Sports year 1941
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Other events
badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1941 was the Malaysia Open . Scandinavia, France, North America, Australia, India and Malaya were the centers of the sport in the third year of the war.
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Open |
 Michel Marret
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Yvonne Girard
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Michel Marret René Mathieu
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Yvonne Girard Madeleine Girard
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Michel Marret Madeleine Girard
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| Malaysia Open |
.svg){kind=small} Wong Peng Soon
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.png){kind=small} Lee Chee Neo
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Chee Choon Wah Chee Choon Keng
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Lee Chee Neo Lee Kim Leo
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Chee Choon Wah Ong Eak Eam
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National championships
athletics
- May 24th - Rudolf Harbig , Germany , ran the men's 1000 meters in 2: 21.5 minutes.
- May 25 - Lester Steers , USA , reached 2.10 m in the men's high jump.
- May 25 - Bill Stewart , USA , reached 2.09 m in the men's high jump.
- May 26th - Adolfo Consolini , Italy , reached 53.34 m in the men's discus throw.
- June 17th - Lester Steers , USA , jumped 2.11 m in the men's high jump.
- July 20 - Archie Harris , USA , reached 53.26 m in the men's discus throw.
- July 26 - Cornelius Warmerdam , USA , reached 4.72 m in the men's pole vault.
- July 29 - Fred Wolcott , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.7 seconds.
- August 10 - Gunder Hägg , Sweden , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 47.6 minutes.
- September 1st - Gunder Hägg , Sweden , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 47.6 minutes.
- September 16 - Viggo Invorsen , Denmark , walked in the men's 50,000 meter walk in 4:24:47 h.
Born
January
- January 1 : Joseph Bessala , Cameroonian boxer († 2010 )
- January 5th : Chuck McKinley , American tennis player, Wimbledon winner († 1986 )
- January 8th : Severino Andreoli , Italian professional cyclist
- January 12th : Klaus Günther , German football goalkeeper
- January 13 : Eckhard Krautzun , German soccer player and coach
- January 13th : Meinhard Nehmer , German bobsledder
- January 14th : Oscar Quiñones Carrillo , Peruvian chess player and teacher
- January 17th : Karin Reichert , German athlete
- January 22nd : Peter Flanagan , English rugby player († 2007 )
- January 23 : Dumeng Giovanoli , Swiss ski racer
- January 24th : Peter Randt , German handball player
- January 25 : Buddy Baker , American racing driver († 2015 )
- January 25 : Peter Richter , German soccer player
- January 30th : Heinz Poll , German soccer player
- January: James Ashton , Australian polo player
February
- February 1 : Anatoly Firsow , Russian ice hockey player († 2000 )
- February 2 : Yevgeny Mishakov , Russian ice hockey player († 2007 )
- February 7th : Gudrun Schmidt , German cross-country skier; GDR champion
- February 8 : Wolfgang Blochwitz , German football player († 2005 )
- February 11 : Rudolf Brunnenmeier , German football player († 2003 )
- February 12 : Christoph Höhne , German athlete
- February 17th : Heidi Biebl , German ski racer and Olympic champion
- February 20 : Dave Manders , American football player
- February 22 : Jürgen Nöldner , German soccer player
- February 25 : Pierluigi Cera , Italian football player
- February 26 : Wolfram Lindner , German cycling coach († 2010 )
March
- March 3 : John Thomas , American athlete († 2013 )
- March 7 : Ralph Bryans , British motorcycle racer († 2014 )
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- March 8 : Alexei Mishin , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach
- March 13th : Heinrich Burger , German correspondence chess grandmaster
- March 13 : John Clark , Scottish football player
- March 15 : Jean-Louis Lafosse , French racing car driver († 1981 )
- March 25th : Helmut Schranz , Austrian ski racer
- March 27 : Peter Göbel , German figure skater (GDR)
- March 27 : Antonina Lasarewa , Soviet-Russian high jumper
