Deaths of sportspeople in 2021

Deaths of notable sports officials and players in 2021.

In each table, the names are listed in alphabetical order

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
England	Clint Boulton	Association football	72	Unknown	^[1]
Italy	Emanuele Chiapasco	Baseball	90	Unknown	^[2]
Canada	Paul Delorey	Curling	71	Unknown	^[3]
Iceland	Ágúst Herbert Guðmundsson	Basketball	53	Motor neuron disease	^[4]
France	Bernard Guignedoux	Association football	73	Unknown	^[5]
Colombia	Pablo Hernández	Cycling	80	Unknown	^[6]
United States	Floyd Little	American football	78	Cancer	^[7]
Norway	Harald Maartmann	Cross-country skiing	94	Unknown	^[8]
Netherlands	Paatje Phefferkorn	Martial arts	98	COVID-19	^[9]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Brazil	Cléber Eduardo Arado	Association football	48	COVID-19	^[10]
Indonesia	Alex Asmasoebrata	Auto racing	69	Unknown	^[11]
Spain	Miquel Ferrer	Association football	89	Unknown	^[12]
Canada	Rob Flockhart	Ice hockey	64	Heart attack	^[13]
South Africa	Ryder Mofokeng	Association football	68	Unknown	^[14]
United States	Don Salls	American football	101	Unknown	^[15]
Russia	Yuri Saukh	Association football	69	Unknown	^[16]
United States	Paul Westphal	Basketball	70	Glioblastoma	^[17]
Wales	Brian Whitcombe	Rugby union	86	Unknown	^[18]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Brian Adair	Cricket	86	Unknown	^[19]
Pakistan	Gulraiz Akhtar	Field hockey	78	Unknown	^[20]
Canada	Hugo Dittfach	Horse racing	85	Unknown	^[21]
England	Alan Igglesden	Cricket	57	Brain cancer	^[22]
Italy	Poerio Mascella	Association football	71	Unknown	^[23]
Ireland	Maurice Price	Association football	83	Unknown	^[24]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
United States	John Aiken	Ice hockey	89	Unknown	^[25]
United States	Jane Brown Grimes	Tennis	80	Unknown	^[26]
Ireland	Des Ferguson	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	^[27]
Sweden	Tomas Leandersson	Ten-pin bowling	55	Unknown	^[28]
United States	John Marshall	American football	76	Unknown	^[29]
Canada	Alf Mayer	Shooting	83	Unknown	^[30]
Ireland	John Joe O'Hagan	Gaelic football	91	Unknown	^[31]
England	Alf Patrick	Association football	100	Unknown	^[32]
Italy	Luciano Piquè	Association football	86	Unknown	^[33]
Ukraine	Viktor Putyatin	Fencing	80	Unknown	^[34]
Algeria	Mohamed Soukhane	Association football	90	Unknown	^[35]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Switzerland	François Blank	Ice hockey	90	Unknown	^[36]
Germany	Hermann Haverkamp	Water polo	79	Unknown	^[37]
Japan	Yasuro Kikuchi	Go	93	Unknown	^[38]
United States	Tom Matte	American football	82	Unknown	^[39]
United States	Warren Powers	American football	80	Alzheimer's disease	^[40]
Russia	Andrei Redkous	Association football	64	Unknown	^[41]
Slovakia	Boris Sádecký	Ice hockey	24	Cardiac arrest	^[42]
Denmark	Kurt Thyboe	Sports commentator	81	Pneumonia	^[43]

February

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Scotland	Walter Cameron	Association football	78–79^[a]	Unknown	^[44]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amela Fetahović	Association football	35	Unknown	^[45]
Israel	Amatsia Levkovich	Association football	83	Unknown	^[46]
Italy	Eugenio Pazzaglia	Association football	72	Unknown	^[47]
United States	Mike Pitts	American football	61	Unknown	^[48]
United States	Roger Zatkoff	American football	90	Unknown	^[49]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Canada	Charlie Burns	Ice hockey	85	Unknown	^[50]
Australia	Russell Ebert	Australian rules football	72	Leukaemia	^[51]
Poland	Ryszard Grzegorczyk	Association football	82	Unknown	^[52]
Italy	Luigi Maldera	Association football	75	Unknown	^[53]
Slovakia	Dušan Pašek	Ice hockey	36	Suicide by hanging	^[54]
Germany	Flip Stapper	Association football	76	Unknown	^[55]
Belarus	Konstantin Wajgin	Biathlon	57	Unknown	^[56]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Slovakia	Pavol Molnár	Association football	85	Unknown	^[57]
United States	Angelo Mosca	Canadian football	84	Unknown	^[58]
Jamaica	Shawn Rhoden	Professional bodybuilding	46	Heart attack	^[59]
Brazil	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Long-distance running	57	Cardiac arrest	^[60]
India	Tarak Sinha	Cricket	70	Lung cancer	^[61]
United States	Harvey White	American football	83	Unknown	^[62]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Russia	Liudmila Belavenets	Chess	81	COVID-19	^[63]
India	Sunit Ghosh	Cricket	87	Unknown	^[64]
United States	Robin Greiner	Pair skating	89	Unknown	^[65]
England	Barry Jackson	Association football	83	Unknown	^[66]
Russia	Aliya Khambikova	Volleyball	21	Unknown	^[67]
Russia	Igor Nikulin	Hammer throw	61	Unknown	^[68]
Australia	Brian Renwood	Australian rules football	86	Unknown	^[69]
United States	Ronnie Williams	Basketball	59	Brain cancer	^[70]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Netherlands	Rinus Bennaars	Association football	90	Unknown	^[71]
Australia	Keith Bradshaw	Cricket	58	Multiple myeloma	^[72]
United States	Medina Dixon	Basketball	59	Pancreatic cancer	^[73]
Puerto Rico	Pedro Feliciano	Baseball	45	Unknown	^[74]
South Africa	Mike Harris	Formula One	82	Unknown	^[75]
Eritrea	Desiet Kidane	Road bicycle racing	21	Traffic collision	^[76]
South Korea	Kim Kyeong-bo	Esports	20	Unknown	^[77]
England	Cecilia Robinson	Cricket	97	Unknown	^[78]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Germany	Erika Fisch	Long jump	87	Unknown	^[79]
Liberia	Willis Forko	Association football	37	Unknown	^[80]
Algeria	Loucif Hamani	Boxing	71	Unknown	^[81]
Mexico	Memo Luna	Baseball	91	Unknown	^[82]
Italy	Francesco Romani	Karate	88	Complications from a fall	^[83]
Wales	Laurie Sheffield	Association football	82	Unknown	^[84]
United States	Duane Wilson	Baseball	87	Unknown	^[85]

Nationality	Person	Sport	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Bulgaria	Ivo Georgiev	Association football	49	Heart failure	^[86]
United States	Sam Huff	American football	87	Unknown	^[87]