Sports year 1951
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Other events
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1951 were the All England , the Denmark Open , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open .
International events
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athletics
- May 25th - Nina Pletnjowa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 12.0 minutes.
- May 26 - Andy Stanfield , USA , ran the men's 220 yards in 20.6 seconds.
- May 30th - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Brazil , reached 16.01 meters in the men's triple jump.
- June 27th - Nina Dumbadze , Soviet Union , reached 53.37 m in the women's discus throw.
- June 28 - Andy Stanfield , USA , ran the men's 200 meters in 20.6 seconds.
- August 7th - Sheila Lerwill , Great Britain , reached 1.72m in the women's high jump.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Hermann Paul Müller ( FB-Mondial , 125 cm³), Hein Thorn Prikker ( Moto Guzzi , 250 cm³), Roland Schnell ( Parilla , 350 cm³), Walter Zeller ( BMW , 500 cm³), Wiggerl Kraus / Bernhard Huser ( BMW , sidecar 500 cm³) and Sepp Müller / Hermann Huber ( BMW , sidecar 750 cm³).
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1951 March 3rd to 11th in Vienna (Austria)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- January 27: Munich: D. - Austria 5-4 (men)
- January 27: Munich: D. - Austria 0-5 (women)
- February 10: Essen: D. - Yugoslavia 3: 5 (men)
- February 11: Neustadt an der Weinstrasse: D. Switzerland 4: 5 (men)
- February 11: Neustadt an der Weinstrasse: D. Switzerland 3-0 (women)
- September 15: Hamburg: D. - England 2: 5 (men)
- September 15: Hamburg: D. - England 3-0 (women)
- November 4: Vienna: D. - Austria 4: 5 (men)
- November 4: Vienna: D. - Austria 0: 3 (women)
- December 1: Hanover: D. - Portugal 8: 1 (men)
- December 2: Basel: D. - Switzerland 5: 1 (men)
- December 2: Neumünster: D. - Denmark 5: 1 (men)
- December 2: Neumünster: D. - Denmark 3-0 (women)
- Leipzig: D. - GDR 5: 3 (men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Hans-Joachim Stuck , German racing car driver
- January 4th : Barbara Ann Cochran , American ski racer
- January 7th : Massimo Sigala , Italian racing driver
- January 12 : Drew Pearson , American football player
- January 14th : Fița Lovin , Romanian athlete
- January 17 : Yuri Saizew , Soviet-Russian weightlifter and 1976 Olympic champion
- January 18 : Renato Zaccarelli , Italian football player and coach
- January 19 : Peter Pander , German football official
- January 22nd : Ondrej Nepela , Slovak figure skater and figure skating coach († 1989 )
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- January 25 : Hans-Jürgen Dörner , German soccer coach and player (GDR)
- January 26th : Jarmila Kratochvílová , Czech athlete
- January 27th : Anders Dahl-Nielsen , Danish handball player, coach and official
- January 31 : Wiebke Hendriksen , German table tennis player
February
- February 10 : Alexander Filippov , Russian ice hockey player
- February 14th : Boško Abramović , Serbian chess player
- February 14 : Kevin Keegan , English soccer player
- February 15th : Markku Alén , Finnish rally driver
- February 21 : Wolfgang Frank , German soccer player and coach († 2013 )
- February 23 : Eddie Dibbs , American tennis player
- February 23 : Ed Jones , American football player
- February 25 : Giampiero Marini , Italian football player
- February 25 : Donald Quarrie , Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion
- February 28 : Gustav Thöni , South Tyrolean skier
March
- March 2nd : Jan Gmyrek , Polish handball player
- March 6th : Wolfgang Hanisch , German athlete
- March 6 : Gerrie Knetemann , Dutch cyclist († 2004 )
- March 7th : Eduard Rapp , Soviet track cyclist and two-time world champion of Russian-German origin
- March 13 : Gunter Arnold , German sprinter
- March 16 : Joe DeLamielleure , American football player
- March 19 : Carl Barzilauskas , American football player
- March 19 : Christine Laser , German athlete
- March 25 : Claus Andersen , Danish badminton player
- March 26 : Costică Ștefănescu , Romanian football player and coach († 2013 )
- March 29 : Hardy Åström , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper
- March 30th : Barbara Britch , American cross-country skier
April
