Sports year 1947
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badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1947 were the All England , the Denmark Open , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open . For the first time after the Second World War, national gaming operations in many countries ran with full schedules. In the USA, Canada and Australia national title fights were held again. Japan hosted its own championship for the first time.
International events
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basketball
- April 27/3. May: The 5th European Men's Championship takes place in Prague . The Soviet Union team won the title straight away when they took part for the first time. In the final she wins against defending champion Czechoslovakia with 56:37. Bronze goes to the team of Egypt.
Boxing
- April 2nd to 17th: The 1947 European Boxing Championships took place in Dublin ( Ireland ). After an eight-year break caused by the Second World War , it was the second consecutive European Championships in Dublin. Titles were awarded in eight weight classes, with France emerging from the tournament as the strongest nation with one gold and three silver medals. In the heavyweight division, Gerry O'Colman from Ireland won the gold medal.
ice Hockey
- 15./23. February: Without record world champions Canada , the first world championship after the war is played in Prague . World champions will be hosted by Czechoslovakia ahead of Sweden and Austria .
- In the NHL , the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup after a 4-2 victory in the final series against the Montréal Canadiens .
figure skating
- After a two-year break, the German champions will be determined again. The titles go to Horst Faber and Inge Jell . In pair skating, Ria Baran and Paul Falk start their successful careers with the first championship.
- In the first time since the end of the Second World War, the world championship , the Swiss Hans Gerschwiler wins . In the women's category, the title goes to Canadian Barbara Ann Scott . The Belgian couple Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet win in pair skating .
Speed skating
- Four years after his first title, Werner Egerland becomes the first German champion in the four-way battle after the war.
Soccer
| master | Cup winners | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | FK Partizani Tirana | not played out | ||
| Germany | not played out | not played out | ||
| England |  |
Liverpool FC | Charlton Athletic | |
| France | CO Roubaix-Tourcoing | Lille OSC | ||
| Italy | AC Turin | not played out | ||
| Austria | SC Wacker Vienna | SC Wacker Vienna | ||
| Scotland |  |
Glasgow Rangers |  |
Aberdeen FC |
| Switzerland | FC Biel-Bienne |  |
FC Basel | |
| Soviet Union | CSKA Moscow | Spartak Moscow | ||
| Spain | Valencia CF | real Madrid | ||
- May 4: Hungary beat Austria 5-2 in Budapest .
- June 14: With an 8: 1 against Helfort , SC Wacker Wien won the Austrian championship title for the first and only time in the club's history .
- June 29th: In front of 35,000 spectators in the Vienna Prater Stadium, SC Wacker Wien won the Austrian Cup with a 4-3 win against FK Austria Wien and secured the double for SK Rapid Wien as in the previous year .
- With one point ahead of Lausanne-Sports , FC Biel-Bienne becomes Swiss football champions for the first time .
- September 14: Austria beats Hungary 4: 3 in Vienna .
- October 5: Czechoslovakia beat Austria 3-2 in Prague .
- November 9: Austria beats Italy 5-1 in Vienna .
Handball
- The RaSpo Mülheim team became the first German field handball champion after the end of the war with an 8: 6 against SV Waldhof Mannheim .
athletics
- April 19: The Korean Yun Bok-Suh sets a new world record in the marathon with 2:25:39 h.
- June 29th: Herma Bauma (Austria) achieved a new world record with a javelin throw of 48.21 m.
- August 15: Lennart Strand (Sweden) improves the men's world record to 3: 43.0 min in the men's 1500 meters.
- August 25: New Zealander Doug Harris runs the 800 meters in the new world record time of 1: 49.2 minutes.
- September 23: Klawdija Majutschaja (Soviet Union) beats the world record in the javelin throw with 50.32 m. However, this record is not officially recognized as the Soviet Union was not yet a member of the IAAF .
Motorsport
Motorcycling
European motorcycle championship
- At the European motorcycle championship held on the Bremgarten circuit in Switzerland, the Italian Bruno Francisci on Moto Guzzi wins the title in the quarter liter class ahead of his compatriot and teammate Ferdinando Balzarotti and the British Fergus Anderson (also Moto Guzzi).
- In the 350s, Velocette pilot Fergus Anderson wins ahead of his compatriot Charles Beischer and the Swiss Georges Cordey (both Norton ).
- In the half-liter class, the Italian Omobono Tenni prevailed on Moto Guzzi against Ferdinando Balzarotti (also Moto Guzzi) and Fergus Anderson (Norton).
