Sports year 1934
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Events
Cross-disciplinary sporting events
- 4th to 11th August : British Empire Games 1934 in London
- August 11th : The fourth Women's World Games open in London . Under pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it will be the last event of its kind.
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1934 were the All England , the Irish Open and the Scottish Open .
International events
Rockclimbing
- July: The German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1934 , led by Willy Merkl, ends in a catastrophe in which 11 expedition members are killed. The Nanga Parbat is then hyped up by the National Socialist propaganda as the “German mountain of fate”.
Boxing
- August 26th : Max Schmeling and Walter Neusel fight in the heavyweight division on the converted sand race track at Hagenbeck's zoo. Around 100,000 spectators see the fight, which is the largest crowd at a boxing event in Europe to date (2015). Schmeling won in the 9th round.
Soccer
International football events
National football championships
- German football championship 1933/34
- Austrian football championship 1933/34
- Swiss Football Championship 1933/34
athletics
- September 7th to 9th : The first European Athletics Championships in Turin are only for men.
World records
Middle distance run
- June 16 : Ben Eastman , USA, runs the men's 800 meters in 1: 49.8 min.
- June 30 : Bill Bonthron , USA, runs the men's 1500 meters in 3: 48.8 minutes.
Hurdles
- July 26 : Percy Beard , USA, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 14.3 seconds.
- July 26 : Glenn Hardin , USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 50.6 seconds.
- August 6 : Percy Beard, USA, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 14.2 seconds.
- August 26 : Glenn Hardin, USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 50.6 seconds.
- October 5 : Percy Beard, USA, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 14.2 seconds.
Go
- August 9 : Lina Aebersold , Switzerland, completes the women's 20,000 meter walk in 1: 59.0 hours.
Throwing disciplines
- May 10 : Jadwiga Wajs , Poland, reaches 43.79 m in the women's discus throw .
- June 24 : Jack Torrance , USA, reaches 16.30 m in the men's shot put .
- July 15 : Gisela Mauermayer , Germany, hits 14.38 m in the women's shot put.
- August 5 : Jack Torrance, USA, hits 17.4 m in the men's shot put.
- August 11 : Jadwiga Wajs, Poland, throws 43.79 m in the women's discus throw.
- August 18 : Matti Järvinen , Finland, reaches 77.23 m in the men's javelin throw .
- September 4th : Jack Torrance, USA, reaches 17.40 m in the men's shot put.
- September 14 : Jadwiga Wajs, Poland, reaches 44.19 m in the women's discus throw.
- September 24 : Harald Andersson , Sweden, reaches 52.2 m in the men's discus throw.
- October 24 : Harald Andersson , Sweden, reaches 52.42 m in the men's discus throw.
Jump disciplines
- April 28 : Walter Marty , USA, jumps 2.06 m in the men's high jump .
- October 27 : Walter Marty, USA, reaches 2.06 m in the men's high jump.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
European motorcycle championship
- At the European motorcycle championship held on the Dutch Circuit van Drenthe , Belgian Yvan Goor won the title in the 175 cm³ class on a Benelli ahead of his compatriots “Dickwell” (Barbé- JAP ) and Maurice van Geert (Rush- Blackburne ).
- In the quarter liter class, the German Walfried Winkler on DKW prevailed against the British Les Archer ( New Imperial ) and his compatriot Arthur Geiss (also DKW).
- In the 350s, the Briton Jimmie Simpson wins his fifth and last European Championship title on Norton . He is followed by the two Velocette pilots Walter Rusk from Northern Ireland and Alec Mitchell from Great Britain.
- In the 500 cm³ class, Belgian Pol Demeuter won on FN ahead of his compatriot and team mate “Noir” and local Arie van der Pluym ( Husqvarna ).
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Walfried Winkler ( DKW , 250 cm³), Ernst Loof ( Imperia , 350 cm³), Otto Ley (DKW, 500 cm³), Hans Soenius ( NSU , over 500 cm³), Ernst Loof / unknown ( Imperia - Python , teams 350 cm³), Hans Schumann / Hermann Böhm ( NSU , sidecar 600 cm³) and Paul Weyres / without passenger ( Harley-Davidson , sidecar 1000 cm³).
