Sports year 1946
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badminton
The high points of the badminton year 1946 were the Denmark Open and the French Open . National and international gaming operations were resumed in several countries.
International events
event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
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Denmark Open | Conny Jepsen | Tonny Ahm |
Preben Dabelsteen Jørn Skaarup |
Tonny Ahm Kirsten Thorndahl |
Days Madsen Kirsten Thorndahl |
French Open | Henri Pellizza | Jean Bardsley |
Michel Marret Henri Pellizza |
Yvonne Girard Madeleine Girard |
Yves Baudoin Yvonne Girard |
National championships
event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
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Denmark | Days Madsen | Tonny Olsen |
Jørn Skaarup Preben Dabelsteen |
Agnete Friis Tonny Olsen |
Days Madsen Kirsten Thorndahl |
India | Prakash Nath | Mumtaj Chinoy |
George Lewis Devinder Mohan |
Frenee Talyarkhan Mumtaj Chinoy |
Prakash Nath Sunder Deodhar |
Sweden | Helge Paulsen | Amy Pettersson |
Nils Jonson Lars Carlsson |
Thyra Hedvall Märtha Sköld |
Nils Jonson Kerstin Bergström |
athletics
- March 31 - Josef Doležal , Czechoslovakia , walked in the men's 50,000 meter walk in 4:23:40
- July 8 - Bob Fitch , USA , reached 54.93 m in the men's discus throw.
- August 10 - John Mikaelsson , Sweden , walked 1:31:44 h in the men's 20,000 meter walk.
- October 13 - Adolfo Consolini , Italy , reached 54.23 m in the men's discus throw.
Born
January
- January 1st : Viktor Polupanov , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and Olympic champion
- January 1st : Roberto Rivelino , Brazilian soccer player
- January 2nd : Philippe Dagoreau , French racing car driver
- January 5th : Giuseppe Materazzi , Italian football player and coach
- January 7th : Mike Wilds , British racing car driver
- January 10 : Robert Gadocha , Polish football player
- January 12 : Sergei Tschetwerukhin , Soviet-Russian figure skater
- January 13 : Wolfgang Boos , German ice hockey player
- January 21 : Johnny Oates , American baseball player († 2004 )
- January 23 : Don Whittington , American racing car driver
- January 31 : Willi Seebauer , German soccer player
February
- February 3rd : Bruno Kneubühler , Swiss motorcycle racer
- February 4th : Sieglinde Ammann , Swiss long jumper, discus thrower and pentathlete
- February 10 : Dick Anderson , American football player
- February 12 : Harald Irmscher , German football player and coach
- February 13 : Artur Jorge , Portuguese soccer coach and soccer player
- February 14 : Timothy Fok , Chinese entrepreneur and sports official from Hong Kong
- February 23 : Anatoly Banischewski , Soviet football player († 1997 )
- February 24 : Sergio Gori , Italian football player
March
- March 1 : Elvin Bethea , American football player
- March 1st : Jan Kodeš , Czech tennis player
- March 3 : Charles Asati , Kenyan sprinter
- March 9 : Bernd Hölzenbein , German football player
- March 10 : Hiroshi Fushida , Japanese racing car driver
- March 10 : Gianni Giudici , Italian racing car driver
- March 10 : Robin Mitchell , Fijian sports official
- March 10 : Jim Valvano , American basketball coach († 1993 )
- March 14 : Zygmunt Anczok , Polish football player
- March 14 : Wes Unseld , American basketball player
- March 17th : Lindsay Owen-Jones , British manager and racing car driver
- March 18th : Michel Leclère , French racing car driver
- March 19 : Elliot Archilla , Puerto Rican biathlete
- March 20 : Klaus Ackermann , German soccer player
- March 24th : Jean-Daniel Raulet , French racing car driver
- March 26 : Lyudmila Titowa , Russian speed skater and Olympic champion in 1968
- March 30th : Reinhold Adelmann , German soccer player
- March 31 : Klaus Wolfermann , German athlete
April
- April 1st : Iván Faragó , Hungarian chess grandmaster
- April 1st : Arrigo Sacchi , Italian football player and coach
- April 1 : Manfred Stengl , Austrian luge, bobsleigh and motorcycle racer († 1992 )
- April 4th : Lars-Göran Arwidson , Swedish biathlete
- April 6 : Giorgio Mariani , Italian football player († 2011 )
- April 7th : Colette Besson , French athlete and Olympic champion († 2005 )
- April 15 : Willi Neuberger , German soccer player
- April 15 : Friedrich Chlubna , Austrian chess problem composer († 2005 )
