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Athletes Who Died in March 2024

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  • Mar 3 Chris Mortensen, American sports journalist (ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio), dies from throat cancer at 72
  • Mar 3 Roberto Fleitas, Uruguayan soccer coach (Uruguay: Copa América 1987; Nacional FC: Copa Libertadores & South American Coach of the Year 1988), dies at 91
  • Mar 4 Kees Rijvers, Dutch soccer midfielder (33 caps; NAC Breda, Saint-Étienne, Feyenoord) and manager (FC Twente, PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands), dies at 97
  • Mar 4 Lewis Jones, Welsh rugby union outside back (10 Tests Wales, 3 British Lions; Neath, Llanelli) and rugby league utility (2 Tests Wales, 17 Great Britain; Leeds, Wentworthville), dies at 92
  • Mar 7 Minervino Pietra, Portuguese soccer right-back (28 caps; Belenenses, Benfica) and manager (Alverca, Juventude Évora, Estoril, Barreirense), dies at 70
  • Mar 8 Duncan Fearnley, English cricket entrepreneur (Duncan Fearnley cricket bats), dies at 83
  • Mar 9 Georgi Popov, Bulgarian soccer forward (22 caps; Botev Plovdiv 308 games) and manager (Botev Plovdiv, Maritsa Plovdiv), dies at 79
  • Mar 10 Sergey Diomidov, Uzbek gymnast (World C'ship gold USSR Parallel bars 1966; Olympic silver team 1964, 68; bronze vault 1968), dies at 80
  • Mar 11 Emilio Correa, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold welterweight 1972; World C'ship gold 1974), dies at 70
  • Mar 12 Bill Plummer, American baseball catcher (Cincinnati Reds, World Series 1975, 76) and coach (Seattle Mariners), dies from a heart attack at 76
  • Mar 12 Rolf Blättler, Swiss soccer midfielder who played 28 internationals; Grasshoppers, Lugano, FC St. Gallen, dies at 81
  • Mar 13 Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian soccer forward who played 27 internationals (PFC Levski Sofia), dies at 89
  • Mar 14 Léon Semmeling, Belgian soccer midfielder who played 35 internationals; Standard Liège 449 games, dies at 84
  • Mar 14 Mal Lucas, Welsh soccer right-half who played 4 internationals; Leyton Orient FC, Norwich City FC, Torquay United FC, dies at 85
  • Mar 14 Walter Blum, American HOF jockey who won 4,382 races and was the US Champion Jockey by wins in 1963-64, dies from lung cancer at 89
  • Mar 15 Rolf Haikkola, Finnish athletics coach who assisted four-time Olympic gold medal winner Lasse Virén, dies at 96
  • Mar 17 Robin Hobbs, English cricket spin bowler who played 7 Tests, 12 wickets; Essex CCC, Glamorgan CCC), dies at 81
  • Mar 18 Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese rally driver who won the Dakar Rally 1997, dies of pancreatic cancer at 75
  • Mar 18 Ron Baynham, English soccer goalkeeper who played 3 internationals and 388 games for Luton Town, dies at 94
  • Mar 20 António Pacheco, Portuguese soccer winger who played 6 internationals; Benfica 162 games; and manager Atlético, Portimonense SC, dies from a heart attack at 57
  • Mar 20 Dumitru Macri, Romanian soccer defender who played 8 internationals (FC Rapid București) and coached Algeria (1974-75), dies at 92
  • Mar 20 Phil Lowe, English rugby league second rower who played 12 Tests for Great Britain and 5 England; Hull KR, Manly Warringah RLFC, dies at 74
  • Mar 20 Saeed Ahmed, Pakistan cricket batsman, who played 41 Tests, 5 x 100, HS 172, 22 wickets; Karachi, Lahore; dies at 86
  • Mar 21 Orlando Aravena, Chilean soccer midfielder who played 6 internationals (Deportes La Serena, Ñublense) and manager of Chile (1987-89), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
  • Mar 23 Paul Masnick, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Stanley Cup 1953), dies at 92
  • Mar 23 Peter Angelos, American lawyer and baseball executive (majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, 1993-2024), dies at 94 [1]
  • Mar 25 Ian Heads, Australian sports journalist, commentator and author who was rugby league's foremost historian (Rugby League Week), dies at 81
  • Mar 26 André Van Herpe, Belgian soccer midfielder who played 7 internationals; ARA La Gantoise 1952-62, dies at 90
  • Mar 27 Choi Dae-Shik, South Korean soccer midfielder who played 15 internationals; Daewoo Royals, LG Cheetahs, Oita Trinita, dies at 59
  • Mar 28 Larry Lloyd, English soccer defender who played 4 internationals (Liverpool, Nottingham Forest) and manager (Wigan Athletic, Notts County), dies at 75
  • Mar 28 Natalya Melyokhina, Russian road cyclist who won UCI Road World C'ship gold USSR women's team time 1987, dies at 61
  • Mar 29 Péter Juhász, Hungarian soccer left-back who played 26 internationals; Újpesti Dózsa FC, Tatabanyai Banyasz SC, Borsodi Volán SC, dies at 75
  • Mar 31 Rob Kaman, Dutch kickboxer who was 4 x WKA world champion, dies at 63


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