Sports year 1939

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Sports year 1939
The Austrian soccer player Matthias Sindelar dies under unexplained circumstances in his apartment in Vienna.
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Events

badminton

The climax of the badminton year 1939 was the All England . The British Isles, Scandinavia, France, North America, Australia, India and Malaya were the centers of the sport.

International Badminton Federation

The International Badminton Federation had 15 members: Australia , Denmark , England , France , India , Ireland , Canada , Malaya , Mexico , New Zealand , Norway , Scotland , Sweden , USA and Wales , with Mexico and Sweden joining the IBF in 1939. The Netherlands left the association due to inactivity.

Events

All England 1939

The All England 1939 took place from March 7th to March 12th, 1939 in London . In this 36th edition of the most important badminton championship at the time , Tage Madsen won the final in the men's singles against the Englishman Ralph CF Nichols with 10-15, 18-13 and 15-7. Madsen was already on the verge of elimination in the semi-finals when he was 1:10 behind against AS Samuel from Selangor in the decisive third set. However, Madsen was able to fight his way back into the game and won with 7-15, 15-9, 15-11. The venue was Lindley Hall on Vincent Square in Westminster.

All England 1939 final results

discipline	winner	finalist	Result
Men's singles	Days Madsen	Ralph Nichols	10-15, 18-13, 15-7
Ladies singles	Dorothy Walton	Diana Doveton	11-4, 11-5
Men's doubles	Thomas Boyle James Rankin	Leslie Nichols Ralph Nichols	15-4, 15-3
Ladies doubles	Ruth Dalsgaard Tonny Olsen	Marjorie Barrett Diana Doveton	15-11, 2-15, 17-15
Mixed	Ralph Nichols, Betsy M. Staples	James Rankin Mavis Macnaughton	15-10, 6-15, 15-8

Malaysia Open 1939

The Malaysia Open 1939 in badminton took place in Penang in early April 1939 . They were the 3rd edition of this championship.

Final results of the Malaysia Open 1939

discipline	winner	finalist	Result
Men's singles	Seah Eng Hee	Tan Chong tea	15-8, 17-15
Ladies singles	Cecilia Chan	Lee Chee Neo	12-11, 11-4
Men's doubles	Teh Gin Sooi Low Keat Soo	Alimat Bin Rahman Lee Yew Seng	15-7, 17-18, 15-9
Ladies doubles	Chang Kon Neong Ida Lim	Felicity Chan Hew Siew Ying	15-10. 3-15, 15-11
Mixed	Ooi Teik Hock Cecilia Chan	Chan Kon Leong Chan Kon Yoon	15-4, 15-11

basketball

• European basketball championship 1939

Soccer

• June 18 : The German soccer championship 1938/39 , the last before the Second World War , ends with a 9-0 final victory for FC Schalke 04 against SK Admira Wien .

athletics

World records

sprint

• August 12 : Rudolf Harbig , Germany, runs the men's 400 meters in 46 seconds.

Middle distance run

• July 15 : Rudolf Harbig , Germany, runs the men's 800 meters in 01: 46.6 min.

Long distance running

• June 16 : Taisto Mäki , Finland, runs the men's 5000 meters in 14: 08.8 min.
• September 17th : Taisto Mäki , Finland, runs the men's 10,000 m in 29: 52.6 minutes.

Jump disciplines

• May 29 : Dorothy Odam , Great Britain, jumps 1.66 m in the women's high jump .
• June 21 : Rie Yamaguchi , Japan, reaches 11.66 m in the women's triple jump .
• July 30 : Christel Schulz , Germany, jumps 6.12 m in the women's long jump .

Throwing disciplines

• May 29 : Nina Dumbadze , Soviet Union, reaches 49.54 m in the women's discus throw .
• September 6 : Erwin Blask , Germany, reaches 58.13 m in the men's hammer throw .
• September 20 : Karl Hein , Germany, reached 58.24 m in the men's hammer throw.
• September 24 : Yrjo Nikkanen , Finland, reaches 77.87 m in the men's javelin throw .
• September 26 : Erwin Blask , Germany, reaches 59 meters in the men's hammer throw.

Motorsport

Motorcycling

European motorcycle championship

→ Main article : 1939 European Motorcycle Championship

• At the European Motorcycle Championship, the German Ewald Kluge defends his title in the quarter liter class on a DKW in front of his compatriot and brand colleague Bernhard Petruschke and the British Les Martin ( Excelsior ).
• In the 350cc class, German DKW works driver Heiner Fleischmann wins ahead of Briton Ted Mellors and Irishman Stanley Woods (both Velocette ).
• In the half-liter class, the Italian Dorino Serafini prevails on Gilera against the German Georg Meier ( BMW ) and his compatriot Silvio Vailati (also Gilera).

German motorcycle road championship

• German champions are Ewald Kluge ( DKW , 250 cm³), Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU , 350 cm³) and Wiggerl Kraus ( BMW , 500 cm³).

