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World Records

  • June 12 — Soviet Union's Nadezhda Olizarenko
    Nadezhda Olizarenko

    Nadezhda Fyodorovna Olizarenko is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.She competed for Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia in the 800 metres where she won the gold medal ahead of country women Olga Mineyeva and Tatyana Providokhina for a Soviet clean sweep of...
     sets the world record in the women's 800 metres, clocking 1:54.85 during a meet in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  • July 27 — Nadezhda Olizarenko
    Nadezhda Olizarenko

    Nadezhda Fyodorovna Olizarenko is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.She competed for Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia in the 800 metres where she won the gold medal ahead of country women Olga Mineyeva and Tatyana Providokhina for a Soviet clean sweep of...
     betters her own world record in the women's 800 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics
    1980 Summer Olympics

    The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Moscow in the Soviet Union....
     in Moscow, clocking 1:53.43.


Marathon

  • April 26 — Amsterdam Marathon
    Amsterdam Marathon

    The Amsterdam Marathon is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1975. It has taken place in October since the 24th edition in 1999, and has attracted many top athletes from around the world since the late 1990s, when the organizers chose a new, flatter course....
    , Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    • Men's Winner: Gerard Nijboer
      Gerard Nijboer

      Gerard Nijboer was a Netherlands athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon.He competed for the Netherlands in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 Summer Olympics , when he won the silver medal in the Men's Marathon....
       (NED) 2:09:01
    • Women's Winner: Marja Wokke
      Marja Wokke

      Marja Wokke was Holland's leading marathon Running in the 1970s, before her role was taken over by Carla Beurskens. Wokke won the inaugural Rotterdam Marathon on May 23, 1981, clocking 2:43:23....
       (NED) 2:40:15


  • December 7 — Fukuoka Marathon
    Fukuoka Marathon

    The , held in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, is a prominent international Marathon race established in 1947. It is usually held on first Sunday in December....
    , Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    • Men's Winner: Toshihiko Seko
      Toshihiko Seko

      Toshihiko Seko is a Japanese long-distance runner, a world-class marathon competitor in the 1980s. He represented his native country at the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea....
       (JPN) 2:09:45


Auto Racing

  • Stock car racing
    Stock car racing

    Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and Brazil. Traditionally, races are run on oval track racing measuring approximately ? mile to 2.66 miles length, but are also raced on road courses....
    :
    • NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt
      Dale Earnhardt

      Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's Winston Cup. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry Earnhardt, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt....
    • Buddy Baker
      Buddy Baker

      Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr. is a former United States NASCAR racecar driver....
       won the Daytona 500
      Daytona 500

      The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
  • CART Racing - Johnny Rutherford
    Johnny Rutherford

    John Sherman Rutherford, III is a retired United States of America automobile racer.The Texas-raised "Lonestar J.R." is one of eight drivers to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500 mile race at least three times: in 1974 Indianapolis 500, 1976 Indianapolis 500, and 1980 Indianapolis 500....
     won the season championship
    • Indianapolis 500
      Indianapolis 500

      The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
       - Johnny Rutherford
      Johnny Rutherford

      John Sherman Rutherford, III is a retired United States of America automobile racer.The Texas-raised "Lonestar J.R." is one of eight drivers to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500 mile race at least three times: in 1974 Indianapolis 500, 1976 Indianapolis 500, and 1980 Indianapolis 500....
  • Formula One Champion
    Formula One

    Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and currently officially referred as the FIA Formula One World Championship is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
     - Alan Jones
    Alan Jones (Formula 1)

    Alan Stanley Jones Order of the British Empire is an Australian former Formula One driver. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the WilliamsF1 team, becoming the 1980 Formula One season....
     of Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • 24 hours of Le Mans
    24 Hours of Le Mans

    The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a sports car racing endurance racing held annually since near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance, it is organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and runs on a Circuit de la Sarthe containing closed public roads that are meant not only to test a car and dr...
    : the team of Jean Rondeau
    Jean Rondeau

    Jean Rondeau was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race....
     / Jean-Pierre Jaussaud
    Jean-Pierre Jaussaud

    Jean-Pierre Jaussaud is a French people former racing driver, more famous for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980.Jaussaud started racing in automobiles in 1962, taking courses in the Jim Russell Drivers School and the Winfield Racing School....
     won, driving a Rondeau M379B
  • Rally racing - Walter Röhrl
    Walter Röhrl

    Walter R?hrl is a German rallying and auto motor-racing driver, with victories for Fiat, Opel, Lancia and Audi as well as Porsche, Ford Motor Company and BMW....
     in a Fiat
    Fiat

    Fiat S.p.A. Fiat based cars are constructed all around the world?the largest concern outside Italy is in Brazil . It also has factories in Argentina and Poland....
     won the World Rally Championship
    World Rally Championship

    The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer....
    • The team of Walter Röhrl / Christian Geistdorfer won the Monte Carlo Rally
      Monte Carlo Rally

      The Monte Carlo Rally is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organizes the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique....
       driving a Fiat 131 Abarth
      Fiat

      Fiat S.p.A. Fiat based cars are constructed all around the world?the largest concern outside Italy is in Brazil . It also has factories in Argentina and Poland....
  • Drag racing
    Drag racing

    Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a dead stop, and in a straight line....
     - Shirley Muldowney
    Shirley Muldowney

    Shirley Muldowney , the "First Lady of Drag racing" was the first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982....
     won the NHRA Top Fuel
    Top Fuel

    Top-Fuel Racing is a class of drag racing in which the cars are run on a maximum of 90% nitromethane and about 10% methanol , instead of gasoline....
     championship.
  • Touring car racing
    Touring car racing

    Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, and Australia....
     - Peter Brock
    Peter Brock

    Peter Geoffrey Brock Order of Australia otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brockie" or "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers....
     and Jim Richards
    Jim Richards (race driver)

    Jim Richards is a New Zealand racing driver who has spent most of his racing life in Australia. While retired from professional racing, Richards continues to compete in the historic category Touring Car Masters while running a team in the Australian GT Championship....
     won their third consecutive Bathurst 1000
    Bathurst 1000

    The Bathurst 1000 is a touring car racing race held annually at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was traditionally run on the first Sunday in October but is now held on the second Sunday....
    , driving a Holden Torana
    Holden Torana

    The Holden Torana was a car produced by Holden , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors . The name comes from an Indigenous Australian languages word meaning "to fly"....


Baseball

  • September 18: Outfielder
    Outfielder

    Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in baseball farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder....
     Gary Ward
    Gary Ward

    Gary Lamell Ward is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Minnesota Twins , Texas Rangers , New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers ....
     become the sixth Minnesota Twins
    Minnesota Twins

    The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Twins are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
     player to hit for the cycle
    Hitting for the cycle

    In baseball, a player hits for the cycle when he hits a single , a double , a triple and a home run in the same game, though not necessarily in that order....
    . The Twins lose 9-8 to the Milwaukee Brewers
    Milwaukee Brewers

    The Milwaukee Brewers, commonly referred to as "The Brew Crew" or simply "The Crew" by sports writers and fans, are a Major League Baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which plays in the Central Division of the National League....
    , wasting Ward's effort. On May 26, 2004
    2004 in sports

    2004 in sports was marked by the crisis in Zimbabwean cricket....
     his son, Daryle Ward
    Daryle Ward

    Daryle Lamar Ward is a Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds organization. He bats and throws left-handed....
    , will repeat the feat guiding the Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates

    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They play in the National League Central of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions and played in the first one....
    ' 11-8 victory over the Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals

    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
    . Ward joined his father to become the first father-son combination in major league history to hit for the cycle.


  • Rollie Fingers
    Rollie Fingers

    Roland Glen Fingers is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics , San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers . Fingers went to Upland High School in the city of Upland....
     breaks Hoyt Wilhelm
    Hoyt Wilhelm

    James Hoyt Wilhelm was an United States pitcher in Major League Baseball. Wilhelm was best known for his knuckleball, which enabled him to have great longevity – occasionally as a starting pitcher, but mainly as a specialist relief pitcher man ....
    's major league record of 250 saves


  • World Series
    World Series

    The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
    : The Philadelphia Phillies
    Philadelphia Phillies

    The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and are the reigning 2008 World Series champions....
     of the National League
    National League

    The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest existent professional team sports league....
     end 97 years of frustration by defeating the American League
    American League

    The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada....
     champion Kansas City Royals
    Kansas City Royals

    The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
    .


  • Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    's Sadaharu Oh
    Sadaharu Oh

    Sadaharu Oh or officially Wang Chenchih , is a former baseball player and manager of the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball and is the former manager of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks....
     retires from the Yomiuri Giants
    Yomiuri Giants

    The are a Professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League of Japan's top-tier major league, Nippon Professional Baseball, and they play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988....
     as the all time professional baseball home run king.


Basketball

  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
    NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

    The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....
    :
    • Louisville wins 59-54 over UCLA


  • NBA Finals
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
    :
    • Los Angeles Lakers
      Los Angeles Lakers

      The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
       won 4 games to 2 over the Philadelphia 76ers
      Philadelphia 76ers

      The Philadelphia 76ers are Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the National Basketball Association ....


  • National Basketball League (Australia)
    National Basketball League (Australia)

    The National Basketball League is Australia's top-level professional basketball competition.The league commenced in 1979 NBL Season, playing a winter season and did so until the completion of the 20th season in 1998 NBL Season....
     Finals:
    • St. Kilda Saints defeated the West Adelaide Bearcats
      West Adelaide Bearcats

      The West Adelaide Bearcats was a foundation club in the National Basketball League which merged with the Adelaide 36ers in 1985. Founded in 1950, it won the NBL championship 80-74 against the Geelong Supercats in 1982....
       113-88 in the final.


Boxing

  • March 14 - 22 members of the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     Olympic boxing team died in a plane crash near Warsaw, Poland
  • June 20- Roberto Duran
    Roberto Durán

    Roberto Dur?n is a retired professional boxing from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone"....
     defeats Sugar Ray Leonard
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
     by a 15 round decision to win boxing
    Boxing

    Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
    's WBC world Welterweight title.
  • August 2- Thomas Hearns
    Thomas Hearns

    Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
     defeats Jose Pipino Cuevas by a knockout in round 2 to win boxing's WBA
    World Boxing Association

    The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
     world Welterweight title and Yasutsune Uehara
    Yasutsune Uehara

    Yasutsune Uehara is a former professional boxer and former World Boxing Association super featherweight champion. He is one of the few Japanese boxers to have won the world title fighting outside of Japan....
     knocks out Samuel Serrano
    Samuel Serrano

    Samuel Serrano , nicknamed Sammy and El Torbellino, is a Puerto Rico who won boxing's world junior lightweight championship twice.Serrano, owner of long arms, began his career on October 29, 1969 with a four round decision win over Ramon Laureano....
     in round six to win the WBA's world Jr. Lightweight title in Detroit
    Detroit, Michigan

    Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
  • In Cincinnati
    Cincinnati, Ohio

    Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
    , Aaron Pryor
    Aaron Pryor

    Aaron Pryor is a former boxing from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion....
     defeats Antonio Kid Pambele Cervantes by a knockout in round four to win the WBA's world Jr. Welterweight title.
  • October 2- Larry Holmes
    Larry Holmes

    Larry Holmes is a former world heavyweight boxing champion. Holmes has spent the majority of his adult life in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the state's Lehigh Valley region, giving rise to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....
     defeats Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
     by a knockout in round eleven to retain boxing's WBC world Heavyweight title, in what would be Ali's last world title bout.
  • November 25- In The No Más Fight, in New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana

    New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
    , Sugar Ray Leonard
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
     recovers the WBC's world Welterweight championship with an eight round technical knockout of Roberto Duran
    Roberto Durán

    Roberto Dur?n is a retired professional boxing from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone"....
    .


Cycling

  • Giro d'Italia
    Giro d'Italia

    The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy....
     won by Bernard Hinault
    Bernard Hinault

    Bernard Hinault is a France cycling known for five victories in the Tour de France. He is one of only five cyclists to have won all three Grand Tour s, and the only cyclist to have won each more than once....
     of France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Tour de France
    Tour de France

    The Tour de France is a bicycle racing over more than . It is held every year. It is held in France and visits a bordering country every year. It usually lasts 23 days....
     - Joop Zoetemelk
    Joop Zoetemelk

    Hendrik Gerardus Jozef "Joop" Zoetemelk is a retired cyclist from The Netherlands.Zoetemelk turned professional after winning a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City in the 100km team time-trial with Fedor den Hertog, Jan Krekels and Ren? Pijnen....
     of the Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  • World Cycling Championship
    World Cycling Championship

    The UCI Road World Championships, often referred to as the World Cycling Championships, is the annual world championship for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale ....
    : Bernard Hinault
    Bernard Hinault

    Bernard Hinault is a France cycling known for five victories in the Tour de France. He is one of only five cyclists to have won all three Grand Tour s, and the only cyclist to have won each more than once....
     of France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....


Field Hockey

  • Men's Champions Trophy in Karachi
    Karachi

    is the largest city, seaport and the International financial centre of Pakistan. It is List of metropolitan areas by population in terms of metropolitan population, and is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade....
    , Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    • Gold Medal: Pakistan
    • Silver Medal: West Germany
    • Bronze Medal: Australia


  • Olympic Games (Men's Competition) in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    • Gold Medal: India
    • Silver Medal: Spain
    • Bronze Medal: Soviet Union


  • Olympic Games (Women's Competition) in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    • Gold Medal: Zimbabwe
    • Silver Medal: Czechoslovakia
    • Bronze Medal: Soviet Union


  • March 8 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. England beat Scotland 2-0.


Figure skating

  • World Figure Skating Championships
    World Figure Skating Championships

    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skating compete for the title of World Champion....
    :
    • Men's champion: Jan Hoffmann
      Jan Hoffmann

      Jan Hoffmann is a Germany figure skating, two-time World Champion and silver medallist at the 1980 Winter Olympics....
      , Germany
      Germany

      Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    • Ladies' champion: Anett Pötzsch
      Anett Pötzsch

      Anett P?tzsch is a Germany figure skater. P?tzsch was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR ....
      , Germany
      Germany

      Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    • Pair skating champions: Marina Cherkasova
      Marina Cherkasova

      Marina Cherkasova was a Russian Figure skating. She won the silver medal in pair skating with her partner Sergei Shakrai.Cherkasova and Shakrai trained in Moscow with Stanislav Zhuk....
       & Sergei Shakhrai
      Sergei Shakhrai

      Sergei Shakhrai was a Russian Figure skating. He won the silver medal in pair skating with his partner Marina Cherkasova.Cherkasova and Shakhrai trained in Moscow under the supervision of their coach, Stanislaw Schuck....
      , Soviet Union
      Soviet Union

      The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    • Ice dancing champions: Krisztina Regöczy
      Krisztina Regöczy

      Krisztina Reg?czy is a former figure skating from Hungary. She competed in ice dancing with Andras Sallay. The pair won the gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and the silver at that year's 1980 Winter Olympics....
       & Andras Sallay
      Andras Sallay

      Andras Sallay is a former figure skating from Hungary. He competed in ice dancing with Krisztina Reg?czy. The pair won a gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and a silver at that year's 1980 Winter Olympics....
      , Hungary
      Hungary

      Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....


Football (American)

  • Super Bowl XIV
    Super Bowl XIV

    Super Bowl XIV was an American football game played on January 20, 1980 at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League champion following the 1979 NFL season....
    : Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
     won 31-19 over the Los Angeles Rams


Football (Australian rules football)

  • Victorian Football League
    Victorian Football League

    The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria. It is also known as the VFA/VFL, is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, formed in 1877, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the Australian Rules Football - Early...
    • Richmond
      Richmond Football Club

      Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, competes in the Australian Football League. Considered one of the "big four" Melbourne clubs, Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton Football Club, Collingwood Football Club and Essendon Football Club....
       wins the 84th VFL Premiership (Richmond 23.21 (159) d Collingwood
      Collingwood Football Club

      Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League....
       9.24 (78))
    • Brownlow Medal
      Brownlow Medal

      The Chas Brownlow Trophy ? better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating umpires after each game....
       awarded to Kelvin Templeton
      Kelvin Templeton

      Kelvin Templeton is a former Australian rules footballer.Templeton was recruited from Traralgon, Victoria in 1974 by the Footscray FC. He led the league's goalkicking on two occasions and was the winner of the Brownlow Medal in 1980, becoming the first player who regularly played at Football positions#Centre Half-forward to win the award....
       (Footscray)


Football (Canadian)

  • Grey Cup
    Grey Cup

    The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team....
    : Edmonton Eskimos
    Edmonton Eskimos

    The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian Football League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They have won the league's Grey Cup championship thirteen times, including an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in 2005 Grey Cup....
     win 48-10 over the Hamilton Tigercats
  • Vanier Cup
    Vanier Cup

    The Vanier Cup is the name of the championship of Canadian Interuniversity Sport CIS football and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team....
    : Alberta Golden Bears
    Alberta Golden Bears

    The Alberta Golden Bears are the men's athletic teams that represent the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The women's teams are known as the Alberta Pandas....
     win 40-21 over the Ottawa Gee-Gees


Football (Soccer)

For an extensive coverage see 1980 in football (soccer)
1980 in football (soccer)

The following are the football events of the year 1980 throughout the world....
  • European Championship: West Germany
    Germany national football team

    The German national football team is the association football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908....
     2-1 Belgium
    Belgium national football team

    The Belgium national football team is the national football team of Belgium and is controlled by the Belgian Football Association....
  • European Cup
    UEFA Champions League

    The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
    : Nottingham Forest
    Nottingham Forest F.C.

    Nottingham Forest F.C. is an England professional Football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham. It is currently playing in the second tier of English league football, Football League Championship....
     1-0 Hamburg
    Hamburger SV

    Hamburger SV is a Germany multi sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch is the List of football clubs in Germany. The football team is one of the country's oldest, most well known and best performing clubs, with the unique distinction of having played continuously in top-flight German football since the end of World War I....
  • UEFA Cup
    UEFA Cup

    The UEFA Cup is a association football competition for European club teams, organised by the UEFA. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League....
    : 2 legs, Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Borussia Mönchengladbach

    Borussia M?nchengladbach, is a Germany football List of football clubs in Germany based in M?nchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the first division Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, best-supported, and successful teams....
     3-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
    Eintracht Frankfurt

    Eintracht Frankfurt is a Germany sports club, based in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse that is best known for its football List of football clubs in Germany....
    ; Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach, 3-3 on aggregate, Frankfurt win on away goals
    Away goals rule

    The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaker in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground....
  • Cup Winners' Cup: Valencia
    Valencia CF

    Valencia Club de F?tbol is a Spain professional Association football football team based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Football in Spain....
     0-0 Arsenal
    Arsenal F.C.

    Arsenal Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London, North London. They play in the Premier League and are one of the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in Football in England, having won thirteen Football League First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cup...
     (AET), Valencia won 5-4 on penalties
  • England - FA Cup
    FA Cup

    The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
    : West Ham United
    West Ham United F.C.

    West Ham United Football Club is an England association football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London, England. They have played their home matches at the Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904....
     won 1-0 over Arsenal
    Arsenal F.C.

    Arsenal Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London, North London. They play in the Premier League and are one of the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in Football in England, having won thirteen Football League First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cup...
Newport County AFC win Welsh Cup for first time.

Gaelic Athletic Association

  • Camogie
    Camogie

    Camogie is a Modern Celts team sport. Played with a stick and ball, it is the women's variant of hurling, and is organised by the Camogie Association of Ireland....
    • All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Cork
      Cork GAA

      The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Cork....
    • National Camogie League: Kilkenny
      Kilkenny GAA

      The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny....


  • Gaelic football
    Gaelic football

    Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football", "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. It is, together with hurling, one of the two most popular spectator sports in Ireland today....
    • All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
      All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

      The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. The series of games are organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Football Final being played on the third or fourth Sunday in September in Crok...
      : Kerry
      Kerry GAA

      The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....
       1-9 d. Roscommon
      Roscommon GAA

      For more details of Roscommon GAA see Roscommon Senior Club Football Championship or Roscommon Senior Club Hurling Championship.The Roscommon County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Roscommon GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Roscommon....
       1-6
    • National Football League
      National Football League (Ireland)

      The National Football League is a Gaelic football tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
      : Cork
      Cork GAA

      The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Cork....
       0-11 d. Kerry
      Kerry GAA

      The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....
       0-10


  • Ladies' Gaelic football
    Ladies' Gaelic football

    Ladies' Gaelic Football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and coordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. It is the most prominent amateur team sport for women in Ireland....
    • All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Tipperary
      Tipperary GAA

      The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary....
    • National Football League: Kerry
      Kerry GAA

      The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....


  • Hurling
    Hurling

    Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
    • All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
      All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

      The GAA All-Ireland Hurling Senior Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of hurling played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Hurling Final being played on the first or second Sunday in September in Croke Park, D...
      : Galway
      Galway GAA

      The Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Galway GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway....
       2-15 d. Limerick
      Limerick GAA

      The Limerick County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Limerick GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Limerick....
       3-9
    • National Hurling League
      National Hurling League

      The National Hurling League is a hurling tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
      :


Golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 

Men's professional
  • January - the Senior PGA Tour (now called Champions Tour) is founded.
  • April 10-13 - Masters Tournament - Seve Ballesteros
    Severiano Ballesteros

    Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros is a Spain professional golfer and former Chronological list of World Number One male golfers, who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s....
  • June 12-15 - U.S. Open
    U.S. Open (golf)

    The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
     - Jack Nicklaus
    Jack Nicklaus

    Jack William Nicklaus , also known as "The Golden Bear", is one of the most successful professional golfers of all time. Nicklaus currently holds the record for the most victories in major championships....
  • July 17-20 - British Open
    The Open Championship

    The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
     - Tom Watson
    Tom Watson (golfer)

    Thomas Sturges "Tom" Watson is an United States golfer on the Champions Tour, who still occasionally competes in PGA Tour events.In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight Men's major golf championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times....
  • August 7-10 - PGA Championship
    PGA Championship

    The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
     - Jack Nicklaus
    Jack Nicklaus

    Jack William Nicklaus , also known as "The Golden Bear", is one of the most successful professional golfers of all time. Nicklaus currently holds the record for the most victories in major championships....
  • PGA Tour
    PGA Tour

    The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
     money leader - Tom Watson
    Tom Watson (golfer)

    Thomas Sturges "Tom" Watson is an United States golfer on the Champions Tour, who still occasionally competes in PGA Tour events.In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight Men's major golf championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times....
     - $530,808
  • Senior PGA Tour
    Champions Tour

    The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older....
     - money leader - Don January - $44,100
Men's amateur
  • British Amateur
    The Amateur Championship

    The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held in the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, it is often known as the "British Amateur" or the "British Amateur Championship"....
     - Duncan Evans
  • U.S. Amateur - Hal Sutton
    Hal Sutton

    Hal Evan Sutton is an United States professional golfer.Sutton was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. A promising golfer at the Centenary College of Louisiana, he was named Golf Magazines 1980 College Player of the Year....
Women's professional
  • LPGA Championship
    LPGA Championship

    The LPGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U.S....
     - Sally Little
    Sally Little

    Sally Little is a professional golfer. She originally had South African nationality, but became a United States citizen in August 1982.Little was born in Cape Town, South Africa....
  • July 10-13 - U.S. Women's Open
    United States Women's Open Championship (golf)

    The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association , is one of the LPGA's women's major golf championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Women's British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship....
     - Amy Alcott
    Amy Alcott

    Amy Alcott is an United States professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1975 and won 5 women's major golf championships and twenty-nine LPGA Tour victories in all....
  • Classique Peter Jackson Classic - Pat Bradley
  • LPGA Tour
    LPGA

    The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters are in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that runs from Feb...
     money leader - Beth Daniel
    Beth Daniel

    Beth Daniel is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 1 women's major golf championships and thirty-three LPGA Tour victories in all....
     - $231,000


Horse racing


Thoroughbred Horse Racing

  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     - Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup

    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is a race for three-year-olds and over, over a distance of 3,200 metres....
     - Beldale Ball
  • Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     - Queen's Plate
    Queen's Plate

    The Queen's Plate is North America oldest thoroughbred horse race. It is run at a distance of 1? miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses foaled in Canada....
     - Driving Home
  • France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
    Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

    The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older....
     - Detroit
  • Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     - Irish Derby Stakes
    Irish Derby Stakes

    The Irish Derby is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the Republic of Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred Colt and Filly. It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs at the Curragh Racecourse, County Kildare, and it takes place annually in late June or early July....
     - Tyrnavos
    Tyrnavos

    Tyrnavos or Tirnavos is a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture, of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece. Its population was 16,900 ....


