Sports year 1943
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Other events
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1943 was the French Open . Scandinavia, India and France were the centers of the sport in the fifth year of the war. The international game operation was almost completely impossible, and national title fights were extremely rare.
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Open |
 Henri Pellizza
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Yvonne Girard
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Michel Marret Henri Pellizza
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Yvonne Girard Madeleine Girard
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Michel Marret Madeleine Girard
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National championships
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Days Madsen | Tonny Olsen |
Jesper Bie Børge Frederiksen |
Agnete Friis Tonny Olsen |
Jan Schmidt Jytte Thayssen |
| India | Prakash Nath | Tara Deodhar |
Ashok Nath Prakash Nath |
Tara Deodhar Sunder Deodhar |
Raja Patwardhan Sunder Deodhar |
| Sweden | Hate Petersson | Thyra Hedvall |
Helge Paulsson Bengt Polling |
Thyra Hedvall Märtha Sköld |
Sven Malmfalt Greta Lindahl |
athletics
- May 30th - Fanny Blankers-Koen jumped 1.71 m in the women's category.
- September 16 - Arne Andersson , Sweden , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 45.0 minutes.
Born
January
- January 1st : Antonio Juliano , Italian football player
- January 5th : Ignace van Swieten , Dutch football referee († 2005 )
- January 14th : Manfred Wolke , German Olympic champion in boxing and boxing trainer
- January 18 : Vladimir Fedotov , Russian football player and coach († 2009 )
- January 24th : Trevor Burton , British pole vaulter
- January 24th : Tony Trimmer , British racing car driver
- January 30th : Bernd Munck , German handball player
February
- February 2nd : Dieter Braun , German motorcycle racer
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- February 2nd : Dieter Müller , German carom player and world champion
- February 4th : Swetlana Babanina , Soviet-Russian swimmer
- February 5 : Craig Morton , American football player
- February 6th : Gisela Hoey-Meeser , German handball player
- February 12 : Manfred Schaefer , Australian soccer player and coach
- February 21 : Louis Jauffret , French ski racer
- February 22nd : Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- February 24 : Gigi Meroni , Italian football player († 1967 )
- February 25 : Jürgen Lässig , German racing car driver
- February 27 : Carlos Parreira , Brazilian soccer coach
March
- March 6th : Jean-Louis Ravenel , French racing car driver
- March 9 : Bobby Fischer , American chess player († 2008 )
- March 10 : Rodney Gould , British motorcycle racer
- March 10 : Viktor Igumenov , Soviet-Russian wrestler
- March 11th : Arturo Merzario , Italian racing car driver and team owner
- March 13 : Mike Fisher , American racing car driver
- March 13th : Gianni Motta , Italian cyclist
- March 13 : Giancarlo De Sisti , Italian football player and coach
- March 14th : Bernd Patzke , German soccer player
- March 15 : Frank Wiegand , German swimmer (GDR)
- March 16 : Hans Heyer , German racing car driver
- March 16 : Josef Rose , German handball player and coach
- March 19 : Vern Schuppan , Australian racing car driver and racing car designer
- March 21 : Luigi Agnolin , Italian football referee († 2018 )
- March 23 : Pavel Lednjow , Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic champion († 2010 )
- March 24th : Marika Kilius , German figure skater
- March 25 : Heinz Flacke , German handball player
April
- April 2 : Vera Popkova , Soviet sprinter († 2011 )
- April 6th : Gerhard Steidele , German judoka
- April 7th : Joaquim Agostinho , Portuguese cyclist († 1984 )
- April 8 : Eberhard Vogel , German football player in the GDR upper league
- April 10 : Tömöriin Artag , Mongolian wrestler († 1993 )
- April 10 : Włodzimierz Schmidt , Polish chess player
- April 11th : Bernard Salam , French racing car driver
- April 12 : Lothar Kobluhn , German soccer player († 2019 )
- April 15th : Toine Hezemans , Dutch racing car driver
- April 17 : Jürgen Dueball , German chess and bridge player († 2002 )
- April 18 : Günter Bartusch , German motorcycle racer († 1971 )
- April 22nd : Gerhard Prinzing , German ski racer († 2018 )
- April 23 : Paul Smart , British motorcycle racer
- April 25 : Angelo Anquilletti , Italian football player († 2015 )