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia 1939
• Greater Germany voyage in 1939
• Tour de France 1939
• UCI track world championships 1939

chess

• August 24 to November 19: Germany wins the 1939 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires. The British team returned immediately after the outbreak of World War II , with many players staying in Argentina after the tournament was over.
• August - November: Vera Menchik wins the 1939 women's world chess championship in Buenos Aires for the last time . In 1944 she will die as the title holder.

swim

Swimming records

Breaststroke

• November 8th : Maria Lenk , Brazil, swims the 200 meter chest of women in Rio de Janeiro in 02: 56.0.

Backstroke

• November 1st : Cor Kint , the Netherlands, swims the women's 100 meters back in Rotterdam with a time of 1 :10.9, a record that will last until 1956 .
• November 29th : Cor Kint , the Netherlands, swims the 200 meters back women in Rotterdam in 02: 38.8, a record that will hold until 1950 .

Table tennis

• Table tennis world championship 1939 March 6th to 11th in Cairo (Egypt)
• Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
  • March 30: Stockholm: D. - Sweden 1: 4 (men)

Winter sports

• February 3 to 12 : The Canadian national ice hockey team wins the 1939 Ice Hockey World Championship against the United States . With its third place, Switzerland decides the European championship, which is being held at the same time, for itself.
• 11 / 12 February : 1939 World Figure Skating Championships Ladies
• February 11th to 19th : Nordic World Ski Championships 1939
• 12. bis 15. February : FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1939
• 17th bis 19th February : 1939 World Figure Skating Championships the men and couples
• 1939 World Bobsleigh Championship
• European Figure Skating Championships 1939

Born

January to March

• 0January 1st : Phil Read , British motorcycle racer
• 0January 3 : Bobby Hull , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0January 6 : Valery Lobanovsky , Soviet and Ukrainian football coach († 2002 )
• 0January 7th : Brausch Niemann , South African racing car driver
• January 11 : Anne Heggtveit , Canadian ski racer
• January 14th : Heinz Rosner , German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur

Ute Starke

• January 14th : Ute Starke , German gymnast, world champion
• January 21 : Friedel Lutz , German soccer player
• January 22 : JC Tremblay , Canadian ice hockey player († 1994 )
• January 24th : Renate Garisch-Culmberger , German athlete
• January 29th : Hans-Joachim Hecht , German chess player
• January 30th : Eugenio Saini , Italian enduro athlete († 2009 )
• 0February 8 : Egon Zimmermann , Austrian ski racer
• 0February 9 : Primo Zamparini , Italian boxer
• 0March 7th : Panajot Pano , Albanian football player († 2010 )
• 0March 8 : Lidija Skoblikova , Soviet-Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
• 0March 8 : Paride Tumburus , Italian football player and coach († 2015 )
• March 10 : Carlo Furlanis , Italian football player († 2013 )
• March 10 : Irina Press , Soviet athlete († 2004 )
• March 16 : Carlos Salvador Bilardo , Argentine soccer player and coach
• March 17th : Giovanni Trapattoni , Italian football player and coach
• March 18 : Angelo Bergamonti , Italian motorcycle racer († 1971 )
• March 18th : Klaus Teuchert , German enduro athlete
• March 20 : Giorgio Rossano , Italian football player († 2016 )
• March 21 : Guliko Sagaradze , Soviet-Georgian wrestler
• March 23 : Robin Herd , English engineer and racing car designer
• March 24th : Masaaki Ueki , Japanese karateka, holder of the 10th Dan
• March 29 : Hanumant Singh , Indian cricketer († 2006 )
• March 30 : Robert Herbin , French football player and coach
• March 31 : Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , German soccer player

April to June

• 0April 1st : Wilhelm Bungert , German tennis player
• 0April 1 : Vitaly Davydov , Russian ice hockey player
• 0April 3 : Rudolf Vesper , German wrestler
• 0April 4 : Oscar Fulloné , Argentinian football player and coach († 2017 )
• 0April 4 : Ernie Terrell , American heavyweight boxer († 2014 )
• 0April 6 : Cor Veldhoen , Dutch football player († 2005 )
• April 13 : Alois Kälin , Swiss Nordic combined skier and cross-country skier
• April 19 : Basil van Rooyen , South African racing car driver
• April 21 : Richard Goedeke , German mountaineer, climber and author
• April 24th : Christian Breuer , German soccer player
• April 25 : Tarcisio Burgnich , Italian football player
• April 25 : Bob Gray , American cross-country skier

• 0May 2 : Ernesto Càstano Italian football player
• 0May 4th : Helga Steudel , German racing driver
• 0May 5th : Cesare Fiorio , Italian motorsport team boss
• 0May 5 : Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , German major restaurateur and sports official († 2010 )
• 0May 8 : Paul Drayton , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2010 )
• 0May 9 : Ion Țiriac , Romanian businessman and sportsman
• 0May 9 : Ralph Boston , American track and field athlete
• May 10th : Mary Sears , American swimmer
• May 13 : Peter Frenkel , German athlete
• May 13th : Hildrun Claus , German athlete
• May 19 : Livio Berruti , Italian athlete
• May 19 : Jānis Lūsis , Soviet javelin thrower and Olympic champion from 1968 († 2020 )
• May 25 : Mike Harris , Rhodesian racing car driver
• May 29 : Al Unser , American racing car driver
• May 30th : Dieter Quester , Austrian racing driver

