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Ayrton Senna (03.21.1960, Sao Paulo, Brazil - 01/05/1994 Bologna, Italy)
According to the results of a unique survey conducted by the British weekly Autosport among former and current participants of the championship Formula 1, Senna was voted the best driver in F1 history. In just ten years of performances he has won more than 40 races and set a record for the number of pole positions. He received from the media nickname "The Wizard." The brightest page Senna biography - his rivalry with another great rider,
Alain Prost in the late 1980s - early 1990s. Senna was killed in 1994 in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
At the start of the race car Finn JJ Lehto stalled, and it picked up speed crashed Pedro Lamy (in this case have scattered debris injured three spectators, one of them seriously), and the track was released the safety car to the speed of movement of cars has decreased and it was possible to remove the debris. The riders rode behind the safety car until the 6th round. In the 7th round, the second after the departure of the safety car and the restart of the race, Senna's car slipped off the track in turn "Tamburello" at high speed and crashed into a concrete wall. According to the testimony of telemetry failure at the speed of the machine was about 310 kilometers per hour, then Senna managed to brake and slow the car, but still the speed at the moment of impact with the wall was about 218 kilometers per hour.
According to some, death was caused by a fractured skull as a result of the huge overload in the moment of impact. However, in the documentary "Senna" say that his body did not have any broken bones, and even a single bruise, that is, if a fatal piece of suspension passed a couple of inches above Senna'd just got out of the car and went into the pits. Definitely what if while using modern means of passive safety features, which restrict the movement of the head relative to the shoulders, then the outcome of the accident would have been different.
Senna's death was a tragedy for many fans around the world, and particularly in Brazil. The Brazilian government has announced a three-day national mourning. On the day of the funeral of Senna in Sao Paulo funeral procession
accompanied by several million people. One of those who carried his coffin, was a longtime rival of Senna Alain Prost. Senna was buried in the cemetery near the Morumbi Sao Paulo.
Valery Kharlamov (01.14.1948, Moscow - 08.27.1981, Moscow region)
Outstanding Soviet hockey player, striker CSKA Moscow (1967-1981) and the USSR national team (1969-1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969). 2-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976) and eight-time world champion. The best hockey player of the USSR (1972, 1973). One of the leading players of the USSR of the 1970s, which was recognized both at home and abroad.
Talented young man soon began to recommend to the adult team CSKA. However, head coach of CSKA, Anatoly Tarasov, the first time did not see a young Kharlamov serious inclinations and said that its main drawback - small increase, just 168 cm. Does not stand out in a hockey school CSKA young Kharlamov flashed in the final tournament of the junior championship of the USSR in the spring 1967 in Minsk. By Remark played in those days with him Vladimir Bogomolov, Valery distinguished himself as a non-standard improviser, but at the same time extremely hard-working and playing on the team. On arrival in Moscow directly at the train station CSKA sports school coach Vitaly Erfilov Kharlamov has announced that it wants to try to CSKA. In the summer of 1967, Valery went gathering with the team CSKA Kudepste after which changed much physically, gained muscle mass.
In a series of games with Canadian professionals in September 1972 Valery Kharlamov got really universal recognition in international hockey. Along with Tretiak and Yakushev, he was one of the leading players of the Soviet Union in those games. The most successful to Kharlamov was the "Canadian" part of a series. In the 1st game of the efforts of the USSR national team Valery came forward (3: 2) and secure its success (4: 2). Both goals were abandoned because of his individual skills, namely the rapid stroke and a sharp throw. As a result, the Soviet hockey players won the match with a score of 7: 3. In summing up the meeting, the organizers recognized Kharlamov the best player of the match in the USSR team.
On Thursday, August 27, 1981, at seven o'clock in the morning, at 74 km of the Leningrad highway accident occurred, which led to the death of a hockey player. Valery, Irina and her cousin Sergei Ivanov returned to the city with cottages in the village
Pokrovka under the wedge on its "Volga" at number 00-17 IMB. Irina, who was sitting behind the wheel, lost control on a slippery road from the rain, and the machine issued in the oncoming lane, where it collided with a truck ZIL (crashed into a truck on its side and slid into a ditch strike). From injuries all passengers "Volga", died on the spot.
