Flashcards: Sportspeople who committed suicide

Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (December 12, 1981 – July 25, 2011) was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin.

Juan Belmonte García (April 14, 1892 – April 8, 1962) was a Spanish bullfighter.

Claudia Heill (24 January 1982 – 31 March 2011) was an Austrian judoka best known for winning the silver medal in the half-middleweight (63 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Shamil Serikov (5 March 1956 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR – 22 November 1989) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.

Mikael Ljungberg (June 13, 1970 – November 17, 2004) was a Swedish wrestler from Gothenburg.

Elvira Madigan (4 December 1867 – 19 July 1889) was the stage name of a Danish tightrope walker and trick rider, whose illicit affair and dramatic death were the subject of the Swedish film of 1967.

Jacquilyn Louise "Jackie" Fairweather (née Gallagher; 10 November 1967 – 1 November 2014) was an Australian world champion triathlete, long-distance runner, coach and Australian Institute of Sport high performance administrator.

Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen (4 October 1888 – 10 April 1954) was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation (Norway became independent in 1905).

Eugène Jean François Balme (22 November 1874 – 24 February 1914) was a French shooter who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics.

Jesús Miguel Rollán Prada (4 April 1968 – 11 March 2006) was a water polo player from Spain who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eugenio Monti (23 January 1928 – 1 December 2003) was an Italian bobsledder.

Yelena Miroshina (Russian: Елена Мирошина, June 5, 1974 - December 18, 1995) was a Russian diver, best known for twice winning the gold medal at the European Championships in the women's 10 m platform.

Rhett Clarke Baynes (16 May 1964 - 30 August 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.

Richard Green (c. 1937 – July 1, 1983) was a professional boxing referee.

Count Ludwig "Ludi" von Salm-Hoogstraeten (German pronunciation: [ˈluːdvɪç fɔn sɑlm ɦoːxˈtʁeːtən]; Hungarian: Salm Lajos; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɒlm ˈlɒjoʃ]) (24 February 1885 – 23 July 1944) was an Austrian tennis player.

Ivan, Viscount d'Oyley, born Alastair Ivan Ladislaus Lucidus Evans, (2 February 1880 – 22 May 1904) was an American who competed for France at the Olympics in fencing.

Michael Christie (June 25, 1969 – April 22, 2004) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and NGA Hooters Tour.

Matthias Zurbriggen (15 May 1856 in Saas-Fee – 21 June 1917 in Geneva) was one of the great 19th-century alpinists and mountain guides.

Narender Singh Kodan (28 May 1969 - 5 February 2016) was an Indian judoka.

David Michael "Dave" Mirra (April 4, 1974 – February 4, 2016) was an American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing.

David Tait (5 October 1987 – 12 December 2012) was a professional rugby union player for Sale Sharks in the Guinness Premiership.

Dicky Owen (17 November 1876 - 27 February 1932) was a Welsh international scrum-half who played club rugby for Swansea RFC Owen is seen as one of the greatest Welsh scrum-halves and won 35 caps for Wales between 1901 and 1912, a record that was unbeaten until 1955 when Ken Jones surpassed him.

Jiro Sato (佐藤 次郎 Satō Jirō, Japanese pronunciation: [ˈdʑi.ɽo ˈsato]; January 5, 1908 – April 5, 1934) was a Japanese tennis player.

Horace Keats Lester (4 August 1904 – 16 June 1946) was a tennis player from England who competed for Great Britain.

James E. "Gravy" Patterson, also known as Pat Patterson, (March 26, 1934 – October 11, 2007) was the most successful coach in the history of Louisiana college baseball.

Michael "Mike" Bernardo (28 July 1969 – 14 February 2012) was a South African kickboxer and boxer from Cape Town.

William "Bill" Morris (24 April 1921 – 25 May 1960) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL), mostly during the 1940s.

Bill Schmitz (March 30, 1954 – August 26, 2013) was an American football coach.

Vladimír Podzimek (12 May 1965 – 17 May 1994) was a Czechoslovakian ski jumper.

Erica Paige Blasberg (July 14, 1984 – May 9, 2010) was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.

Graeme Reichman (4 November 1951 – 11 November 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

(In this Japanese name, the family name is Koizumi.) Gunji Koizumi (小泉 軍治 Koizumi Gunji, 8 July 1885 – 15 April 1965), known affectionately by colleagues as G.