- The Italians Luigi Cavanna / Paolo Cavanna on Moto Guzzi win in the 600 cc sidecar, ahead of the two Swiss Hans Haldemann (Norton) and Hans strengkle ( NSU ).
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Carl Döring ( DKW , 125 cm³), Hermann Paul Müller (DKW, 250 cm³), Willy Jäger ( Norton , 350 cm³), Georg Meier ( BMW , 500 cm³), Hermann Böhm / Karl Fuchs ( NSU , team 600 cc) and Sepp Müller / Josef Wenzhofer ( BMW , carriages 1000 cc).
Olympic games
- 18./21. June: The International Olympic Committee meets in Stockholm for its 41st session . Helsinki is confirmed to host the 1952 Summer Olympics .
Cycling
- June 25th / 20th July: Frenchman Jean Robic surprisingly wins the first Tour de France after World War II . The Breton only took the yellow jersey off the Italian Pierre Brambilla on the last stage.
- 20./25. August: The first tour of Germany after the end of the war takes place with the Green Belt from the Rhine . The winner of the six-stage race is Erich Bautz .
tennis
- August 30th / 1st September: The American team Jack Kramer / Ted Schroeder successfully defends the Davis Cup in Forest Hills with a 4-1 win against Australia .
Table tennis
- February 28/7. March: The first table tennis world championship after the end of the war takes place in Paris . The Czech Bohumil Váňa and the Hungarian Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas each win three titles.
do gymnastics
- Innozenz Stangl from TSV 1860 Munich becomes the first German post-war champion in the all-around competition in Northeim .
Born
January
- January 2 : Calvin Hill , American football player
- January 2 : Alexander Jakuschew , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player and coach
- January 2 : Alexander Tikhonov , Russian-Soviet biathlete and Olympic champion
- January 3rd : Fran Cotton , English rugby player
- January 5 : Osman Arpacıoğlu , Turkish soccer player
- January 5th : Rita Kühne , German athlete and Olympic champion
- January 7th : Dan Emil Anca , Romanian football player and coach († 2005 )
- January 7th : Stefan Angelow , Bulgarian wrestler († 2019 )
- January 7th : Jean-Marie Lemerle , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- January 8 : Igor Ivanov , Russian-Canadian chess player († 2005 )
- January 9 : Vladimir Wassin , Soviet-Russian water diver and 1972 Olympic champion
- January 13 : Luciano Chiarugi , Italian football player and coach
- January 14th : Peter Nogly , German soccer player
- January 15th : José Juncadella , Spanish racing car driver and entrepreneur
- January 17th : Hermann Aschwer , German triathlete and author
- January 19 : Jordanka Blagoewa , Bulgarian athlete
- January 21 : Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś , Polish ski racer
- January 21 : Alexander Gusev , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- January 24th : Giorgio Chinaglia , Italian national soccer player († 2012 )
- January 24th : Jerzy Konikowski , German chess player of Polish origin
- January 25 : Ángel Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer († 2017 )
- January 27 : Heinz Bonn , German football player († 1991 )
February
- February 1 : Gaston Rahier , Belgian motocross rider († 2005 )
- February 5 : Eduardo Antunes Coimbra , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- February 9 : Reinhard Adler , German soccer player
- February 9 : Boris Gulko , Russian-American chess grandmaster
- February 13 : Mohammad Reza Adelkhani , Iranian soccer player
- February 13 : Julien Cools , Belgian soccer player
- February 13 : Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball coach
- February 14th : Heide Ecker-Rosendahl , German athlete
- February 15 : Andrew Bagnall , New Zealand racing car driver
- February 15 : Dagmar Käsling , German athlete and Olympic champion
- February 18 : Carlos Lopes , Portuguese athlete
- February 19 : Michel Elkoubi , French racing car driver
- February 21 : Eddy Achterberg , Dutch football player and coach
- February 23 : Boris Kuznetsov , Soviet boxer and Olympic champion 1972 († 2006 )
- February 25 : Lee Evans , American athlete and Olympic champion
- February 27 : Mike Montgomery , American basketball coach
- February 28 : Włodzimierz Lubański , Polish football player
March
- March 3 : Óscar Tabárez , Uruguayan football player and coach
- March 5 : Nobuhiko Hasegawa , Japanese table tennis player († 2005 )
- March 6 : Dick Fosbury , American track and field athlete
- March 7 : Rubén Suñé , Argentinian football player († 2019 )
- March 7th : Walter Röhrl , German racing car driver
- March 9 : Emiliano Mondonico , Italian football player and coach († 2018 )
- March 12th : Aldo Arencibia , Cuban cyclist
