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- For an extensive coverage see 1999 in athletics (track and field)
Track
See also
Cricket World Cup - Final: Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets
World competitions
Regional competitions
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- For an extensive coverage see 1999 in football (soccer)
Men's professional
Men's amateur
Women's professional
International tournaments
Records
Men's Competition
Women's Competition
Awards
Deaths
- January 5 — Jarmila Nygrýnová (45), Czech long jumper (b. 1953)
- January 9 — James Peters (80), English long-distance runner (b. 1918)
- January 28 — Josef Doležal (78), Czechoslovak race walker (b. 1920)
- February 22 — Menno Oosting (34), Dutch tennis player
- February 27 — Ken Robinson (29), Major League pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks)
- March 8 — Joe DiMaggio (84), Major League Baseball player
- March 25 — Cal Ripken, Sr. (63), father of baseball player and manager Cal Ripken, Jr.
- April 4 — Early Wynn (79), Baseball Hall-of-Famer
- April 25 — Lord Killanin (84), former head of the International Olympic Committee
- May 3 — Steve Chiasson (32), Ice hockey player, died in a car crash in Raleigh, North Carolina
- May 7 — Leon Hess (85), Owner of the New York Jets football team
- May 13 — Gene Sarazen (97), golfer
- May 17 — João Carlos de Oliveira (44), Brazilian athlete (b. 1954)
- May 18 — Betty Robinson (87), American athlete (b. 1911)
- May 23 — Owen Hart (34), professional wrestler
- June 6 — Eddie Stanky (83), American baseball player and manager
- June 14 — Bernie Faloney (CFL football player
- July 2 — Ricky Byrdsong (43), basketball coach at Northwestern University
- July 23 — Demetrius DuBose (28), American football player (New York Jets))
- July 23 — Dmitri Tertyshny (22), ice hockey player
- August 14 — Pee Wee Reese (81), Baseball Hall-of-Famer
- August 17 — Reiner Klimke (63), German equestrian (b. 1936)
- August 19 — Kim Perrot (32), women's basketball player
- September 9 — Catfish Hunter (53), American baseball pitcher
- September 12 – Allen Stack (71), American backstroke swimmer (b. 1928)
- October 12 — Carlos Barreto (23), Venezuelan boxer (b. 1976)
- October 12 — Wilt Chamberlain (62), basketball player
- October 25 — Payne Stewart (42), U.S. golfing champion
- October 31 — Greg Moore (24), CART racing driver
- November 1 — Walter Payton (45), American football player
- November 8 — Leon Štukelj (100), Slovene gymnast
- November 15 — Harry Llewellyn (88), British equestrian (b. 1911)
- December 11 — Big Ben (23), world champion show-jumping horse
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