Sports year 1948
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badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1948 were the All England , the Denmark Open , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open . In New Zealand, national title fights were held again for the first time after World War II.
International events
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athletics
- April 17 - Charles Fonville , USA , hit 17.68 meters in the men's shot put.
- June 10th - Adolfo Consolini , Italy , reached 55.33 m in the men's discus throw.
- July 2 - Herb McKenley , Jamaica , ran the men's 400 meters in 45.9 seconds.
- August 4th - Tatiana Sevryukova , Soviet Union , hit 14.59 m in the women's shot put.
- August 8th - Nina Dumbadze , Soviet Union , threw 53.25 m in the women's discus throw.
- August 14 - Imre Németh , Hungary , reached 59.02 m in the men's hammer throw.
- September 7th - Nina Dumbadze , Soviet Union , reached 53.25 m in the women's discus throw.
- September 12th - Herma Bauma , Austria reached 48.63 m in the women's javelin.
- October 10 - Adolfo Consolini , Italy , threw the discus in the men's 55.33 m discipline.
- October 16 - Charles Fonville , USA , reached 17.68 meters in the men's shot put.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
European motorcycle championship
- At the European motorcycle championship held on the Clady Circuit in Northern Ireland, the Briton Maurice Cann on Moto Guzzi won the title in the 250 cc class ahead of the two Northern Irish Excelsior pilots Jock McCredie and Harold Kirby .
- In the 350s, the British Velocette factory driver Freddie Frith wins ahead of his fellow brand colleagues and compatriots Ken Bills and Frank Fry .
- In the half-liter class, the Italian Enrico Lorenzetti wins in a Moto Guzzi ahead of the two British Johnny Lockett ( Norton ) and Leslie Graham ( AJS ).
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Carl Döring ( DKW , 125 cm³), Hermann Paul Müller (DKW, 250 cm³), Wilhelm Herz ( NSU , 350 cm³), Georg Meier ( BMW , 500 cm³), Hermann Böhm / Karl Fuchs ( NSU , team 600 cm³) and Sepp Müller / Karl Fuchs or Karl Rührschneck ( BMW , sidecar 1000 cm³).
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1948 February 4th to 11th in London / Wembley (England)
Born
January
- January 1st : Heinz Blasey , German soccer player
- January 1 : Mikhail Peunov , Soviet-Russian archer
- January 3 : Manfred Kokot , German athlete
- January 10 : Bernard Thévenet , French cyclist
- January 11 : Wajima Hiroshi , Japanese sumo wrestler and 54th yokozuna († 2018 )
- January 11 : Madeline Manning , American athlete and Olympic champion
- January 14 : Valery Kharlamov , Russian ice hockey player († 1981 )
- January 14th : Jean-Paul Rostagni , French football player
- January 14th : Gian Piero Ventura , Italian football player and coach
- January 14th : Carl Weathers , American actor and American football player
- January 25 : Göran Åberg , Swedish football player and coach († 2001 )
- January 28 : Heinz Flohe , German football player († 2013 )
- January 30th : Manfred Hofmann , German handball goalkeeper
- January 31st : Bobby Windsor , Welsh rugby player
February
- February 1 : Waltraud Kretzschmar , German handball player († 2018 )
- February 2 : Roger Williamson , British Formula 1 racing driver († 1973 )
- February 3 : János Drapál , Hungarian motorcycle racer († 1985 )
- February 3 : Gennady Moissejew , Soviet motocross rider († 2017 )
- February 5th : Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish football coach
- February 11th : Gerhard Wucherer , German athlete
- February 12 : Bernd Franke , German soccer player
- February 13 : Jim Crawford , British racing car driver († 2002 )
- February 21 : Elmar Müller , German soccer coach
- February 24 : Walter Smith , Scottish football player and coach
- February 25 : Erwin Staudt , German football official
- February 26 : Sergei Savelyev , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion († 2005 )
- February 27 : Helmut Nerlinger , German soccer player
March
- March 1st : Herwig Ahrendsen , German handball player
- March 7th : Shamil Tarpishchev , Soviet-Russian tennis player and sports official
- March 14 : Bernd Stange , German football coach