- March 12 : David Rigert , Soviet weightlifter and 1976 Olympic champion
- March 15 : Rolf Ackermann , German soccer player
- March 19 : Ernst Gerlach , German handball player
- March 19 : Erika Zuchold , German gymnast, world champion († 2015 )
- March 24th : Pierre Dieudonné , Belgian racing driver
- March 24th : Archie Gemmill , Scottish soccer player
- March 25th : Gisela Ahlemeyer , German athlete
- March 26th : Yōjirō Terada , Japanese racing car driver
- March 27 : Jochen Aido , German soccer player
- March 27th : Aad de Mos , Dutch football coach
- March 29th : Inge Bödding , German athlete
April
- April 6th : Oswaldo Piazza , Argentine soccer player and coach
- April 8th : Thommy Abrahamsson , Swedish ice hockey player
- April 11 : Anton Gigl , German football player († 1996 )
- April 16 : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , American basketball player
- April 17th : Werner Hackmann , President of the German Football League († 2007 )
- April 18 : Rainer Würdig , German handball player
- April 20 : Luigi Maifredi , Italian football coach
- April 23 : Lyudmila Aksyonova , Soviet sprinter
- April 23 : Eddy Joosen , Belgian racing driver and entrepreneur
- April 25 : Johan Cruyff , Dutch football player († 2016 )
- April 26th : Donna de Varona , American swimmer
- April 29 : Jim Ryun , American politician, track and field athlete
May
- May 1st : Danilo Popivoda , Yugoslav soccer player
- May 2 : Manfred Harder , German football referee († 2018 )
- May 6th : Gunilla Lindberg , Swedish sports official
- May 12 : Zdeněk Zeman , Czech football coach
- May 14th : Hans Orsolics , Austrian boxer and singer
- May 16 : Mats Åhlberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- May 20th : Jürgen Oppermann , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- May 22nd : Vladimir Denisov , Russian-Soviet foil fencer
- May 22nd : Gennadij Nessis , Russian chess player and trainer
- May 23 : Hans-Jürgen Pohmann , German tennis player and journalist
- May 30th : Karl-Josef Assenmacher , German football referee
- May 31 : Gabriele Hinzmann , German athlete
June
- June 1st : Rini van Bracht , Dutch carom player and multiple world and European champion
- June 1 : Ron Dennis , British entrepreneur and motorsport manager; from 1981 to 2009 team principal of the Formula 1 racing team McLaren
- June 4th : Peter Görtz , German handball player († 2013 )
- June 4th : Hanspeter Latour , Swiss soccer coach and player
- June 11 : Bob Evans , British racing car driver
- June 11 : Vladimir Smirnov , Russian-Soviet ski jumper
- June 19 : Lucien Rossiaud , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- June 21 : Duane Thomas , American football player
- June 22nd : Pete Maravich , American basketball player († 1988 )
- June 25 : Charles Mendez , American racing driver and motorsport official
- June 25 : John Powell , American discus thrower
- June 26 : Karl Auer , President of the TSV 1860 Munich soccer club
- June 28 : John Aston junior , English football player
- June 30 : Vladimir Petrov , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player († 2017 )
July
- July 1st : Kazuyoshi Hoshino , Japanese racing car driver
- July 3 : Rob Rensenbrink , Dutch soccer player
- July 3 : Claxton Welch , American football player
- July 7 : Alexander Maleiev , Russian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist in 1972
- July 9 : OJ Simpson , American football player and actor
- July 10 : Horst Blankenburg , German soccer player
- July 19 : Hans-Jürgen Kreische , German soccer player
- July 21 : Co Adriaanse , Dutch football coach
- July 23 : Torsten Palm , Swedish racing car driver
- July 23 : Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp , German soccer player
- July 23 : Pierre Yver , French racing car driver
- July 28 : Barbara Ferrell , American athlete and Olympic champion
- July 28th : Jelena Nowikowa , Soviet foil fencer and Olympic champion
- July 29th : Robert Boubet , French racing car driver
August
- August 6 : Yevgeny Simin , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2018 )
- August 7 : Valery Ilyinych , Russian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist 1968 († 1982 )
- August 7th : Kerry Reid , Australian tennis player
- August 8 : Tommy Ellis , American racing driver
- August 11th : Arkadi Georgievich Andreasjan , Soviet-Armenian football player and coach
- August 11th : Alois Schloder , German ice hockey player
- August 16 : Giancarlo Martini , Italian racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2013 )
- August 21 : Otto Kastl , German soccer player
- August 24th : Roger De Vlaeminck , Belgian cyclist
