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Sports figures we lost in 2025

On Dec. 18, a former NASCAR driver who made 436 combined starts died, marking one of many losses from pro wrestlers to longtime sports anchors in 2025.
Amid diverse causes, deaths included a rising motocross star's mid-race crash, an extreme athlete's paragliding crash, a fatal car collision involving Diogo Jota and brother, complications of kidney disease, ALS, and a Hall of Fame boxer found dead due to hanging.
In horse racing and hockey, a Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat and a Hall of Famer goalie who helped the Red Wings win three Stanley Cups in the 1950s are among notable deaths in 2025.
Longtime broadcasters were lost, including the broadcaster who called Milwaukee Brewers games for over half a century and Patrick, who joined ESPN in 1982, while rising athletes like the motocross star and the teenager recently signed with Team Green Kawasaki disrupted competitions.
Historical and geopolitical echoes include the Soviet-era world chess champion , former NFL commissioner , extreme athlete , Indian-born runner 'Turbaned Torpedo', and Kanchha Sherpa, 92 .

Insights by Ground AI