Flashcards: Murdered sportspeople

Nancy Elizabeth Benoit (née Toffoloni, formerly Daus and Sullivan; May 17, 1964 – June 22, 2007) was an American professional wrestling valet and model.

Ottavio Bottecchia (pronounced [otˈtavjo botˈtekkja]; 1 August 1894 – 15 June 1927) was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.

Dmitry Nelyubin (Russian: Дмитрий Владиславович Нелюбин, 8 February 1971 – 1 January 2005) was a Soviet-Russian track cyclist.

Matija Ljubek (22 November 1953 – 11 October 2000) was a Croatian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s and 1980s and later became a sports official.

Kira Valentinovna Ivanova (Russian: Кира Валентиновна Иванова; 10 January 1963 – 18 December 2001) was a figure skater from the Soviet Union whose senior international career ran from 1979 to 1988.

David Leslie "Dave" Schultz (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was an American Olympic and world champion freestyle wrestler, a seven-time World and Olympic medalist.

Karel Treybal (2 February 1885 – 2 October 1941) was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century.

Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, Stanisława Walasiewiczówna (see Polish name) and Stella Walsh (3 April 1911 – 4 December 1980) was a Polish track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres.

Ingrid Louise Visser (4 June 1977 – 14 May 2013) was a Dutch female volleyball player, a member of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team in 1994–2011, a participant of the 1996 Olympic Games, 1995 European Champion.

Andris Andreiko (17 October 1942 – 10 March 1976) was a three-time (1968, 1969, 1972) world champion and European champion (1974) in draughts.

Adolfo Bresciano (August 6, 1949 – March 10, 1993) was an Italian-born Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo.

Kiril Vajarov (Bulgarian: Кирил Въжаров (18 February 1988 – 18 April 2009) was a Bulgarian ice-hockey goaltender, who played for HC Slavia Sofia.

Olivér Halassy (31 July 1909 – 10 September 1946) was a Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.

Artyom Sarkisovich Teryan (Russian: Артём Саркисович Терян, 5 March 1930 – April 1970) was a Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler.

Mitsuhiro Momota (Japanese: 百田 光浩 Hepburn: Momota Mitsuhiro) (born Kim Sin-rak; Hangul: 김신락; hanja: 金信洛; November 14, 1924 – December 15, 1963), better known as Rikidōzan (力道山, Hangul: 역도산; RR: Yeokdosan), was a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler, known as the "Father of Puroresu" and one of the most influential men in professional wrestling history.

Bernard Hugh "Barney" Dalton (1891 – 9 November 1929) was an Australian pioneer rugby league player in the Australian competition – the New South Wales Rugby League.

Henri Pélissier (pronounced: [ɑ̃.ʁi pe.li.sje]; 22 January 1889 – 1 May 1935) was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France.

Nancy Uranga (17 August 1954 – 6 October 1976) was a Cuban fencer.

Dhir Muni Lal (11 January 1913 – 8 January 1990) was an Indian first class cricketer.

The murder of Yeardley Love took place in May 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wirantha Fernando (6 February 1959 - 17 April 2000) was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer and politician.

Juan Carlos Castillo (19 August 1964 – 25 November 1993) was a Colombian racing cyclist.

Ashley John Harvey-Walker (21 July 1944 – 28 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1971 to 1978.

Améleté Abalo (March 6, 1962 – January 9, 2010) was the assistant coach of the Togo national football team and manager of ASKO Kara.

Brian Roy "Spinner" Spencer (September 3, 1949 – June 3, 1988) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Solomon "Sol" W. Butler' (March 3, 1895 – December 1, 1954) was a multi-talented athlete who competed in American football and track and field.

Syed Modi (1962–1988), born as Syed Mehdi, was an Indian badminton singles player.

Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey (June 13, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and scout who was a member of Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup winning teams.

Brandon Joyce (September 5, 1984 – December 28, 2010) was a gridiron football offensive tackle.

Garry John Purdham (20 October 1978 – 2 June 2010) was an English professional rugby league player and farmer.

Gojko Zec (Serbian Cyrillic: Гojкo Зeц) (15 September 1935 – 3 November 1995) was a famous Serbian football manager.

Yossef Romano (also known as Joseph Romano or Yossi Romano) (Hebrew: יוסף רומנו‎‎; April 15, 1940 – September 5, 1972) was a Libyan-born Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Kuntal Chandra (8 November 1984 – 3 December 2012) was a cricketer from Bangladesh.

