22 Facts About Dave Mirra

David Michael Mirra was an American BMX rider who competed in rallycross racing.

Dave Mirra set the record for most medals in BMX Freestyle at the X Games and earned at least one BMX medal at the event in all but one year from the competition's inception in 1995 until 2009.

Dave Mirra competed for several years with the Subaru Rally Team USA as a rallycross driver.

Dave Mirra rode for and was fully sponsored by Haro Bikes from the mid-1990s until he started his own bike company.

Dave Mirra was a member of the team which won the 2014 Race Across America four-person male category.

Dave Mirra was posthumously inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame on June 11,2016.

Dave Mirra was born on April 4,1974, in Chittenango, New York.

Dave Mirra graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Dave Mirra gained a sponsorship from Vision Street Wear in 1989.

Dave Mirra was sponsored by GT Bicycles through 1991, and then joined Hoffman Bikes in 1992 before re-signing with Haro in 1994.

Dave Mirra won at least one medal at the X Games in every year from 1995 through 2009, with the exception of 2006, after being injured during a practice run.

In 2005, Dave Mirra won the Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award.

Dave Mirra tied Tony Hawk and Joe Parsons as the fastest to reach 14 X Games medals, and his 24 total medals at the X Games stood as a record until 2013.

From 2008 through 2013, Dave Mirra competed in rallying and rallycross as a member of Subaru Rally Team USA.

Dave Mirra had a career-best fourth-place finish during the 2013 Global RallyCross Championship.

Dave Mirra became interested in Ironman competitions, competing in his first triathlon in March 2013.

Dave Mirra is featured in the Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX video game series and more recently appeared in the 2009 video game Colin McRae: Dirt 2.

Dave Mirra published a photo-biography titled Mirra Images, and was once one of People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors".

On February 4,2016, Dave Mirra died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Greenville, North Carolina at the age of 41.

Dave Mirra had reportedly been visiting friends in the area.

Dave Mirra became the first action sports star to be diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease.

Dave Mirra's wife chose to support several charitable causes in her husband's memory, including CTE research, Road 2 Recovery Foundation, and More Than Sport.