| Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Role(s) |
Era |
Notes |
| Haidar Abdul-Razzaq |
 IRQ |
FBL |
Olympics |
2004 |
Assaulted on the streets of Baghdad and died of his injuries. |
| Frank Adams |
 TTO |
ATH |
Olympics |
1976—1980 |
Died from gunshot wounds. |
| Jorge Agostini |
 CUB |
FEN |
Olympics |
1948 |
Murdered. |
| Marwan Arafat |
 SYR |
FBL |
Referee |
1980 |
Killed at the Jordan-Syria border in Nasib by armed militants |
| Yuliya Balykina |
 BLR |
ATH |
Olympics |
2012 |
Murdered. |
| Celia Barquín |
 ESP |
GLF |
YOG |
2014 |
Murdered |
| Isaac Barrientos |
 PUR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1984 |
Shot and killed. |
| William Bartholomae |
 USA |
SAL |
Olympics |
1936 |
Murdered. |
| Trevor Berbick |
 JAM |
BOX |
Olympics |
1976 |
Murdered. |
| Kumar Khadga Bikram Shah |
 NEP |
|
Administrator |
1967—1977 |
Killed in the Nepalese royal massacre |
| François Bonlieu |
 FRA |
ALP |
Olympics |
1956—1964 |
Eventually killed in a fight after an argument. |
| Chris Brathwaite |
TTO |
ATH |
Olympics |
1976—1980 |
Killed by a sniper at the University of Oregon. |
| Jack Brinck |
USA |
ROW |
Olympics |
1928 |
Murdered. |
| Danie Burger |
 RSA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1956 |
Killed during a home invasion. |
| Wojciech Bursa |
 POL |
SHO |
Olympics |
1936 |
Murdered by Soviet NKWD. |
| Sol Butler |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1920 |
Murdered. |
| Jairo Calanche |
 COL |
FBL |
Olympics |
1992 |
Killed by a gunman at a public market. |
| Alvin Canales |
PUR |
BOX |
YOG |
2018 |
Shot dead as a result of a drive-by shooting. |
| Omar Cañas |
COL |
FBL |
Olympics |
1992 |
Murdered, along with two other men and a woman, in an execution style killing linked to the drug trade. |
| Raúl Castañeda |
 MEX |
BOX |
Olympics |
2004 |
Shot dead as a result of a drive-by shooting. |
| Luis Child |
COL |
SWM |
Olympics |
1948 |
He was murdered in his apartment in 1992 |
| Dan Coe |
 ROU |
FBL |
Olympics |
1964 |
His wife and his daughter found him in 1981 hanged by the door handle with a rope around his neck and with his knees close to his mouth. |
| José da Conceição |
 BRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1952—1960 |
Murdered. |
| Ion Covaci |
ROU |
BOX |
Olympics |
1968 |
Stabbed during a check while on duty (was a policeman) |
| Alex de Jesús |
PUR |
BOX |
Olympics |
2004 |
Shot 12 times on the street. |
| Peter Dix |
 IRL |
SAL |
Olympics |
1976 |
A victim of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland |
| Vladimir Durković |
 SRB
 YUG |
FBL |
Olympics |
1960 |
Durković was shot by a drunken policeman in Sion (Switzerland) |
| Samuel Félix |
MEX |
MPN |
Olympics |
2000 |
Shot in Lamont, California by and died from his injuries. |
| Gabriel Fourmigue |
FRA |
BOB |
Olympics |
1992—1994 |
|
| Nasir Gadžihanov |
 MKD |
WRE |
Olympics |
2000 |
Shot in his car. |
| Francisco García |
MEX |
WPO |
Olympics |
1968—1976 |
Assaulted and shot when he did his training routine. |
| Aladár Háberl |
 HUN |
CCS/NCB/SJP |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1924 |
Was killed in a robbery at home |
| Aden Hagi Yeberow |
 SOM |
|
Administrator |
2009—2012 |
Killed in a suicide bombing. |
| Ronnie Harris |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1964 |
Shot and killed in an apparent holdup attempt. |
| Shavez Hart |
 BAH |
ATH |
Olympics |
2016 |
Shot and killed in an altercation outside a nightclub |
| Noé Hernández |
MEX |
ATH |
Olympics |
2000—2004 |
Died 17 days after being shot in his head on 30 December 2012. |
| Jan Hettema |
RSA |
CRD/CTR |
Olympics |
1956 |
Shot during a home invasion. |
| James Hewson |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1956 |
Murdered. |
| Tom Hicks |
USA |
BOB |
Olympics |
1948 |
Murdered together with his wife during home invasion. |
| Gustavo Huet |
MEX |
SHO |
Olympics |
1932—1948 |
Killed by a drunk driver whilst working as a policeman. |
| Kira Ivanova |
 RUS
 URS |
FSK |
Olympics |
1980—1988 |
Found stabbed to death in her apartment. |
| Ji Yong-Ju |
 KOR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1968 |
Stabbed during a fight with his neighbor and died after five days of excessive bleeding. |
| Anatoly Kamnev |
RUS
URS |
BOX |
Olympics |
1972 |
Stabbed to death while trying to stop a robbery he witnessed. |
