Sports year 1945
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Other events
badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1945 was the French Open , which took place with international participation after the end of the Second World War. Scandinavia, India and France were the centers of the sport after the end of the war.
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Open |
 Ozzie Hilton
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 Yvonne Girard
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Ozzie Hilton Jacques Rozier
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Yvonne Girard Madeleine Girard
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Ozzie Hilton Claude Carvallo
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National championships
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Days Madsen | Tonny Olsen |
Days Madsen Carl Frøhlke |
Marie Ussing Jytte Thayssen |
Jan Schmidt Jytte Thayssen |
| India | Devinder Mohan | Tara Deodhar |
Khandu M. Ranganekar Dattu Mugwe |
Frenee Talyarkhan Mumtaj Chinoy |
Prakash Nath Sunder Deodhar |
| Sweden | Hate Petersson | Carin Stridbäck |
Nils Jonson Anders Salén |
Elsy Killick Amy Pettersson |
Olle Wahlberg Thyra Hedvall |
athletics
- September 3 - Anna Larsson , Sweden , ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 13.8 minutes.
- September 15 - Lyudmila Anokina , Soviet Union , reached 48.39 m in the women's javelin.
- September 18 - Anna Larsson, Sweden, ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 14.8 minutes.
Born
January
- January 1st : Jacky Ickx , Belgian Formula 1 and sports car racing driver
- January 2 : Mary Jane Reoch , American cyclist († 1993 )
- January 7th : Jean-Claude Lefèbvre , French racing driver and motorsport official
- January 9th : Karl-Heinz Artmann , German soccer player
- January 14th : Karlheinz Rost , German handball trainer and handball player
- January 18 : Philippe Gurdjian , French racing driver and motorsport official († 2014 )
- January 22nd : Jean-Pierre Nicolas , French rally driver
- January 23 : Alexander Ivannikov , Soviet ski jumper
- January 30th : Gerd Wittmann , German ice hockey coach
February
- February 1st : Michel Pignard , French racing car driver
- February 1 : Gerhard Welz , German soccer player
- February 2 : Hugo Fernández Vallejo , Uruguayan football player and coach
- February 3 : Hideo Kanaya , Japanese motorcycle racer († 2013 )
- February 6 : Jean Xhenceval , Belgian racing driver
- February 7 : Gerald Davies , Welsh rugby player
- February 8 : Erich Rutemöller , German football coach
- February 11 : Ralph Doubell , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- February 14th : Thorleif Andresen , Norwegian cyclist
- February 14 : Ladislao Mazurkiewicz , Uruguayan football goalkeeper and coach († 2013 )
- February 16 : Julio Morales , Uruguayan soccer player
- February 18 : Gerd Neuser , German soccer coach
- February 20 : Bärbel Braun , German handball player
- February 20 : Boris Orlow , Russian sports coach († 2018 )
- February 24th : Giorgio Bambini , Italian boxer († 2015 )
- February 26 : Peter Brock , Australian racing driver († 2006 )
- February 27 : Jean-Claude Olivier , French motorcycle racer and motorsport official († 2013 )
- February 27 : Wayne Pullen , Canadian archer, Olympian
March
- March 1st : Wilfried Van Moer , Belgian football player
- March 4th : Jack Gerber , South African racing car driver
- March 6 : Paul Miller , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- March 8th : Doldschingiin Adjaatömör , Mongolian wrestler
- March 13 : Fyodor Simaschow , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion († 1997 )
- March 15 : Walter Adams , German athlete
- March 19 : Modestas Paulauskas , Soviet-Lithuanian basketball player
- March 20 : Roger Magnusson , Swedish football player
- March 21 : Charles Greene , American athlete and Olympic champion
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- March 22nd : Paul Schockemöhle , German show jumper
- March 23 : Christian Bussi , French racing car driver
- March 25 : Dumitru Antonescu , Romanian football player and coach († 2016 )
- March 26 : Eugenio Lazzarini , Italian motorcycle racer
- March 26 : Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast († 2004 )
April
- April 2nd : Guy Fréquelin , French motor sportsman
- April 11 : Vyacheslav Andreyuk , Russian football player († 2010 )
- April 14 : Uwe Beyer , German athlete († 1993 )
- April 18 : Wolfgang Stropek , Austrian motorcycle racer
- April 19 : Ferenc Vozar , German ice hockey player († 1999 )
- April 20 : Naftali Temu , Kenyan athlete and long-distance runner († 2003 )
- April 22nd : Norbert Irtel , German soccer player
- April 30 : Max Cohen-Olivar , Moroccan racing car driver († 2018 )
May
- May 5th : Claude Bourgoignie , Belgian racing car driver
- May 7th : Max Müller , German handball player
- May 9 : Jupp Heynckes , German soccer player and coach
- May 12 : Alan Ball , English football player and coach († 2007 )
- May 14 : Bernd Schubert , German athletics coach
- May 14 : Jochanan Wallach , Israeli soccer player
- May 15 : Jacques Guillot , French racing car driver
- May 16 : Rob Bron , Dutch motorcycle racer († 2009 )
- May 20th : Gabriela Andersen-Schiess , Swiss medium and long-distance runner
- May 25 : Klaus Zaczyk , German soccer player
- May 30th : John Jellinek , American racing car driver