August 27 evening, world news agencies spread the news: "According to Tass, in a car accident near Moscow this morning killed a famous hockey player Valery Kharlamov, thirty-three years old, and his wife. They left two small children - a son and a daughter ... ". August 31, a memorial service was held in the Palace of weightlifting CSKA. The same day, the dead were buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery. Hockey player came to say goodbye to thousands of people. At the funeral, could not attend the USSR national team players, who at the time were in Winnipeg. They held a meeting where it was decided that at all costs to win the Canada Cup. Soviet hockey players fulfilled their promise, beating the Canadians in the final 8: 1.
Kevin Leonard "Len" Bayas (11/18/1963, Landover, USA - 06.19.1986, Riverdale, USA)
About It spoke as "the guy who could outshine the Jordan." At 22, Len became a legend of his native state. "In Maryland, no one wanted to be Michael, everyone wanted to be like Bayas" - still claim basketball fans. After school, a gifted athlete with little or no examinations taken in the University of Maryland. June 17, 1986 Bayas was selected NBA's reigning champion "Boston Celtics" in the annual NHL Entry Draft, which was held in New York at Madison Square Garden. June 19 Bayas with his father came to Boston for the traditional presentation of the players - the same basketball player signed a promotional contract with Reebok for $ 3 million and returned to Maryland. Having been on a few get-togethers, Len stayed overnight in his room on campus with friends. At 06.32 he lost consciousness and did not rebound, despite the best efforts of doctors. Subsequently, each university Bayasa Brian Tribble pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine, which received a lethal dose of basketball.
Andreas Munzer (10/25/1964, Park, Austria - 14.03.1996, Munich, Germany)
With bodybuilding she encountered by chance. He began to learn the mechanic and was forced to after work for two hours waiting for the bus. Just hang around and drink beer, Andreas was bored, and he enrolled in a fitness center. Shortly training partners noticed that a young man's muscle mass is growing fastest, and persuaded him to take part in competitions. 2nd place among juniors was a surprise even for the most Muenzer. After this hobby turned into a passion. In 1986, Andreas and his friend opened his own fitness club, partly to secure an opportunity to immerse themselves in training.
Sami appearances on the podium is not particularly fascinated bodybuilder, and it was not his forte. Unfortunately, many experts agree that it is bad been able to demonstrate its relief on the full. In 1987, he took 3rd place in the World Cup a year later, again winning the bronze, enters the field of view of Albert Busek. When Busek placed Andreas photo on the cover of FLEX, the young athlete said it was more important to him than gold at the World Championships. Soon Busek offers Munzer appointed manager and coach in Munich sports center. Andreas took Munich as a kind of springboard for future careers. It seemed to him that he is getting closer to the ideal - Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1989, winning «World Games», Andreas received the status of professional IFBB. On the way to its goal of beginning to combine Munzer prolonged exhausting exercise (6 - 8 hours per day) with strict diets. For 10 days before the event, he limited the water consumption to 0, 5 liters per day by removing fluid from the body. The percentage of fat in his body at competitions was 4%. Many bodybuilding experts said that even a single athlete has never been so much relief both Muenzer. Andreas received the nickname of "people without the skin" - because of the minimal amount of fat, and indeed it seems that the viewer looks at the naked muscles. And, nevertheless, the judge reduced his assessment too "wooden" performance on stage.
March 13, 1996, he felt pain in his stomach. Doctors diagnosed bleeding in the abdominal cavity (liver began to deteriorate rapidly). Muenzer was operated for 19 hours, but the life of an athlete and could not be saved. At night, Andreas died of "multiple organ failure." During surgery, it was found that his blood was viscous due to total dehydration, liver and almost destroyed. The heart could not bear such a load, depriving us of yet another bright bodybuilder. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent to Austria at the grave Andreas wreath with the words: "Last hello, friend."