  • English Triple Crown Races
    Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

    The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
    :
    1. 2,000 Guineas Stakes - Known Fact
    2. Epsom Derby
      Epsom Derby

      The Derby Stakes, known colloquially as The Derby or internationally as the Epsom Derby, is considered one of the most prestigious flat thoroughbred horse races in the world....
       - Henbit
      Henbit (horse)

      Henbit was an American-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing, winner of the Epsom Derby in 1980.References ...
    3. St. Leger Stakes
      St. Leger Stakes

      The St. Leger Stakes is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the United Kingdom open to three-year-old thoroughbred Colt and Filly. It is run over a distance of 1 mile 6 furlongs and 132 yards at Doncaster Racecourse, and it takes place annually in September....
       - Light Cavalry


  • United States Triple Crown Races
    Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

    The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
    :
    1. May 3 - Kentucky Derby
      Kentucky Derby

      The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
       - Genuine Risk
      Genuine Risk

      Genuine Risk was a Chestnut mare who won the 1980 Kentucky Derby and was the first filly to ever finish in the money in all three Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United States races....
    2. Preakness Stakes
      Preakness Stakes

      The Preakness Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race 1-3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland....
       - Codex
    3. Belmont Stakes
      Belmont Stakes

      The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious United States Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes....
       - Temperance Hill


Harness Racing

  • Superhorse, Niatross
    Niatross

    Niatross was a champion standardbred horse race horse who many believe was the greatest harness horse of all time.The son of Albatross out of the mare Niagara Dream, Niatross was born on March 30, 1977....
     wins the United States Pacing Triple Crown races
    Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers

    The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers consists of the following Harness racing:#Cane Pace, held at Freehold Raceway in Freehold, New Jersey...
    :
    1. Cane Pace
      Cane Pace

      The Cane Pace is a harness racing run annually since 1955 in sports. In 1956 in sports the race joined with the Little Brown Jug and the Messenger Stakes to become the first leg in the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers....
       - Niatross
      Niatross

      Niatross was a champion standardbred horse race horse who many believe was the greatest harness horse of all time.The son of Albatross out of the mare Niagara Dream, Niatross was born on March 30, 1977....
    2. Little Brown Jug
      Little Brown Jug

      Little Brown Jug can refer to:*Little Brown Jug , an 1869 song by Joseph Winner. Most or all other uses of this phrase are named after this famous song....
       - Niatross
      Niatross

      Niatross was a champion standardbred horse race horse who many believe was the greatest harness horse of all time.The son of Albatross out of the mare Niagara Dream, Niatross was born on March 30, 1977....
    3. Messenger Stakes
      Messenger Stakes

      The Messenger Stakes is an United States harness racing event for 3-year-old pacing horses. It was organized in 1956 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York, New York to join with the Cane Pace and the Little Brown Jug to create the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers....
       - Niatross
      Niatross

      Niatross was a champion standardbred horse race horse who many believe was the greatest harness horse of all time.The son of Albatross out of the mare Niagara Dream, Niatross was born on March 30, 1977....


  • United States Trotting Triple Crown races
    Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters

    The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters consists of the following Harness racing:# Hambletonian, held at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey...
    :
    1. Hambletonian
      Hambletonian

      Hambletonian A great grandson of the imported English Thoroughbred Messenger profoundly influenced the sport of harness racing. On May 5, 1849, Hambletonian was born in...
       - Burgomeister
    2. Yonkers Trot
      Yonkers Trot

      The Yonkers Trot is a harness racing for three-year old trotting standardbreds held at Yonkers Raceway in New York. Starting in 2008, it is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters....
    3. Kentucky Futurity
      Kentucky Futurity

      The Kentucky Futurity is a stakes race for three-year-old trotting horse, held annually at The Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky since 1893. It is part of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters....


  • Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
    • Pacers: Koala King
    • Trotters: Hano Direct


Ice Hockey

See 1980 in ice hockey
1980 in ice hockey

National Hockey League*Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the National Hockey League's leading scorer during the regular season: Marcel Dionne, Los Angeles Kings...


Radiosport

  • First Amateur Radio Direction Finding
    Amateur Radio Direction Finding

    Amateur radio direction finding is an amateur racing sport that combines radio direction finding with the map and compass skills of orienteering....
     World Championships held in Cetniewo, Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    .


Skiing

  • Alpine Skiing
    Alpine skiing

    Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
    • The men's overall season champion: Andreas Wenzel
      Andreas Wenzel

      Andreas Wenzel is a former Alpine skiing from Liechtenstein. Together with his sister Hanni Wenzel he was active in the World Cup in the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s....
      , Liechtenstein
      Liechtenstein

      The Principality of Liechtenstein is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked country alpine country microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east....
    • The women's overall season champion: Hanni Wenzel
      Hanni Wenzel

      Hanni Wenzel is a former alpine skiing from Liechtenstein. She won the country's first Olympic Games medal at the Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck ....
      , Liechtenstein
      Liechtenstein

      The Principality of Liechtenstein is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked country alpine country microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east....


January 12 - Canada’s
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 Ken Read
Ken Read

Kenneth John "Ken" Read, Order of Canada is a retired Canadian Alpine skiing. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Read was raised in Vancouver, Kingston and Calgary and began skiing at age 3 and competing at age 8....
, the leader of the "Crazy Canucks
Crazy Canucks

The Crazy Canucks was a group of Canada Alpine skiing who rose to prominence in the Alpine Skiing World Cup during the 1970s and 80s. Dave Irwin, Dave Murray , Steve Podborski and Ken Read earned themselves a reputation for fast and seemingly reckless skiing....
" ski team, wins the Hahnenkamm downhill
Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel

The Hahnenkamm is a mountain in Austria, directly south of Kitzb?hel, in the Kitzb?hel Alps. Its summit reaches an elevation of 5617 feet AMSL....
 in Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel

Kitzb?hel is a city rights in Tyrol, Austria, situated along the river Kitzb?hler Ache, now best known as a ski resort. It is the administrative centre of the district Kitzb?hel ....
, Austria, becoming the first North American to ever win the classic race.

Snooker

  • World Snooker Championship
    World Snooker Championship

    The World Snooker Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre in the English city of Sheffield, is the climax of snooker's annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and Snooker world rankings....
    : Cliff Thorburn
    Cliff Thorburn

    Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn, Order of Canada is a retired professional Canada snooker player. A former world number one , he reached three world finals and won one of them making him the only player outside the British isles to win the world title in the modern era....
     beats Alex Higgins
    Alex Higgins

    Alexander Gordon Higgins , best known as Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, is a professional snooker player from Northern Ireland, who was twice World Snooker Championship and runner-up on two occasions....
     18-16, becoming the first non-UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     player to win the title
  • World rankings
    Snooker world rankings

    The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments....
    : Ray Reardon
    Ray Reardon

    Ray Reardon, MBE is a retired Wales snooker player. He dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning six World Snooker Championship in that decade....
     remains world number one
    Snooker world number ones

    Below is a List of snooker players who have number 1 in the world rankings.Since the snooker world rankings began in 1976 only seven players have held the number one position - Ray Reardon, Cliff Thorburn, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins , Mark J....
     for 1980/81


Swimming


Events

  • XXII Olympic Games
    Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

    Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics....
    , held in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
     (July 20 – July 27)


Records

  • February 2 — USA's Chris Cavanaugh
    Chris Cavanaugh (swimmer)

    Christopher Carl Cavanaugh is an United States swimming and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he received a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle swimming relay....
     sets a world record in the 50m freestyle (long course) at a swimming meet in Amersfoort
    Amersfoort

    Media:Nl-Amersfoort.ogg is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly and has a well-preserved medieval core....
    , Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    , shaving off 0.04 of the previous record (23.70) set by Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    's Klaus Steinbach
    Klaus Steinbach

    Klaus Steinbach is a former freestyle swimming swimming from Germany, who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay in the 1972 Summer Olympics along with Werner Lampe, Hans-G?nter Vosseler and Hans-Joachim Fassnacht, and a bronze medal in the 4x100 m medley relay in t...
     nearly a year ago: 23.66.


  • April 10 — Chris Cavanaugh
    Chris Cavanaugh (swimmer)

    Christopher Carl Cavanaugh is an United States swimming and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he received a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle swimming relay....
     betters his own world record in the 50m freestyle (long course) at a swimming meet in Austin, Texas
    Austin, Texas

    Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
     (USA): 23.12. At the same event (and on the same day), two other swimmers from the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , Rowdy Gaines
    Rowdy Gaines

    Ambrose Gaines IV is a former United States swimmer, U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame member, Olympic Games three-time gold medalist, and member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame....
     and Bruce Stahl, go under his time, clocking 22.96 and 22.83 respectively.


  • August 15 — USA's Joe Bottom
    Joe Bottom

    Joseph Stuart Bottom is an American, Hall of Fame swimmer and one time world record holder in 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly and 4×100 meter freestyle relay....
     betters the world record in the 50m freestyle (long course) at a meet in Honolulu, Hawaii
    Honolulu, Hawaii

    Honolulu is the Capital and most populous census-designated place in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and the county are consolidated, known as the Honolulu County, Hawaii, and the city and county is designated as the entire island....
    , shaving off 0.12 of the previous record (22.83) set by Bruce Stahl four months earlier: 22.71.


Tennis

  • Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
    1. Australian Open
      Australian Open

      The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
       - Brian Teacher
      Brian Teacher

      Brian David Teacher is a former professional American male tennis player. He reached World No. 7 in 1981....
    2. French Open - Björn Borg
      Björn Borg

      is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Sweden who is widely regarded by observers and tennis players as one of the greatest players in the sport's history....
    3. Wimbledon championships - Björn Borg
      Björn Borg

      is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Sweden who is widely regarded by observers and tennis players as one of the greatest players in the sport's history....
    4. US Open - John McEnroe
      John McEnroe

      John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is an American former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player. McEnroe won seven Grand Slam title singles titles?three at Wimbledon Championships and four at the U.S....


  • Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
    1. Australian Open
      Australian Open

      The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
       - Hana Mandlikova
      Hana Mandlíková

      Hana Mandl?kov? is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles ? two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open ....
    2. French Open - Chris Evert
      Chris Evert

      Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
    3. Wimbledon championships - Evonne Goolagong Cawley
      Evonne Goolagong

      Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is a former World No. 1 Australian female tennis player. She was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s, when she won 14 Grand Slam title titles: seven in singles , six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles....
    4. US Open - Chris Evert
      Chris Evert

      Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....


  • Davis Cup
    Davis Cup

    The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
     World tennis - Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
     defeated Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     4-1.


Yacht racing

  • The New York Yacht Club
    New York Yacht Club

    The New York Yacht Club is a private yacht club based in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1844, it is one of the world's most distinguished and influential yachting institutions....
     retains the America's Cup
    America's Cup

    The America?s Cup is the most prestigious regatta and match race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, predating the Summer Olympics by 45 years....
     as Freedom
    Freedom (yacht)

    The 12-metre class yacht Freedom won the America's Cup in 1980, defeating the challenging yacht Australia . The Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Sparkman & Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard....
     defeats challenger Australia, of the Royal Perth Yacht Club
    Royal Perth Yacht Club

    The Royal Perth Yacht Club is a yacht club in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. This club staged the unsuccessful 1987 America's Cup defence at Fremantle following the 1983 victory at Newport, USA, of Australia II—ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the event....
    , 4 races to 1


Water polo
Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....


Men's Competition

  • Olympic Games
    Water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

    Water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the swimming sport, other two parts were Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics....
     in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    • Gold Medal:
    • Silver Medal:
    • Bronze Medal:


Women's Competition

  • FINA World Cup
    1980 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup

    The FINA Water Polo World Cup was the second edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation ....
     in Breda
    Breda

    Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the place where the rivers Mark and Aa River come together....
    , Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    • Gold Medal:
    • Silver Medal:
    • Bronze Medal:


General sporting events

  • 1980 Summer Olympics
    1980 Summer Olympics

    The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Moscow in the Soviet Union....
     takes place in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , USSR
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    • USSR
      Soviet Union

      The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
       wins the most medals (195), and the most gold medals (80).


  • 1980 Winter Olympics
    1980 Winter Olympics

    The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in February 13 through February 24, 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, New York, United States....
     takes place in Lake Placid
    Lake Placid, New York

    Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....
    , United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    • GDR
      German Democratic Republic

      The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
       wins the most medals (23), and the USSR
      Soviet Union

      The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
       wins the most gold medals (10).


  • Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
    • Joe May won with lead dogs: Wilbur & Cora Gray


Awards

  • ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year: U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
    Associated Press Athlete of the Year

    The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
    : U.S. Olympic hockey team
    Miracle on Ice

    The "Miracle on Ice" is the nickname given to a February 22 medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States, led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union team, who were considered to be the best international hockey team in the world, 4–3...
    , Amateur Ice Hockey
    Ice hockey

    Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
  • Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
    Associated Press Athlete of the Year

    The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
    : Chris Evert
    Chris Evert

    Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
    , Tennis
    Tennis

    Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....


Births


January
  • January 3 — Frauke Dirickx
    Frauke Dirickx

    Frauke Dirickx is a female volleyball Player from Belgium. She finished in seventh place with the Belgium women's national volleyball team at the 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg....
    , Belgian volleyball player
  • January 3 — Angela Ruggiero
    Angela Ruggiero

    Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey Defenceman . She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice 6....
    , American ice hockey defenseman
  • January 5 — Andréa Henriques
    Andréa Henriques

    Andr?a Guida Berlanga Henriques is a female water polo Player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games....
    , Brazilian water polo player
  • January 9 — Iohana Cruz
    Iohana Cruz

    Iohana Cruz Talabera is a female diving from Cuba. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 . Cruz won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games alongside Yolanda Ortiz in the Women's 10m Platform Synchro event....
    , Cuban diver
  • January 11 — Mieke de Boer
    Mieke de Boer

    Mieke de Boer is a female darts player from the Netherlands, who is nicknamed Bambie.In 2002 she won the Women's World Darts Trophy, beating Karin Krappen in the quarter finals and then Francis Hoenselaar in the semi finals before beating Crissy Manley in the final....
    , Dutch darts player
  • January 12 — Andriy Fedchuk
    Andriy Fedchuk

    Andriy Vasylovych Fedchuk is a boxing from Ukraine, who won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
    , Ukrainian boxer
  • January 12 — Akiko Morigami
    Akiko Morigami

    Akiko Morigami is a Japanese people female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No....
    , Japanese female tennis player
  • January 14 — Taeke Taekema
    Taeke Taekema

    Taeke Wiebe Doekes Taekema is a Netherlands field hockey player, who won the silver medal with the national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Dutch field hockey player
  • January 17 — Natalia Soutiagina
    Natalia Soutiagina

    Nataliya Sutyagina is a butterfly swimming swimmer from Russia, who won the gold medal in the 50 m Butterfly at the European LC Championships 2004....
    , Russian butterfly swimmer
  • January 19 — Jenson Button
    Jenson Button

    Jenson Alexander Lyons Button is a United Kingdom Formula One racing driver from England. He currently drives for the Brawn GP team. He won his first Grand Prix in 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, on 6 August 2006 after 113 races....
    , British Formula 1-driver
  • January 19 — Matic Osovnikar
    Matic Osovnikar

    Matic Osovnikar is a Slovenian athlete specializing in the 100 metres.Osovnikar competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics where he achieved third place in his 100 metres heat, thus making through to the second round but narrowly missed out on a placing in the semi-finals after achieving fourth place in his second round heat....
    , Slovenian track and field athlete
  • January 22 — Amy Cotton
    Amy Cotton

    Amy Cotton is a female judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's half heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....
    , Canadian judoka
  • January 24 — Yordanis Arencibia
    Yordanis Arencibia

    Yordanis Arencibia Verdecia is a Cuban judoka.At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's half-lightweight category, together with Georgi Georgiev of Bulgaria....
    , Cuban judoka
  • January 25 — Xavi Hernández, Spanish football (soccer) player
  • January 25 — Fernando Jácome
    Fernando Jácome

    Fernando Jos? J?come Clavijo is a Freestyle swimming swimmer from Colombia who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia for his native country....
    , Colombian freestyle swimmer
  • January 25 — Christian Olsson
    Christian Olsson

    |- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center! colspan="3" | EAA European ChampionshipsChristian Olsson is an Athletics competing in high jump and triple jump....
    , Swedish athlete
  • January 27 — Sherzod Husanov
    Sherzod Husanov

    Sherzod Husanov is a Boxing from Uzbekistan, whorepatedly medalled at world championships....
    , Uzbek boxer
  • January 27 — Marat Safin
    Marat Safin

    Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a Russian former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player. He is the older brother of Women's Tennis Association player Dinara Safina....
    , Russian tennis player
  • January 27 — Jirí Welsch
    Jirí Welsch

    Jir? Welsch is a Czech people professional basketball player. He is currently with the pro club CB M?laga of the Spanish Asociaci?n de Clubs de Baloncesto....
    , Czech basketball player


February
  • February 2 — Kyle Pontifex
    Kyle Pontifex

    Kyle Marshall Pontifex is a field hockey goalkeeper from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 2001 against Malaysia....
    , New Zealand field hockey goalkeeper
  • February 3 — Craig Victory
    Craig Victory

    Craig Victory is a field hockey striker from Australia, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
    , Australian field hockey player
  • February 6 — James Gibson
    James Gibson (swimmer)

    James Gibson Order of the British Empire is an England swimmer.Born in Chelmsford, Essex, and raised in Witham, Gibson's specialism is breaststroke and he competes in the 50 metre, 100 metre and 200 metre events....
    , British breaststroke swimmer
  • February 8 — Miguel Angel Pichardo
    Miguel Angel Pichardo

    Miguel Angel Pichardo Sosa is a professional basketball player. He is 6 ft 9 and plays Center . Pichardo is member of the Dominican Republic national basketball team....
    , Dominican Republic basketball player
  • February 8 — Maja Simanic
    Maja Simanic

    Maja Simanic is a female volleyball player from Serbia, playing as a setter. She was a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg....
    , Serbian volleyball player
  • February 9 — Angelos Charisteas
    Angelos Charisteas

    Angelos Charisteas is a Greece football striker who currently plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen on loan from 1. FC Nuremberg. He is a member of the Greece national football team and played in the 2004 European Football Championship, in which Greece was triumphant, scoring the winning goal in the final against Portugal national football team....
    , Greek football (soccer) player
  • February 10 — Gordon D'Arcy
    Gordon D'Arcy

    Gordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby team player, more specifically an Rugby union positions#12. Inside centre & 13. Outside centre. He plays his club rugby for the Irish provincial and Magners League side Leinster....
    , Irish rugby player
  • February 10 — Mark Ralph
    Mark Ralph

    Mark Ralph is a field hockey midfield player from Scotland, who earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 2001. He plays club hockey for Kelburne HC....
    , Scottish field hockey midfielder
  • February 11 — Karin Ruckstuhl
    Karin Ruckstuhl

    Karin Nathalie Ruckstuhl is a Netherlands heptathlete.She is currently ranked second in the world, behind World and Olympic champion Carolina Kl?ft of Sweden....
    , Dutch athlete
  • February 12 — Juan Carlos Ferrero
    Juan Carlos Ferrero

    Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no....
    , Spanish tennis player
  • February 13 — Tetyana Holovchenko
    Tetyana Holovchenko

    Tetyana Holovchenko is a Ukraine middle/long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres....
    , Ukrainian middle/long-distance runner
  • February 14 — Michael Mayer, German volleyball player
  • February 16 — Miguel Espino
    Miguel Espino

    Miguel Angel Espino is a professional boxing....
    , American professional boxer
  • February 19 — Spyridon Gianniotis
    Spyridon Gianniotis

    Spyridon Gianniotis is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Greece, who was born in England. He won three individual medals at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, and represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000....
    , Greek freestyle swimmer
  • February 19 — Ma Lin
    Ma Lin (table tennis)

    Ma Lin is a male table tennis player born in the Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. He is the world's number two ranked player as of December 2, 2008 in the International Table Tennis Federation ....
    , Chinese table tennis player
  • February 20 — Imanol Harinordoquy
    Imanol Harinordoquy

    Imanol Harinordoquy is a Basque people rugby union player who typically plays as a Rugby union positions#8. Number eight for France national rugby union team internationally and Biarritz Olympique at club level....
    , French rugby player
  • February 20 — Bram Som
    Bram Som

    Bram Som is a Netherlands runner who specializes in the 800 metres. His personal best time of 1:43.45 minutes, achieved in August 2006 in Z?rich, is also the current Dutch National Record....
    , Dutch track and field athlete
  • February 21 — Yannick Lupien
    Yannick Lupien

    Yannick Lupien is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
    , Canadian freestyle swimmer
  • February 21 — Takayuki Matsumiya
    Takayuki Matsumiya

    Takayuki Matsumiya, in japanese ????, was born on 21 February 1980 in Akita Prefecture and is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in marathon races....
    , Japanese long-distance runner
  • February 22 — Erzsebet Viski
    Erzsebet Viski

    Erzs?bet Viski is a Hungary canoe racing who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event ....
    , Hungarian canoer
  • February 23 — Diego Avila
    Diego Avila

    Diego Avila is a field hockey midfielder from Argentina, who was a member of the Argentina national field hockey team that competed at the 2003 Men's Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
    , Argentine field hockey midfielder
  • February 24 — Laurence Docherty
    Laurence Docherty

    Laurence Docherty is a Netherlands field hockey player of Scotland origin.Docherty applied for the Dutch nationality in an attempt to play for the Netherlands national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Dutch-Scottish field hockey player
  • February 24 — Roman Sloudnov
    Roman Sloudnov

    Roman Andreyevich Sloudnov is a Russian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 m Breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Sloudnov was also the first male to break the "magic" one minute barrier for the 100 m breaststroke, clocking a 59.97 in the final of the 100 m breaststroke at the Russian National Championships and World Championsh...
    , Russian swimmer
  • February 26 — Alex Fong
    Alex Fong

    Alex Fong may refer to:*Alex Fong Chung-Sun , Hong Kong TV and film actor*Alex Fong Lik-Sun , professional swimmer-turned-actor and singer based in Hong Kong...
    , Hong Kong swimmer and actor
  • February 26 — Hitomi Kashima
    Hitomi Kashima

    Hitomi Kashima is a retired female Butterfly swimming swimmer from Japan. She represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
    , Japanese butterfly swimmer
  • February 27 — Caroline Delas
    Caroline Delas

    Caroline Delas is a female competition Sport rowing from France. A silver medal winner at the 2005 Mediterranean Games she represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , French rower
  • February 28 — Pascal Bosschaart
    Pascal Bosschaart

    Pascal Bosschaart is a Netherlands football who plays as a defender and midfielder for ADO Den Haag. Strangely, he has never scored a goal in his long and relatively successful career....
    , Dutch football (soccer) player


March
  • March 1 — Shahid Afridi
    Shahid Afridi

    Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi , popularly known as Shahid Afridi , is a Pakistani cricketer currently playing for the Pakistan cricket team....
    , Pakistani cricketer
  • March 5 — Ágnes Primász
    Ágnes Primász

    ?gnes Prim?sz is a female water polo player from Hungary, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Prim?sz became topscorer with fourteen goals at the 2001 Women's European Water Polo Championship in Budapest, Hungary, where she claimed the title with the Hungary women's national water polo team....
    , Hungarian water polo player
  • March 6 — Emma Igelström
    Emma Igelström

    Emma Igelstr?m is a former breaststroke swimming and European record holder from Sweden. She quit her career because of Bulimia nervosa....
    , Swedish swimmer
  • March 9 — Sofia Konoukh
    Sofia Konoukh

    Sofia Evgenevna Konukh is a Russian water polo player, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic women's tournament in history....
    , Russian water polo player
  • March 12 — California Molefe
    California Molefe

    California Molefe is a Botswana Sprint runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal....
    , Botswanan athlete
  • March 12 — Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov

    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team....
    , Bulgarian volleyball player
  • March 13 — Linda Clement
    Linda Clement

    Linda Clement is a female field hockey forward and midfielder from Scotland. She plays club hockey for Bonagrass Grove, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 1999....
    , Scottish field hockey player
  • March 13 — Erin Gammel
    Erin Gammel

    Erin Gammel is an international backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Canadian backstroke swimmer
  • March 15 — Deidra Graham, American gymnast
  • March 15 — Josefin Lillhage
    Josefin Lillhage

    Josefin Lillhage is a freestyle swimmingswimmer from Sweden, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal....
    , Swedish swimmer
  • March 18 — Alexei Yagudin
    Alexei Yagudin

    Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin is a Russian figure skater. Born in Leningrad , Yagudin is the 2002 Winter Olympics as well as a four-time World Figure Skating Championships, a two-time World Professional Figure Skating Championships, a three-time European Figure Skating Championships, and three-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist....
    , Russian figure skater
  • March 19 — Johan Olsson
    Johan Olsson (cross country skier)

    Johan Olsson is a Sweden cross country skiing who raced since 1998. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and also finished 6th in the 15km event at those same Olympics....
    , Swedish cross-country skier
  • March 20 — Tinka Dancevic
    Tinka Dancevic

    Tinka Dancevic is a retired female Butterfly swimming swimmer from Croatia, who twice competed for her native country in the women's 200m butterfly event at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000....
    , Croatian butterfly swimmer
  • March 20 — Mohamed Ali Sassi
    Mohamed Ali Sassi

    Mohamed Ali Sassi is a Boxing from Tunisia. He represented his native North African country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he was stopped in the first round of the Men's Light-Welterweight competition by France's Willy Blain....
    , Tunisian boxer
  • March 21 — Ronaldinho
    Ronaldinho

    Ronaldo de Assis Moreira , commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Ga?cho, is a Brazilian association football who plays forItalian Serie A side AC Milan and the Brazil national football team....
    , Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • March 23 — Erika Coimbra
    Erika Coimbra

    Erika Kelly Pereira "Kiki" Coimbra is a volleyball player who competed for Brazil in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and 2004 Summer Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games....
    , Brazilian volleyball player
  • March 25 — Eduardo Fischer
    Eduardo Fischer

    Eduardo Aquiles Fischer is a breaststroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 ....
    , Brazilian breaststroke swimmer
  • March 26 — Sérgio Paulinho
    Sérgio Paulinho

    S?rgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho is a Portugal road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana Team. He was a domestique in the 2007 Tour de France.After winning a bronze medal in the 2001 World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams: LA Peco...
    , Portuguese road bicycle racer
  • March 27 — Toni Cronk
    Toni Cronk

    Toni Maree Cronk is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team in October 2001 in the test series against New Zealand in Melbourne....
    , Australian field hockey goalkeeper
  • March 29 — Alexei Manziola
    Alexei Manziola

    Alexei Manziola is a former Israeli swimmer, currently residing in Russia.One of Israel's top swimmers since the mid-1990s, Manziola finished 6th in the 100 m Butterfly at the 1996 European Youth Championships....
    , Russian-born swimmer from Israel
  • March 30 — Liriel Higa, American rhythmic gymnast
  • March 31 — Jenny Smith, Australian gymnast


April
  • April 1 — Maartje Scheepstra, Dutch field hockey player
  • April 2 — Suriya Prasathinphimai
    Suriya Prasathinphimai

    Suriya Prasathinphimai is a Thailand boxing who competed in the Middleweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal....
    , Thai boxer
  • April 4 — Bekzat Sattarkhanov
    Bekzat Sattarkhanov

    Bekzat Sattarkhanov was a Kazakhstan boxing who competed in the Featherweight at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal.Sattarkhanov died in a car accident in his native Kazakhstan on New Year's Eve 2000....
    , Kazakhstani boxer
  • April 4 — Mark Tuitert
    Mark Tuitert

    Mark Tuitert is a Netherlands Speed Skating.Tuitert won a bronze medal in the team pursuit competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His team mates for the team pursuit were: Sven Kramer, Carl Verheijen, Erben Wennemars and Rintje Ritsma...
    , Dutch speed skater
  • April 5 — Odlanier Solis
    Odlanier Solis

    Odlanier Sol?s Font? is a Cuban Boxing. He won the Olympic Gold medal in 2004 Summer Olympics and was a three time winner at the World Amateur Boxing Championships....
    , Cuban boxer
  • April 6 — Tanja Poutiainen
    Tanja Poutiainen

    Tanja Poutiainen is a Finland alpine skiing, the silver medalist in the women's Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's giant slalom at the Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin....
    , Finnish alpine skier
  • April 7 — Alice Blom
    Alice Blom

    Alice Blom is a female volleyball Player from the Netherlands, who plays as a wing-spiker. She was a member of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the FIVB World Grand Prix 2007 in Ningbo, PR China....
    , Dutch volleyball player
  • April 8 — Cheryl Valentine
    Cheryl Valentine

    Cheryl Valentine is a female field hockey midfield player from Scotland. She plays club hockey for Bonagrass Grove, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 2000....
    , Scottish field hockey midfielder
  • April 9 — Kristin Lee, American rhythmic gymnast
  • April 10 — Andy Ram
    Andy Ram

    Andy Ram is a professional right-handed tennis player from Israel, and the first Israeli tennis player to win a seniors Grand Slam event .He attained his highest doubles ranking through July 2007, # 9, on May 15, 2006....
    , Israeli tennis player
  • April 12 — Martin Lebl
    Martin Lébl

    Martin L?bl is a volleyball player from the Czech Republic, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the beach volleyball competition alongside Michal Palinek....
    , Czech volleyball player
  • April 12 — Terence Parkin
    Terence Parkin

    Terence Parkin is a deaf swimmer from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres breaststroke. Parkin also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics....
    , South African swimmer
  • April 13 — Boštjan Buc
    Boštjan Buc

    Bo?tjan Buc is a Athletics from Slovenia, competing in the middle-distance events. He is the current Slovene records in athletics holder in the men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase , clocking 8:16.96 on June 12, 2003 at a meet in Ostrava....
    , Slovenian track and field athlete
  • April 13 — Tomoko Hagiwara
    Tomoko Hagiwara

    Tomoko Hagiwara is a retired female backstroke, butterfly swimming and medley swimming swimmer from Japan, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
    , Japanese swimmer
  • April 14 — Rita Drávucz
    Rita Drávucz

    Rita Dr?vucz is a female water polo player from Hungary, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Dr?vucz was a member of the Hungary women's national water polo team that claimed the title at the 2001 Women's European Water Polo Championship in Budapest, Hungary....
    , Hungarian water polo player
  • April 15 — Fanny Rinne
    Fanny Rinne

    Fanny Rinne is a field hockey midfielder from Germany, who won the gold medal with the German National Women's Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , German field hockey midfielder
  • April 18 — Michael Lee
    Michael Lee (hockey player)

    Michael Lee is a field hockey player from Canada.Lee earned his first senior cap on July 10, 2001 against Belgium in Brussels . The defender is a resident of Tsawwassen, British Columbia, and plays for Victoria Selects....
    , Canadian field hockey player
  • April 22 — Monica Flammer, American gymnast
  • April 25 — Phillip Burrows
    Phillip Burrows

    Phillip Ross Burrows is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in January 2000....
    , New Zealand field hockey player
  • April 25 — Dana Laframboise
    Dana Laframboise

    Dana Laframboise is a champion lightweight Boxing from Canada, who won the silver medal at the Boxing at the 1999 Pan American Games. Laframboise is a nine-time provincial champion, a Canadian national gold medalist at the junior, intermediate and senior levels and has won many international titles to name but a few....
    , Canadian lightweight boxer


May
  • May 2 — Svitlana Serbina
    Svitlana Serbina

    Svitlana Serbina is a female diver from Ukraine, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000. She claimed the gold medal in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard Competition at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia, alongside Olena Zhupina....
    , Ukrainian diver
  • May 6 — Brooke Bennett
    Brooke Bennett

    Brooke Marie Bennett is an United States swimmer with three career Olympic Games gold medals.Bennett?s first gold medal came in the 800 meter freestyle swimming race at the 1996 Summer Olympics....
    , American swimmer
  • May 6 — Kasumi Takahashi
    Kasumi Takahashi

    Kasumi Takahashi is a Japanese-Australian Rhythmic gymnastics who lives in Los Angeles, California, United States. She was born to a Japanese people father and an Australian mother on 6 May 1980 in Tokyo, Japan....
    , Australian rhythmic gymnast
  • May 6 — Mario Stojic
    Mario Stojic

    Mario Stojic is an Croatian professional basketball player, playing the small forward position....
    , Croatian basketball player
  • May 7 — Johan Kenkhuis
    Johan Kenkhuis

    Johan Kenkhuis is an olympic games medal winning Netherlands swimmer.From a young age, Kenkhuis had a strong interest in swimming. In 1998, he won gold medals in both the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events in the European Junior Championships....
    , Dutch swimmer
  • May 8 — Steven Ferguson
    Steven Ferguson

    Steven Sean Ferguson is a canoe racing, life saving and former swimming from New Zealand.Ferguson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of four-times Olympic gold medal winning canoeist Ian Ferguson ....
    , New Zealand swimmer and canoer
  • May 9 — Grant Hackett
    Grant Hackett

    Grant George Hackett Order of Australia is a former Australian swimming most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres Freestyle swimming race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Australian swimmer
  • May 9 — Anu Koivisto
    Anu Koivisto

    Anu Koivisto is a retired female backstroke swimmer from Finland. Koivisto competed for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
    , Finnish backstroke swimmer
  • May 9 — Angela Nikodinov
    Angela Nikodinov

    Angela Nikodinov , is an American Figure skating. She is the 2000 Four Continents Championships....
    , American figure skater
  • May 10 — Kate Walsh
    Kate Walsh (hockey player)

    Kathrin Louise Walsh is the field hockey captain for Great Britain and England. When she was 28 she had over 130 caps for England and 60 for Great Britain....
    , English field hockey player
  • May 10 — Anatoly Polyakov
    Anatoly Polyakov

    Anatoly Sergeyevich Polyakov is a butterfly swimming swimmer from Russia, who won a bronze in the men's 200 metres butterfly event at the European LC Championships 2004 in Madrid, Spain....
    , Russian butterfly swimmer
  • May 11 — Chad Vaughn
    Chad Vaughn

    Chad Vaughn is an Olympic Games weightlifting from Oklahoma. Currently he is ranked number one in the country as a part of the 77 kg body weight class....
    , American weightlifter
  • May 12 — Christian Minotti
    Christian Minotti

    Christian Minotti is a long-distance freestyle swimming swimmer from Italy, who won the silver medal in the men's individual 1500 metres freestyle event at the European LC Championships 2002 in Berlin, Germany....
    , Italian freestyle swimmer
  • May 14 — Joe van Niekerk
    Joe van Niekerk

    Johann "Joe" van Niekerk is a South African rugby union player, who generally plays either as a rugby union positions#6. Blindside flanker & 7....
    , South African rugby player
  • May 14 — Eugčne Martineau
    Eugčne Martineau (athlete)

    Eug?ne Julien Martineau is a Netherlands decathlete.AchievementsExternal links...
    , Dutch athlete
  • May 15 — Yvonne Hijgenaar
    Yvonne Hijgenaar

    Yvonne Hijgenaar is a Netherlands racing cyclist and former national speed skater....
    , Dutch cyclist
  • May 16 — Artem Knyazev
    Artem Knyazev

    Artem Knyazev is an Uzbekistani pairs skater. He competed for much of his career with Marina Aganina. They were the 2004-2005 Uzbekistani national champions....
    , Uzbekistani pairs skater
  • May 16 — Nuria Llagostera Vives
    Nuria Llagostera Vives

    Nuria Llagostera Vives is a Spanish female tennis player. On 6 June 2005 Llagostera Vives reached her career-high singles ranking, World No. 35....
    , Spanish tennis player
  • May 18 — Michael Llodra
    Michaël Llodra

    Micha?l Llodra is a professional French male tennis player....
    , French tennis player
  • May 18 — Sam Rukundo
    Sam Rukundo

    Sam Rukundo is a Boxing from Uganda, who competed at the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the lightweight division by Russia's Murat Khrachev....
    , Ugandan boxer
  • May 20 — Gerhard Mayer, Austrian discus thrower
  • May 21 — Mayla Siracusa, Brazilian water polo player
  • May 23 — Sarah Catherwood, New Zealand swimmer
  • May 27 — Jessica Deglau
    Jessica Deglau

    Jessica Deglau was a member of the Canadian Olympic Games Team in swimming in the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics. In addition to swimming on the national team, she swam for and graduated from the University of British Columbia....
    , Canadian swimmer
  • May 28 — Mickael Bourgain
    Mickael Bourgain

    Micka?l Bourgain is a French track cycling, who won a bronze medal in the men's team sprint race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Laurent Gan? and Arnaud Tournant....
    , French track cyclist
  • May 28 — Adam Whitehead
    Adam Whitehead

    Adam Whitehead is a former breaststroke swimmer from Great Britain, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke....
    , English breaststroke swimmer
  • May 30 — Steven Gerrard
    Steven Gerrard

    Steven George Gerrard, Order of the British Empire is an England association football who plays for English Premier League club Liverpool F.C. and the England national football team....
    , English footballer
  • May 31 — Edith Bosch
    Edith Bosch

    Edith Bosch is a Netherlands Judoka who won the silver medal at the Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the middleweight division.Bosch became world champion in the same 70 kg category at the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt....
    , Dutch judoka


June
  • June 1 — Aghasi Mammadov
    Aghasi Mammadov

    Aghasi Mammadov is an Azerbaijani boxing who competed in the bantamweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal....
    , Azerbaijani boxer
  • June 2 — Sylvain Cros
    Sylvain Cros

    Sylvain Cros is a long-distance freestyle swimming swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the men's individual 1500 metres freestyle event at the European LC Championships 1999 in Istanbul....
    , French freestyle swimmer
  • June 2 — Shingo Suetsugu
    Shingo Suetsugu

    Shingo Suetsugu is a Japanese sprinter. Suetsugu won a bronze medal in the 200 metres event at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in a time of 20.38 seconds....
    , Japanese track and field athlete
  • June 4 — Thor Kristensen
    Thor Kristensen

    Thor Kristensen was a member of Denmark at the 2004 Summer Olympics's rowing team during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Along with Thomas Ebert, Stephan M?lvig and Eskild Ebbesen, he won the gold medal in the Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics....
    , Danish rower
  • June 7 — Ed Moses
    Ed Moses (swimmer)

    Glenn Edward Moses, Jr. is an American swimmer who won gold and silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Loma Linda, California, California to Glenn Edward, a United States Air Force colonel, and Sissy Moses, a school teacher....
    , American swimmer
  • June 9 — Danieska Carrión
    Danieska Carrión

    Danieska Carri?n is a female judoka from Cuba, who won the gold medal in the women's extra lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....
    , Cuban judoka
  • June 9 — Anthony Geslin
    Anthony Geslin

    Anthony Geslin is a France professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Fran?aise des Jeux .He was born in Alen?on and became a professional in 2002, when he signed with the Bonjour team....
    , French cyclist
  • June 9 — Udonis Haslem
    Udonis Haslem

    Udonis Johneal Haslem is an United States professional basketball player currently with the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He is listed as a 6 ft 8 in and 235 lb Power forward ....
    , American basketball player
  • June 12 — Maria Bruntseva
    Maria Bruntseva

    Maria Bruntseva is a female volleyball player from Russia, who played in several positions. She was a member of the Russia women's volleyball national team that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship....
    , Russian volleyball player
  • June 13 — Viviane Costa
    Viviane Costa

    Viviane Filellini Costa is a female water polo Player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games....
    , Brazilian water polo player
  • June 13 — Carlos Jayme
    Carlos Jayme

    Carlos Alberto Borges Jayme is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Brazil, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000....
    , Brazilian freestyle swimmer
  • June 13 — Maja Matevžic, Slovenian tennis player
  • June 15 — Benjamin Varonian
    Benjamin Varonian

    Benjamin Varonian , in France is a Olympic Games gymnast who won a silver medal during the 2000 Summer Olympics.External links...
    , French gymnast
  • June 16 — Thijs Al
    Thijs Al

    Thijs Joris Al is a Netherlands Bicycle racing specializing in competitive mountain bike and cyclo-cross. Al rode his first mountain bike race in 1995....
    , Dutch mountain biker
  • June 17 — Brittney McConn
    Brittney McConn

    Brittney Anne McConn Bottoms is a retired United States figure skater. She placed 4th at the 1998 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and won the Nebelhorn Trophy later that year....
    , American figure skater
  • June 17 — Andee Pickens, American gymnast
  • June 17 — Venus Williams
    Venus Williams

    Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players American tennis player who, as of February 23, 2009, is ranked World No....
    , American tennis player
  • June 19 — Sanjay Ayre
    Sanjay Ayre

    Sanjay Ayre is a Jamaican Sprint .Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics....
    , Jamaican athlete
  • June 23 — Manus Boonjumnong
    Manus Boonjumnong

    Manus Boonjumnong is a Thailand boxing who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics . He is the brother of Non Boonjumnong....
    , Thai boxer
  • June 23 — Ramnaresh Sarwan
    Ramnaresh Sarwan

    Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan is a West Indies cricketer of Indo-Guyanese ethnicity and member of the West Indies cricket team.Sarwan grew up in the small village outside the capital city of Guyana, Georgetown, and played for Georgetown Cricket Club...
    , Guyanese cricketer
  • June 29 — Monique Ferreira
    Monique Ferreira

    Monique Andrade Ferreira is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the women's 400 m freestyle at the Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....
    , Brazilian freestyle swimmer
  • June 30 — Nourdin Boukhari
    Nourdin Boukhari

    Nourdin Boukhari is a Netherlands-Morocco footballer. Currently playing for NAC Breda....
    , Moroccan-born football (soccer) player from Holland
  • June 30 — Fabian Wegmann
    Fabian Wegmann

    Fabian Wegmann is a Germany Bicycle road racing cyclist, known as a climbing specialist. He is currently riding for UCI ProTour Team Milram....
    , German cyclist


July
  • July 1 — Matthijs Brouwer
    Matthijs Brouwer

    Matthijs Christian Brouwer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Dutch field hockey player
  • July 2 — Baffour Gyan
    Baffour Gyan

    Baffour Gyan is a Ghanaian football who is currently a free agent. Previously he played for FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Saturn Moscow Oblast and Czech Republic side Slovan Liberec....
    , Ghanaian football (soccer) player
  • July 3 — Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
  • July 3 — Birgit Thumm
    Birgit Thumm

    Birgit Thumm is a female volleyball player from Germany, who made her debut for the Germany women's national volleyball team in 1999. Standing at 184cm and nicknamed "Thummi" she represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , German volleyball player
  • July 6 — Pau Gasol
    Pau Gasol

    Pau Gasol i S?ez is a 2.13 m Spain professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . He was born to Marisa S?ez and Agust? Gasol, and he spent his childhood growing up in Spain....
    , Catalan basketball (NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
    ) player
  • July 7 — Michelle Kwan
    Michelle Kwan

    Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American figure skating. She has won nine United States Figure Skating Championships, five World Figure Skating Championships, and two Figure skating at the Olympics....
    , American figure skater
  • July 8 — Robbie Keane
    Robbie Keane

    Robert David "Robbie" Keane is an Republic of Ireland football , currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur F.C.. He is also the current Captain and all-time record goalscorer for the Republic of Ireland national football team....
    , Irish football player
  • July 8 — Yang Tae-Young, South Korean gymnast
  • July 10 — Adam Petty
    Adam Petty

    Adam Kyler Petty was an auto racing car driver. He was the first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history....
    , fourth-generation NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
     driver (d. 2000)
  • July 14 — Ivanas Stapovicius
    Ivanas Stapovicius

    Ivanas Stapovicius is a retired boxing from Lithuania. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he lost in the quarterfinals of the men's lightflyweight division to North Korea's eventual bronze medalist Kim Un-Chol....
    , Lithuanian boxer
  • July 16 — Lindsey Berg
    Lindsey Berg

    Lindsey Napela Berg is a volleyball Player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , American volleyball player
  • July 16 — Travis Brooks
    Travis Brooks

    Travis Brooks is a field hockey forward from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Australian field hockey player
  • July 16 — Matthew Peck
    Matthew Peck

    Matthew Peck is a field hockey goalkeeper from Canada, who played his first international senior tournament in 2005....
    , Canadian field hockey goalkeeper
  • July 16 — Adam Scott
    Adam Scott

    Adam Derek Scott is an Australian professional golfer. To date he is one of only two golfers born in the 1980s who have made the top five in the Official World Golf Rankings, the other being Sergio Garc?a, and thus has one of the most promising careers in men's golf....
    , Australian golfer
  • July 17 — Rashid Ramzi
    Rashid Ramzi

    Rashid Ramzi is a Athletics athlete competing internationally for Bahrain in the 800, 1500 and 5000 meters; he is also the only Olympic medalist for Bahrain....
    , Moroccan-born athlete
  • July 19 — Xavier Malisse
    Xavier Malisse

    Xavier Malisse is a Belgium tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is considered the biggest Belgian tennis talent on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour....
    , Belgian tennis player
  • July 20 — Ivan Mladina
    Ivan Mladina

    Ivan Mladina is a Freestyle swimming swimmer from Croatia, who made his Olympic debut for his native country at the Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
    , Croatian freestyle swimmer
  • July 21 — Tom Soetaers
    Tom Soetaers

    Tom Soetaers is a Belgian footballer currently playing for K.R.C. Genk as a Midfielder....
    , Belgian football player
  • July 22 — Dirk Kuijt, Dutch football player
  • July 23 — Javier Noriega
    Javier Noriega

    Javier Noriega Sanz is a freestyle swimming and butterfly swimming swimmer from Spain, who competed for his native country at the Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Spanish swimmer
  • July 24 — Wilfred Bungei
    Wilfred Bungei

    Wilfred Kipkemboi Bungei is a Kenyan middle distance runner, who won the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 800 metres gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....
    , Kenyan middle distance runner
  • July 27 — Allan Davis
    Allan Davis

    Allan Howard Davis is an Australian professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Quick Step. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Davis resides in Bundaberg, Queensland and in Spain....
    , Australian road cyclist
  • July 29 — Fernando González
    Fernando González

    Fernando Francisco Gonz?lez Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest hitting forehands in the circuit....
    , Chilean tennis player
  • July 29 — Carlos Tejeda
    Carlos Tejeda

    Carlos Tejeda is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the Venezuela men's national volleyball team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic playing as a wing-spiker....
    , Venezuelan volleyball player


August
  • August 1 — Grant Schubert
    Grant Schubert

    Grant Schubert OAM is a field hockey striker from Australia, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Australian field hockey player
  • August 1 — Jeroen Trommel
    Jeroen Trommel