- August 28 : Emlyn Hughes , English soccer player († 2004 )
September
- September 7 : Karen Grigoryan , Soviet chess player († 1989 )
- September 8 : Claudio Sala , Italian football player and coach
- September 12th : Peter Kutemann , Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
- September 12th : Jean-Claude Lagniez , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- September 13 : Elfgard Schittenhelm , German athlete
- September 14th : Fredy Lienhard , Swiss racing driver and entrepreneur
- September 16 : Dieter Riedel , German soccer player and coach
- September 16 : Ilona Gusenbauer , Austrian athlete
- September 19 : Jozef Móder , Czechoslovak football player
- September 20 : Jairo Arboleda , Colombian football player and coach
- September 21 : Kaoru Hoshino , Japanese racing car driver
- September 27th : Dick Advocaat , Dutch football player and coach
- September 27 : Bernard Béguin , French rally driver
October
- October 2nd : Květoslav Mašita , Czechoslovak enduro athlete
- October 4th : Jelena Fatalibekowa , Russian chess player
- October 5 : Michael Keyser , American racing car driver, journalist and photographer
- October 9 : Rita Wilden , German athlete
- October 13 : Zbigniew Jasiukiewicz , Polish volleyball player († 2005 )
- October 13 : Hans-Dieter Schmitz , German handball player and trainer
- October 14 : Charles Joiner , American football player
- October 14 : Rikky von Opel , Liechtenstein car racing driver
- October 22nd : Richard Piper , British racing car driver
- October 23 : Kazimierz Deyna , Polish football player († 1989 )
- October 26th : Ian Ashley , British racing car driver
- October 31 : Alberto Bigon , Italian football player and coach
- October 31 : Frank Shorter , American athlete
November
- November 1 : Ted Hendricks , American football player
- November 1st : Tsunekazu Takeda , Japanese show jumper and sports official
- November 4th : Alexei Ulanow , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- November 7th : Bob Anderson , English darts player
- November 8th : Giorgio Francia , Italian racing car driver
- November 10th : Jim Miller , American Nordic combined athlete
- November 13th : Mike Devecka , American Nordic combined and ski jumper
- November 15 : Bob Dandridge , American basketball player
- November 16 : Hannelore Burosch , German handball player
- November 16 : Siegmar Wätzlich , German football player († 2019 )
- November 20 : Gerd Szepanski , German sports reporter († 2012 )
- November 22nd : Nevio Scala , Italian football player and coach
- November 26 : Roger Wehrli , American football player
- November 30th : Karl-Heinz Handschuh , German soccer player
December
- December 3 : Olga Pall , Austrian ski racer
- December 5 : Jim Plunkett , American football player
- December 6th : Luigi Moreschi , Italian racing driver
- December 7th : Jesse Valdez , American boxer of Mexican origin
- December 9th : Mark Dvoretskij , Russian chess trainer and author († 2016 )
- December 9 : Sergei Gusew , Russian swimmer
- December 10th : Jürgen Barth , German racing car driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1977
- December 10 : Sinaida Voronina , Russian-Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion († 2001 )
- December 14 : Bernd Großmann , German athletics trainer († 2005 )
- December 16 : Vince Matthews , American sprinter and Olympic champion
- December 28 : Mark Washington , American football player
Died
January to June
- January 14 : Bill Hewitt , American football player (born 1909 )
- March 9 : Wilhelm Werner , German racing car driver (* 1874 )
- March 23 : David Ashworth , English football referee and coach (* 1868 )
- March 27 : Sydney Howard Smith , English tennis and badminton player (* 1872 )
- April 13 : Jean Chassagne , French racing car driver (* 1881 )
- May 8 : Attilio Ferraris , Italian football player (* 1904 )
- May 19 : John Heijning , Dutch football player (* 1884 )
- May 26th : Helen Aitchison , British tennis player (* 1881 )
- June 30th : Rudolf Noack , German football player (* 1913 )
July to December
- July 27 : Willi Arlt , German football player (* 1919 )
- August 15 : Nils Andersson , Swedish football player (* 1887 )
- August 21 : Ettore Bugatti , Italian automobile manufacturer and designer (* 1881 )
- October 7th : Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
Date unknown
- Anastasios Andreou , Greek athlete (* 1877 )
- Georg Hoffmann , German swimmer and diver (* 1880 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1947 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Malejew in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Valery Iljinych in the database of Sports-Reference (English)