
|
CZE
TCH |
SKJ |
1984 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Andrey Prokofyev
|
RUS
URS |
ATH |
1980 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Gert Puzicha
|
FRG |
BOX |
1968 |
Committed suicide. |
Pierre Quinon
|
FRA |
ATH |
1984 |
Committed suicide. |
Fausto Radici
|
ITA |
ASK |
1976 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself with a handgun. |
Rhoda Rennie
|
RSA |
SWI |
1928 |
Committed suicide. |
Guy Revell
|
CAN |
FSK |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Jesús Miguel Rollán
|
ESP |
WAP |
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 |
GYM |
1956 |
Committed suicide by gas poisoning |
Ludwig, Count von Salm-Hoogstraeten
|
AUT |
TEN |
1912 |
Committed suicide by jumping to avoid capture by Nazis. |
Robert Sassone
|
FRA |
CTR |
2000 |
Committed suicide. |
Stephen Scherer
|
USA |
SHO |
2008 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Thomas Schleicher
|
AUT |
JUD |
1996 |
Committed suicide while in prison. |
Uwe Schmitt
|
FRG |
ATH |
1984 |
Committed suicide by taking poison. |
Pietro Segantini
|
SUI |
UIAA |
1990—1995 |
|
Shamil Serikov
|
KAZ
URS |
WRE |
1980 |
Committed suicide. |
Janet Sheather
|
CAN |
SWI |
1932 |
Committed suicide by shooting herself in the head at home. |
Narinder Singh
|
IND |
JUD |
1992—1996 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Christine Smith
|
AUS |
ASK |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Paget Stewart
|
CAN |
BIA |
1988 |
Committed suicide. |
Boris Strel
|
SLO
YUG |
ASK |
1980—1984 |
Committed suicide. |
Doc Strong
|
USA |
WRE |
1936 |
Committed suicide in a jail cell where he sat for public drunkenness. |
Ron Stuart
|
CAN |
BAS |
1956 |
Committed suicide by running his car in the garage. |
Remig Stumpf
|
FRG |
CYC |
1988 |
Committed suicide after killing his wife due to separation disputes. |
Willy Sulzbacher
|
FRA |
FEN |
1900 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Darren Sutherland
|
IRL |
BOX |
2008 |
Committed suicide. |
Ferenc Szobota
|
HUN |
ATH |
1912 |
In 1939 he committed suicide |
Gholam Reza Takhti
|
IRI |
WRE |
1952—1964 |
Officially he committed suicide, but a lot of sources mention theories about being murdered for his political activities. |
Hidemitsu Tanaka
|
JPN |
ROW |
1932 |
Committed suicide. |
Harold Thomas
|
NZL |
BOX |
1932 |
Committed suicide by jumping from a train few hours after his fiancee's death. |
Adán Torres
|
ARG |
ATH |
1948 |
Committed suicide upon becoming disabled after being struck by a vehicle, date unknown. |
Fritz Traun
|
GER |
ATH/TEN |
1896 |
Committed suicide. |
Kokichi Tsuburaya
|
JPN |
ATH |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Ernst Udet
|
GER |
ART |
1936 |
Committed suicide, shot himself after years of alcoholism and drugs. |
Tarmo Uusivirta
|
FIN |
BOX |
1980 |
|
Frans Van Looy
|
BEL |
CYC |
1972 |
Committed suicide. |
Vladimír Vávra
|
CZE
TCH |
WRE |
1928 |
Committed suicide. |
Albert Venn
|
USA |
LAX |
1904 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Maura Viceconte
|
ITA |
ATH |
1996—2000 |
Committed suicide by hanging herself. |
George Vivian
|
CAN |
SHO |
1908 |
Committed suicide by shooting himself at his home, for unknown reasons. |
Claiborne Walker
|
USA |
FEN |
1920 |
Committed suicide aboard ship in Shanghai Harbour, shooting himself. |
Sammy Wanjiru
|
KEN |
ATH |
2008 |
Committed suicide after being found in love triangle by his wife. |
Billy Ward
|
AUS |
BOX |
2012 |
Committed suicide. |
Eric Wauters
|
BEL |
EQU |
1972—1996 |
Committed suicide at his home. |
Ludwig Weinacht
|
GER |
ROW |
1912 |
Committed suicide. |
Mike Whitmarsh
|
USA |
BVO |
1996 |
Committed suicide. |
Percy Williams
|
CAN |
ATH |
1928—1932 |
Committed suicide. |
John Wood
|
CAN |
CAN |
1968—1976 |
Committed suicide. |
Steve Wood
|
AUS |
CAN |
1988—1992 |
Committed suicide by hanging himself. |
Stephen Wooldridge
|
AUS |
CTR |
2004 |
Committed suicide. |
Hiromi Yamafuji
|
JPN |
CTR |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Ikuko Yoda
|
JPN |
ATH |
1964 |
Committed suicide. |
Masami Yoshida
|
JPN |
ATH |
1984—1992 |
Committed suicide. |