- April 27 : Helmut Marko , Austrian racing car driver
May
- May 1 : Willi Kraus , German soccer player († 2008 )
- May 2nd : John Goss , Australian racing car driver
- May 2nd : Manfred Schnelldorfer , German figure skater and Olympic champion
- May 4 : Georgi Asparukhov , Bulgarian football player († 1971 )
- May 5th : Andy Roxburgh , Scottish football coach
- May 6 : Wolfgang Reinhardt , German athlete († 2011 )
- May 9 : Ove Grahn , Swedish football player († 2007 )
- May 10 : Andrzej Badeński , Polish athlete († 2008 )
- May 11th : Nancy Greene , Canadian ski racer
- May 12 : Jürgen Barth , German track cyclist († 2011 )
- May 12th : Jacky Haran , French racing car driver
- May 15 : Mike Campbell , British high jumper
- May 17th : Anne-Charlotte Verney , French racing driver
- May 17 : John Warren , Australian soccer player († 2004 )
- May 17 : Valentina Vinogradova , Soviet-Russian national volleyball player († 2002 )
- May 18th : Gennadi Sosonko , Dutch chess grandmaster of Russian origin
- May 19 : Juan Carlos Borteiro , Uruguayan football player and coach
- May 22nd : Kurt Bendlin , German athlete
- May 26th : Max Mamers , French racing car driver and motorsport official
- May 26th : Erica Terpstra , Dutch swimmer, State Secretary and Member of Parliament
- May 30 : Gale Sayers , American football player
June
- June 2nd : Udo Röhrig , German handball player and trainer
- June 2 : László Sillai , Hungarian wrestler († 2007 )
- June 3 : Billy Cunningham , American basketball player and coach
- June 8 : Willie Davenport , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2002 )
- June 14 : Piet Keizer , Dutch football player († 2017 )
- June 21 : Beat Fehr , Swiss racing driver († 1967 )
- June 21 : Prince Leopold of Bavaria , racing driver and descendant of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
- June 22nd : Emile Antony , Luxembourg soccer player
- June 22nd : Simo Lampinen , Finnish rally driver
- June 22nd : Marita Lange , German athlete
- June 26 : Stan Barrett , American racing driver, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor
- June 27th : Harm Ottenbros , Dutch cyclist
- June 29th : Gerhard Auer , German rower
- June 30th : Dieter Kottysch , German middleweight boxer († 2017 )
July
- July 4th : Orestes Rodríguez Vargas , Peruvian-Spanish chess player
- July 8 : Ricardo Pavoni , Uruguayan football player and coach
- July 10 : Arthur Ashe , American tennis player († 1993 )
- July 11 : Rolf Stommelen , German Formula 1 racing driver († 1983 )
- July 12 : Cornelius Johnson , American football player
- July 13 : Fabrizio Poletti , Italian soccer player
- July 15 : Billy Truax , American football player
- July 16 : Jimmy Johnson , American football coach
- July 17th : Franz-Walter Beyss , German table tennis player († 2012 )
- July 17th : Robin Smith , British racing car driver and team owner
- July 20 : Chris Amon , New Zealand racing driver († 2016 )
- July 24th : Lyudmila Bragina , Russian medium and long distance runner
- July 25th : René Barrientos , Filipino boxer
- July 27 : John Button , British racing car driver († 2014 )
- July 27th : Max Jean , French racing car driver
- July 28 : Bill Bradley , American basketball player and politician
- July 29th : Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin , German high diver
- July 31 : Friedrich Roderfeld , German athlete and Olympic participant
August
- August 4th : Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 5 : Leo Kinnunen , Finnish racing driver († 2017 )
- August 6th : Helmut Pfleger , German chess player
- August 9 : Lubomir Kavalek , American chess grandmaster
- August 13 : Paul Alger , German soccer player
- August 13 : Walter Villa , Italian motorcycle racer († 2002 )
- August 18 : Karin Burneleit , German athlete (GDR)
- August 18 : Gianni Rivera , Italian football player
- August 18 : Roberto Rosato , Italian football player († 2010 )
- August 25 : Spartaco Dini , Italian racing car driver († 2019 )
- August 27 : Wolfgang Nordwig , German pole vaulter and Olympic champion (GDR)
- August 30th : Jean-Claude Killy , French ski racer
September
- September 1st : Gerhard Aigner , German football official
- September 2nd : Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin , German soccer player
- September 3 : Dieter Mietz , German soccer player
- September 4th : Giuseppe Gentile , Italian athlete
- September 10 : Jochen Feldhoff , German handball player
- September 10 : Horst-Dieter Höttges , German football player
