Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Era |
Notes |
Frank Adams
|
TTO |
ATH |
1976—1980 |
Died from gunshot wounds. |
Jorge Agostini
|
CUB |
FEN |
1948 |
Murdered. |
Marwan Arafat
|
SYR |
FTB/Referee |
1980 |
Killed at the Jordan-Syria border in Nasib by armed militants |
Yuliya Balykina
|
BLR |
ATH |
2012 |
Murdered. |
Isaac Barrientos
|
PUR |
BOX |
1984 |
Shot and killed. |
William Bartholomae
|
USA |
SAI |
1936 |
Murdered. |
Trevor Berbick
|
JAM |
BOX |
1976 |
Murdered. |
François Bonlieu
|
FRA |
ASK |
1956—1964 |
Eventually killed in a fight after an argument. |
Chris Brathwaite
|
TTO |
ATH |
1976—1980 |
Killed by a sniper at the University of Oregon. |
Jack Brinck
|
USA |
ROW |
1928 |
Murdered. |
Danie Burger
|
RSA |
ATH |
1956 |
Killed during a home invasion. |
Wojciech Bursa
|
POL |
SHO |
1936 |
Murdered by Soviet NKWD. |
Sol Butler
|
USA |
ATH |
1920 |
Murdered. |
Jairo Calanche
|
COL |
FTB |
1992 |
Killed by a gunman at a public market. |
Omar Cañas
|
COL |
FTB |
1992 |
Murdered, along with two other men and a woman, in an execution style killing linked to the drug trade. |
Raúl Castañeda
|
MEX |
BOX |
2004 |
Shot dead as a result of a drive-by shooting. |
José da Conceição
|
BRA |
ATH |
1952—1960 |
Murdered. |
Alex de Jesús
|
PUR |
BOX |
2004 |
Shot 12 times on the street. |
Peter Dix
|
IRL |
SAI |
1976 |
A victim of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland |
Samuel Félix
|
MEX |
MOP |
2000 |
Shot in Lamont, California by and died from his injuries. |
Nasir Gadžihanov
|
MKD |
WRE |
2000 |
Shot in his car. |
Francisco García
|
MEX |
WAP |
1968—1976 |
Assaulted and shot when he did his training routine. |
Aladár Háberl
|
HUN |
CCS/NCO/SKJ |
1924 |
was killed in a robbery at home |
Aden Hagi Yeberow
|
SOM |
SOC |
2009—2012 |
Killed in a suicide bombing. |
Ronnie Harris
|
USA |
BOX |
1964 |
Shot and killed in an apparent holdup attempt. |
Noé Hernández
|
MEX |
ATH |
2000—2004 |
Died 17 days after being shot in his head on 30 December 2012. |
Jan Hettema
|
RSA |
CTR/CYC |
1956 |
Shot during a home invasion. |
James Hewson
|
USA |
ATH |
1956 |
Murdered. |
Tom Hicks
|
USA |
BOB |
1948 |
Murdered together with his wife during home invasion. |
Gustavo Huet
|
MEX |
SHO |
1932—1948 |
Killed by a drunk driver whilst working as a policeman. |
Kira Ivanova
|
URS |
FSK |
1980—1988 |
Found stabbed to death in her apartment. |
Ji Yong-Ju
|
KOR |
BOX |
1968 |
Stabbed during a fight with his neighbor and died after five days of excessive bleeding. |
Christina Johannpeter
|
BRA |
EQU |
1988 |
Shot and killed in her car when thieves attempted to steal her jewels. |
Anatoly Kamnev
|
URS |
BOX |
1972 |
Stabbed to death while trying to stop a robbery he witnessed. |
Sergey Karamchakov
|
URS |
WRE |
1988 |
Murdered. |
Elias Katz
|
FIN |
ATH |
1924 |
Killed by a sharpshooter. |
Howell King
(DNS)
|
USA |
BOX |
1936 |
Stabbed to death. |
Mohiddin Mohamed Kulmiye
|
SOM |
ATH |
1984—1988 |
Killed in a random shooting in Mogadishu. |
Valter Külvet
|
URS |
ATH |
1988 |
Killed during a carjacking. |
Grigorios Lambrakis
|
GRE |
ATH |
1936 |
Murdered. |
Dave Laut
|
USA |
ATH |
1984 |
Shot by his wife, who claimed self-defense for spousal abuse. |
Joseph Lazarus
|
USA |
BOX |
1924 |
In 1943 Lazarus was killed after mediating a street brawl between a client and two British merchant seamen. After everyone had shaken hands, one of the sailors punched Lazarus through a drugstore window. An artery in his thigh was severed, and he bled to death. |
Charles de Ligne
|
BEL |
SSK |
1936 |
Murdered by a killer hired by his wife. |
Matija Ljubek
|
YUG |
CAN |
1976—1988 |
Shot by a relative due to family dispute. |
Walter López
|
HON |
FTB |
2000 |
Shot by gangs at the border Mexico-Guatemala. |
Antônio Lyra
|
BRA |
ATH |
