Sports competitors who died in competition

Nodar Kumaritashvili was a Georgian luge athlete who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony. He became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, and the eighth athlete to die as a result of Olympic competition or during practice at their sport's venue at an Olympic Games.

Portuguese distance runner (1891–1912)

Soviet chess player (1936-2000)

volleyball player (1974–2012)

Arrhichion (also spelled Arrhachion, Arrichion or Arrachion) of Phigalia () (died 564 BC) was a champion pankratiast in the ancient Olympic Games. He died while successfully defending his championship in the pankration at the 54th Olympiad (564 BC). Arrhichion has been described as "the most famous of all pankratiasts".

Latvian chess player (1937-2000)

badminton player

Bangladeshi chess player (1974–2024)

Georgian diver from the Soviet Union

American football player