athletes
70 notable athletes on file — 25 still here, 45 not.
still with us
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Steffi Graf
aliveGerman tennis player
born 1969
Nadia Comăneci
aliveRomanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist (born 1961)
born 1961
Simone Biles
aliveAmerican artistic gymnast
born 1997
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Oscar Pistorius
aliveSouth African sprinter and convicted murderer (born 1986)
born 1986
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
aliveGeorgian footballer (born 2001)
born 2001
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
aliveEnglish snooker player (born 1975)
born 1975
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Wladimir Klitschko
aliveUkrainian boxer (born 1976)
born 1976
Armand Duplantis
aliveSwedish-American pole vaulter
born 1999
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Tyson Fury
aliveBritish boxer (born 1988)
born 1988
Lennox Lewis
aliveBritish-Canadian boxer Vc
born 1965
Michael Johnson
aliveAmerican sprinter (born 1967)
born 1967
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
aliveNorwegian cross-country skier
born 1996
Marcell Jacobs
aliveItalian athlete (born 1994)
born 1994
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Travis Kelce
aliveAmerican football player (born 1989)
born 1989
Phil Mickelson
aliveAmerican professional golfer
born 1970
Aly Raisman
aliveAmerican artistic gymnast
born 1994
Amy Hunt
aliveBritish sprinter
born 2002
Zhao Xintong
aliveChinese snooker player (born 1997)
born 1997
Martin Ádám
aliveHungarian association football player
born 1994
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John Daly
aliveAmerican professional golfer
born 1966
Michael van Gerwen
aliveDutch darts player (born 1989)
born 1989
Tatiana Malinina
aliveRussian-Uzbekistani figure skater
born 1973
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Vinod Kambli
aliveIndian cricket player (born 1972)
born 1972
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Wilfried Nancy
aliveFrench football manager (born 1977)
born 1977
Roman Skorniakov
aliveRussian-born figure skater
born 1976
gone (30 of 45)
Florence Griffith Joyner
deadAmerican track and field athlete
1959 – 1998
Nodar Kumaritashvili
deadGeorgian luge athlete
1988 – 2010
Seve Ballesteros
deadSpanish professional golfer
1957 – 2011
Nikola Pilić
deadCroatian tennis coach and former Yugoslavian tennis player
1939 – 2025
Aleksandr Medved
deadBelarusian Soviet wrestler
1937 – 2024
Livio Berruti
deadItalian sprinter
1939 – 2026
Klaus Wolfermann
deadGerman athlete
1946 – 2024
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Olga Fikotová
deadCzechoslovak and American discus thrower
1932 – 2024
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George Baldock
deadGreek-English footballer
1993 – 2024
Sjoukje Dijkstra
deadDutch figure skater
1942 – 2024
Imrich Bugár
deadCzechoslovak discus thrower
1955 – 2026
Humberto Maschio
deadItalian-Argentine football player and manager
1933 – 2024
Ota Zaremba
deadCzech weightlifter
1957 – 2026
Jacques Freitag
deadSouth African high jumper
1982 – 2024
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Josef Černý
deadCzech ice hockey player and coach
1939 – 2025
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Günter Haritz
deadGerman cyclist
1948 – 2025
Zdeněk Pecka
deadCzech rower
1954 – 2024
Rolf Wolfshohl
deadGerman racing cyclist
1938 – 2024
Bishan Singh Bedi
deadIndian cricketer
1946 – 2023
Rudolf Plyukfelder
deadSoviet weightlifter
1928 – 2026
Pavel Svojanovský
deadCzech rower
1943 – 2024
Guram Kostava
deadSovietic fencer
1937 – 2024
Kurt Bendlin
deadathletics competitor
1943 – 2024
Wolfgang de Beer
deadGerman footballer
1964 – 2024
Norair Nurikyan
deadBulgarian weightlifter
1948 – 2025
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Gilbert Desmet
deadBelgian cyclist
1931 – 2024
Roberto Fleitas
deadUruguayan football player and head coach
1932 – 2024
Srećko Bogdan
deadCroatian footballer (born 1957)
1957 – 2026
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Adolf Seger
deadGerman wrestler
1945 – 2026
Jeff Galloway
deadAmerican distance runner
1945 – 2026