Sports year 1940
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1940 was the Malaysia Open . Scandinavia, France, North America, Australia, India and Malaya were the centers of the sport in the second year of the war, while games on the British Isles came to a standstill due to the war.
International Badminton Federation
The International Badminton Federation had 16 members: Australia , Denmark , England , France , India , Ireland , Canada , Malaya , Mexico , New Zealand , Norway , Scotland , Sweden , South Africa , USA and Wales , with South Africa joining the IBF in 1940.
Events
Malaysia Open 1940
The Malaysia Open 1940 in badminton took place in Ipoh at the end of March 1940 . They were the 4th edition of this championship.
Final results of the Malaysia Open 1940
| discipline | winner | finalist | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles |
.svg){kind=small} Wong Peng Soon
|
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|
15-1, 15-7 |
| Ladies singles |
Cecilia Chan
|
 Lee Chee Neo
|
11-0, 11-1 |
| Men's doubles |
Ooi Teik Hock Tan Kin Hong
|
Chee Choon Wah Chee Choon Keng
|
18-14, 15-11 |
| Ladies doubles |
Lee Chee Neo Lee Kim Leo
|
 Chan Kon Yoon Cecilia Chan
|
15-10, 15-7 |
| Mixed |
Wong Peng Soon Lee Chee Neo
|
Ooi Teik Hock Cecilia Chan
|
15-9, 15-11 |
Soccer
- The Estonian football club Dünamo Tallinn is founded.
athletics
- July 29 - Cornelius Warmerdam , USA , reached 4.60 m in the men's pole vault.
- August 14th - Henry Kälarne , Sweden , ran the men's 3000 meters in 8: 09.0 min.
Table tennis
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March 25: Bucharest: D. - Romania 3-2 (women)
- May 4: Budapest: D. - Hungary 2: 5 (men)
- April 1 Vienna: D. - Hungary 1: 7 (women + men)
- November 29th: Agram: D. - Yugoslavia 2: 5 (men)
- November 30th: Agram: D. - Hungary 4-5 (men)
Olympic games
Because of the Second World War , the Olympic Games in 1940 could not be held. The Winter Olympics have also been canceled.
Born
January
- January 1 : Ercan Aktuna , Turkish soccer player, coach, official and columnist († 2013 )
- January 1st : Carlos Santos , Filipino archer
- January 1st : Gerhard Schrader , German soccer player and coach
- January 2nd : Nanni Galli , Italian racing car driver
- January 2nd : Wálter Machado da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- January 3 : Tsutomu Hanahara , Japanese wrestler
- January 8 : Zoran Janković , Yugoslav water polo player († 2002 )
- January 11th : Franco Balmamion , Italian cyclist
- January 12th : Catarino Tafoya , Mexican soccer player and coach († 2012 )
- January 14th : Roland Benz , German soccer player
- January 14th : Sergej Salov , German-Russian chess player
- January 14th : Gudrun Scholz , German athlete and hockey player
- January 14 : Wassilka Stoewa , Bulgarian discus thrower
- January 17th : Kipchoge Keino , Kenyan athlete
- January 18 : Alexander Almetov , Russian ice hockey player († 1992 )
- January 18 : Pedro Rodríguez , Mexican Formula 1 and sports car racing driver († 1971 )
- January 21 : Peter Nettekoven , German wrestler
- January 21 : Jack Nicklaus , American golfer
- January 22 : George Seifert , American football coach
- January 23 : Werner Krämer , German football player († 2010 )
- January 24th : Franz Berger , Austrian wrestler († 2012 )
- January 24th : Paul Kindervater , German soccer referee
- January 25 : Wolfgang Paul , German soccer player
- January 29th : Janusz Majewski , Polish saber fencer
- January 29th : Kunimitsu Takahashi , Japanese motorcycle and automobile racer
- January 30 : Oleg Sergeyev , Russian football player
- January 31 : Helmut Hunger , German soccer player
February
- February 2nd : Manuel Jiménez , Spanish archer
- February 4th : Dietrich Albrecht , American soccer player
- February 6th : Jürgen Walter , German racing cyclist
- February 11 : Dennis Gaubatz , American football player
- February 12 : Wolfgang Solz , German soccer player († 2017 )
- February 14th : Mary Rand , British athlete
- February 15 : Francesco Valle , Italian boxer († 2003 )
- February 17 : Siegfried Stark , German soccer player († 2011 )
- February 18 : Werner Drews , German football player (GDR)
- February 18 : Peter Meyer , German soccer player
- February 19 : Andrzej Strejlau , Polish soccer player, handball player and soccer coach