    Jeroen Paul Trommel is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Dutch volleyball player
  • August 8 — Sabine Klaschka
    Sabine Klaschka

    Sabine Klaschka is a professional Germany tennis player from Munich, Bavaria. As of 26 June 2006, she is 174th in the WTA rankings.At Wimbledon 2005, she beat Great Britain number one Elena Baltacha in the first round, only to go out in round 2 to sixth seed Elena Dementieva....
    , German tennis player
  • August 12 — Blair Hopping
    Blair Hopping

    Blair Robert Hopping is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 2000 against Pakistan....
    , New Zealand field hockey player
  • August 13 — Justus Scharowsky
    Justus Scharowsky

    Justus Scharowsky is a field hockey player from Germany, who plays for French club Racing Club de Mexico. The midfielder made his international senior debut for the German team on July 10, 1999 in a friendly against South Korea in Leipzig....
    , German field hockey player
  • August 14 — Prabjoth Singh
    Prabjoth Singh

    Prabhjot Singh is a field hockey forward from India who made his international senior debut for the India national field hockey team in 2001. He represented his native country at the Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where India finished in seventh place....
    , Indian field hockey forward
  • August 16 — Julien Absalon
    Julien Absalon

    Julien Absalon is a French mountain biker. In both 2004 and 2008 he won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and at the 2008 Summer Olympics....
    , French mountain biker
  • August 29 — Perdita Felicien
    Perdita Felicien

    Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdling in track and field athletic competition....
    , Canadian track and field athlete
  • August 29 — Corina Ungureanu
    Corina Ungureanu

    Corina Georgiana Ungureanu is a world-class Romanian artistic gymnast who competed internationally between 1993 and 1999. She was a member of two gold medal-winning World Championships teams and was the 1998 European Champion on the floor exercise....
    , Romanian gymnast
  • August 30 — Michael Boyce
    Michael Boyce (field hockey)

    Michael Boyce in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia, is a field hockey player from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2006 World Hockey Cup....
    , Australian field hockey player
  • August 31 — Fernanda Lissoni
    Fernanda Lissoni

    Fernanda Palma Lissoni is a female water polo Player from Brazil, who finished in fourth place with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
    , Brazilian water polo player
  • August 31 — Hayden Shaw
    Hayden Shaw

    Hayden Jonathan Shaw is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 2002 against Australia....
    , New Zealand field hockey player


September
  • September 1 — Ryan Archibald
    Ryan Archibald

    Ryan Archibald is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in 1997 against Malaysia....
    , New Zealand field hockey player
  • September 1 — Toshiaki Fukuda
    Toshiaki Fukuda

    Toshiaki Fukuda is a field hockey player from Japan, who finished in ninth place with the Japan national field hockey team at the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in M?nchengladbach....
    , Japanese field hockey player
  • September 1 — Dawn Holden
    Dawn Holden

    Dawn Holden is an England cricketer and a former member of the English women's cricket team . She was born in 1980 and played 3 tests and 32 one day internationals. She is a slow left arm bowler and right handed batsman....
    , English cricketer
  • September 2 — Simone Kuhn
    Simone Kuhn

    Simone Kuhn is a female professional beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Swiss beach volleyball player
  • September 4 — Daniele Bennati
    Daniele Bennati

    Daniele Bennati is an Italy road racing cyclist specializing in fast Cycling sprinter. He turned professional in 2002, when he joined the team Acqua & Sapone and wore zebra stripes as part of Mario Cipollini?s leadout train....
    , Italian road racing cyclist
  • September 6 — Samuel Peter
    Samuel Peter

    Samuel Okon Peter , nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a heavyweight boxing and the former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion. He is considered by many to be one of the strongest punchers in the heavyweight division....
    , Nigerian heavyweight boxer
  • September 8 — Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
    Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

    Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi is a South African middle distance track event runner. He carried the flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece for his native country....
    , South African middle distance runner
  • September 10 — Timothy Goebel
    Timothy Goebel

    Timothy Richard Goebel is an United States retired figure skater. Goebel was adopted through Catholic Charities by Ginny and Richard Goebel as an infant....
    , American figure skater
  • September 10 — Tahar Tamsamani
    Tahar Tamsamani

    Tahar Tamsamani is a Boxing from Morocco, who participated in three Olympic tournaments. He was born in Marrakech....
    , Moroccan boxer
  • September 12 — Yao Ming
    Yao Ming

    Yao Ming is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association . He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, at ....
    , Chinese NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
     player
  • September 13 — Daisuke Matsuzaka
    Daisuke Matsuzaka

    is a Japanese people Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.He previously played for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League....
    , Japanese baseball player
  • September 13 — Viren Rasquinha
    Viren Rasquinha

    Viren Wilfred Rasquinha was the captain of India's national field hockey team. He is from Bombay. His local team is the Maratha Warriors. The midfielder made his international senior debut in May 2002, at a Four Nation Tournament in Adelaide....
    , Indian field hockey player
  • September 13 — Juana Savińon
    Juana Savińon

    Juana Savi?on Perez is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed for her native country at the Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #8 jersey....
    , Dominican Republic volleyball player
  • September 14 — Luis Horna
    Luis Horna

    Luis Horna Viscari is a tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Horna plays right-handed, he has a strong serve for a relatively short player and the forehand is his best stroke....
    , Peruvian tennis player
  • September 16 — Mitch Potter
    Mitch Potter

    Mitch Potter is a male United States track and field Athletics , who competes in the sprints events. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo....
    , American track and field athlete
  • September 18 — Wendy Alcorn, Australian field hockey player
  • September 19 — Dimitri Yachvili
    Dimitri Yachvili

    Dimitri Yachvili is a France rugby union footballer who plays Rugby union positions#9. Scrum-half for Biarritz Olympique in the French Top 14 and France national rugby union team internationally....
    , French rugby union player
  • September 20 — Vladimir Karpets
    Vladimir Karpets

    Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpets is a Russian road bicycle racer currently riding for UCI ProTeam Team Katusha, most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France....
    , Russian cyclist
  • September 26 — Igor Omrcen
    Igor Omrcen

    Igor Omrcen is a volleyball player from Croatia. He twice became top scorer at the European Volleyball League: in 2004 and 2006. Omrcen plays as a professional in Italy for several years....
    , Croatian volleyball player
  • September 27 — Carlos Luis Campos
    Carlos Luis Campos

    Carlos Luis Campos is a light flyweight Boxing from Venezuela, who won the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight division at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador....
    , Venezuelan boxer
  • September 28 — Maurice Smith
    Maurice Smith (decathlon)

    Maurice Smith is a decathlete from Jamaica. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in 14th place....
    , Jamaican decathlete
  • September 29 — Razvan Florea
    Razvan Florea

    Razvan Florea is a Romanian swimmer, the first male Romanian swimmer to win an Olympic medal....
    , Romanian swimmer
  • September 30 — Martina Hingis
    Martina Hingis

    Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles ....
    , Swiss tennis player
  • September 30 — Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
    Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz

    Guillermo Rigondeaux was a Cuban amateur boxing, who completely dominated the bantamweight division at the onset of the 21st century.The southpaw boxer-puncher won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics...
    , Cuban boxer


October
  • October 2 — Amy Tran
    Amy Tran

    Amy Tran is a field hockey goalkeeper from the United States, who made her national team debut against Mexico at the Pan American Cup, where she shared the 5-0 shutout....
    , American field hockey goalkeeper
  • October 3 — Sarah Collyer
    Sarah Collyer

    Sarah Collyer is an England cricketer and former member of the English women's cricket team . She was born in 1980 and played 7 tests and 25 one day internationals. She is a right-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler....
    , English cricketer
  • October 3 — Mariana Roriz
    Mariana Roriz

    Mariana Tonetti Roriz is a female water polo Player from Brazil, who twice won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the Pan American Games: 1999 and 2003....
    , Brazilian water polo player
  • October 3 — Diego Fernando Salazar
    Diego Fernando Salazar

    Diego Fernando Salazar is a Colombian weightlifting, Olympic games and two times gold medal winner at the Pan American Games. He was born in Tulu?, Department of Valle del Cauca....
    , Colombian weightlifter
  • October 4 — Andrea Tóth
    Andrea Tóth

    Andrea T?th is a female water polo player from Hungary, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.T?th played for BVSC, BEAC, Vasas, and Duna?jv?ros....
    , Hungarian water polo player
  • October 6 — Michelle Guerette
    Michelle Guerette

    Michelle Guerette is an United States of America Rowing who competed in the Women's Quadruple Sculls event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , American rower
  • October 7 — Andrey Kapralov
    Andrey Kapralov

    Andrey Nikolayevich Kapralov is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Russia, who won the silver medal in the men's 200 metres freestyle event at the European LC Championships 2004....
    , Russian swimmer
  • October 7 — Olesya Zykina
    Olesya Zykina

    Olesya Nikolaevna Zykina is a Russian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning the silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay....
    , Russian track and field athlete
  • October 8 — Kasper Břgelund
    Kasper Břgelund

    Kasper B?gelund Nielsen is a Denmark professional football player who plays as a Defender for Denmark club AaB Football. B?gelund has played 17 games for the Denmark national football team, and he represented Denmark at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship....
    , Danish football (soccer) player
  • October 10 — Camilo Becerra
    Camilo Becerra

    Camilo Jos? Becerra Velasco is a freestyle swimming swimmer from Colombia who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Colombian freestyle swimmer
  • October 10 — Megan Rivers, Australian field hockey player
  • October 13 — Scott Parker, English football player
  • October 15 — Tom Boonen
    Tom Boonen

    Tom Boonen is a Belgium professional road bicycle racer who won the 2005 World Cycling Championship#World Cycling Champions. He is considered a single-day road race specialist with a strong finishing Cycling sprinter....
    , Belgian cyclist
  • October 16 — Dragos Coman
    Dragos Coman

    Dragos Coman is an international freestyle swimming swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
    , Romanian freestyle swimmer
  • October 19 — Anna-Karin Kammerling
    Anna-Karin Kammerling

    Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Sweden, who was born in Malm?, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....
    , Swedish swimmer
  • October 20 — Denise Durajski, Australian field hockey player
  • October 21 — Mike Danton
    Mike Danton

    Michael Sage Danton is a former professional ice hockey player....
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • October 21 — Mari Piuva
    Mari Piuva

    Mari Piuva is an archery from Finland.Piuva represented Finland in the 2002 European Archery Championship where she placed 40th. Two years later in the 2004 European Archery Championship she improved her result and placed 8th....
    , Finnish archer
  • October 25 — Ditte Jensen
    Ditte Jensen

    Ditte Christiane Jensen is a former Freestyle swimming swimmer from Denmark, who represented her native country at the Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
    , Danish freestyle swimmer
  • October 25 — Alex Fábregas
    Alex Fábregas

    Alexandre F?bregas Carne is a field hockey player from Spain, who finished in fourth position with the Spain national field hockey team at the Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
    , Spanish field hockey player
  • October 26 — Christian Chivu, Romanian football (soccer) player
  • October 26 — Rudymar Fleming
    Rudymar Fleming

    Rudymar Fleming Pernil is a female judoka from Venezuela, who won the silver medal in the women's lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....
    , Venezuelan judoka
  • October 28 — Alfonso Gomez
    Alfonso Gomez

    Alfonso Salvador G?mez Becerra is a professional boxing and competitor on reality TV show The Contender , where he ended up ranked third out of sixteen fighters....
    , Mexican boxer
  • October 31 — Geert-Jan Derikx
    Geert-Jan Derikx

    Geert-Jan Marie Derikx is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Dutch field hockey player


November
  • November 7 — Gervasio Deferr
    Gervasio Deferr

    Gervasio Deferr Angel is a gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and has since become the number one athlete of his country in that sport....
    , Spanish gymnast
  • November 7 — Chaďne Staelens
    Chaďne Staelens