- September 11th : Dieter Schubert , German rower
- September 12 : Ralph Neely , American football player
- September 13th : Jean-Marie Alméras , French racing driver and racing team owner
- September 13 : Bernd Nielsen , German handball player († 2003 )
- September 19 : Christl Haas , Austrian ski racer († 2001 )
- September 20 : Tommy Nobis , American football player († 2017 )
- September 24th : Hannelore Soup , German athlete
- September 25 : Willi Entenmann , German soccer player and coach († 2012 )
- September 27th : Liisa Suihkonen , Finnish cross-country skier
- September 28th : Win Percy , British racing car driver
- September 29th : Wolfgang Overath , German soccer player
October
- October 2nd : Paul Van Himst , Belgian football player and coach
- October 4th : Owen Davidson , Australian tennis player
- October 6th : Ottavio Bianchi , Italian football player and coach
- October 8 : Wolfgang Lakenmacher , German handball player and coach
- October 9 : Renato Cappellini , Italian football player
- October 10 : Reinhard Libuda , German soccer player († 1996 )
- October 12 : Jakob "Köbi" Kuhn , Swiss soccer coach and soccer player († 2019 )
- October 12 : Peter Ostermeyer , German chess player
- October 12 : Bertil Roos , Swedish racing car driver († 2016 )
- October 24th : Carlo Senoner , Italian ski racer
- October 26 : Toni Gruber , German motorcycle racer
November
- November 1st : Alfio Basile , Argentine soccer player and coach
- November 1 : Tom Mack , American football player
- November 8 : Martin Peters , English football player († 2019 )
- November 9th : Karl-Heinz Becker , German football player in the GDR upper league
- November 12 : Björn Waldegård , Swedish rally driver († 2014 )
- November 13 : Roberto Boninsegna , Italian football player
- November 18 : Wilfried Micke , German table tennis player († 2018 )
- November 21 : Viktor Sidjak , Soviet saber fencer and four-time Olympic champion
- November 22nd : Billie Jean King , American tennis player
- November: Hiroe Amano , Japanese badminton player
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December
- December 1st : Ortrun Enderlein , German luge athlete
- December 4th : Christine Beckers , Belgian racing driver
- December 5 : Alexander Gavrilov , Russian figure skater
- December 8th : Bodo Tümmler , German athlete
- December 17th : Kurt Reusch , German handball coach
- December 18th : Javier Álvarez , Spanish long distance and obstacle runner
- December 25th : Bill Bowrey , Australian tennis player
- December 25th : Wilson Fittipaldi , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver and team owner
- December 30th : Manfred Classen , German soccer player
- December 31 : Horst Heese , German football player and trainer
Exact date of birth unknown
- Michael Palme , German sports journalist († 2010 )
- Franco Patria , Italian racing driver († 1964 )
- Ernesto Soto , Venezuelan racing car driver († 1995 )
Died
First half of the year
- February 17th : Herman d'Oultremont , Belgian show jumper (* 1882 )
- February 27 : Karl Gall , Austrian football player (* 1905 )
- March 3 : Ludwig Leinberger , German football player (* 1903 )
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March 24th : George Hillyard , British tennis player (* 1864 )
George Hillyard († March 24) - March 25 : Hans von Tschammer und Osten , German Reich Sports Leader (* 1887 )
- April 9 : James Ashcroft , English football goalkeeper (* 1878 )
- April 24th : James Adams , Scottish football player and referee (* 1864 )
- May 3 : Harold Arminius Miller , American racing car and engine designer (* 1875 )
- May 4th : Georges Yvan André , French athlete (* 1889 )
- May 7 : Keith Birlem , American football player and soldier (born 1915 )
- May 27 : Adolf Urban , German football player (* 1914 )
- June 3 : Nels Nelsen , Canadian ski jumper of Norwegian origin (* 1894 )
Second half of the year
- August 6 : Arthur Knautz , German field handball player (* 1911 )
- August 26th : Ted Ray , famous British professional golfer and two-time major winner (* 1877 )
- August 30 : Eddy de Neve , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
- September 6 : Dé Kessler , Dutch football player (* 1891 )
- September 9 : Fernand Gabriel , French racing car driver (* 1878 )
- September 17th : Estella Agsteribbe , Dutch gymnast (* 1909 )
- December 1 : Amos Arbor , Canadian ice hockey player (* 1895 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1943 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