Arturo Casco Hernández (March 17, 1961 – September 12, 2010) was a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler who was best known under the ring name La Fiera, which is Spanish for "The Beast".

Norman Reid (26 December 1890 in Newlands, Cape Town – 5-6 June 1947 in Cape Town) was a South African cricketer who played one Test for South Africa in 1921, and also played first class cricket for Western Province between 1920 and 1923.

Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson (December 7, 1928 – March 16, 1988) was an American off-road racing celebrity.

Peter "The Hurricane" Smit (December 24, 1961 – August 15, 2005) was a Dutch martial artist who mastered such different fight disciplines as kyokushin karate, kickboxing and Muay Thai.

Charles de Ligne (12 September 1895 – 14 November 1944) was a Belgian speed skater.

Jaime Humberto Romero Moran (2 April 1993 – 3 January 2015 in Guadalajara) was a Mexican male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions.

Samuel Félix Miranda (8 February 1977 - 30 May 2006) was a Mexican sportsman who competed in the Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Galo Edmundo Miño Jarrín (6 February 1953 - 11 September 1986) was an Ecuadorian sports shooter.

Lilli Henoch (October 26, 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines.

August Johannes Kop (May 5, 1904 in Purmerend – April 30, 1945 in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Brandon Brown (June 13, 1986 - September 22, 2012) was a college football athlete for the Tabor College Bluejays in Hillsboro, Kansas.

Izak Francois Nel Weideman (19 September 1960 - 4 June 2001) was a South African first-class cricketer who played for Transvaal and Northern Transvaal in the Currie Cup.

Frederick Norman "Fred" Swift (6 July 1938 – 28 April 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Richmond Football Club between 1958 and 1967 and captained the club to a premiership in 1967.

Vladimir Peter Sabich, Jr.

Prithipal Singh (28 January 1932 – 20 May 1983) was an Indian field hockey player nicknamed the “King of short corner” by hockey commentators.

حسیب الحسن Haseeb-ul-Hasan (11 May 1964 - 18 April 1990) was a Pakistani First Class cricketer.

Bob "Rocky" Lane (12 February 1946 – 13 July 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

James "Jim" Preston Cook (October 2, 1921 – November 29, 1983) was a stock car racer who competed in the NASCAR Grand National Series and NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model (PCLM) Series.

Arthur Brennan (2 March 1881 – 12 September 1931) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

William Thomas Strydom (21 March 1942 – 20 February 1995) was a South African first-class cricketer who played with Orange Free State in the Currie Cup during the 1960s and 1970s.

Jorge Agostini (5 February 1910 – 9 June 1955) was a Cuban fencer.

Wojciech Bursa (23 April 1895 – 1940) was a Polish sports shooter.

(This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Balykina.) Yuliya Vladimirovna Balykina (Belarusian: Юлія Уладзіміраўна Балыкіна, Russian: Юлия Владимировна Балыкина; 12 April 1984 – late October 2015) was a Belarusian sprinter.

Ricky Byrdsong (June 24, 1956 – July 3, 1999) was an insurance executive and was the first African American men's basketball coach at Northwestern University.

David Mark Berger (May 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an Israeli Olympic weightlifter, and one of the eleven Israeli Olympians taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian group Black September during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Gianmario Roveraro (born May 24, 1936 – died ? July 5, 2006) was an Italian banker and athlete who founded Akros Finanziaria.

Lars Peter Karlsson (17 February 1966 – 11 March 1995) was a Swedish professional ice hockey player.

Chris Trickle (May 30, 1973 – March 25, 1998) was an American stock car racing driver.

Claude John Tozer DSO (27 September 1890 – 21 December 1920) was an Australian medical doctor and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales.

Clemente Marcelino Valencia Nájera (17 July 1968 – 11 October 2011) was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Doctor X, under which he worked for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) for most of his career, winning the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the Mexican National Trios Championship, teaming with Sangre Azteca and Nitro.

Louis Vorster (2 November 1966 – 17 April 2012) was a South African-Namibian cricketer.

Alexander James Gong (October 14, 1970 – August 1, 2003) was an American Muay Thai kickboxer.

Edward Arthur Thomas (July 17, 1950 – June 24, 2009) was an American high school football coach.

Edward Fortescue Wright CMG (born 11 March 1858 in Coburg, Chudleigh, Devon, murdered on 23 November 1904 in Kingston, Jamaica) was a Gloucestershire cricketer who immigrated to the West Indies.

Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer (11 March 1921 – 10 September 1989) was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer.