Sports year 1927

◄◄ | ◄ | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | Sports year 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | ► | ►►
Other events

Events

Soccer

athletics

Athletics Championships

South American Athletics Championships 1927

Athletics world records

sprint

June 12 : Eileen Edwards , Great Britain, runs the women's 200 meters in 25.4 seconds.

Long distance running

August 7th : Lina Radke , Germany, runs the women's 800 meters in 2: 23.8 minutes.
September 18 : Otto Peltzer , Germany, runs the men's 1000 meters in 2: 25.8 minutes.

Hurdles

May 18 : Sten Pettersson , Sweden, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 14.8 seconds.
August 12 : John Gibson, USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 52.6 seconds.

Throwing disciplines

February 26th : Lillian Copeland , USA reaches 38.21 m in the women's javelin .
March 4th : Halina Konopacka , Poland, reaches 39.18 m in the women's discus throw .
May 1st : Eino Penttilä , Finland, reaches 69.88 m in the men's javelin.

Jump disciplines

July 27 : Sabin Carr , USA, reaches 4.27 m in the men's pole vault .

All-around

August 17 : Paavo Yrjola , Finland, scores 7,995 points in the men's decathlon.

Motorsport

Motorcycling

European motorcycle championship

At the European motorcycle championship held at the Nürburgring in Germany, local Willi Henkelmann won the title in the 175 cm³ class on a DKW ahead of his compatriots and brand colleagues Arthur Geiss and Arthur Müller .
In the quarter liter class, the Briton Cecil Ashby prevailed on OK-Supreme against the German Walfried Winkler (DKW) and the Austrian Hugo Höbel ( Puch ).
In the 350s, the Briton Jimmie Simpson on AJS wins ahead of his compatriot Frank Longman and the German Franz Seider (both Velocette ).
In the 500 cc class, Britain’s Graham Walker won on Sunbeam ahead of Irishman Stanley Woods ( Norton ) and Cecil Ashby ( Rudge ).
The first ever 750 cc race was won by German Josef Stelzer in a BMW ahead of his compatriot and fellow brand name Paul Köppen . Further pilots did not reach the goal.
In the 1000 cc class, which is also being held for the first time, local Josef Giggenbach wins on Bayerland - JAP ahead of Germans Werner Huth ( Harley-Davidson ) and Heinz Kürten (Andrees).

German motorcycle road championship

German champions are Hans Sprung ( DKW , 175 cm³), Walfried Winkler (DKW, 250 cm³), Herbert Ernst ( AJS , 350 cm³), Hans Soenius ( BMW , 500 cm³), Ernst Jakob Henne ( BMW , 750 cm³) and Paul Rüttchen ( Harley-Davidson , 1000 cm³).

Cycling

chess

World chess champion 1927–1944: Vera Menchik

18.-30. July: The 1927 Chess Olympiad is the first such country tournament of the World Chess Federation. Hungary is the winner in 16 participating countries.
July: Vera Menchik wins the women's chess world championship in 1927 as the first such title fight , who will remain world champion until her death in 1944.

September 16 - November 29: The 1927 World Chess Championship ends with defending champion José Raúl Capablanca defeat by Alexander Alekhine , who becomes the fourth world chess champion.

swim

European Swimming Championships 1927

Winter sports

Born

January to April

0January 2 : Gino Marchetti , American football player
0January 7th : Abdul Hamid , Pakistani field hockey player
January 15 : Walter Schneider , German motorcycle racer († 2010 )
January 18 : Werner Liebrich , German football player and coach († 1995 )
January 18 : Rudolf Schlott , German soccer coach († 2014 )
January 22 : Lou Creekmur , American football player († 2009 )
January 22 : Joe Perry , American football player († 2011 )
January 26 : Vic Mees , Belgian football player († 2012 )

0February 6 : Friedel Münch , German motorcycle designer († 2014 )
0February 7 : Volodymyr Kuz , Soviet athlete (long-distance runner) († 1975 )
February 12 : Gottfried Pohlan , German motorcycle racer († 1989 )
February 22nd : Florencio Campomanes , Filipino chess player and official († 2010 )
February 22nd : Ernst Huberty , German sports journalist and television presenter
February 23 : Willie Ormond , Scottish football player and coach († 1984 )
February 27 : Fredi Pankonin , German handball goalkeeper († 2018 )