- March 29 : Siegfried Kessler , German soccer player († 2013 )
- March 30th : Wolfgang Hofmann , German judoka
- March 31 : Vera Korsakova , Soviet-Russian athlete
April
- April 2nd : Fritz Müller , German racing car driver
- April 9th : Amos Johnson , American racing car driver
- April 12 : Bobby Moore , English football player († 1993 )
- April 13 : Jim Cruickshank , Scottish football goalkeeper († 2010 )
- April 15 : Viktor Kurentsow , Soviet-Russian weightlifter
- April 18 : Jochen Both , German athlete (GDR)
- April 19 : Edit Buchholz , German table tennis player
- April 20 : Peter Marlow , British walker
- April 20 : Gyula Tóth , Hungarian football player and coach († 2014 )
- April 28th : Lucien Aimar , French cyclist
- April 28 : Peter Kunter , German soccer player
May
- May 2 : Tony Adamowicz , American racing car driver († 2016 )
- May 2 : Franco Scoglio , Italian football coach († 2005 )
- May 3 : Nona Gaprindashvili , Soviet-Georgian chess player
- May 3 : Dave Robinson , American football player
- May 5 : Alexander Ragulin , Russian ice hockey player († 2004 )
- May 6 : Ivica Osim , Yugoslav football player and coach
- May 15 : Brian Green , British sprinter
- May 15 : Hans Weber , German motor sportsman († 1969 )
- May 18th : Mauricio de Narváez , Colombian racing car driver and racing team owner
- May 20 : Josef Schwarz , German athlete
- May 21 : Erhard Ahmann , German soccer player and coach († 2005 )
- May 22nd : Martha Langbein , German athlete
- May 24th : Victor Brooks , Jamaican long and triple jumper
- May 25 : Viktor Kravchenko , Soviet-Russian athlete
- May 29th : Inger Aufles , Norwegian cross-country skier
- May 30th : Heribert Faßbender , German sports journalist
- May 31 : Wolfgang Fahrian , German soccer player
June
- June 1st : Tony Harris , British middle distance runner
- June 4th : Eduard Buchman , Russian chess player and trainer
- June 4 : Winfried Albert Holtmann , German cycling manager and journalist († 2003 )
- June 5th : Hartmut Heidemann , German soccer player
- June 10 : Jürgen Piepenburg , German soccer player
- June 10 : Dave Walker , Australian racing car driver
- June 13th : Frans Verbeeck , Belgian cyclist
- June 14 : Yevgeny Frolov , Soviet-Russian boxer, silver medalist at the 1964 Olympic Games
- June 14th : Horst Peschke , German soccer player and coach in the GDR soccer game
- June 16 : Tõnu Õim , Soviet-Estonian chess master
- June 16 : Jan Schröder , Dutch cyclist († 2007 )
- June 17th : Dieter Wiedemann , German racing cyclist
- June 18 : Peter Jonas , Austrian figure skater
- June 18 : Roger Lemerre , French football player and coach
- June 20 : Horst Meyer , German rower
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- June 20 : Albert Schesternjow , Soviet-Russian football player and coach († 1994 )
- June 23 : Keith Newton , English soccer player († 1998 )
- June 24 : Nelson López , Argentinian soccer player
- June 26th : Tamara Moskwina , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach
- June 27 : Ian Black , Scottish swimmer
- June 27th : Peter Kraus , German hockey player
- June 27 : Klaus Schmidt , German soccer player
- June 28 : Valentina Tichomirowa , Soviet-Russian athlete
- June 29th : Margitta Gummel , German athlete
- June 30 : Klaus Häcker , German handball player and trainer
July
- July 1 : Bob Gansler , American football coach
- July 2nd : Wendell Mottley , athlete and politician from Trinidad and Tobago
- July 7th : Viktor Ageev , Soviet-Russian boxer
- July 9 : Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall , Swedish modern pentathlete; the first person to be disqualified for a doping offense at the Olympics
- July 10 : Giorgio Dellagiovanna , Italian football player († 2013 )
- July 13 : Diethelm Ferner , German football player and coach
- July 15 : Diethard Finkelmann , German handball player
- July 15 : Helmut Witte , German soccer coach
- July 22nd : Harry Behre , German soccer player
- July 28th : Ulf Norberg , Swedish ski jumper
- July 30th : Karin Beyer , German swimmer (GDR)
August
- August 1st : Klaus Pohl , German wrestler
- August 2nd : Jacob Murey , Israeli chess player
- August 6th : Joseph Gonzales , French boxer
- August 7th : Klaus Brand , German handball player and coach
- August 7th : Manfred Müller , German soccer player