- April 20 : Fedor den Hertog , Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion († 2011 )
- April 27 : Franz Roth , German soccer player
- April 27 : Gerd Wiltfang , German show jumper († 1997 )
May
- May 2nd : Dany Snobeck , French racing car driver
- May 4th : John Watson , Northern Irish racing car driver
- May 13 : Jean Rondeau , French racing driver and designer († 1985 )
- May 18 : Ray Richards , Australian soccer player and coach
- May 18 : Kenji Takahashi , Japanese racing car driver
- May 20 : Mario Guilloti , Argentine boxer
- May 20 : Craig Patrick , American ice hockey player and coach
- May 21 : Erwin Kostedde , German Bundesliga soccer player and national player
- May 22 : George Best , Northern Irish football player († 2005 )
- May 24th : Thomas Nordahl , Swedish football player and coach
- May 24 : Irena Szewińska , Polish athlete († 2018 )
- May 25 : Bill Adam , Canadian racing car driver
- May 25 : Antonis Antoniadis , Greek football player
- May 25th : Jean-Pierre Danguillaume , French road cyclist
- May 29 : Jean-Louis Capette , French racing car driver († 2015 )
- May 29 : Héctor Yazalde , Argentinian football player († 1997 )
- May 30 : Dragan Džajić , Yugoslav soccer player
June
- June 3rd : Yvette Fontaine , Belgian racing driver
- June 5 : Herbert Prügl , Austrian motorcycle racer († 2007 )
- June 6 : Sherwood Stewart , American tennis player
- June 7th : Manfred Ritschel , German soccer player
- June 8th : Anatoly Amelin , Russian table tennis player
- June 8 : Eiji Morioka , Japanese boxer († 2004 )
- June 15 : Antonio Roldán , Mexican boxer and Olympic featherweight champion from 1968 († 1974 )
- June 16 : Rick Adelman , American basketball coach
- June 18 : Fabio Capello , Italian football player and coach
- June 21 : Rob Dyson , American racing car driver and team owner
- June 24th : Tamara Safonova , Russian-Soviet water diver
- June 25th : Henk van Kessel , Dutch motorcycle racer
- June 25 : Ulrik le Fevre , Danish football player
- June 29th : Peter Anders , German soccer player
July
- July 1st : Clark Matis , American cross-country skier
- July 4th : Skeeter McKitterick , American racing car driver
- July 5th : Giuseppe Furino , Italian football player
- July 9 : Dudley Wood , British racing car driver
- July 10 : Jacques Heuclin , French politician and racing car driver († 2007 )
- July 10 : Jean-Pierre Jarier , French racing car driver
- July 11th : Roland Bassaler , French racing car driver
- July 11th : Volker Harbs , German handball player
- July 12 : Ricardo-Horacio Neumann , Argentinian soccer player († 2008 )
- July 15 : Dieter Herzog , German soccer player
- July 16 : Wladimir Astapowski , Soviet football goalkeeper († 2012 )
- July 16 : Ron Yary , American football player
- July 19 : Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis player
- July 20 : Vladimir Wikulov , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and Olympic champion († 2013 )
- July 23 : Johann Ettmayer , Austrian soccer player
- July 23 : Kenper Miller , American racing car driver and team owner
- July 26 : Valentin Gavrilow , Russian high jumper
- July 26 : Christian Rudzki , Argentine soccer player
- July 28 : Marty Hinze , American racing car driver and drug dealer
- July 29th : Stig Blomqvist , Swedish rally driver
August
- August 8th : Michel Lateste , French racing car driver
- August 8 : Dragutin Šurbek , Croatian table tennis player († 2018 )
- August 10 : Sergio Mariotti , Italian chess player
- August 10 : Hans Joachim Teichler , German sports scientist
- August 19 : Willi Lemke , German football functionary and politician
- August 19 : Soja Rudnowa , Russian-Soviet table tennis player († 2014 )
- August 24th : Vic Akers , English football coach
- August 24 : Manfred Zapf , German soccer player
- August 25 : Charlie Sanders , American football player († 2015 )
- August 26th : Albert Dufréne , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- August 28 : Anders Gärderud , Swedish athlete and Olympic champion
- August 29 : Bob Beamon , American athlete
- August 30 : Valerian Sokolow , Russian-Soviet boxer and Olympic champion
September
- September 1st : Erich Schärer , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- September 3rd : Brian Ashton , English rugby union player and coach
- September 10 : Jim Hines , American sprinter and Olympic champion
