Sports year 1931
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Events
Cross-disciplinary sporting events
- 19th bis 26. July : Second Workers Olympics in Vienna, organized by the Confédération Sportive International du Travail
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1931 were the All England , the Irish Open and the Scottish Open .
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All of England |
 Frank Devlin
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 Marjorie Barrett
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Frank Devlin Gordon Mack
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Marian Horsley Betty Uber
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Herbert Uber, Betty Uber
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| Irish Open |
Willoughby Hamilton
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Marian Horsley
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GSB Mack Frank Devlin
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Marian Horsley C. T. Duncan
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Frank Devlin Marian Horsley
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| Scottish Open |
Raymond M. White
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Betty Uber
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KG Livingstone Raymond M. White
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Marian Horsley Betty Uber
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TP Dick Marian Horsley
|
Soccer
International football events
National football championships
- German football championship 1930/31
- Austrian football championship 1930/31
- Swiss Football Championship 1930/31
athletics
World records
Hurdles
- May 5th : Bengt Sjöstedt , Finland, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 14.4 seconds.
Go
- May 14th : Antonie Odvárková , Czechoslovakia, completed the women's 20 km walk in 2: 14.1 hours.
Jump disciplines
- August 16 : William Graber , United States, reaches 4.37 m in the men's pole vault .
- October 27 : Chuhei Nambu , Japan, jumps 7.98 m in the men's long jump .
- October 27 : Mikio Oda , Japan, jumps 15.58 m in the men's triple jump .
Throwing disciplines
- May 18 : Aurora Villa , Spain, reaches 18.58 m in the women's hammer throw .
- June 4th : František Douda , Czechoslovakia, reaches 16.04 m in the men's shot put .
- August 16 : Grete Heublein , Germany, hits 13.7 m in the women's shot put.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
European motorcycle championship
- At the European motorcycle championship held in Montlhéry , France , the British Eric Fernihough won the title in the 175 cm³ class on an Excelsior ahead of the Belgian Yvan Goor ( DKW ). Other starters did not reach the finish.
- In the quarter liter class, the Briton Graham Walker on Rudge wins against the Irish Paddy Johnston ( Moto Guzzi ) and G. Boudin from the island of Jersey (CTS).
- In the 350s, the Briton Ernie Nott on Rudge wins ahead of the Irishman Stanley Woods ( Norton ) and the Belgian Fernand Renier ( Velocette ).
- In the 500 cm³ class, Brit Percy Hunt on Norton wins ahead of Australian Arthur Simcock ( OK-Supreme ) and Briton Jimmie Guthrie (Norton).
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Arthur Geiss ( DKW , 250 cm³) and Hans Kahrmann ( Hercules - JAP , 250 cm³), Ernst Loof ( Imperia , 350 cm³), Werner Huth ( NSU , 500 cm³), Ralph Roese ( BMW , over 500 cm³) , Albert Schneider / unknown ( Velocette , sidecar 350 cm³), Harry Heyer / unknown ( AJS , sidecar 600 cm³) and Paul Weyres / unknown ( Harley-Davidson , sidecar 1000 cm³).
Cycling
- May 4 to 24 : International Opel Tour of Germany 1931 , winner Erich Metze
- May 10th to 31st : Giro d'Italia 1931 , winner Francesco Camusso
- June 30th to July 26th : Tour de France 1931 , winner Antonin Magne
rowing
Table tennis
- February 10th to 15th : World Table Tennis Championships 1931 in Budapest (Hungary)
Winter sports
- February 1 to 8 : The 1931 ice hockey world championship in Krynica in Poland is also the European ice hockey championship: Canada wins the world ahead of the United States . With third place in the world championship, Austria won the European title.
- 5th to 8th February : Workers Winter Olympics 1931 in Mürzzuschlag in Austria
- February 13th to 15th : Nordic World Ski Championships 1931 in Oberhof in Germany
- February 19 to 23 : The most successful runner at the FIS championship in Mürren, Switzerland is Esmé MacKinnon from Britain , who wins all disciplines. The Swiss dominate the men with a four-fold success in the downhill.
- February 28 to March 1 : The 1931 World Figure Skating Championships in Berlin are dominated by the Norwegian Sonja Henie and the Austrian Karl Schäfer , as is the 1931 European Figure Skating Championships in Vienna. In pair skating there was a double victory for Hungary in both events.