Norm Collins (7 May 1904 – 28 August 1933) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, Carlton and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Arthemus Ward "Art" Acord (April 17, 1890 – January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion.

Monika Charlotte Dannemann (24 June 1945 – 5 April 1996) was a German figure skater and painter, mainly known as the last girlfriend of guitarist/singer Jimi Hendrix and later the wife of the German guitarist Uli Jon Roth of the Scorpions.

Lutz Hoffmann (30 January 1959 – 5 December 1997) was an East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.

Nelly Neppach (née Bamberger; German pronunciation: [ˈnɛli] ˈnɛpaːχ]; 1898 – 7 May 1933) was a German female tennis player.

Svend Pri (earlier Svend Andersen; March 18, 1945 – June 8, 1983) was a Danish badminton player who won numerous major titles from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.

Frederick Charles "Fred" Ball (1 September 1868 – 4 September 1902) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Clifford Roberts (March 6, 1894 – September 29, 1977) was an American investment dealer and golf administrator.

Kentaro Kawatsu (河津憲太郎 Kawatsu Kentarō, September 26, 1914 – March 23, 1970) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Henry Schoellkopf (December 14, 1879 – December 5, 1912) was an American football player and coach.

Frederick James "Fred" Archer (11 January 1857 –8 November 1886), also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen".

Emmeline Freda Du Faur (16 September 1882 – 11 September 1935) was an Australian mountaineer, the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook.

George Cochrane (25 September 1877 – 31 December 1914) was an Australian rules football player at the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Jürgen Brümmer (8 December 1964 – 25 February 2014) was a German gymnast and physical therapist.

Benjamin James "Ben" Pappas (13 May 1978 - 4 March 2007) was a professional Australian skateboarder and younger brother of skateboarder Tas Pappas.

Herbert Ebsworth Jones (30 November 1880 – 18 July 1951) was a British Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

Mitchell Howard "Mitch" Halpern (July 14, 1967 – August 20, 2000) was an American boxing referee who officiated some of the sport's biggest matches.

Nishinoumi Kajirō II (西ノ海 嘉治郎, February 6, 1880 – January 27, 1931) was a sumo wrestler.

Ronald Michael Luciano (June 28, 1937 – January 18, 1995) was an American Major League Baseball umpire from 1969 to 1979 in the American League.

Guy Revell (August 2, 1941 — March 11, 1981) was a Canadian pair skater.

William James Wood "Buller" Stadden (1861 –30 December 1906) was a Welsh international rugby union half back who played club rugby for Cardiff and Dewsbury.

(For other people with similar names, see Guy Carleton.) Guy Albert Carlton (January 16, 1954 – May 11, 2001) was an American weightlifter who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games.

Martin Holm (November 27, 1976 – June 24, 2009) was a Swedish Muay Thai kickboxer and former WMC Muaythai World Champion.

George Washington Vanderbilt III (September 23, 1913 New York City, New York – June 24, 1961 San Francisco, California) was a yachtsman and a scientific explorer who was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.

Hidemitsu Tanaka (田中 英光 Tanaka Hidemitsu, 10 January 1913—3 November 1949) was a novelist of the Buraiha genre in Shōwa period Japan.

Anthony Lucadello (July 30, 1912 - May 8, 1989) was a professional baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs (1943–1957) and Philadelphia Phillies (1957–1989).

Chester Smith Barnard (October 25, 1894 – October 16, 1952) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball.

David Hastie 'Bud' Adamson (14 June 1874 – 10 October 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

David Crutchfield (2 August 1965 - 29 November 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL)

David Guttman (24 July 1883 – 9 December 1940) was a Swedish long-distance runner.

Harry Clay Pulliam (February 9, 1869 – July 29, 1909) was an American baseball executive who served as the sixth President of the National League.

Babak Ghorbani (Persian: بابک قربانی‎‎, 19 March 1989 – 16 November 2014) was an Iranian wrestler.

Ryosuke Nunoi (布井良助 Nunoi Ryōsuke, 18 January 1909 – 21 July 1945) was a tennis player from Japan.

James Jarrett Miller (October 28, 1963 – c. September 22, 2002), also known as Fan Man, was an American parachutist and paraglider pilot known for his appearances at various sporting events.

Jeff Fehring (21 April 1955 – 25 July 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (as the AFL was then known) from 1977 to 1981.

Shelley Beattie (August 24, 1967 – February 16, 2008) was a professional female bodybuilder and actress.