- April 1st : Rolf Biland , Swiss motorcycle racer
- April 10 : Kork Ballington , South African motorcycle racer
- April 12th : Ray Mallock , British racing car driver and team owner
- April 13 : Ivano Bordon , Italian football player
- April 13 : Joachim Streich , German soccer player
- April 15th : Beatrix Schuba , Austrian figure skater
- April 16 : Takazumi Katayama , Japanese motorcycle racer
- April 17th : Horst Hrubesch , German soccer player and coach
- April 24th : André Lara Resende , Brazilian banker and racing car driver
- April 26 : Yu Zaiqing , Chinese politician and sports official
- April 29 : Dale Earnhardt , American NASCAR driver († 2001 )
- April 30th : Danuta Rosani , Polish athlete
May
- May 1 : Yuri Lebedev , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player
- May 1st : Dieter Schubert , German soccer player
- May 2nd : Dmitrij Stukalow , Soviet-Russian hurdler
- May 4th : Julio César Arzú , Honduran football player
- May 4th : Heinz Wirthensohn , Swiss chess player
- May 12 : Vic Stanfield , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 18 : Angela Voigt , German athlete († 2013 )
- May 19 : Karl Brunner , Italian luge rider
- May 19 : Dianne Holum , American speed skater
- May 22 : Wolf-Dieter Poschmann , German sports presenter
- May 23 : Anatoly Karpov , Russian chess player and world champion
- May 23 : Alexander Voronin , Soviet-Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion 1976 († 1992 )
- May 24 : Kent-Erik Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- May 31 : Karl-Hans Riehm , German athlete
June
- June 3 : Alexander Bodunow , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2017 )
- June 4th : Bronisław Malinowski , Polish athlete, Olympic champion († 1981 )
- June 6th : Noritake Takahara , Japanese racing car driver
- June 8th : Franz Konrad , Austrian-German racing driver
- June 9 : Ismail Abilov , Bulgarian wrestler
- June 10th : Burglinde Pollak , German athlete
- June 14th : Nikolai Polyakov , Soviet sailor
- June 16 : Armin Emrich , German handball player and trainer
- June 19 : Francesco Moser , Italian cyclist
- June 21 : Marcel Tarrès , French racing car driver
- June 24th : Raelene Boyle , Australian athlete
- June 24th : Ivar Formo , Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic champion († 2006 )
- June 27 : Andy Evans , American racing car driver
- June 27th : Ulf Andersson , Swedish chess player
- June 29 : Peter Rost , German handball player, trainer and official
July
- July 1st : Imre Gedővári , Hungarian fencer († 2014 )
- July 11 : Vyacheslav Anissin , Russian ice hockey player
- July 11 : Walter Meeuws , Belgian football player and coach
- July 15 : Ernest Charles Arnason , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 15 : Rick Kehoe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- July 20 : Björn Andersson , Swedish football player
- July 20 : Larry Black , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2006 )
- July 21 : Eberhard Gienger , German gymnast and politician
- July 26th : Günter Dreibrodt , German handball player
- July 31 : Evonne Goolagong , Australian tennis player
August
- August 1st : Guy Martinolle , French racing car driver
- August 2nd : Uli Schaus , German handball goalkeeper
- August 5th : Franz-Peter Hofmeister , German athlete
- August 6 : František Kaberle senior , Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- August 12 : Klaus Toppmöller , German football player and coach
- August 16 : Mats Aronsson , Swedish football player
- August 17th : Konrad Weise , German soccer player
- August 24 : Rainer Gebauer , German soccer player
- August 28 : Dieter Bast , German soccer player
September
- September 5 : Paul Breitner , German soccer player
- September 6th : Zoltán Ribli , Hungarian chess player
- September 15th : Anna Cambiaghi , Italian racing car driver
- September 15 : Pete Carroll , American football player and coach
- September 15 : Johan Neeskens , Dutch football player
- September 16 : Andy Irvine , Scottish rugby player
- September 18 : Marc Surer , Swiss Formula 1 racing driver
- September 19 : Marianne Adam , German athlete
- September 20 : Guy Lafleur , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 21 : Bruce Arena , American football coach
- September 25 : Bob McAdoo , American basketball player
- September 26 : Dave Casper , American football player