| Sergey Karamchakov |
RUS
URS |
WRE |
Olympics |
1988 |
Murdered. |
| Elias Katz |
 FIN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Killed by a sharpshooter. |
| Abdel Hady Khallaf Allah |
 EGY |
BOX |
Olympics |
1968—1972 |
Killed in a dispute with his neighbors |
| Emmit King |
USA |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1984—1988 |
Killed in a shootout after an argument. The other shooter also died in the shootout. |
| Howell King |
USA |
BOX |
Non-starter |
1936 |
Stabbed to death. |
| Irina Kostyuchenkova |
URS
 UKR
 EUN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Killed by her son in Alushta. |
| Robert Kotei |
 GHA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1960 |
Kotei was executed by a firing squad together with General Fred Akuffo and Lieutenant General Akwasi Afrifa, Colonel Roger Felli, Vice Air Marshal Yaw Boakye and Rear Admiral Joy Amedume by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. |
| Mohiddin Mohamed Kulmiye |
SOM |
ATH |
Olympics |
1984—1988 |
Killed in a random shooting in Mogadishu. |
| Valter Külvet |
 EST
URS |
ATH |
Olympics |
1988 |
Killed during a carjacking. |
| Grigorios Lamprakis |
 GRE |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
Murdered. |
| Dave Laut |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1984 |
Shot by his wife, who claimed self-defense for spousal abuse. |
| Joseph Lazarus |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
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. |
| Lee Young-Min |
KOR |
FBL |
Coach |
1948 |
Shot and killed in a burglary by a friend of his son. |
| Charles de Ligne |
 BEL |
SSK |
Olympics |
1936 |
Murdered by a killer hired by his wife. |
| Antônio Lira |
BRA |
ATH |
Olympics / Other |
1932—1936 |
Shot and killed by a young man who was upset with Brazil’s government. |
| Matija Ljubek |
 CRO
YUG |
CSP |
Olympics / Other |
1976—1988 |
Shot by a relative due to family dispute. |
| Walter López |
 HON |
FBL |
Olympics |
2000 |
Shot by gangs at the border Mexico-Guatemala. |
| Mauro Cabeçâo |
BRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1976 |
Shot and killed. |
| Sonja McCaskie |
 GBR |
ALP |
Olympics |
1960 |
Murdered. |
| Floyd McFarland |
USA |
CTR |
Non-Medal |
1900—1904 |
Murdered. |
| Ernest Meighan |
 BIZ |
CRD |
Olympics |
1992 |
He was killed in a shooting in Belize City just before noon on 9 August 2014, along with three other victims. |
| Carlos Mejía |
COL |
BOX |
Olympics |
1976 |
He was killed by thieves who wanted to steal his mobile phone |
| Rogelio Melencio |
 PHI |
BKB |
Olympics |
1968—1972 |
Stabbed and killed in a bar brawl |
| Flávio de Melo |
BRA |
ROW |
Olympics |
1988 |
de Melo was preparing for the Barcelona Olympic Games, when he was assassinated on June 26, 1992, with shots to the head, inside a bus from line 460 (Leblon-São Cristóvão) that passed through Praça da Bandeira. |
| Galo Miño |
 ECU |
SHO |
Olympics |
1984 |
Killed in a shootout with criminals while serving as Police Captain |
| Chechen-Ool Mongush |
RUS |
WRE |
Olympics |
1996 |
Strangled with a whip and buried in a forest. |
| Henry Morshead |
GBR |
APN |
Olympics |
1924 |
Murdered by an unknown attacker whilst out riding. |
| Edwin Mosquera |
COL |
WLF |
Olympics |
2008—2016 |
Shot and killed. |
| John Muhato |
 KEN |
SHO |
Olympics |
1972 |
Died as a result of a carjacking |
| Elena Murgoci |
ROU |
ATH |
Olympics |
1992 |
Stabbed to death by her former partner. |
| Damaris Muthee |
KEN |
ATH |
YOG |
2010 |
Strangled to death |
| Gabe Nava |
MEX |
BKB |
Olympics |
1976 |
Died of bullet wounds following a robbery |
| Pedro Nolasco |
 DOM |
BOX |
Olympics / Other |
1984 |
Murdered during a home invasion. |
| Lawrence Ogwang |
 UGA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1956 |
Murdered by the Idi Amin regime in the 1970s |
| John Oladipo Oladitan |
 NGR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1960 |
Murdered by his chauffeur. |
| Bouguera El Ouafi |
 ALG
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924—1928 |
†18 October 1959. Killed by members of the Algerian Liberation Movement. |
| Jakkrit Panichpatikum |
 THA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1996—2012 |
Shot and killed by motorcycle gunmen whilst driving his car. |
| Arnold Peralta |
HON |
FBL |
Olympics |
2012 |