June
- June 2 : Hans-Bert Matoul , German football player (GDR)
- June 4th : Jörg Steinwascher , German motorboat racing driver († 1999 )
- June 5 : John Carlos , American athlete
- June 6th : Theo Zwanziger , German sports official and treasurer of the DFB
- June 7th : Lars-Göran Åslund , Swedish cross-country skier
- June 9 : Luis Ocaña Pernía , Spanish cyclist († 1994 )
- June 17 : Patrick Hickey , Irish judoka and sports official
- June 17th : Eddy Merckx , Belgian cyclist
- June 18 : Hans-Peter Neuhaus , German handball player and coach
- June 22nd : Reiner Ganschow , German handball trainer and player
July
- July 5 : John Greenwood , American racing driver († 2015 )
- July 16 : Viktor Yaroslavzew , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player († 1996 )
- July 18 : Ugo Ferrante , Italian football player († 2004 )
- July 24th : Gianfranco Bedin , Italian football player
- July 26th : Antonio Fassina , Italian rally driver
- July 31 : Masakatsu Asari , Japanese ski jumper
August
- August 3 : Karl Kremser , German-American American football player
- August 3 : Jørgen Schmidt , Danish cyclist
- August 4th : Martine de Cortanze , French rally, enduro and powerboat driver as well as journalist and author
- August 7 : Alan Page , American football player and lawyer
- August 9 : Alexander Gorelik , Soviet-Russian figure skater († 2012 )
- August 15 : Gene Upshaw , American football player and official († 2008 )
- August 21 : Willie Lanier , American football player
- August 29th : Jean Ragnotti , French rally and racing driver
September
- September 4th : Pentti Airikkala , Finnish rally driver († 2009 )
- September 8 : Lem Barney , American football player
- September 11th : Franz Beckenbauer , German soccer player, coach and official
- September 11 : Alexander Martynjuk , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- September 17 : Phil Jackson , American basketball coach
- September 27 : Bruce Leven , American racing driver and entrepreneur († 2017 )
- September 28th : Marielle Goitschel , French ski racer
- September 29 : Michael Bella , German soccer player
- September 29 : Nadezhda Tschischowa , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- September 29 : Renato Mastropietro , Italian racing car driver
- September 30th : Yoshiyuki Miyake , Japanese weightlifter
October
- October 3rd : Viktor Saneyev , Soviet triple jumper and Olympic champion
- October 7th : Jean-Luc Thérier , French racing car driver († 2019 )
- October 10 : Jurij Rasuwajew , Russian chess grandmaster and trainer, journalist and historian († 2012 )
- October 10 : Edoardo Reja , Italian football player and coach
- October 20 : Romeo Benetti , Italian football player
- October 22 : Detlef Pirsig , German football player († 2019 )
- October 29th : Wilfried Lieck , German table tennis player
November
- November 3rd : Gerd Müller , German soccer player and record scorer
- November 12th : George Eaton , Canadian racing car driver
- November 16 : Yuri Suzdaltsev , Russian swimmer
- November 17th : Damien Magee , British racing car driver
- November 25 : Kent Karlsson , Swedish football player and coach
- November 27th : Alain de Cadenet , British racing car driver, racing team owner and entrepreneur
- November 28 : Georg Volkert , German football player
December
- December 3 : Luis Garisto , Uruguayan football player and coach († 2017 )
- December 11th : Jarno Saarinen , Finnish motorcycle racer († 1973 )
- December 12th : Luciano Castellini , Italian football player and coach
- December 21 : Barb Heinz , German sports scientist and handball player
- December 23 : Matti Ahde , Finnish sports official and politician († 2019 )
- December 23 : Darwin Piñeyrúa , Uruguayan athlete († 1978 )
- December 25 : Ken Stabler , American football player († 2015 )
- December 30th : Paola Cacchi , Italian athlete
Exact date of birth unknown
- Gerry Saurer , Austrian football coach and hotelier († 1992 )
Died
January to June
- January 31 : Franz Aschenwald , Austrian skier (* 1913 )
- January 31 : Al Blozis , American football player (born 1919 )
- February 4th : Cecil Kimber , English automobile designer (* 1888 )
- February 6 : István Tóth-Potya , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1891 )
- February 17 : Ed Kahn , American football player (born 1911 )
- February 21 : Karl Auer , German football player (* 1898 )
- March 13 : Guus van Hecking-Colenbrander , Dutch football player (* 1887 )
- March 18 : William Grover-Williams , British-French racing car driver and SOE spy (* 1903 )
- March 19 : Georges André , French winter sports enthusiast (* 1876 )
- April 22nd : Leandro Arpinati , Italian politician and sports official (* 1892 )
- April 26 : Albert Arnheiter , German rower (* 1890 )
- May 15 : Edoardo Teagno , Italian racing car driver (* 1902 )
July to December
- August 9 : Lloyd Burdick , American football player (born 1908 )
- August 9 : Harry Hillman , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1881 )
- September 7th : Harrie Kuneman , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- December 24th : Max Amann , German swimmer and water polo player (* 1905 )
- December 25 : Rabod von Kröcher , German show jumper, Olympic medalist (* 1880 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Leo Steinweg , German motorcycle racer (* 1906 )
See also
Web links
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