0March 2 : Roger Walkowiak , French cyclist († 2017 )
0March 4th : Dick Savitt , American tennis player
0March 4th : Jan van Schijndel , Dutch football player († 2011 )
0March 6 : Willi Bartels , German racing car driver († 2005 )
0March 6 : Otto Maychrzak , German handball player († 2002 )
March 10 : Jupp Derwall , German soccer coach and player († 2007 )
March 11 : Dempsey Wilson , American racing driver († 1971 )
March 16 : Gerhard Hofmann , German soccer coach
March 23 : Mato Damjanović , Croatian chess grandmaster († 2011 )

0April 2 : Carmen Basilio , American boxer († 2012 )
0April 2 : Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian football player and football coach († 2006 )
April 20 : Phil Hill , American racing driver († 2008 )
April 24 : Josy Barthel , Luxembourgish athlete and Olympic champion († 1992 )

May to August

0May 1 : Walter Zeman , Austrian football goalkeeper († 1991 )
0May 5 : Art Pollard , American racing driver († 1973 )
May 13 : Archie Scott-Brown , British racing car driver († 1958 )
May 20 : Michel Scheuer , German kayak driver and Olympic champion († 2015 )
May 24 : Claude Abbes , French football player († 2008 )
May 30 : Werner Haas , German motorcycle racer († 1956 )

0June 2 : Ladislav Alster , Czechoslovak chess player and chess journalist († 1991 )
June 12 : Bill Cheesbourg , American racing driver († 1995 )
June 20 : Josef Posipal , German football player († 1997 )
June 23 : Herbert MacKay-Fraser , American racing car driver († 1957 )
June 28 : Boris Shilkow , Soviet-Russian speed skater and Olympic champion († 2015 )
June 30th : Shirley Fry , American tennis player

0July 2 : Gerhard Gawliczek , German soccer player († 2010 )
0July 4th : Jim McWithey , American racing driver († 2009 )
0July 6th : Johannes Hendrikus Donner , Dutch chess grandmaster († 1988 )
0July 9 : Red Kelly , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2019 )
July 20 : Dick Stanfel , American football player († 2015 )
July 25th : Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , Franco-Algerian football player († 1970 )
July 27 : Heinz Wewers , German soccer player († 2008 )
July 28 : Hans Bauer , German football player († 1997 )
July 28 : Ermes Muccinelli , Italian football player († 1994 )
July 28 : Heini Walter , Swiss racing driver († 2009 )

0August 2 : Ernesto Formenti , Italian boxer († 1989 )
August 10 : Jean Guichet , French racing driver
August 16 : Herbert Schäfer , German soccer coach († 1991 )
August 18th : John Rhodes , British racing car driver
August 25 : Althea Gibson , American tennis player († 2003 )

September to December

September 11th : Walter Zeller , German motorcycle racer († 1995 )
September 14th : Markus Egen , German ice hockey player
September 26 : Enzo Bearzot , Italian football player and coach († 2010 )
September 29 : Adhemar Ferreira da Silva , Brazilian athlete († 2001 )

0October 4 : Roberto Bussinello , Italian racing driver († 1999 )
0October 4th : Eva Pawlik , Austrian figure skater and film actress († 1983 )
October 19 : Hans Schäfer , German football player († 2017 )
October 29 : Frank Sedgman , Australian tennis player

0November 7th : Claude Storez , French racing car driver († 1959 )
November 12 : Jack Butler , American football player, sports scout († 2013 )
November 20 : Vakhtang Balavadze , Soviet-Georgian wrestler († 2018 )
November 21 : Theodor Puff , German football player († 1999 )

0December 2 : Benjamin Maxwell Acton , Australian ice hockey player († 2020 )
0December 8 : Wolfgang Hempel , German sports journalist and reporter († 2004 )
December 11 : Stein Eriksen , Norwegian skier († 2015 )
December 11th : Heinz Florian Oertel , German sports reporter, journalist, presenter and actor from the GDR
December 15 : William MacKey , American racing car driver († 1951 )
December 29 : Andy Stanfield , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1985 )

Exact date unknown

Karl Hofmann , German motorcycle racer († 1978 )

Died

January 15 : Dawid Janowski , Polish chess player (* 1868 )

0April 4 : Albert Van Coile , Belgian football player (* 1900 )

0May 1 : Oscar Swahn , Swedish marksman and oldest Olympic champion in history (* 1847 )
May 15 : Mario Saetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* unknown)

0June 7th : Archie Birkin , British motorcycle racer (* 1905 )
June 15 : Ottavio Bottecchia , Italian cyclist (* 1894 )

0July 3 : Gérard de Courcelles , French racing driver (* 1889 )
July 11 : Fernand Feyaerts , Belgian swimmer and water polo player (* 1880 )
July 14th : Fritz Hofmann , German athlete (* 1871 )

Web links

Commons : Sports Year 1927 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files