- February 20 : Jimmy Greaves , English soccer player
- February 20 : Vladimir Yursinov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- February 22nd : Jacques Andrieux , French soccer player
- February 22nd : Franz Schmitt , German soccer player
- February 22nd : Waltraud Trapp , German table tennis player
- February 22nd : Chet Walker , American basketball player
- February 23 : Ernst Fiala , Austrian soccer player († 2006 )
- February 23 : Werner Salevsky , German enduro athlete († 1991 )
- February 23 : Jackie Smith , American football player
- February 24th : Denis Law , Scottish football player
- February 24 : Bruno Nicolè , Italian football player († 2019 )
- February 24th : Guy Périllat , French ski racer
- February 27 : Friedel Rausch , German football player and coach († 2017 )
- February 28 : Aldo Andretti , American racing car driver
- February 28 : Mario Andretti , American racing car driver
- February 29 : József Szabó , Soviet-Hungarian football player and coach
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March
- March 4th : Alexandar Nikolow , Bulgarian amateur boxer
- March 5th : Graham McRae , New Zealand racing car driver
- March 5th : Josef Piontek , German soccer coach and player
- March 6th : Jürgen Schröder , German rower
- March 8 : Manfred Manglitz , German soccer player
- March 8 : Barry Smith , Australian motorcycle racer
- March 10 : Jürgen Renn , German soccer player
- March 11th : David Jones , British sprinter
- March 11th : Horst Rascher , German boxer
- March 15 : Roland Schmider , German football official
- March 17th : Anni Biechl , German athlete
- March 17 : Yuri Gussow , Soviet wrestler († 2002 )
- March 17th : Jim Telfer , Scottish rugby player and coach
- March 17 : Dieter Willmann , German soccer player († 2009 )
- March 20 : Giampiero Moretti , Italian racing driver and entrepreneur († 2012 )
- March 20 : Jana Mrázková , Czech figure skater
- March 21 : Paul Friedrichs , German enduro athlete († 2012 )
- March 22 : Jim Simon , American football player
- March 25 : Igor Romischewski , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2013 )
- March 25th : Helmut Wilk , German football goalkeeper in the GDR league
- March 27th : Silvano Bertini , Italian boxer
- March 27 : Sandro Munari , Italian rally driver
- March 30th : Joachim Franke , German speed skating trainer
- March 30 : Jerry Lucas , American basketball player
- March 31 : Karl-Heinz Danielowski , German rower (GDR)
- March : Julio Dalmao , Uruguayan soccer player
April
- April 2 : Mike Hailwood , British motorcycle and automobile racer († 1981 )
- April 2 : Donald Jackson , Canadian figure skater
- April 2nd : Karl-Heinz Thielen , German soccer player
- April 4th : Richard Attwood , English Formula 1 racing driver
- April 8 : John Havlicek , American basketball player († 2019 )
- April 9th : Hans-Joachim Reske , German athlete
- April 9 : Jim Roberts , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2015 )
- April 11 : Władysław Komar , Polish athlete († 1998 )
- April 12 : Franz Wolny , Austrian national soccer player († 2018 )
- April 13 : Umberto Grano , Italian racing driver
- April 13 : Max Mosley , British sports official
- April 14 : Robin Tait , New Zealand discus thrower and shot putter († 1984 )
- April 15th : Günter Heine , Austrian table tennis player
- April 16 : Walter Müller , Austrian biathlete († 1966 )
- April 17 : Tommy Williams , American ice hockey player († 1992 )
- April 18th : Gordon Spice , British racing car driver, racing car designer and racing team owner
- April 19 : Kurt Ahrens , German racing car driver
- April 19 : Werner Anzill , German soccer player
- April 19 : Erwin Kaldarasch , German handball player and coach
- April 20 : Armando González , Uruguayan athlete
- April 22nd : Dietmar Pfeifer , German soccer player and coach in the GDR Oberliga († 2010 )
- April 25 : Alexander Kidjajew , Soviet weightlifter
- April 25 : Rolf Sperling , German water diver (GDR)
- April 28 : Valery Maslow , Soviet-Russian football and bandy player († 2017 )
- April 30 : Ermindo Onega , Argentinian football player († 1979 )
May
- May 4th : Peter Gregg , American racing driver († 1980 )
- May 6 : Vito Taccone , Italian cyclist († 2007 )
- May 6 : Vyacheslav Starshinov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- May 7th : Marek Gołąb , Polish weightlifter († 2017 )
