A police spokesperson said they attended a sudden death at Christchurch Hospital this morning in relation to the incident.
Staveley Ice skating rink in Mid Canterbury.
“The death will be referred to the coroner.”
A spokesman for the Staveley Hall Society, which manages the ice rink, declined to comment out of respect for the person’s family. He said the incident had occurred during a private curling function.
The death comes less than two weeks after 13-year-old Kymani Hiley-Hetaraka died after suffering a catastrophic fall while ice skating on a school trip.
Kymani was transported to Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition on the morning of July 30 after the incident at the city’s Alpine Ice Sports Centre.
Kymani Hiley-Hetaraka died in Christchurch hospital on August 1 following an ice skating accident. Photo / Supplied
Her family said that she had suffered an unsurvivable head injury.
Two days after the incident, a family member announced Kymani had passed away in hospital.
Curtis Gwatkin and Maraea Hetaraka, Kymani’s parents, say their “baby” should not have had to die for something to change and that she should have been wearing a helmet.
Nicholson, who earned a fourth place in a skating event at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was skating at Lower Manorburn Dam when he moved 3m from the thick ice markers and fell through the ice.
“I went in instantly, over my head in water and cries unheard,” Nicholson said in a post on social media.
Nicholson told the Herald he realised he’d made a “big mistake”.
