Negli ultimi giorni il ciclismo è stato colpito da due lutti per la morte dei giovani ciclisti belgi Antoine Demoitié e Daan Myngheer , il primo caduto e travolto da una moto in occasione della classica Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi, il secondo in seguito ad una crisi cardiaca sopraggiunta durante il Critérium International, breve corda a tappe che si è svolta in Corsica. I nomi di Demoitié e Myngheer vanno così ad allungare la lista dei ciclisti deceduti a causa di incidenti o malori avuti in gara, nella quale figurano nomi noti come Serse Coppi , Joaquim Agostinho , Fabio Casartelli , Andrey Kiviliev , Isaac Gálvez o Wouter Weylandt , al pari di tanti altri che, indipendentemente dalla loro notorietà sportiva, in comune avevano la passione per il ciclismo.
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A. De Curtis
Pierre Froget
August 21, 1894
France
AW “Bert” Harris
April 21, 1897
United Kingdom
Oscar Aaronson
December 22, 1900
Sweden
Harry Elkes
May 30, 1903
United States
Edouard Taylor
1903
France
Alfred Görnemann
October 11, 1903
German Empire
Pilack
June 16, 1904
German Empire
Paul Dangla
June 18, 1904
France
Karl Käser
August 14, 1904
German Empire
George Leander
August 23, 1904
United States
Charles Albert Brécy
November 25, 1904
France
Hubert Sevenich
May 7, 1905
German Empire
Willy Schmitter
September 18, 1905
German Empire
Gustav Freudenberg
April 29, 1906
German Empire
Richard Huhndorf
July 22, 1906
German Empire
Charles Peguy
June 9, 1907
France
Louis Mettling
June 21, 1907
United States
Josef Schwarzer
August 30, 1907
German Empire
Moritz Hübner
October 13, 1907
German Empire
Gustav Schadebrodt
October 22, 1907
German Empire
Ernst Wolf
October 29, 1907
German Empire
Tim Johnson
April 24, 1907
United Kingdom
Karel Verbist
July 21, 1909
Belgium
Fritz Theile
June 4, 1911
German Empire
Hans Bachmann
1913
German Empire
Hans Lange
1913
German Empire
August Kraft
July 25, 1913
German Empire
Richard Scheuermann
September 8, 1913
German Empire
Gus Lawson
September 8, 1913
United States
Max Hansen
October 12, 1913
German Empire
Piet van Nek (Sr.)
April 14, 1914
Netherlands
Willy Hamann
July 21, 1914
German Empire
Max Bauer
1917
German Empire
Jacob Esser
July 8, 1917
German Empire
Louis Darragon
April 28, 1918
France
Peter Günther
October 7, 1918
German Empire
Hans Schneider
January 1920
Weimar Republic
Emanuel Kudela
September 22, 1920
Weimar Republic
Christian Oorlemans
August 22, 1922
Netherlands
Walter Ebert
June 1, 1924
Weimar Republic
Gustave Ganay
August 23, 1926
France
Franz Krupkat
June 1, 1927
Weimar Republic
Ernst Feja
June 1, 1927
Weimar Republic
Constant Ceurremans
June 18, 1931
Belgium /
Netherlands
Werner Krüger
July 21, 1931
Weimar Republic
Georg Pawlack
June 10, 1933
Nazi Germany
Georges Lemaire
September 29, 1933
Belgium
Emil Richli
May 13, 1934
Switzerland
Francisco Cepeda
July 14, 1935
Spain
Len Johnson
August 8, 1936
Australia
Stefan Veger
November 1936
Netherlands
André Raynaud
March 1937
France
Adrian Buttafocchi
July 6, 1937
France
Hefty Stuart
December 9, 1938
Australia
Jean Alavoine
July 18, 1943
France
Richard Depoorter
June 16, 1948
Switzerland
Léon Level
March 26, 1949
France
Paul Kroll
November 8, 1949
Germany
Gerard (“Gerrit”) van Beek
March 15, 1951
Netherlands
Camille Danguillaume
June 26, 1951
France
Serse Coppi
June 29, 1951
Italy
Rudi Mirke
December 10, 1951
Germany
Orfeo Ponsin
May 20, 1952
Italy
Erich Metze
May 28, 1952
Germany
Stan Ockers
October 1, 1956
Belgium
Russell Mockridge
September 13, 1958
Australia
Knud Enemark Jensen
September 1960
Denmark
Alessandro Fantini
May 5, 1961
Italy
Tom Simpson
July 13, 1967
United Kingdom
Valentin Uriona
July 30, 1967
Spain
José Samyn
August 28, 1969
France
Radames Treviño
April 12, 1970
Mexico
Jean-Pierre Monseré
March 15, 1971
Belgium
Manuel Galera
February 14, 1972
Spain
Graeme Jose
June 23, 1973
Australia
Juan Manuel Santisteban
May 21, 1976
Spain
Karl Kaminski
August 10, 1978
East Germany
Joaquim Agostinho
May 10, 1984
Portugal
Emilio Ravasio
May 28, 1986
Italy
Vicente Mata
February 17, 1987
Spain
Michel Goffin
February 27, 1987
Belgium
Connie Meijer
August 17, 1988
Netherlands
Fabio Casartelli
July 18, 1995
Italy
José Antonio Espinosa
November 1996
Spain
Manuel Sanroma
June 19, 1999
Spain
Saúl Morales
February 28, 2000
Spain
Nicole Reinhart
September 17, 2000
United States
Andrey Kivilev
March 12, 2003
Kazakhstan
Brett Malin
June 17, 2003
United States
Juan Barrero
June 11, 2004
Colombia
Tim Pauwels
September 26, 2004
Belgium
Alessio Galletti
June 15, 2005
Italy
Bob Breedlove
June 25, 2005
United States
Isaac Gálvez
November 26, 2006
Spain
Bruno Neves
May 11, 2008
Portugal
Thomas Casarotto
September 10, 2010
Italy
Wouter Weylandt
May 9, 2011
Belgium
Junior Heffernan
March 3, 2013
United Kingdom
Annefleur Kalvenhaar
August 23, 2014
Netherlands
Antoine Demoitié
March 27, 2016
Belgium
Daan Myngheer
March 28, 2016
Belgium
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