- August 9 : Jack Elder , American luge rider
- August 9 : Valery Tarakanov , Soviet-Russian cross-country skier
- August 11th : Alla Kuschnir , Russian-Israeli chess player († 2013 )
- August 12th : Edwin Roberts , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
- August 13 : Chris Hanburger , American football player
- August 16 : Heinz-Günter Sibilski , German soccer player
- August 17 : Stere Adamache , Romanian football player († 1978 )
- August 18 : Georg Lechner , German soccer player
- August 19 : Gerd vom Bruch , German soccer coach
- August 19 : Rolf Königs , German football official
- August 22nd : Barry Jackson , British sprinter
- August 23 : Hans-Dieter Diehl , German soccer player († 2012 )
- August 23 : Ayhan Elmastaşoğlu , Turkish soccer player
- August 25 : Mario Corso , Italian football player and coach († 2020 )
- August 25 : Angelo Domenghini , Italian football player and coach
- August 25 : Ludwig Müller , German soccer player
- August 27 : Michael Sauer , German triple jumper and journalist
- August 28 : Nils Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
- August 29th : Klaus Müller , German badminton player
- August 30 : Ignazio Giunti , Italian racing driver († 1971 )
- August 31 : Anne Smith , British middle-distance runner († 1993 )
September
- September 1 : Manfred Richter , German soccer player († 1995 )
- September 4 : Earl Ross , Canadian racing driver († 2014 )
- September 9 : Werner Pfeifer , German football player
- September 12 : Rainer Müller , German football player, GDR († 2001 )
- September 15 : Csaba Meleghegyi , Hungarian chess player († 2004 )
- September 16 : Alan Willey , English football player († 2017 )
- September 17th : Wolfgang Hammer , German soccer player
- September 17th : Günter Schmahl , German football player in the GDR Oberliga
- September 18 : Bernd Hofmann , German soccer player († 2013 )
- September 20 : Butch Byrd , American football player
- September 20 : Yuri Smolyakov , Soviet-Russian fencer and 1968 Olympic silver medalist
- September 22nd : Roger Mandeville , American racing car driver
- September 24th : Jürgen Bischof , German gymnast
- September 24 : John Mackey , American football player († 2011 )
- September 24th : Tony Rutter , English motorcycle racer
- September 24th : Italo Zilioli , Italian cyclist
- September 25 : Takao Sakurai , Japanese bantamweight boxer († 2012 )
- September 27 : Roger Claessen , Belgian football player († 1982 )
- September 28 : Charley Taylor , American football player
- September 30th : Reine Wisell , Swedish racing car driver
October
- October 1 : Vyacheslav Vedenin , Soviet-Russian cross-country skier and 1972 Olympic champion
- October 3 : Mike Gallagher , American cross-country skier († 2013 )
- October 3 : Victor Palciauskas , American chess player
- October 4 : Jerrel Wilson , American football player († 2005 )
- October 6 : John Nicholson , New Zealand engine tuner and racing car driver († 2017 )
- October 8 : Hans Arnold , German football player († 1991 )
- October 9 : Giancarlo Bercellino , Italian football player
- October 9 : Peter Kohnke , German marksman and Olympic champion († 1975 )
- October 9 : Manfred Schneider , German rower (GDR)
- October 12th : André Gahinet , French racing car driver
- October 13 : Jim Price , American baseball player
- October 14 : Peter Ducke , German soccer player
- October 14th : Roger Taylor , British tennis player
- October 19 : Igor Dmitriev , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and coach († 1997 )
- October 23 : Herbert Lübking , German national field and indoor handball player
- October 28 : László Gergely , Romanian football player of Hungarian origin
- October 29 : Wiktor Singer , Soviet-Russian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach († 2013 )
- October 30th : Bob Wilson , Scottish football goalkeeper
- October 31 : Derek Bell , British racing car driver
November
- November 1st : Horst Arzt , German politician and football official
- November 4 : Raúl Bernao , Argentinian football player († 2007 )
- November 5 : Nikolaj Jakowenko , Soviet-Russian wrestler († 2006 )
- November 5 : Raul Rojas , American boxer of Mexican origin († 2012 )
- November 7th : Hughes Kirschoffer , French racing car driver
- November 9th : Karl Herzog , German volleyball player and coach
