Richard Adjei

Richard Adjei (30 January 1983 to 26 October 2020) was a German bobsledder who competed internationally from 2007 and who also played American football as a linebacker. His first World Cup event, at Königssee in Germany, brought a win in the two-man event on 9 January 2010. Later that year he won the silver medal in the two-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, as the pusher for the driver Thomas Florschütz. In 2011 he took the gold medal in the four-man event at the World Championships at Königssee as second brakeman in the sled piloted by Manuel Machata. In American football he played linebacker for Rhein Fire and Berlin Thunder in NFL Europe and for the Düsseldorf Panther in the German Football League. He died of a heart attack at the age of 37.