Shot dead as a result of a drive-by shooting. |
| Ben Piessens |
BEL |
ROW |
Olympics |
1948 |
Killed in New York on Christmas Eve, 1975. |
| Álex Quiñónez |
ECU |
ATH |
Olympics |
2012 |
Murdered by gunshots |
| Paul Raschid |
 PAK |
BOX |
Non-starter |
1948 |
Killed during political unrest in the former East Pakistan in 1965. |
| József, Gróf de Révay |
HUN |
IHO |
Olympics |
1928 |
Révay was arrested and killed by the Communist police in 1945 |
| Corinne Rey-Bellet |
 SUI |
ALP |
Olympics |
1992—2002 |
Murdered by her husband. |
| Colin Ridgeway |
 AUS |
ATH |
Olympics |
1956 |
In 1993, he was gruesomely murdered in his home in University Park, Texas, after being shot seven times by a man waiting for him. |
| Lázaro Rivas |
CUB |
WRE |
Olympics |
1996—2004 |
Stabbed to death |
| Gian Mario Roveraro |
 ITA |
ATH |
Olympics |
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 |
ALP |
Olympics |
1968 |
Shot by his girlfriend in the bathroom of their home. |
| Mário Sabino Júnior |
BRA |
JUD |
Olympics |
2000—2004 |
Shot and killed by a military co-worker. |
| Mahmoud Sakhaie |
 IRI |
SHO |
Olympics |
1948 |
Killed during the 1953 Iranian coup d'état |
| Irina Salomykova-Vaag |
RUS
URS
EUN |
CSP |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Murdered by her husband during domestic dispute. |
| Raatbek Sanatbayev |
 KGZ |
WRE |
Olympics / Other |
1996—2000 |
Shot and killed while campaigning for the Presidency of Kyrgyzstan. |
| Lucas Sang |
KEN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1988 |
Stoned to death in the violent aftermath to the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections. |
| Dave Schultz |
USA |
WRE |
Olympics |
1984 |
Shot and killed by his sponsor while in training for the 1996 Olympics. |
| Sándor Sebők |
HUN |
SAL |
Olympics |
1928 |
Murdered |
| Yeter Sevimlı |
 TUR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1968 |
He was martyred by robbers at her workplace in Ayazağa, where he was working as a security guard |
| Pritam Singh Sandhu |
KEN |
HOC |
Olympics |
1960 |
Shot dead by robbers at his home in Nairobi, Kenya on 19 March 1999 |
| Prithipal Singh |
 IND |
HOC |
Olympics |
1960—1968 |
Assassinated by one of his students in the campus of the Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, on 20 May 1982 |
| Athanasios Skaltsogiannis |
GRE |
ATH |
Olympics |
1896 |
Killed by an inmate while working as a prison guard. |
| Bud Smith |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1948 |
Shot and killed. |
| Marian Spojda |
POL |
FBL |
Olympics |
1924 |
Murdered by the Soviet Army in the Katyn Massacre. |
| Inkululeko Suntele |
 LES |
BOX |
Olympics / Other |
2016 |
Stabbed to death while out with friends. |
| Joe Swindells |
GBR |
LAX |
Non-Medal / Non-starter |
1948 |
Killed at his home in Cyprus by an intruder. |
| Abrar Hussain Syed |
PAK |
BOX |
Olympics |
1984—1992 |
Shot dead during sectarian violence in Baluchistan. |
| Man Bahadur Tamang |
NEP |
TKW |
Non-Medal |
1988 |
Killed by Maoists who hacked off his hands and feet. |
| David Tarsey |
GBR |
DIV |
Olympics |
1956 |
Shot dead together with his wife. |
| Denis Ten |
 KAZ |
FSK |
Olympics |
2010—2018 |
Stabbed to death on a street in Almaty. |
| Artyom Teryan |
 AZE
URS |
WRE |
Olympics |
1952 |
Murdered following a domestic dispute. |
| Agnes Tirop |
KEN |
ATH |
Olympics |
2020 |
Stabbed to death in her home |
| Abdelrahman El-Trabily |
EGY |
WRE |
Olympics |
2012 |
Shot in the head during a march in support of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi. |
| Dele Udo |
NGR |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1976—1980 |
Shot and killed at a police checkpoint |
| Fernando Vanoye |
MEX |
JUD |
YOG |
2010 |
Found beaten to death. |
| Jacques Viaene |
FRA |
WPO |
Olympics |
1948 |
†19 September 1962. Presumed killed after going missing while driving near Al-Jaza'ir (Algiers). |
| Ingrid Visser |
 NED |
VVO |
Olympics |
1996 |
After going missing, she and her partner were found dead, half-buried in an orchard 12 km from their home. |
| Stanisława Walasiewicz |
POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
Shot by muggers in a Cleveland parking lot. |
| Lorenzo Wright |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1948 |
Shot and killed by his wife. |
| Eduard Zakharov |
RUS |
BOX |
Olympics |
1996 |
Stabbed to death in a dispute. |