- May 7th : István Kiss , Hungarian long-distance runner
- May 8 : Günther Maaß , German football player
- May 9th : Klaus Aeffke , German rower
- May 11 : Herbert Müller , Swiss car and motorcycle racer († 1981 )
- May 12 : Gennady Lebedev , Soviet cyclist
- May 15 : Carlos Bielicki , Argentine chess player
- May 15 : Yoshimi Katayama , Japanese motorcycle and car racer († 2016 )
- May 17th : Ingrid Turković-Wendl , Austrian figure skater and TV presenter
- May 19 : Rudi Entenmann , German soccer player
- May 19th : Jan Janssen , Dutch cyclist
- May 20 : Dieter Bender , German rower
- May 20 : Stan Mikita , Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player
- May 22nd : Manfred Gärtner , German soccer player
- May 22nd : Klaus Schlappner , German soccer coach
- May 21 : Peter Uhlig , German enduro athlete († 1971 )
- May 23 : Erich Wolf , German football goalkeeper († 2012 )
- May 27 : Jan Bruins , Dutch motorcycle racer († 1997 )
- May 27th : Mariano Haro , Spanish long distance and obstacle runner
- May 29 : Taihō Kōki , Japanese sumo wrestler († 2013 )
- May 31 : Anatoly Bondarchuk , Soviet hammer thrower and Olympic champion
- May 31 : Dino Zandegù , Italian cyclist
June
- June 2 : Gordon Harris , English soccer player († 2014 )
- June 4th : Klaus Urbanczyk , German football player (GDR)
- June 6 : Willie John McBride , Irish rugby player
- June 7 : Sergei Siwko , Soviet boxer († 1966 )
- June 7 : Luis Ubiña , Uruguayan soccer player († 2013 )
- June 9th : Inge Harst , German table tennis player
- June 10 : Peter Ryan , Canadian racing car driver († 1962 )
- June 10th : Annemarie Zimmermann , German canoeist
- June 13 : Dallas Long , American athlete, dentist, doctor
- June 13 : Wolfgang Schmelzer , German racing cyclist (GDR)
- June 15th : Parent Akay , Turkish shot putter and volleyball coach
- June 17th : Marcel Aubour , French football player
- June 17 : Bobby Bell , American football player
- June 17th : Horst Franz , German soccer coach
- June 23 : Wilma Rudolph , African American athlete and exceptional athlete († 1994 )
- June 23 : William Wallace , Scottish football player and coach
- June 25th : Thomas Köhler , German luge rider (GDR)
- June 25th : Judy Pollock , Australian sprinter and middle distance runner
- June 26 : Billy Cook , Australian football player of Scottish origin († 2017 )
- June 26 : Vyacheslav Ionov , Soviet-Russian canoeist and 1964 Olympic champion
- June 28 : Wayne Macdonnell , Canadian badminton player
- June 29 : John Dawes , Welsh rugby player
July
- July 3 : Mihai Adam , Romanian football player († 2015 )
- July 3rd : Mario Zanin , Italian cyclist
- July 5 : Theodor Hoffmann , German soccer player († 2011 )
- July 6 : Viktor Kuskin , Russian ice hockey player († 2008 )
- July 7th : Otto Hoppe , German football goalkeeper (GDR)
- July 9 : Jair da Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- July 10 : Stanislaw Batishchev , Soviet weightlifter († 2011 )
- July 10 : Rolf Herings , German football coach († 2017 )
- July 11 : John Best , English football player and coach († 2014 )
- July 11th : Artur Hennings , German chess player in the GDR († 2003 )
- July 11th : Gunnar Prokop , Austrian handball coach
- July 14 : Wolfgang Bartels , German ski racer († 2007 )
- July 14th : Horst Huebbers , German ice hockey player
- July 15 : Chris Cord , American racing car driver
- July 15 : Yuri Moiseyev , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- July 19 : Ansor Kawasashvili , Soviet football goalkeeper and coach
- July 20 : Ignacio Bergara , Uruguayan football player († 2004 )
- July 21 : Ortwin Czarnowski , German racing cyclist
- July 26 : Jürgen Kurbjuhn , German football player († 2014 )
- July 26 : Bobby Rousseau , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 27 : Eduard Gushchin , Soviet-Russian shot putter († 2011 )
- July 27 : Manfred Haas , German football official
- July 28th : Gianpaolo Ambrosi , Italian luge rider
- July 29 : Wolfgang Grzyb , German football player († 2004 )
August
- August 3 : Lance Alworth , American football player
- August 5th : Christian Clemens , German chess player
- August 5 : Roman Gabriel , American football player
- August 7th : Hans Eisele , German soccer player († 2002 )
- August 11 : Lennie Pond , American racing driver († 2016 )