- March 16 : Tatjana Lematschko , Bulgarian and Swiss chess player of Russian origin († 2020 )
- March 20 : Bobby Orr , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 22nd : Bernard Dietz , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Per Stureson , Swedish racing driver
- March 24th : Volker Finke , German soccer coach
- March 24th : Delio Onnis , Argentinian soccer player
- March 26th : Peter Neumann , German motorcycle racer
- March 28 : Trina Hosmer , American cross-country skier
- March 31 : Natalja Dubowa , Russian figure skating coach
April
- April 1st : JJ Williams , Welsh rugby player
- April 3 : Georg Schwarzenbeck , German soccer player
- April 7th : Pietro Anastasi , Italian football player († 2020 )
- April 10 : Mel Blount , American football player
- April 12th : Marcello Lippi , Italian football player and coach
- April 16 : John Fitzgerald , American football player
- April 18 : Richard Peterkin , Lucian sports official
- April 22nd : Yevgeny Arshanov , Soviet middle-distance runner
- April 27th : Yves Courage , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- April 27 : Josef Hickersberger , Austrian soccer player and coach
May
- May 4th : Hurley Haywood , American racing car driver
- May 6 : Servilio de Oliveira , Brazilian boxer
- May 7th : Michel Dubois , French racing car driver († 2006 )
- May 8 : Norbert Nigbur , German soccer player
- May 15 : Peter Hussing , German heavyweight boxer († 2012 )
- May 17th : Horst Köppel , German soccer player and coach
- May 17 : Pat Toomay , American football player and writer
- May 20 : Alexander Timoshinin , Soviet-Russian rower and Olympic champion
- May 21 : Günter Zöller , German figure skater
- May 27th : Thomas Ahrens , German helmsman in rowing
- May 27th : Frédéric Dor , French racing car driver
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- May 28th : Wil Hartog , Dutch motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
- May 29 : Günter Sebert , German football player and coach
- May 31 : Otto Altenbach , German racing car driver
June
- June 4th : Ernst Abbé , German soccer player
- June 4th : Jürgen Sparwasser , German soccer player and coach
- June 6 : Vladimir Shadrin , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- June 12th : Hans Binder , Austrian racing driver
- June 15 : Doris Papperitz , German sports journalist
- June 16 : Klaus Kater , German handball goalkeeper
- June 17th : Alpo Suhonen , Finnish ice hockey coach and theater director
- June 19 : Erik Schinegger , Austrian ski racer
- June 21 : Jovan Aćimović , Yugoslav football player
- June 21 : Wolfgang Seel , German soccer player
- June 24th : Werner Roth , German soccer player
- June 28th : Ellen Wellmann , German athlete
July
- July 1st : Katja Ebbinghaus , German tennis player
- July 4th : René Arnoux , French racing car driver
- July 16 : Lars Lagerbäck , Swedish football coach
- July 19 : Atilio Ancheta , Uruguayan soccer player
- July 19 : Jobst Hirscht , German athlete
- July 22nd : Frieder Andrich , German soccer player
- July 24th : Jürgen Hildebrandt , German handball trainer and handball player
- July 26th : Norair Nurikjan , Bulgarian weightlifter and Olympic champion
- July 27 : Peggy Fleming , American figure skater and 1968 Olympic champion
August
- August 2 : Borivoje Đorđević , Yugoslav football player
- August 5th : Ray Clemence , English soccer player
- August 6th : Mykola Avilow , Soviet all-rounder and Olympic champion
- August 7th : Walter Schmidt , German athlete
- August 10 : Paul Angenvoorth , German marathon runner
- August 20 : Bernhard Russi , Swiss ski racer, Olympic champion
- August 26 : Gertrud Gabl , Austrian ski racer († 1976 )
- August 30th : Dragoslav Stepanović , Serbian football coach
- August 31 : Harald Ertl , Austrian-German Formula 1 racing driver († 1982 )
- August 31 : Holger Osieck , German soccer coach and official
September
- September 1st : Hans Engel , German handball player
- September 2 : Nate Archibald , American basketball player
- September 3 : Heiner Möller , German handball player
- September 5th : İsmail Arca , Turkish football player and coach
- September 6 : Pedro María Artola , Spanish football player
- September 6 : Werner Schwärzel , German motorcycle racer
- September 8 : Jean-Pierre Monseré , Belgian racing cyclist († 1971 )