Cycling
rowing
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1934 2nd to 10th December 1933 in Paris (France)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March 27: Hamburg: D. - France 2-3 (men)
- October 26th: Danzig: D. - Poland 2: 7 (men)
- November 6: Hamburg: D. - England 1: 4 (men)
- Prague: D. - CSR 3-2 (women)
Winter sports
- February 15 to 17 : At the Alpine World Ski Championships 1934 in Switzerland, there is no team from the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) at the start due to the February fights .
- 1934 World Bobsleigh Championship
- Ice Hockey World Championship 1934
- World Figure Skating Championships 1934
- European Figure Skating Championships 1934
- Nordic World Ski Championships 1934
Born
January
- January 1st : Hans Huber , German boxer
- January 3 : Mario David , Italian football player and coach († 2005 )
- January 7th : Charles Jenkins Sr. , American sprinter and Olympic champion
- January 8 : Jacques Anquetil , French cyclist († 1987 )
- January 14th : Alberto Rodríguez Larreta , Argentine racing car driver († 1977 )
- January 15 : Mário de Araújo Cabral , Portuguese racing driver († 2020 )
- January 19 : Rupert EH Lake , Antiguan sports official
- January 20th : Giorgio Bassi , Italian racing car driver
- January 21 : Franz Böhmert , German doctor and sports official († 2004 )
- January 25 : Hiroshi Hasegawa , Japanese motorcycle racer
- January 31 : Ernesto Brambilla , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer
February
- February 9 : Manfred von Richthofen , German athlete, entrepreneur and sports official († 2014 )
- February 11 : John Surtees , British racing driver († 2017 )
- February 12 : Bill Russell , American basketball player
- February 18 : Heini Müller , German soccer player and coach
- February 20 : Bobby Unser , American racing car driver
- February 24th : Klaus Darga , German chess player
- February 26 : Manfred Poerschke , German athlete and Olympian
March
- March 11th : Ingrid Lotz , German athlete
- March 20 : Peter Berling , German author and actor
- March 25 : Bernard Boyer , French racing car designer and racing driver († 2018 )
- March 31 : Igor Rybak , Soviet weightlifter and Olympic champion 1956 († 2005 )
April
- April 3 : Jim Parker , American football player († 2005 )
- April 6 : Anton Geesink , Dutch judoka († 2010 )
- April 6 : Willie Toweel , South African boxer († 2017 )
- April 24th : Michael Taylor , British racing car driver
- April 26th : Josef Seiz , German table tennis player
May
- May 6 : Alois Glaubitz , German football player (GDR)
- May 6th : Hennes Junkermann , German racing cyclist
- May 11 : Jack Twyman , American basketball player († 2012 )
- May 13 : Paddy Driver , South African motorcycle and automobile racer
- May 14 : Aurelio Milani , Italian football player († 2014 )
June
- June 2nd : Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , German soccer player and coach
- June 4th : Vilhjálmur Einarsson , Icelandic athlete and Olympic medalist († 2019 )
- June 21 : Ken Matthews , British athlete and Olympic champion († 2019 )
- June 22nd : Paul Ambros , German ice hockey player
- June 24th : Tommy Bridger , British racing driver († 1991 )
July
- July 8 : Hinrich Schwenker , German handball player († 2005 )
- July 23 : Héctor Adolfo De Bourgoing , Argentine-French footballer († 1993 )
- July 24 : Willie Davis , American football player and entrepreneur
- July 24th : Horst Floth , German bobsleigh athlete († 2005 )
- July 30th : Engelbert Kraus , German soccer player († 2016 )
August
- August 6 : Chris Bonington , British mountaineer
- August 16 : Jean Löring , German football official and patron († 2005 )
- August 23 : Flavio Emoli , Italian football player († 2015 )
- August 29 : Horst Szymaniak , German football player († 2009 )
- August 30 : Baloo Gupte , Indian cricketer († 2005 )
September
- September 5 : Don Chandler , American football player
- September 10 : Roger Maris , American baseball player († 1985 )