    Cha?ne Staelens is a female volleyball Player , who plays as a wing-spiker for the Netherlands. She was a member of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the FIVB World Grand Prix 2007 in Ningbo, PR China....
    , Belgian-Dutch volleyball player
  • November 8 — Yoav Gath
    Yoav Gath

    Yoav Gath is a backstroke swimmer from Israel, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.There he competed in the 200m backstroke, advancing to the semifinals after posting the 13th fastest time in the preliminaries ....
    , Israeli backstroke swimmer
  • November 9 — Dominique Maltais
    Dominique Maltais

    Dominique Maltais is a Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics snowboarder. Her specialty is Snowboard Cross.Maltais started competing in 2002, and won the Canadian Championship in 2003 and again in 2004....
    , Canadian snowboarder
  • November 12 — Devesh Chauhan
    Devesh Chauhan

    Devesh Singh Chauhan is a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made his international debut for the India national field hockey team in early 2000....
    , Indian field hockey goalkeeper
  • November 14 — Randall Bal
    Randall Bal

    Randall Bal is a backstroke swimmer from the United States, who represented his native country at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, where he won the gold medal in the 50 m backstroke....
    , American backstroke swimmer
  • November 21 — Danielle Hartsell
    Danielle Hartsell

    Danielle Hartsell is an United States pair skater. With brother Steve Hartsell, she is the 1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and 1997 World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
    , American pairs skater
  • November 21 — Hiroyuki Tomita
    Hiroyuki Tomita

    Hiroyuki Tomita is a Japanese gymnastics. Tomita is a top Japanese gymnast with three Olympic medals from the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. His elegant gymnastics have won him many fans....
    , Japanese gymnast
  • November 25 — Cameron Delaney
    Cameron Delaney

    Cameron Delaney is a former backstroke swimmer, who competed for Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There he finished in eleventh position in the 200m backstroke, clocking 2:00.39 in the semi final....
    , Australian backstroke swimmer
  • November 26 — Peter Manfredo
    Peter Manfredo

    Peter Manfredo Jr. is a professional boxer. He held the NABO Light Middleweight IBU Light Middleweight EBA Light Middleweight Although he regularly wears the Italian flag on his trunks to show his heritage, he is a representative of the US....
    , American boxer
  • November 27 — Hugo Garay
    Hugo Garay

    Hugo Hern?n Garay is a light heavyweight Boxing from Argentina, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. There he was stopped in the first round of the men's light-heavyweight division by Kazakhstan's Olzhas Orazaliev....
    , Argentine boxer


December
  • December 2 — Nathan Eglington
    Nathan Eglington

    Nathan Eglington OAM is a field hockey midfielder and striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
    , Australian field hockey player
  • December 4 — Hicham Mesbahi
    Hicham Mesbahi

    Hicham Mesbahi is a Boxing from Morocco who, as of 2008, has participated in three Olympics. He was born in Casablanca....
    , Moroccan boxer
  • December 4 — Sergio Mora
    Sergio Mora

    Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora is a Mexican American professional Boxing trained by Dean Campos. Dean is the young trainer behind Sergio's unorthodox style of fighting....
    , American boxer
  • December 5 — Gülden Kayalar
    Gülden Kayalar

    G?lden Kayalar is a Turkey volleyball player. She is 168 cm and plays as libero. She plays for Eczacibasi Zentiva since 2003 and wear 2 number....
    , Turkish volleyball player
  • December 6 — Carlos Takam
    Carlos Takam

    Armand Carlos Netsing Takam is a boxing who represented Cameroon at the Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics at super heavyweight .Amateur...
    , Cameroonian heavyweight boxer
  • December 9 — Gagan Ajit Singh
    Gagan Ajit Singh

    Gagan Ajit Singh is a field hockey striker from India, who's father Ajit Singh played for the India national field hockey team at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics....
    , Indian field hockey striker
  • December 17 — Arjun Halappa
    Arjun Halappa

    Arjun Halappa is a field hockey striker from India, who made his international debut for the India national field hockey team in March 2001 against Egypt national field hockey team in the Prime Minister's Gold Cup....
    , Indian field hockey striker
  • December 18 — Marian Dragulescu
    Marian Dragulescu

    Marian Dragulescu is a Romanian artistic gymnast. During his senior gymnastics career he has won an impressive number of 24 medals at Olympic games, world or continental championships....
    , Romanian gymnast
  • December 20 — Sebastian Halgasch
    Sebastian Halgasch

    Sebastian Halgasch is a backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 50m Backstroke at the European SC Championships 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal....
    , German backstroke swimmer
  • December 22 — Juliana Veloso
    Juliana Veloso

    Juliana Rodrigues Veloso is a female Diving from Brazil, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000....
    , Brazilian diver
  • December 28 — Lomana LuaLua
    Lomana LuaLua

    Lomana Tr?sor LuaLua is a Association football who plays for Qatar side Al-Arabi Sports Club. He has also played for English clubs Colchester United F.C., Newcastle United F.C....
    , Congolese football (soccer) player
  • December 28 — Deepak Thakur
    Deepak Thakur

    Deepak Thakur Sonkhla is a field hockey forward from India, who made his international debut for the India national field hockey team in June 1999 in a test serie against Germany....
    , Indian field hockey forward
  • December 29 — Andrea Lenders, Dutch gymnast
  • December 29 — Patapol Ngernsrisuk
    Patapol Ngernsrisuk

    Patapol Ngernsrisuk is a male badminton player from Thailand.He competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Sudket Prapakamol....
    , Thai badminton player
  • December 31 — Richie McCaw
    Richie McCaw

    Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays in the Rugby union positions#6. Blindside flanker & 7. Openside flanker position and is the current captain of All Blacks....
    , New Zealand rugby player


Deaths


January

  • January 1 — Frank Wykoff
    Frank Wykoff

    Frank Clifford Wykoff was an United States athletics , triple gold medal winner in 4x100 m Relay race at the Olympic Games.Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Frank Wykoff has a place in track and field history by being the first man to ever win three Olympic relay gold medals, all in world record time....
     (70), American track and field athlete sprinter
  • January 7 – Eddie Scarf
    Eddie Scarf

    Edward "Eddie" Richard Scarf was a Amateur wrestling from Australia, who won the bronze medal in the men's light heavyweight freestyle division in 1932....
     (71), Australian boxer and wrestler (b. 1908)
  • January 12 — Hans Ebeling
    Hans Ebeling

    Hans Irvine Ebeling Order of the British Empire was an Australian cricketer and cricket administrator.He captained Victorian Bushrangers to two Pura Cup championships in four years , captained the Melbourne Cricket Club to four premierships, and played in his sole Test match against English cricket team in 1934....
    , Australian cricketer
  • January 25 — Peter Haughton, harness racing driver

February

  • February 1 — Gastone Nencini
    Gastone Nencini

    Gastone Nencini was an Italy road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia.Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello region" , Nencini was a powerful all-round rider, but particularly strong in the mountains....
     (49), Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
  • February 11 — Paavo Yrjölä
    Paavo Yrjölä

    Paavo Ilmari Yrj?l? , who was also known as the Bear of H?meenkyr? , was a Finland track athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Olympic Games in 1928 Summer Olympics....
     (77), Finnish athlete (b. 1902)
  • February 28 — Ian Peebles
    Ian Peebles

    Ian Alexander Ross Peebles was a cricketer who played for Oxford University Cricket Club, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Scottish cricket team and English cricket team....
    , English cricketer

March

  • March 18 — Herman Griffith
    Herman Griffith

    Herman Clarence Griffith was a West Indian cricket team cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test cricket in their West Indian cricket team in England in 1928 and was one of the leading bowlers on that tour....
    , West Indian cricketer
  • March 21 — Marcel Boussac
    Marcel Boussac

    Marcel Boussac was a France entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Christian Dior SA and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history....
    , French horse racing tycoon
  • March 31 — Jesse Owens
    Jesse Owens

    James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an United States Athletics athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 metres relay team....
    , American athlete

April

  • April 2 — Dick Howorth
    Dick Howorth

    Dick Howorth was an all-rounder for Worcestershire County Cricket Club between 1933 and 1951. Chiefly remembered as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler , Howorth also occasionally bowled medium pace and was a capable hard-hitting left-handed batsman....
    , English cricketer

May

  • May 2 — Clarrie Grimmett
    Clarrie Grimmett

    Clarence Victor "Clarrie" Grimmett was a cricketer; although born in New Zealand, he played most of his cricket in Australia. He is thought by many to be one of the finest early spin bowlers, and usually credited as the developer of the flipper ....
    , Australian cricketer

June

  • June 1 — Richard Marquard (90), US baseball pitcher
  • June 10 — Denys Morkel
    Denys Morkel

    Denijs Paul Beck Morkel was a South African cricketer who played in 16 Test cricket from 1927 to 1932....
    , South African cricketer

July

  • July 18 — Naoomal Jeoomal
    Naoomal Jeoomal

    Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija was Indian cricket team first opening batsman in Test cricket.Naoomal Jeoomal scored 33 and 25 opening India's innings in their first ever Test at Lord's in 1932....
    , Indian cricketer

August

  • August 2 — Verdun Scott
    Verdun Scott

    Verdun John Scott, born July 31, 1916 and died at Devonport, New Zealand on August 2, 1980), was a cricketer who played for Auckland cricket team and New Zealand cricket team....
    , New Zealand cricketer
  • August 6 — Charles Urbanus (66), Dutch baseball player
  • August 21 — Jack Cheetham
    Jack Cheetham

    John Erskine Cheetham was a South African cricketer who played in twenty four Test cricket from 1949 to 1955....
    , South African cricketer

September

  • September 8 — Bruce Dooland
    Bruce Dooland

    Bruce Dooland was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Test cricket from 1947 to 1948.During the war Dooland was in an Australian Commando unit serving in the South Pacific....
    , English cricketer
  • September 24 — Jack Murphy
    Jack Murphy (sportswriter)

    Jack Murphy was a sports editor and columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper from 1951-1980 and the brother of New York Mets Presenter Bob Murphy ....
    , American sportswriter


October

  • October 10 — Walter Keeton
    Walter Keeton

    William Walter Keeton was an England cricketer who played in two Test cricket in 1934 and 1939. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1940 and played first-class cricket between 1926 and 1952 for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club....
    , English cricketer
  • October 25 — Victor Galindez
    Víctor Galíndez

    V?ctor Emilio Gal?ndez was an Argentina boxing who was the third Latin American to win the world's Light Heavyweight title, after Puerto Rico's Jose Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon had done it....
    , light heavyweight world champion boxing

November

  • November 11 — Harry Larva
    Harry Larva

    Harri Edvin Larva , born Harry Edvin Lagerstr?m, was a Finland Athletics , winner of 1500 m at the 1928 Summer Olympics.Born in Turku, Harry Larva was forced to change his last name from Lagerstr?m to Larva in 1928 by a young president of Finnish Athletics Union and known nationalist Urho Kekkonen, because his name didn't sound as Fi...
     (74), Finnish athlete (b. 1906)

December

  • December 4 — Stanislawa Walasiewicz
    Stanislawa Walasiewicz

    Stanislawa Walasiewicz, also known as Stanislawa Walasiewicz?wna and Stella Walsh was a Poland Athletics who became an Olympic Games champion by competing among women, even though it was later learned that Walasiewicz had ambiguous genitalia and could not easily be identified as either biologically male or female....
     or Stella Walsh (69), Polish-American athlete (b. 1911)
  • December 5 — Don Taylor
    Don Taylor (cricketer)

    Donald Dougald Taylor was a New Zealand cricketer who played in 3 Test cricket from 1947 to 1956....
    , New Zealand cricketer
  • December 28 — Amir Elahi
    Amir Elahi

    Amir Elahi is one of the fourteen cricketers who have played Test cricket for more than one country. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he played one Test for India, as Pakistan did not exist at the time....
    , Pakistani cricketer
  • December 31 — Arthur Wellard
    Arthur Wellard

    Arthur William Wellard was a cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club and English cricket team.Wellard was a fast-bowling all-rounder who exemplified much of the happy-go-lucky cricket played by Somerset in the 1930s....
    , English cricketer