Marc-Vivien Foé (01/05/1975, Nkole, Cameroon - 26.06.2003 in Lyon, France)
Marc-Vivien Foé announced himself as a player of uncommon, when he moved in 1997 from the Cameroon team "Canon Yaounde" in French, "Lance." Even then, he was one of the key players of the national team of Cameroon, and in the "Lance" ELF has become one of the leaders, so that they become interested in a superclub as "Manchester United". But bad luck pursued the player with the most youth - at 23, ELF breaks his leg and passes the French. Pluck and his transition into the "Manchester United". After a year, recovering from the injury, he still comes to England - to tune in the London "Vestheme." In 2000, it bought for $ 10 million French "Lion", and it is linked with the club the best years of a remarkable player. Speaking with such outstanding players as Sonny Anderson and Steve Marlet, ELF has become an indispensable player in experiencing the best years, "Lyons." After two years with the national team of Cameroon, he has won the African Cup and plays in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
The tragedy occurred at Lyons in France stadium, shocked the world. After 71 minutes, the semifinal match of the Confederations Cup football match between the national teams of Cameroon and Colombia, one of the leading African team Marc-Vivien Foé suddenly fell to the turf. Doctors rushed to give him first aid right on the field. The player is not detectable pulse, and he did artificial respiration. Within 45 min., Already over the edge of the field, doctors fought for the lives of 28-year-old star of African football, but it was all in vain. "The player was still alive when he was taken to the medical center in Gerland stadium, where he later died," - said the FIFA Medical Delegate Alfred Mueller.
Sergei Perhun (04/09/1977, Dnepropetrovsk, USSR - 28.08.2001, Moscow)
August 15, 2001 he made his debut in the national team of Ukraine - in the friendly match against Latvia (1: 0) Perhun played the second half.
August 18, 2001 in a game against the "Anji" Makhachkala in a collision with striker Budun Budunova (Budun Budun also received a serious injury with loss of memory, however, has not only survived, but has returned to the big football) suffered a serious head injury. First, the injury seemed moderate Sergei was conscious until the end of the match. But on the way to the airport he went into a coma, povlёkshuyu clinical death. Despite the best efforts of doctors, August 28 at 5:25 am a football player has died in the Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. NN Burdenko. The conclusion of the doctors: "Total cerebral edema, cerebral blood flow stop with the ensuing loss of brain cells».
He was buried on August 30 in Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhia cemetery. At the funeral of Sergey attended by about 10 thousand people. A significant number of fans of CSKA previously visited farewell to Perhun in Moscow, some flew to Dnepropetrovsk. At the funeral there were also fans of "Spartacus" and fans of other clubs. In the remaining matches of the season CSKA fans in the stands exhibited great t-shirt with the number and name Perhun.
Regine Kavan (06/27/1970, Tone, France - 31.10.2001, Innsbruck, Austria)
Kavan's career was marred by numerous injuries and first victory at the World Cup Regine he won only in January 1999, at 28 years of age. Her victory in the downhill at the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo was the first victory for France in this discipline for 17 years. Over the next 2 years Régine won 7 more World Cup events: downhill - 2 super-G - 4, Giant Slalom - 1. The peak Kavan career was winning the super-G at the World Championships 2001 in St. Anton, Austria, where Régine 5 hundredths ahead twice world champion in this discipline Isolde Kostner and 8 hundredths Hilde Gerg. In 2000 and 2001, Kavan took third place in the overall World Cup in the season, and in 2001 won the super giant Ladder. Kavan took part in three consecutive Olympics (1992, 1994 and 1998). Her best result was 7th in the downhill in Nagano in 1998.
October 29th, 2001 in the Austrian Pittsale during training Kavan ran into a German ski coach Markus Anvandera and received a number of serious head injuries. Regine was evacuated by helicopter to the University Hospital of Innsbruck, where he died of his injuries two days later. Kavan's death was the first death of a skier on the track since 1994, when the German Garmisch-Partenkirchen smashed another world champion in the super-G Austrian Ulrike Maier. Regine Kavan was buried in his native village of La Clusaz in the French Alps.
Andres Escobar (03/13/1967, Medellin, Colombia - July 2, 1994, ibid)
Escobar was a defender, played for the Medellin club "Atletico Nacional", while playing in Switzerland for "Young Boys" at No. 2; was nicknamed «El Caballero del Fútbol» (Knight of football). Libertadores Cup winner (1988) and the Inter-American Cup (1989). In 1988, he scored a goal in the match against England at "Wembley"; This goal brought the Colombians draw. He participated in the 1990 World Championships in Italy.