- September 11th : Norma Croker , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- September 12 : Glenn Davis , American athlete († 2009 )
- September 16 : Elgin Baylor , American basketball player
- September 16 : Tamara Manina , Russian-Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion
- September 17th : Maureen Connolly , American tennis player († 1969 )
- September 17th : Valda Osborn , British figure skater
- September 20 : Eberhard Stanjek , German sports journalist, ARD sports show presenter († 2001 )
- September 22 : Lute Olson , American basketball coach
- September 28 : René Libeer , French boxer
- September 29 : Helmut Kapitulski , German football player
- September 30 : Alan A'Court , English football player († 2009 )
October
- October 1st : Petar Radenković , Serbian football goalkeeper
- October 4th : Sam Huff , American football player
- October 16 : Peter Ashdown , British racing car driver
- October 16 : Rolf Geiger , German soccer player
- October 17 : Johnny Haynes , English soccer player († 2005 )
- October 22nd : Julio Jiménez , Spanish cyclist
- October 27 : Lidija Boldyrewa , Soviet-Russian national volleyball player († 1991 )
November
- November 1st : Klaus Richtzenhain , German athlete
- November 2nd : Ken Rosewall , Australian tennis player
- November 3 : Raul Donazar Calvet , Brazilian soccer player († 2008 )
- November 8th : Lothar Milde , German athlete
- November 10 : Lucien Bianchi , Belgian racing driver and Le Mans winner († 1969 )
- November 12 : Vavá , Brazilian soccer player († 2002 )
- November 12th : Leonid Stein , Soviet chess player († 1973 )
- November 15 : Adolf Katzenmeier , physiotherapist for the German national soccer team († 2016 )
- November 19 : Roland Ducke , German soccer player († 2005 )
- November 19 : Kurt Hamrin , Swedish football and ice hockey player
- November 20 : Lev Polugajewski , Russian-Soviet chess master († 1995 )
- November 21 : Dietrich Weise , German soccer coach
- November 22 : Jackie Pretorius , South African racing car driver († 2009 )
- November 23 : Lew Hoad , Australian tennis player († 1994 )
- November 26th : Lyudmila Shevtsova , Soviet athlete and Olympic champion
- November 29th : Mary Carter-Reitano , Australian tennis player
December
- December 9 : Wayne Weiler , American racing car driver († 2005 )
- December 9 : Junior Wells , American blues musician († 1998 )
- December 11 : Del Shofner , American football player
- December 12 : Ramón Marsal , Spanish football player († 2007 )
- December 15 : Oleg Golovanov , Soviet rower, Olympic champion and Russian rowing coach († 2019 )
- December 25 : Giancarlo Baghetti , Italian racing driver († 1995 )
- December 27th : Larissa Latynina , Soviet gymnast
- December 27th : Pat Moss , British rally driver († 2008 )
- December 28 : Rudi Faßnacht , German football coach († 2000 )
- December 29 : Vladimir Safronov , Soviet-Russian boxer and Olympic champion 1956 († 1979 )
- December 30th : Barry Briggs , New Zealand speedway driver
Died
- January 6th : Herbert Chapman , English football player and coach (* 1878 )
- February 17th : Siegbert Tarrasch , German chess grandmaster (* 1862 )
- May 7th : Charly Jellen , Austrian racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1909 )
- June 13th : Syd Crabtree , British motorcycle racer (* 1903 or 1904 )
- July 1 : Erik Haps , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- July 1 : Gunnar Kalén , Swedish motorcycle racer (* 1901 )
- July 2 : Pol Demeuter , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1904 )
- July 14 : Willo Welzenbach , German mountaineer (* 1899 )
- July 15 : Arie van der Pluym , Dutch motorcycle racer (* 1896 )
- July 23 : Jean Gaupillat , French racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1891 )
- August 15 : Guy Moll , Algerian racing car driver (* 1910 )
- August 26 : Hugh Caulfield Hamilton , Northern Irish racing driver (* 1905 )
See also
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