- August 11th : Günter Schröder , German soccer player
- August 12 : Alfred Zulkowski , German football goalkeeper († 1989 )
- August 13 : Jean-Claude Andruet , French rally driver
- August 14 : Heinz Ostermann , German wrestler and wrestling trainer
- August 16 : Aleksander Mandziara , Polish football player and coach († 2015 )
- August 16 : Beverly Weigel , New Zealand long jumper and sprinter
- August 18th : Ewald Walch , Austrian luge rider
- August 20 : Gary Collins , American football player
- August 21 : Dieter Kuhn , German soccer player
- August 25 : Norbert Grupe , German professional boxer and actor († 2004 )
- August 26 : Vladimir Vasilyev , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2012 )
- August 27 : Gennady Krasnitski , Soviet football player and coach († 1988 )
- August 28 : Roger Pingeon , French cyclist († 2017 )
- August 29 : Rinnat Safin , Soviet biathlete and Olympic champion († 2014 )
September
- September 1 : Stanislaw Stepaschkin , Soviet-Russian boxer and Olympic champion 1964 († 2013 )
- September 4th : Wilfried Kindermann , German athlete
- September 6 : Jürgen Weidlandt , German soccer player († 1999 )
- September 8 : Hans Wolf , American cyclist
- September 9 : Lothar Ulsaß , German football player († 1999 )
- September 10 : Dieter Lehmann , German football player
- September 11th : Klaus Gerwien , German soccer player
- September 14 : Larry Brown , American basketball coach
- September 16 : Jutta Heine , German athlete
- September 19 : Nicolae Bărbășescu , Romanian biathlete
- September 20 : Vyacheslav Drjagin , Soviet-Russian Nordic combined skier († 2002 )
- September 23 : Gerhard Hennige , German athlete
- September 23 : Hans Siemensmeyer , German soccer player
- September 23 : Dick Thornett , Australian water polo, rugby league and rugby union player († 2011 )
- September 24th : Vladimir Belyayev , Soviet weightlifter
- September 26th : Günther Fuchs , German soccer player
- September 26th : Heinz Jacobsen , German handball official
- September 27th : Helmut Kropp , German soccer player
- September 27 : Rudolf Schmidt , German football player († 1966 )
- September 30th : Harry Jerome , Canadian athlete († 1982 )
- September 30th : Horst Weigang , German football goalkeeper in the GDR league
October
- October 1 : Steve O'Rourke , British music manager, racing team owner and racing car driver († 2003 )
- October 2nd : Gheorghe Gruia , Romanian handball player († 2015 )
- October 3 : Günther Schuh , German soccer player
- October 4 : Barbara Henneberger , German ski racer († 1964 )
- October 4th : Silvio Marzolini , Argentinian football player († 2020 )
- October 4 : Vyacheslav Skomorokhov , Soviet hurdler († 1992 )
- October 5th : Rein Aun , Soviet athlete
- October 10 : Kiyoshi Tanabe , Japanese boxer
- October 11th : Reiner Frieske , German handball goalkeeper
- October 12th : Anton Fischhaber , German racing car driver
- October 15 : Edwin Skinner , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- October 15 : Volodymyr Sterlyk , Soviet-Ukrainian rower
- October 16 : Dave DeBusschere , American basketball player († 2003 )
- October 20 : Manuel de Oliveira , Portuguese athlete († 2017 )
- October 21 : Osamu Watanabe , Japanese wrestler
- October 21 : Roy Woods , American racing driver and racing team owner († 2004 )
- October 23 : Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé , Brazilian football player
- October 23 : Joachim Walter , German football player in the GDR Oberliga
- October 24 : Giacomo Bulgarelli , Italian football player, official and TV commentator († 2009 )
- October 25th : Tserendordschiin Dagwadorsch , Mongolian archer
- October 25 : Bob Knight , American basketball coach
- October 27th : Wolfgang Winkler , German luge rider
- October 28 : Karl Arnold , German weightlifter († 2012 )
- October 28 : Ernst Röhrig , German soccer player († 2002 )
- October 31 : Yaşar Mumcuoğlu , Turkish football player
- October 31 : Wolfgang Schmidt , German football player (GDR)
November
- November 4 : Václav Halama , Czechoslovak football player and coach († 2017 )
- November 8th : Hansruedi Müller , Swiss bobsleigh pilot
- November 10 : Hans Böttcher , German football player (GDR)
- November 10 : Lyudmila Muravyova , Soviet-Russian discus thrower
- November 14 : Waltraud Nowarra , German chess player in the GDR († 2007 )