• 0June 9 : David Hobbs , British racing car driver
• 0June 9 : Dick Vitale , American sports reporter
• June 11th : Jackie Stewart , British racing driver
• June 29th : Amarildo Tavares da Silveira , Brazilian football player and coach
• June 30th : Harry Källström , Swedish rally driver († 2009 )

July to September

• 0July 3 : Angelo Sormani , Brazilian-Italian soccer player and coach
• 0July 3 : Joachim Ziesche , German ice hockey player
• 0July 5th : James Lloyd , British boxer
• 0July 6th : Mary Peters , British athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 7 : Ronald B. Evans , Australian football player and official († 2007 )
• 0July 7th : Wilfried Sauermann , German chess player
• July 10th : Horst Langer , German table tennis player
• July 16 : Lido Vieri , Italian football player and coach
• July 21 : Helmut Haller , German soccer player

• August 11th : Helmar Müller , German athlete
• August 12 : Pam Kilborn , Australian athlete and Olympian
• August 18 : Giorgio Ferrini , Italian football player († 1976 )
• August 19 : Max Lorenz , German soccer player
• August 26 : Enzo Osella , Italian racing car designer and motorsport team boss
• August 27th : Nikola Pilić , Croatian tennis player and tennis coach
• August 30 : Ulla Lindkvist , Swedish orienteer

• 0September 2 : Nicolino Locche , Argentine boxer († 2005 )
• 0September 2nd : Joachim Bäse , German soccer player
• 0September 4th : Mario Casoni , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0September 5th : Hubert Striebig , French racing car driver
• 0September 7th : Donnie Allison , American racing driver
• September 11th : Alain Giletti , French figure skater
• September 11th : Josef Jakob , Romanian handball player and coach
• September 20th : Peter Radford , British athlete and Olympian
• September 21 : Siegfried Schauzu , German motorcycle racer
• September 23 : Karl Meisner , German swimmer († 2019 )
• September 25 : Gianfranco Leoncini , Italian football player († 2019 )
• September 26th : Maria Gommers , Dutch athlete and Olympian
• September 28 : Václav Kubička , Czechoslovak national coach of German gymnasts († 2005 )
• September 29 : Otto Schneitberger , German ice hockey player

October to December

• 0October 1 : George Archer , American golfer († 2005 )
• 0October 4th : Ivan Mauger , New Zealand track athlete († 2018 )
• October 10 : Bernd Bauchspieß , German soccer player
• October 11 : Bernd Cullmann , German athlete
• October 11th : Maria Bueno , Brazilian tennis player
• October 15 : Carmelo Bossi , Italian boxing world champion († 2014 )
• October 18 : Mike Ditka , American football player and coach
• October 18 : Ewald Schneidewind , German enduro athlete
• October 25 : Dave Simmonds , British motorcycle racer († 1972 )
• October 27 : Marino Perani , Italian football player and coach († 2017 )
• 0November 2nd : Enrico Albertosi , Italian football player
• 0November 4th : Günter Bernard , German football player, goalkeeper
• November 13 : Karel Brückner , Czech football player and coach
• November 16 : Jürgen Moll , German football player († 1968 )
• November 17th : Chris Craft , British racing car driver
• November 18 : Werner Gräber , German football player
• November 29 : Sandro Salvadore , Italian football player († 2007 )
• 0December 8 : Srđan Čebinac , Serbian football player
• December 18 : Sandro Lopopolo , Italian boxing world champion
• December 19 : Hubert Knobloch , German sports journalist and reporter († 2004 )
• December 28th : Conny Andersson , Swedish racing car driver
• December 29th : Bernd Uhlmann , German enduro athlete
• December 31 : Heribert Finken , German soccer player

Exact date of birth unknown

• Marsilio Pasotti , Italian racing driver († 1969 )

Died

Matthias Sindelar's grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery

• January 23 : Matthias Sindelar , Austrian football player (* 1903 )
• February 13 : Caius Welcker , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
• 0March 3 : Joe Little Twig , American football player and police officer (* 1897 )
• March 24 : Gwyn Nicholls , Welsh rugby player (* 1874 )
• April 24th : Louis Trousselier , French cyclist (* 1881 )
• June 13 : Karl Gall , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1903 )
• June 19 : Emilio Villoresi , Italian racing driver (* 1913 )
• June 25 : Richard Seaman , British racing driver (* 1913 )
• August 12 : Giordano Aldrighetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer (* 1905 )
• August 23 : Eugène-Henri Gravelotte , French fencer (* 1876 )
• August 25 : Jan Vos , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
• September 18 : Hugo Urban-Emmerich , Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1887 )
• October 20 : Otto Siffling , German football player (* 1912 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

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