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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 2009.
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.
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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...
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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...
Feb 5, 2016 · Dave Mirra, a 41-year-old BMX rider and X Games champion, was found dead in a truck with a gunshot wound in 2016. He was also a TV host, a rally car racer and an Ironman competitor.
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Feb 6, 2016 · Mirra broke huge barriers in the sport, landing the first double backflip in competition at the 2000 X Games in San Francisco and continued his career on an upward climb. Mirra medaled every year at the X Games from 1995 to 2008, winning 14 golds.