Consequences of Escobar's own goal in the match against the United States (trying to interrupt cross American John Harksa, he cut the ball into his own net) turned serious: Colombia lost 1: 2 and was forced to leave the tournament after the group stage. Escobar returned home with the team, where - before the end of the championship - and it caught an assassin's bullet, Humberto Muñoz Castro, who worked as a security guard. Munoz was released in Escobar, who was sitting in a car near one of the bars of Medellin, 12 bullets. Each time, making the shot, the killer shouted "Goal!". Kicker immediately taken to the hospital, where he died 45 minutes later. Andrés Escobar had arranged the state funeral, his name is still surrounded by a great honor in Medellin, in his honor named International Cup street soccer. Humberto Munoz was sentenced to 43 years in prison. In 2001, the term was reduced to 26 years. But Muñoz served only 11 years and was released in 2005 on the freedom for good behavior.
Sergei Zholtok (02.12.1972, Riga, LatSSR, USSR-03.11.2004, Minsk, Belarus)
He is a graduate of the Latvian hockey. In the early '90s was one of the most promising junior players. In 1990-1992 he played for the hockey team "Dinamo" Riga (in the 1991/92 season, the club called "Pardaugava") as a central striker. Later, Sergei Zholtok moved overseas. About ten years played in various clubs of the National Hockey League (NHL), the US and Canada, including in such famous teams as the Boston Bruins, Montreal Kanadians, Edmonton Oilers, and others. In 2004, he returned home (because of the lockout in the NHL) and began to play for the "Riga-2000". During the years of sports career S.Zholtok also repeatedly argued for a hockey team of Latvia and was one of the architects of its success in the international arena. Without a doubt, it can be called one of the most exciting players in Latvia last twenty years.
November 3, 2004 in Minsk (Belarus) shortly before the end of one of the matches of Sergey Zholtok became ill. Doctors tried to do everything possible. However, it was not possible to save him, he died of a heart attack. Death Sergey Zholtoka was a real shock to the other players, coaches and hockey fans all our strane.V 2005 55th Riga High School (prepared on the basis of which the hockey reserves) was named after S.Zholtoka.
Reef Saitgareev (08/23/1960, Ufa, USSR - 18.06.1996, Velkopolski Ostrow, Poland)
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Ayrton Senna (03.21.1960, Sao Paulo, Brazil - 01/05/1994 Bologna, Italy)
According to the results of a unique survey conducted by the British weekly Autosport among former and current participants of the championship Formula 1, Senna was voted the best driver in F1 history. In just ten years of performances he has won more than 40 races and set a record for the number of pole positions. He received from the media nickname "The Wizard." The brightest page Senna biography - his rivalry with another great rider,
Alain Prost in the late 1980s - early 1990s. Senna was killed in 1994 in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
At the start of the race car Finn JJ Lehto stalled, and it picked up speed crashed Pedro Lamy (in this case have scattered debris injured three spectators, one of them seriously), and the track was released the safety car to the speed of movement of cars has decreased and it was possible to remove the debris. The riders rode behind the safety car until the 6th round. In the 7th round, the second after the departure of the safety car and the restart of the race, Senna's car slipped off the track in turn "Tamburello" at high speed and crashed into a concrete wall. According to the testimony of telemetry failure at the speed of the machine was about 310 kilometers per hour, then Senna managed to brake and slow the car, but still the speed at the moment of impact with the wall was about 218 kilometers per hour.
According to some, death was caused by a fractured skull as a result of the huge overload in the moment of impact. However, in the documentary "Senna" say that his body did not have any broken bones, and even a single bruise, that is, if a fatal piece of suspension passed a couple of inches above Senna'd just got out of the car and went into the pits. Definitely what if while using modern means of passive safety features, which restrict the movement of the head relative to the shoulders, then the outcome of the accident would have been different.
Senna's death was a tragedy for many fans around the world, and particularly in Brazil. The Brazilian government has announced a three-day national mourning. On the day of the funeral of Senna in Sao Paulo funeral procession
accompanied by several million people. One of those who carried his coffin, was a longtime rival of Senna Alain Prost. Senna was buried in the cemetery near the Morumbi Sao Paulo.
Valery Kharlamov (01.14.1948, Moscow - 08.27.1981, Moscow region)
Outstanding Soviet hockey player, striker CSKA Moscow (1967-1981) and the USSR national team (1969-1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969). 2-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976) and eight-time world champion. The best hockey player of the USSR (1972, 1973). One of the leading players of the USSR of the 1970s, which was recognized both at home and abroad.