- Bobsleigh World Championships 1931 in Oberhof and St. Moritz
Born
January to April
- January 4th : Guido Messina , Italian cyclist († 2020 )
- January 6 : Franz Albert , Austrian racing driver († 2017 )
- January 12th : Pierre Monneret , French motorcycle racer († 2010 )
- January 20 : Preston Henn , American racing driver and entrepreneur († 2017 )
- January 21 : Heinz Luthringshauser , German motorcycle racer († 1997 )
- January 22nd : Galina Sybina , Soviet-Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- January 28 : Bringfried Müller , German soccer player and coach († 2016 )
- February 1 : Madeleine Berthod , Swiss ski racer
- February 2 : Hans Rampf , German ice hockey player and coach († 2001 )
- February 9 : Josef Masopust , Czechoslovak football player († 2015 )
- February 18 : Bob St. Clair , American football player († 2015 )
- February 23 : Gustav-Adolf Schur , German cyclist and politician
- February 28 : Dean Smith , American basketball coach († 2015 )
- March 13 : Abderrahmane Boubekeur , Algerian-French football player and coach († 1998 )
- March 14th : Constantin Dumitrescu , Romanian boxer
- March 14 : Saïd Brahimi , Algerian-French football player and coach († 1997 )
- March 16 : Viktor Bystrow , Soviet-Russian boxer († 1992 )
- March 23 : Yevgeny Grishin , Russian speed skater († 2005 )
- March 23 : Viktor Korchnoi , Soviet-Swiss chess player († 2016 )
- April 9 : Tom Phillis , Australian motorcycle racer († 1962 )
- April 13 : Dan Gurney , American racing driver and team owner († 2018 )
- April 13th : August Hobl , German motorcycle racer
- April 14 : Vic Wilson , British racing driver († 2001 )
- April 23 : Karl Recktenwald , German motorcycle racer († 1964 )
- April 24 : Abdelhamid Kermali , Algerian-French football player and coach († 2013 )
May to August
- May 6 : Willie Mays , American baseball player
- May 13 : Werner Stiegler , German enduro athlete
- May 19 : Bob Anderson , British motorcycle and automobile racer († 1967 )
- May 21 : Lorenz Specht , German motorcycle athlete († 2016 )
- May 29th : Egon Ditt , German chess player and official. († 2005 )
- June 3 : Lindy Remigino , American athlete († 2018 )
- June 13 : Věra Suková , Czechoslovak tennis player († 1982 )
- June 21 : Enzo Maiorca , Italian freediver († 2016 )
- June 22nd : Teruyuki Okazaki , Japanese karateka, holder of the 10th Dan († 2020 )
- June 24 : Billy Casper , American golfer († 2015 )
- June 30th : Harry Blanchard , American racing car driver († 1960 )
- June 30 : Brian Muir , Australian racing car driver († 1983 )
- July 20 : Tony Marsh , British racing driver († 2009 )
- July 27 : Nikolai Solovyov , Soviet-Russian wrestler and Olympic champion († 2007 )
- July 28th : Karl-Friedrich Haas , German athlete
- July 29 : Joachim Leitert , German motorcycle racer († 2004 )
- July 30th : Ursula Donath , German athlete
- July 31 : Nick Bollettieri , American tennis coach
- August 1 : Hal Connolly , American hammer thrower and Olympic champion († 2010 )
- August 1st : Dino da Costa , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- August 9 : Paul Schmidt , German middle-distance runner
- August 9 : Mario Zagallo , Brazilian soccer player and soccer coach
- August 20 : Don King , American boxing promoter
- August 31 : Jean Béliveau , Canadian ice hockey player († 2014 )
September to December
- September 4 : Rupert Hollaus , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1954 )
- September 13 : Marjorie Jackson , Australian athlete and governor of the Australian state of South Australia
- September 16 : Werner Lueg , German athlete († 2014 )
- September 18 : Julio Grondona , President of the Argentine Football Association († 2014 )
- September 19 : Derek Gardner , British automobile designer († 2011 )
- September 22nd : Ernst Degner , German motorcycle racer († 1983 )
- September 24 : Mark Midler , Soviet-Russian fencer and Olympic champion († 2012 )
- October 2 : Keith Campbell , Australian motorcycle racer († 1958 )
- October 4th : Thane Baker , American athlete and Olympic champion
- October 5th : Galina Shamrai , Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion
- October 7 : Cotton Fitzsimmons , American basketball player († 2004 )
- October 8 : Bill Brown , Scottish soccer player († 2004 )
- October 13 : Raymond Kopa , French football player († 2017 )
- October 14 : Heinz Fütterer , German athlete († 2019 )
- October 18 : Geoff Barrowcliffe , British football player († 2009 )
- October 20 : Mickey Mantle , American baseball player († 1995 )
- October 23 : Jim Bunning , American baseball player and politician († 2017 )
- November 6 : Peter Collins , British racing car driver († 1958 )
- November 8th : Jim Redman , Rhodesian motorcycle racer
- November 24 : Stan Jones , American football player and coach († 2010 )
- December 8 : Bob Arum , American boxing promoter
- December 15 : Dieter Seeler , German football player († 1979 )
- December 22nd : Gisela Birkemeyer , German athlete
- December 26 : Roger Piantoni , French football player († 2018 )
Died
- May 5 : Glen Kidston , British racing car driver (* 1899 )
- May 11 : Arno Zaspel , German motorcycle racer (* unknown)
- May 23 : Luigi Arcangeli , Italian motorcycle and car racer (* 1894 )
- June 19 : Freddie Hicks , British motorcycle racer (* 1899 or 1900 )
- June 28 : Maximilian zu Hardegg , Austrian nobleman and racing car driver (* 1906 )
- July 17 : Iossif Schomaker , Russian sailor and Olympic medalist (* 1859 )
- October 2 : Georg Demmler , German architect, athlete and sports official (* 1873 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1931 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