- September 27 : Péter Baczakó , Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic champion († 2008 )
- September 29th : Maureen Caird , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
October
- October 3rd : Hans Bongartz , German soccer player and coach
- October 6 : Manfred Winkelhock , German automobile racing driver († 1985 )
- October 8th : Timo Salonen , Finnish rally driver
- October 15 : Roscoe Tanner , American tennis player
- October 15 : Rafael Vaganian , Armenian chess player
- October 18 : Hans-Georg Jaunich , German handball player
- October 20 : Claudio Ranieri , Italian football player and coach
- October 23 : Gerd Kische , German soccer player
- October 23 : Ingo Peter , German soccer coach
- October 23 : Vyacheslav Tschanow , Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach
- October 25th : Hans-Georg Aschenbach , German ski jumper
- October 29th : Peter Höhne , German handball trainer and handball goalkeeper
- October 29th : Tiff Needell , British racing car driver and journalist
- October 31 : Volker-Michael Anton , German correspondence chess player
November
- November 4th : Carlo Fugazza , Italian karate master
- November 4th : Eugenio Torre , Filipino chess player
- November 5 : Vladimir Kishkun , Soviet-Russian pole vaulter
- November 9 : Alexander Below , Soviet-Russian basketball player († 1978 )
- November 10 : Alexander Vinogradov , Soviet-Russian canoeist and 1976 Olympic champion
- November 15 : Mike Mentzer , American professional bodybuilder († 2001 )
- November 20 : Alexej Spiridonow , Soviet-Russian hammer thrower († 1998 )
- November 22nd : Bernd Herrmann , German athlete
- November 28 : Bobby Chacon , American boxer († 2016 )
- November 30th : Peter Reichel , German soccer player
December
- December 9 : Dominique Dropsy , French football player († 2015 )
- December 10th : Eduard Angele , German soccer player
- December 11th : Jacques Anouma , Ivorian football official
- December 12th : Anatolij Aljabjew , Russian biathlete
- December 14th : Jan Timman , Dutch chess player
- December 17th : Tatiana Kasankina , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- December 18 : Vladimir Jumin , Soviet-Russian wrestler († 2016 )
- December 19 : Anette Rückes , German athlete
- December 25th : Herluf Andersen , Danish archer
- December 30th : Neil Cusack , Irish long distance runner
- December 31 : Kenny Roberts sr. , American motorcycle racer
Died
January to June
- January 14th : Fritz Balogh , German football player (* 1920 )
- January 15 : Erwin Voellmy , Swiss chess player and mathematician (* 1886 )
- March 25 : Zoltán Mechlovits , Hungarian table tennis player (* 1891 )
- April 17th : Renato Magi , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1913 )
- April 26th : Otto Bäurle , German athlete (* 1887 )
- May 6 : Raffaele Alberti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
- May 6th : Guido Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1915 )
- May 9 : Leo Bosschart , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- May 22nd : Roland Jacobi , Hungarian table tennis player (* 1893 )
- May 29 : Géza Maróczy , Hungarian chess player (* 1870 )
- June 23 : Victor Johnson , British cyclist, Olympic and world champion (* 1883 )
July to December
- July 14th : Dario Ambrosini , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1918 )
- July 29th : Walt Brown , American racing driver (* 1911 )
- July 29 : Cecil Green , American racing driver (* 1919 )
- August 15 : Gianni Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1915 )
- August 15 : Sante Geminiani , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1919 )
- September 6th : Karl Slevogt , German designer, automobile pioneer and racing driver (* 1876 )
- September 26 : Montagu Allan , Canadian banker, ship owner and sports sponsor (* 1860 )
- September 28 : Carl Albert Andersen , Norwegian athlete and gymnast (* 1876 )
- October 1 : Otto Wurzburg , composer of chess problems (* 1875 )
- November 4 : Ernesto Ambrosini , Italian athlete (* 1894 )
- November 5 : Reggie Walker , South African athlete and Olympic champion (* 1889 )
- November 11th : Mack Hellings , American racing driver (* 1917 )
- December 21 : Ernie Collett , Canadian ice hockey player (* 1895 )
See also
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