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David Michael Mirra (April 4, 1974 – February 4, 2016) was an American BMX rider who also competed in rallycross racing. He set the record for most medals in BMX Freestyle at the X Games (later tied by Scotty Cranmer ) and earned at least one BMX medal at the event in all but one year from the competition's inception in 1995 until ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Dave Mirra was a pioneer of BMX and the X Games, winning 24 medals and landing the first double backflip. He died by suicide in 2016 after being diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease caused by repeated head injuries.
- Cody Copeland
May 24, 2016 · Dave Mirra, a star BMX rider who killed himself in February, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to head trauma. The condition was diagnosed by neuropathologists at the...
Feb 5, 2016 · Dave Mirra, whose dazzling aerial flips and tricks made him a legend in freestyle BMX and one of the most successful competitors in X Games history, died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted...
Feb 6, 2016 · Mirra’s body was found in North Carolina on Thursday with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, leaving a huge hole in the hearts of those who knew him or watched him fly through the air. He was 41. “Goodbye Dave Mirra, a true pioneer, icon and legend.
Feb 17, 2016 · When news broke that Dave Mirra, the most dominant and decorated BMX star in X Games history, had committed suicide at age 41 in his hometown of Greenville, North Carolina, on February 4, his...
Feb 5, 2016 · BMX rider Dave Mirra, who for years dominated his sport even as he helped others embrace it, has died at age 41. Police in Greenville, N.C., say they found Mirra "sitting in a truck with an...