Talented young man soon began to recommend to the adult team CSKA. However, head coach of CSKA, Anatoly Tarasov, the first time did not see a young Kharlamov serious inclinations and said that its main drawback - small increase, just 168 cm. Does not stand out in a hockey school CSKA young Kharlamov flashed in the final tournament of the junior championship of the USSR in the spring 1967 in Minsk. By Remark played in those days with him Vladimir Bogomolov, Valery distinguished himself as a non-standard improviser, but at the same time extremely hard-working and playing on the team. On arrival in Moscow directly at the train station CSKA sports school coach Vitaly Erfilov Kharlamov has announced that it wants to try to CSKA. In the summer of 1967, Valery went gathering with the team CSKA Kudepste after which changed much physically, gained muscle mass.
In a series of games with Canadian professionals in September 1972 Valery Kharlamov got really universal recognition in international hockey. Along with Tretiak and Yakushev, he was one of the leading players of the Soviet Union in those games. The most successful to Kharlamov was the "Canadian" part of a series. In the 1st game of the efforts of the USSR national team Valery came forward (3: 2) and secure its success (4: 2). Both goals were abandoned because of his individual skills, namely the rapid stroke and a sharp throw. As a result, the Soviet hockey players won the match with a score of 7: 3. In summing up the meeting, the organizers recognized Kharlamov the best player of the match in the USSR team.
On Thursday, August 27, 1981, at seven o'clock in the morning, at 74 km of the Leningrad highway accident occurred, which led to the death of a hockey player. Valery, Irina and her cousin Sergei Ivanov returned to the city with cottages in the village
Pokrovka under the wedge on its "Volga" at number 00-17 IMB. Irina, who was sitting behind the wheel, lost control on a slippery road from the rain, and the machine issued in the oncoming lane, where it collided with a truck ZIL (crashed into a truck on its side and slid into a ditch strike). From injuries all passengers "Volga", died on the spot.
August 27 evening, world news agencies spread the news: "According to Tass, in a car accident near Moscow this morning killed a famous hockey player Valery Kharlamov, thirty-three years old, and his wife. They left two small children - a son and a daughter ... ". August 31, a memorial service was held in the Palace of weightlifting CSKA. The same day, the dead were buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery. Hockey player came to say goodbye to thousands of people. At the funeral, could not attend the USSR national team players, who at the time were in Winnipeg. They held a meeting where it was decided that at all costs to win the Canada Cup. Soviet hockey players fulfilled their promise, beating the Canadians in the final 8: 1.
Kevin Leonard "Len" Bayas (11/18/1963, Landover, USA - 06.19.1986, Riverdale, USA)
About It spoke as "the guy who could outshine the Jordan." At 22, Len became a legend of his native state. "In Maryland, no one wanted to be Michael, everyone wanted to be like Bayas" - still claim basketball fans. After school, a gifted athlete with little or no examinations taken in the University of Maryland. June 17, 1986 Bayas was selected NBA's reigning champion "Boston Celtics" in the annual NHL Entry Draft, which was held in New York at Madison Square Garden. June 19 Bayas with his father came to Boston for the traditional presentation of the players - the same basketball player signed a promotional contract with Reebok for $ 3 million and returned to Maryland. Having been on a few get-togethers, Len stayed overnight in his room on campus with friends. At 06.32 he lost consciousness and did not rebound, despite the best efforts of doctors. Subsequently, each university Bayasa Brian Tribble pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine, which received a lethal dose of basketball.
Andreas Munzer (10/25/1964, Park, Austria - 14.03.1996, Munich, Germany)
With bodybuilding she encountered by chance. He began to learn the mechanic and was forced to after work for two hours waiting for the bus. Just hang around and drink beer, Andreas was bored, and he enrolled in a fitness center. Shortly training partners noticed that a young man's muscle mass is growing fastest, and persuaded him to take part in competitions. 2nd place among juniors was a surprise even for the most Muenzer. After this hobby turned into a passion. In 1986, Andreas and his friend opened his own fitness club, partly to secure an opportunity to immerse themselves in training.