- November 15 : Klaus Ampler , German racing cyclist († 2016 )
- November 15 : Wolfgang Zimmerer , German bobsleigh driver and 1972 Olympic champion
- November 17th : Jelena Petuschkowa , Russian dressage rider and Olympic champion 1972 († 2007 )
- November 20 : Fritz Popp , German soccer player
- November 21 : Manfred Matyschik , German football player in the GDR Oberliga
- November 27 : Ernie Wakely , Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- November 30th : Peter Gamper , German athlete
December
- December 2 : Willie Brown , American football player
- December 4th : Gerd Achterberg , German soccer player and coach
- December 4th : Jan Karlsson , Swedish football player
- December 6th : Jürgen Wähling , German soccer player and coach
- December 7th : Heinfried Birlenbach , German athlete
- December 7th : Wolfgang Schulze , German racing cyclist
- December 8th : Adolf Antrich , Austrian soccer goalie and national player
- December 17th : Nicolae Lupescu , Romanian football player and coach († 2017 )
- December 18 : Ilario Castagner , Italian football player and coach
- December 18 : John Cooper , British hurdler († 1974 )
- December 18 : Gerd Schneider , German soccer player († 1983 )
- December 22nd : Eberhard Schöler , German table tennis player
- December 24th : Erich Maas , German soccer player
- December 26 : Vladimir Rubashvili , Soviet wrestler († 1964 )
- December 27th : Manfred Becker , German soccer player
- December 29th : Nestor Combin , French football player
- December 29th : Fred Hansen , American athlete of Danish origin
- December 31 : José de Anchieta Fontana , Brazilian soccer player († 1980 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Manfred Kindermann , German volleyball player and trainer
- Takeshi Miyanaga , Japanese badminton player
- Klaus Schenkel , German fencer (GDR) and fencing trainer
- Jürgen Schüttler , German athlete
- Chris Tuerlinx , Belgian racing car driver
Died
January to March
- January 2 : Albert Richter , German racing cyclist (* 1912 )
- January 12 : Nikolai Strunnikow , Russian speed skater (* 1886 )
- February 2 : Ernst Günther Burggaller , German motorcycle racer (* 1896 )
- February 12 : Selwyn Edge , British racing car driver (* 1868 )
- February 19 : Olli Huttunen , Finnish skier (* 1915 )
- March 21 : Felice Nazzaro , Italian racing car driver (* 1881 )
April to June
- April 3 : Aleksander Kowalski , Polish ice hockey player (* 1902 )
- April 18 : Charles McCoy , American boxer (* 1872 )
- May 5th : Willi Schlage , German chess player (* 1888 )
- May 14 : Willi Pesch , German football player (* 1907 )
- May 18 : Julien Buge , French football player (* 1913 )
- May 26th : Silvio Vailati , Italian motorcycle racer (* unknown)
- June 9 : Otto Kaundinya , German handball player and coach (* 1900 )
- June 19 : Pete Henderson , Canadian racing car driver (* 1895 )
- June 19 : Attilio Marinoni , Italian racing car driver (* 1892 )
- June 21 : Tomasz Stankiewicz , Polish cyclist and victim of National Socialism (* 1902 )
- June 28 : Ferdinando Minoia , Italian racing car driver (* 1884 )
July to September
- July 14th : William Maxwell , Scottish football player and coach (* 1876 )
- July 16 : Harry Reynolds , Irish track cyclist (* 1874 )
- August 12 : Ulrich Bigalke , German engineer, automobile racing driver, filmmaker and fighter pilot (* 1910 )
- September 6th : Karl Thiele , German master carpenter and water sports enthusiast (* 1867 )
- September 17th : Albert Weber , German football goalkeeper (* 1888 )
- September 30th : James Connolly , American middle and long distance runner (* 1900 )
October to December
- October 2nd : Johan Anker , Norwegian sailor, Olympic champion, yacht designer and shipyard owner (* 1871 )
- October 7th : Tim Rose-Richards , British racing car driver and naval aviator (* 1902 )
- October 8 : Walter Rusk , British motorcycle racer (* 1910 )
- October 12 : Luis Fontés , British racing car driver and aviator (* 1912 )
- October 13 : Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe , Chairman of the German Football Association (* 1864 )
- October 15 : Hans Luber , German water diver (* 1893 )
- October 19 : Umberto Caligaris , Italian football player and coach (* 1901 )
- December 7th : Jack Lambert , English football player (* 1902 )
See also
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