- September 23 : Enrico Catuzzi , Italian football player and coach († 2006 )
- September 23 : Valery Karassev , Russian-Soviet gymnast
- September 24 : Joe Greene , American football player
- September 28th : Jean-Claude Ferrarin , French racing driver
October
- October 5th : Kjell Johansson , Swedish table tennis player († 2011 )
- October 7th : Valeria Bufanu , Romanian athlete
- October 8 : Alexander Gorshkov , Russian figure skater
- October 8 : Lennox Miller , Jamaican athlete († 2004 )
- October 11 : Sawao Katō , Japanese gymnast
- October 16 : Roger Dubos , French racing car driver († 1973 )
- October 17th : Enzo Coloni , Italian racing car driver and racing team owner
- October 17 : Bob Seagren , American athlete
- October 19 : Jürgen Croy , German soccer player
- October 20th : Lucien Van Impe , Belgian cyclist
- October 24 : Everett Dunklee , American cross-country skier
- October 24th : Kristina Richter , German handball player
- October 24th : Thorkild Thyrring , Danish racing car driver
- October 25 : Elías Figueroa , Chilean football player
November
- November 6th : Dieter Zembski , German soccer player
- November 6th : Hannelore Zober , German handball player
- November 11th : Al Holbert , American racing driver († 1988 )
- November 16 : Wolfgang Kleff , German soccer player
- November 16 : Ole Olsen , Danish track athlete
- November 20 : James Donald Murray , American luge rider
- November 21 : Helmut Bergfelder , German soccer player
- November 23 : Ludwig Bründl , German football player
- November 26 : Art Shell , American football player and coach
- November 29 : Franz Merkhoffer , German soccer player
December
- December 1st : Tunç Hamarat , Austrian chess player of Turkish origin
- December 2nd : Hans-Jürgen Veil , German wrestler
- December 2nd : John Sheldon , British racing car driver
- December 2nd : Franz Wurz , Austrian racing driver
- December 3rd : Joop Zoetemelk , Dutch cyclist
- December 5th : Sarel van der Merwe , South African racing car driver
- December 9 : Erich Beer , German football player
- December 9 : Mervyn Davies , Welsh rugby player († 2012 )
- December 12 : Renzo Zorzi , Italian racing driver († 2015 )
- December 13 : Pierino Prati , Italian football player and coach († 2020 )
- December 14th : Ruth Fuchs , German athlete and politician
- December 14th : Stan Smith , American tennis player
- December 15 : Comunardo Niccolai , Italian football player and coach
- December 16 : Ernst Hack , Austrian wrestler († 1986 )
- December 16 : Roland Sandberg , Swedish football player
- December 19 : Werner Pfirter , Swiss motorcycle racer († 1973 )
- December 25th : Reinhard Rauball , German lawyer and sports official
- December 29 : Syed Shahid Ali , Pakistani sports official
- December 30th : Gerry Neef , German soccer player († 2010 )
- December 30th : Berti Vogts , German soccer player and coach
- December 31 : Werner Adler , German soccer player
- December 31 : Lyudmila Pachomowa , Soviet-Russian figure skater and Olympic champion († 1986 )
Date unknown
- Ole Arntzen , Norwegian ski jumper, ski jumping trainer and official († 2013 )
- Gana Abba Kimet , Chadian athlete
Died
January to June
- February 18 : Fred Auckenthaler , Swiss ice hockey player (* 1899 )
- February 24 : René Le Bègue , French racing car driver (* 1914 )
- March 24th : Alexander Alekhine , Russian-French world chess champion (* 1892 )
- June 7th : Ted Mellors , British motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
- June 17 : Joe Dawson , American racing car driver (* 1889 )
July to December
- July 1st : Sytse Frederick Willem Koolhoven , Dutch racing driver, aircraft designer and entrepreneur (* 1886 )
- July 18 : Gilbert de Rudder , pseudonym Grizzly , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
- July 28th : Robert Mazaud , French racing driver (* 1906 )
- August 11 : Walter Hamelehle , German motorcycle racer (* 1912 )
- August 18 : Nils Georg Åberg , Swedish long and triple jumper (* 1893 )
- October 22 : Homer Ledbetter , American football player (born 1910 )
- November 7th : Louis Otten , Dutch football player and medic (* 1883 )
- December 7th : Georges Malfait , French athlete (* 1878 )
- December 26th : Franjo Bučar , Croatian writer and sports official; Father of Olympic Sports in Croatia (* 1866 )
See also
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