1932—1936 |
Shot and killed by a young man who was upset with Brazil’s government. |
Mauro Cabeçâo
|
BRA |
FTB |
1976 |
Shot and killed. |
Sonja McCaskie
|
GBR |
ASK |
1960 |
Murdered. |
Floyd McFarland
|
USA |
CTR |
1900—1904 |
Murdered. |
Rogelio Melencio
|
PHI |
BAS |
1968—1972 |
Stabbed and killed in a bar brawl |
Galo Miño
|
ECU |
SHO |
1984 |
Killed in a shootout with criminals while serving as Police Captain |
Chechen-Ool Mongush
|
RUS |
WRE |
1996 |
Strangled with a whip and buried in a forest. |
Henry Morshead
|
GBR |
ALP |
1924 |
Murdered by an unknown attacker whilst out riding. |
Edwin Mosquera
|
COL |
WLT |
2008—2016 |
Shot and killed. |
John Muhato
|
KEN |
SHO |
1972 |
Died as a result of a carjacking |
Elena Murgoci
|
ROU |
ATH |
1992 |
Stabbed to death by her former partner. |
Pedro Nolasco
|
DOM |
BOX |
1984 |
Murdered during a home invasion. |
Lawrence Ogwang
|
UGA |
ATH |
1956 |
Murdered by the Idi Amin regime in the 1970s |
John Oladipo Oladitan
|
NGR |
ATH |
1960 |
Murdered by his chauffeur. |
Jakkrit Panichpatikum
|
THA |
SHO |
1996—2012 |
Shot and killed by motorcycle gunmen whilst driving his car. |
Arnold Peralta
|
HON |
FTB |
2012 |
Shot dead as a result of a drive-by shooting. |
Corinne Rey-Bellet
|
SUI |
ASK |
1992—2002 |
Murdered by her husband. |
Lázaro Rivas
|
CUB |
WRE |
1996—2004 |
Stabbed to death |
Gian Mario Roveraro
|
ITA |
ATH |
1956 |
Murdered after investigation into the collapse of the food and dairy conglomerate Parmalat. His body was chopped into pieces and found beneath a motorway bridge 30 km. from Parma. |
Spider Sabich
|
USA |
ASK |
1968 |
Shot by his girlfriend in the bathroom of their home. |
Mário Sabino Júnior
|
BRA |
JUD |
2000—2004 |
Shot and killed by a military co-worker. |
Irina Salomykova-Vaag
|
URS
EUN |
CAN |
1988—1992 |
Murdered by her husband during domestic dispute. |
Raatbek Sanatbayev
|
KGZ |
WRE |
1996—2000 |
Shot and killed while campaigning for the Presidency of Kyrgyzstan. |
Lucas Sang
|
KEN |
ATH |
1988 |
Stoned to death in the violent aftermath to the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections. |
Dave Schultz
|
USA |
WRE |
1984 |
Shot and killed by his sponsor while in training for the 1996 Olympics. |
Sándor Sebők
|
HUN |
SAI |
1928 |
Murdered |
Pritam Singh Sandhu
|
KEN |
HOK |
1960 |
Shot dead by robbers at his home in Nairobi, Kenya on 19 March 1999 |
Prithipal Singh
|
IND |
HOK |
1960—1968 |
Assassinated by one of his students in the campus of the Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, on 20 May 1982 |
Bud Smith
|
USA |
BOX |
1948 |
Shot and killed. |
Marian Spojda
|
POL |
FTB |
1924 |
Murdered by the Soviet Army in the Katyn Massacre. |
Inkululeko Suntele
|
LES |
BOX |
2016 |
Stabbed to death while out with friends. |
Abrar Hussain Syed
|
PAK |
BOX |
1984—1992 |
Shot dead during sectarian violence in Baluchistan. |
Man Bahadur Tamang
|
NEP |
TKW |
1988 |
Killed by Maoists who hacked off his hands and feet. |
David Tarsey
|
GBR |
DIV |
1956 |
Shot dead together with his wife. |
Denis Ten
|
KAZ |
FSK |
2010—2018 |
Stabbed to death on a street in Almaty. |
Artyom Teryan
|
URS |
WRE |
1952 |
Murdered following a domestic dispute. |
Abdelrahman El-Trabily
|
EGY |
WRE |
2012 |
Shot in the head during a march in support of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi. |
Dele Udo
|
NGR |
ATH |
1976—1980 |
Shot and killed at a police checkpoint |
Ingrid Visser
|
NED |
VOL |
1996 |
After going missing, she and her partner found dead, half-buried in an orchard 12 km from their home. |
Stanisława Walasiewicz
|
POL |
ATH |
1932—1936 |
Shot by muggers in a Cleveland parking lot. |
Lorenzo Wright
|
USA |
ATH |
1948 |
Shot and killed by his wife. |
Eduard Zakharov
|
RUS |
BOX |
1996 |
Stabbed to death in a dispute. |