- September 10 : Bob Lanier , American basketball player
- September 11th : Flemming Hansen , Danish handball player († 2013 )
- September 14 : Robert Taylor , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2007 )
- September 16 : Takashi Suzuki , Japanese racing car driver
- September 19 : Julius Sang , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion († 2004 )
- September 23 : Vera Nikolić , Serbian athlete
- September 25th : Ștefan Birtalan , Romanian handball player and coach
- September 29 : Viktor Krowopuskow , Soviet saber fencer and four-time Olympic champion
October
- October 2nd : Jochen Sachse , German athlete
- October 8 : Wilfried Ahnefeld , German soccer player
- October 8 : Jon Ekerold , South African motorcycle racer
- October 20 : Helmut Achatz , German soccer player
- October 20 : Andrej Suraikin , Russian figure skater († 1996 )
- October 22 : Andy Holden , British obstacle and cross-country runner († 2014 )
- October 23 : Gerd Niebaum , German football official
- October 25 : Dave Cowens , American basketball player
- October 25 : Werner Fuchs , German soccer player and coach († 1999 )
- October 26th : John Morrison , British racing car driver
- October 30 : Günter Schweikardt , German handball player, trainer and manager
November
- November 1st : Hans Aabech , Danish football player († 2018 )
- November 3 : Helmut Koinigg , Austrian racing driver († 1974 )
- November 6th : Robert Huebner , German chess player
- November 9 : Luiz Felipe Scolari , Brazilian soccer coach
- November 9th : Sharon Stouder , American swimmer († 2013 )
- November 11th : Bernhard Lehmann , German bobsledder and handball player
- November 12 : Jack Dolbin , American football player
- November 12 : Egon Schmitt , German soccer player
- November 14th : Eva Paskuy , German handball player
- November 16 : Jimmy Young , American boxer († 2005 )
- November 19 : Eduard Stöllinger , Austrian motorcycle racer († 2006 )
- November 20 : Gunnar Nilsson , Swedish Formula 1 racing driver († 1978 )
- November 21 : Werner Lorant , German football player and coach
- November 22 : Radomir Antić , Yugoslav soccer player and Serbian soccer coach
- November 23 : Gabriele Seyfert , German figure skater, world champion
- November 23 : Reiner Calmund , German football official
- November 26 : Krešimir Ćosić , Croatian basketball player († 1995 )
December
- December 1 : Luciano Re Cecconi , Italian football player († 1977 )
- December 1st : Guy Tunmer , South African racing driver († 1999 )
- December 2 : Haukur Angantýsson , Icelandic chess player († 2012 )
- December 2nd : Antonín Panenka , Czechoslovak football player
- December 12th : Roelof Wunderink , Dutch racing driver
- December 13 : Lillian Board , British athlete († 1970 )
- December 23 : Stefan Dörflinger , Swiss motorcycle racer
- December 23 : Jack Ham , American football player
Died
January to June
- February 2 : Bevil Rudd , South African athlete and Olympic champion (* 1894 )
- February 18 : Renato Balestrero , Italian racing driver (* 1898 )
- February 23 : Hermann Weber , German motorcycle designer and racing driver (* 1896 )
- February 26 : Marion Ashmore , American football player (* 1899 )
- April 17 : John Madden , Scottish football player and coach (* 1865 )
- April 28 : Walter Krause , German football player (* 1896 )
- May 9 : Paul Hunder , German football player (* 1884 )
- May 16 : Ralph Hepburn , American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1896 )
July to December
- July 1 : Omobono Tenni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1905 )
- July 1 : Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver (* 1904 )
- July 4th : Christian Kautz , Swiss racing driver (* 1913 )
- July 11 : John Anderson , American discus thrower (* 1907 )
- July 27 : Woolf Barnato , British financier, car racing driver and cricketer (* 1895 )
- July 31 : George Adee , American football player and tennis official (* 1874 )
- September 17th : Édouard Brisson , French racing car driver (* 1882 )
- November 19 : Mannes Francken , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- December 25 : Carl Abrahamsson , Swedish ice hockey player (* 1896 )
- December 31 : Malcolm Campbell , English racing driver and journalist (* 1885 )
See also
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