- November 11th : William Arthur Adcocks , British marathon runner
- November 11th : Helga Masthoff , German tennis player
- November 11th : Gérard Vial , Swiss racing driver
- November 13th : Karl Sinzinger , Austrian rower
- November 19 : Iwanka Christowa , Bulgarian shot putter and 1976 Olympic champion
- November 21 : Roberto Cruz , Filipino boxer
- November 27 : Henry Carr , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2015 )
- November 27th : Aimé Jacquet , French football player and coach
- November 29 : Lothar Emmerich , German soccer player († 2003 )
- November 30th : Kees Aarts , Dutch soccer player († 2008 )
- November : Ion Popescu , Romanian handball player and coach
December
- December 2nd : Dieter Schurr , German soccer player
- December 4 : Iosif Varga , Romanian football player and coach († 1992 )
- December 7th : Noel Carroll , Irish middle-distance runner, local politician and sports organizer († 1998 )
- December 8 : Bob Brown , American football player
- December 8th : Geoff Hurst , English soccer player
- December 8th : Günter Pröpper , German soccer player
- December 10 : Ernst Kurth , German football player and coach (GDR)
- December 14th : Lothar Appler , German racing cyclist
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- December 17th : Gilbert Gress , French football player and coach
- December 22nd : Jens Petersen , Danish football player († 2012 )
- December 24th : Manfred Schurti , Liechtenstein car racing driver
- December 29th : Daphne Arden , British sprinter
- December 31st : Alex Ferguson , Scottish football coach
Exact date of birth unknown
- Karl Clausen , German basketball player († 2010 )
- Dieter Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer († 1966 )
- Hein Mück , German boxer
- Ahmet Şahin , Turkish football player († 1994 )
Died
January to June
- January 11th : Emanuel Lasker , German world chess champion (* 1868 )
- January 12th : Edu Snethlage , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- January : Fritz Kaufmann , Swiss ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete (* 1905 )
- February 1 : Walter Abbott , English football player (* 1877 )
- February 16 : Wilhelm Peters , German soccer player, referee and association official (* 1901 )
- February : Alexander Petrow , Russian wrestler and Olympic medalist (* 1876 )
- March 18 : Henri Cornet , French cyclist (* 1884 )
- March 19 : Matteo Ceirano , Italian racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1870 )
- March 30th : Laurens Smitz Meintjes , South African racing cyclist (* 1868 )
- April 30th : Edgar Aabye , Danish athlete (* 1865 )
- May 2nd : Ignacy Popiel , Polish chess player (* 1863 )
- May 3 : Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official (* 1864 )
- May 15 : Law Adam , Dutch football player (* 1908 )
- June 3 : Antoni Łyko , Polish football player
- June 22nd : Helmut Hamann , German athlete (* 1912 )
- June 30 : Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1908 )
July to December
- July 4th : Karl Kotratschek , Austrian athlete (* 1914 )
- July 8 : Hans Freese , German swimmer (* 1918 )
- July 17 : Ira Davenport , American sprinter and middle-distance runner (* 1887 )
- July 17th : Ludwig Stubbendorff , German rider (* 1906 )
- July 19 : Bartolomeo Costantini , Italian aviator and automobile racing driver (* 1886 )
- July : Otto Fischer , Austrian football player and coach (* 1901 )
- August 3 : Leopold Richter , German national soccer player (* 1885 )
- August 11th : Herbert Adamski , German rower (* 1910 )
- August 14 : Arthur Hiller , German football player (* 1881 )
- August 16 : Michael Murach , German amateur boxer (* 1911 )
- August 28 : Ugo Agostoni , Italian cyclist (* 1893 )
- September 3 : Alexander Ilyin-Schenewski , Soviet-Russian chess player and organizer (* 1894 )
- October 6 : Martti Lappalainen , Finnish cross-country skier (* 1902 )
- October 27 : Albert Colomb , French racing car driver (* 1878 )
- October: Josef Adelbrecht , Austrian football player (* 1910 )
- November 15 : Wal Handley , British motorcycle and automobile racer (* 1902 )
- December 27 : Richard Herrmann , German National Socialist sports official (* 1895 )
- December 29th : Erich Aberger , German racing cyclist (* 1892 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1941 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