Sami appearances on the podium is not particularly fascinated bodybuilder, and it was not his forte. Unfortunately, many experts agree that it is bad been able to demonstrate its relief on the full. In 1987, he took 3rd place in the World Cup a year later, again winning the bronze, enters the field of view of Albert Busek. When Busek placed Andreas photo on the cover of FLEX, the young athlete said it was more important to him than gold at the World Championships. Soon Busek offers Munzer appointed manager and coach in Munich sports center. Andreas took Munich as a kind of springboard for future careers. It seemed to him that he is getting closer to the ideal - Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1989, winning «World Games», Andreas received the status of professional IFBB. On the way to its goal of beginning to combine Munzer prolonged exhausting exercise (6 - 8 hours per day) with strict diets. For 10 days before the event, he limited the water consumption to 0, 5 liters per day by removing fluid from the body. The percentage of fat in his body at competitions was 4%. Many bodybuilding experts said that even a single athlete has never been so much relief both Muenzer. Andreas received the nickname of "people without the skin" - because of the minimal amount of fat, and indeed it seems that the viewer looks at the naked muscles. And, nevertheless, the judge reduced his assessment too "wooden" performance on stage.
March 13, 1996, he felt pain in his stomach. Doctors diagnosed bleeding in the abdominal cavity (liver began to deteriorate rapidly). Muenzer was operated for 19 hours, but the life of an athlete and could not be saved. At night, Andreas died of "multiple organ failure." During surgery, it was found that his blood was viscous due to total dehydration, liver and almost destroyed. The heart could not bear such a load, depriving us of yet another bright bodybuilder. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent to Austria at the grave Andreas wreath with the words: "Last hello, friend."
Marc-Vivien Foé (01/05/1975, Nkole, Cameroon - 26.06.2003 in Lyon, France)
Marc-Vivien Foé announced himself as a player of uncommon, when he moved in 1997 from the Cameroon team "Canon Yaounde" in French, "Lance." Even then, he was one of the key players of the national team of Cameroon, and in the "Lance" ELF has become one of the leaders, so that they become interested in a superclub as "Manchester United". But bad luck pursued the player with the most youth - at 23, ELF breaks his leg and passes the French. Pluck and his transition into the "Manchester United". After a year, recovering from the injury, he still comes to England - to tune in the London "Vestheme." In 2000, it bought for $ 10 million French "Lion", and it is linked with the club the best years of a remarkable player. Speaking with such outstanding players as Sonny Anderson and Steve Marlet, ELF has become an indispensable player in experiencing the best years, "Lyons." After two years with the national team of Cameroon, he has won the African Cup and plays in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
The tragedy occurred at Lyons in France stadium, shocked the world. After 71 minutes, the semifinal match of the Confederations Cup football match between the national teams of Cameroon and Colombia, one of the leading African team Marc-Vivien Foé suddenly fell to the turf. Doctors rushed to give him first aid right on the field. The player is not detectable pulse, and he did artificial respiration. Within 45 min., Already over the edge of the field, doctors fought for the lives of 28-year-old star of African football, but it was all in vain. "The player was still alive when he was taken to the medical center in Gerland stadium, where he later died," - said the FIFA Medical Delegate Alfred Mueller.
Sergei Perhun (04/09/1977, Dnepropetrovsk, USSR - 28.08.2001, Moscow)
August 15, 2001 he made his debut in the national team of Ukraine - in the friendly match against Latvia (1: 0) Perhun played the second half.
August 18, 2001 in a game against the "Anji" Makhachkala in a collision with striker Budun Budunova (Budun Budun also received a serious injury with loss of memory, however, has not only survived, but has returned to the big football) suffered a serious head injury. First, the injury seemed moderate Sergei was conscious until the end of the match. But on the way to the airport he went into a coma, povlёkshuyu clinical death. Despite the best efforts of doctors, August 28 at 5:25 am a football player has died in the Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. NN Burdenko. The conclusion of the doctors: "Total cerebral edema, cerebral blood flow stop with the ensuing loss of brain cells».
He was buried on August 30 in Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhia cemetery. At the funeral of Sergey attended by about 10 thousand people. A significant number of fans of CSKA previously visited farewell to Perhun in Moscow, some flew to Dnepropetrovsk. At the funeral there were also fans of "Spartacus" and fans of other clubs. In the remaining matches of the season CSKA fans in the stands exhibited great t-shirt with the number and name Perhun.
