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  2. Category:Deaths in sport - Wikipedia

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    List of gridiron football players who died during their careers; List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents; List of athletics competitors who died during their careers; Sudden cardiac death of athletes

  3. List of athletics competitors who died during their careers

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    Masters world record holder died on his daily 7 mile training run [26] 13 Aug 1994: Simon Robert Naali Tanzania: 28: Marathon: Died from hit-and-run injuries. [27] 1 Oct 1994: Oluyemi Kayode Nigeria: 26: 200 metres: Car crash. [28] 29 Jul 1996: Georgi Dakov Bulgaria: 28: High jump: Car accident. [29] 8 Aug 1998: Walter Merlo Italy: 33: Long ...

  4. Lists of people by cause of death - Wikipedia

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    List of Major League Baseball players who died in wars; List of National Football League players who died in wars; List of Olympians killed in World War I; List of Olympians killed in World War II; List of Wales rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars; List of England rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars

  5. List of association footballers who died after on-field ...

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    This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.

  6. List of oldest professional athletes by sport - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of sport's oldest professional athletes. Sport Name Age played Year retired American football: Manfred Burgsmüller [1] 52 years, 182 days

  7. List of basketball players who died during their careers

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    Many of them died in accidents such as car or plane crashes. Some suffered sudden cardiac death, which has a higher incidence in basketball among young athletes. [1] [2] Some suffered from the heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, [3] which is more common in African Americans.

  8. Steve Prefontaine - Wikipedia

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    During his career, Prefontaine won 120 of the 153 races he ran (.784), and never lost a collegiate (NCAA) track race longer than one mile at the University of Oregon. In 2020, SuperWest Sports included Prefontaine in its list of The Greatest Pac-12 Male Track and Field Athletes of All Time. [37]

  9. Olga Kotelko - Wikipedia

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    Olga Kotelko (2 March 1919 – 24 June 2014) was a Canadian track and field athlete. [1] She held over 30 world records [2] and won over 750 gold medals in her age category for the Masters competition, age 90–95, and was considered "one of the world's greatest athletes" as a result. [3]