Accidental overdose killed eventer Amy Tryon - News - Horsetalk.co.nz

Accidental overdose killed eventer Amy Tryon - News - Horsetalk.co.nz

Accidental overdose killed eventer Amy Tryon
By Horsetalk.co.nz on Jun 20, 2012 in News


Amy Tryon and Coal Creek at the Kentucky 3DE in 2010. © Mike-McNally/USEF

Olympic eventer Amy Tryon died following an accidental opiate overdose, according to a medical examiner’s report.

The Seattle Times has reported that the King County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Tryon’s death as accidental and said toxicology reports show she died of an “acute combined opiate” overdose.

Tryon was 42 when she died in her sleep on April 12.

The examiners report said that present in her system at time of death were the analgesic Oxycodone; the antihistamine diphenhydramine; and the benzodiazepines Alprazolam, Diazepam, Lorazepam and Temazepam.

Tryon went to the Olympics twice, winning a team bronze medal in Athens in 2004. She was a firefighter until the summer of 2006, when she retired to dedicate herself full time to riding, basing herself out of Mapleleaf Eventing at Upson Downs in Duvall, Washington.

(For the rest of the story click the link a the top of the page)