Regine Kavan (06/27/1970, Tone, France - 31.10.2001, Innsbruck, Austria)
Kavan's career was marred by numerous injuries and first victory at the World Cup Regine he won only in January 1999, at 28 years of age. Her victory in the downhill at the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo was the first victory for France in this discipline for 17 years. Over the next 2 years Régine won 7 more World Cup events: downhill - 2 super-G - 4, Giant Slalom - 1. The peak Kavan career was winning the super-G at the World Championships 2001 in St. Anton, Austria, where Régine 5 hundredths ahead twice world champion in this discipline Isolde Kostner and 8 hundredths Hilde Gerg. In 2000 and 2001, Kavan took third place in the overall World Cup in the season, and in 2001 won the super giant Ladder. Kavan took part in three consecutive Olympics (1992, 1994 and 1998). Her best result was 7th in the downhill in Nagano in 1998.
October 29th, 2001 in the Austrian Pittsale during training Kavan ran into a German ski coach Markus Anvandera and received a number of serious head injuries. Regine was evacuated by helicopter to the University Hospital of Innsbruck, where he died of his injuries two days later. Kavan's death was the first death of a skier on the track since 1994, when the German Garmisch-Partenkirchen smashed another world champion in the super-G Austrian Ulrike Maier. Regine Kavan was buried in his native village of La Clusaz in the French Alps.
Andres Escobar (03/13/1967, Medellin, Colombia - July 2, 1994, ibid)
Escobar was a defender, played for the Medellin club "Atletico Nacional", while playing in Switzerland for "Young Boys" at No. 2; was nicknamed «El Caballero del Fútbol» (Knight of football). Libertadores Cup winner (1988) and the Inter-American Cup (1989). In 1988, he scored a goal in the match against England at "Wembley"; This goal brought the Colombians draw. He participated in the 1990 World Championships in Italy.
Consequences of Escobar's own goal in the match against the United States (trying to interrupt cross American John Harksa, he cut the ball into his own net) turned serious: Colombia lost 1: 2 and was forced to leave the tournament after the group stage. Escobar returned home with the team, where - before the end of the championship - and it caught an assassin's bullet, Humberto Muñoz Castro, who worked as a security guard. Munoz was released in Escobar, who was sitting in a car near one of the bars of Medellin, 12 bullets. Each time, making the shot, the killer shouted "Goal!". Kicker immediately taken to the hospital, where he died 45 minutes later. Andrés Escobar had arranged the state funeral, his name is still surrounded by a great honor in Medellin, in his honor named International Cup street soccer. Humberto Munoz was sentenced to 43 years in prison. In 2001, the term was reduced to 26 years. But Muñoz served only 11 years and was released in 2005 on the freedom for good behavior.
Sergei Zholtok (02.12.1972, Riga, LatSSR, USSR-03.11.2004, Minsk, Belarus)
He is a graduate of the Latvian hockey. In the early '90s was one of the most promising junior players. In 1990-1992 he played for the hockey team "Dinamo" Riga (in the 1991/92 season, the club called "Pardaugava") as a central striker. Later, Sergei Zholtok moved overseas. About ten years played in various clubs of the National Hockey League (NHL), the US and Canada, including in such famous teams as the Boston Bruins, Montreal Kanadians, Edmonton Oilers, and others. In 2004, he returned home (because of the lockout in the NHL) and began to play for the "Riga-2000". During the years of sports career S.Zholtok also repeatedly argued for a hockey team of Latvia and was one of the architects of its success in the international arena. Without a doubt, it can be called one of the most exciting players in Latvia last twenty years.
November 3, 2004 in Minsk (Belarus) shortly before the end of one of the matches of Sergey Zholtok became ill. Doctors tried to do everything possible. However, it was not possible to save him, he died of a heart attack. Death Sergey Zholtoka was a real shock to the other players, coaches and hockey fans all our strane.V 2005 55th Riga High School (prepared on the basis of which the hockey reserves) was named after S.Zholtoka.
Reef Saitgareev (08/23/1960, Ufa, USSR - 18.06.1996, Velkopolski Ostrow, Poland)
International Master of Sports Speedway (1982).
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