Sports year 1949
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badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1949 were the All England , Denmark Open , Irish Open , Scottish Open and French Open . For the first time the Thomas Cup , which Malaya was able to win, was held. In Belgium, Burma and the Philippines, national title fights were held for the first time.
International events
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athletics
- May 1st - Viljo Heino , Finland , ran the men's 10,000 m in 29: 27.2 minutes.
- June 22nd - Emil Zatopek , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 29: 21.2 minutes.
- July 25 - Natalya Smirnitskaya , Ukraine reached 49.59 m in the women's javelin.
- August 5th - Natalja Smirnitskaja , Soviet Union , reached 53.41 m in the women's javelin.
- August 12th - Gaston Reiff , Belgium , ran the men's 3000 meters in 7: 58.8 minutes.
- August 28 - Jim Fuchs , USA , reached 17.79 m in the men's shot put.
- September 8 - Fortune Gordien , USA , reached 56.46 m in the men's discus throw.
- September 13 - Fortune Gordien , USA , reached 56.97 m in the men's discus throw.
- October 22nd - Emil Zatopek , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 29: 21.2 minutes.
- November 4th - Imre Németh , Hungary , reached 59.57 m in the men's hammer throw.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
250 cc vice world champion Dario Ambrosini in 1949 on Benelli at the Grand Prix of Nations in Monza .
Motorcycle world championship
The motorcycle world championship , first announced by the FIM , was held between June 12th and September 4th .
500 cc class
- 37-year-old AJS factory driver Leslie Graham from Great Britain is world champion in the 500 cm³ class . The two Italian Gilera factory pilots Nello Pagani and Arciso Artesiani follow in second and third place . In the constructors' championship, AJS prevails against Gilera and Norton .
350 cm³ class
- In the 350 cm³ class, 40-year-old Brit Freddie Frith wins the title on a Velocette . Irish Reg Armstrong on AJS finished second, Frith's fellow countryman and team-mate Bob Foster third . In the constructors' championship, Velocette wins ahead of AJS and Norton .
250 cc class
- The 28-year-old Italian Bruno Ruffo won the title in the 250 cm³ class on a Moto Guzzi ahead of his compatriot Dario Ambrosini ( Benelli ) and the Briton Ronald Mead ( Norton ). In the constructors' championship, Moto Guzzi prevailed ahead of Benelli and Rudge .
125 cc class
- 37-year-old FB Mondial factory driver Nello Pagani is world champion in the 125 cm³ class . His compatriots Renato Magi and Umberto Masetti (both Morini ) follow in second and third place . In the constructors' championship, FB-Mondial prevailed against Morini and MV Agusta .
A Norton - Watsonian team from 1949 like the one driven by Eric Oliver in the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu .
Denis Jenkinson 1967
Team class (600 cm³)
- The British duo Eric Oliver / Denis Jenkinson on Norton is world champion in the sidecar . The Italians Ercole Frigerio / Lorenzo Dobelli on Gilera follow in second place, Frans Vanderschrick (Belgium) with co-driver Martin Whitney (Great Britain) on Norton is third . Norton wins the constructors' championship ahead of Gilera and BMW .
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Carl Döring ( DKW , 125 cm³), Friedel Schön ( Bücker - JAP , 250 cm³), Siegfried Wünsche (DKW, 350 cm³), Georg Meier ( BMW , 500 cm³), Max Klankermeier / Hermann Wolz ( BMW , teams 600 cm³) and Sepp Müller / Karl Rührschneck ( BMW , team 1000 cm³).
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1949 February 4th to 10th 1949 in Stockholm (Sweden)
Born
January
- January 1st : Vehbi Akdağ , Turkish wrestler
- January 1st : Anne Trabant-Haarbach , German soccer player
- January 5th : Erich Buck , German figure skater
- January 5th : Klaus-Dieter Bieler , German athlete
- January 6th : Christine Dacremont , French racing car driver
- January 9 : Vladimir Repnyov , Russian ice hockey player
- January 10 : Carlos Alhinho , Cape Verdean Portuguese football player and coach († 2008 )
- January 10 : George Foreman , American heavyweight professional boxer and Christian minister
- January 11 : Raúl Castronovo , Argentinian football player
- January 12th : Ottmar Hitzfeld , German soccer player and coach
- January 13 : Yuriy Blinov , Russian ice hockey player
- January 17th : Heini Hemmi , Swiss ski racer
- January 21 : Adelquis Remón Gay , Cuban chess player († 1992 )
- January 25th : Doc Bundy , American racing car driver
- January 27 : Per Røntved , Danish football player
- January 27 : Galina Stepanskaja , Soviet-Russian speed skater and 1976 Olympic champion
- January 28 : Gregg Popovich , American basketball coach
- January 28th : Barry Robinson , British racing car driver
- January 28 : Pyotr Vorobyov , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and coach
- January 30th : Jacques Alméras , French racing driver and racing team owner
- January 30th : Mikhail Nepomnyashchi , Russian chess player
February
- February 1 : Franco Causio , Italian soccer player
- February 3rd : Richard Jones , British racing car driver
- February 3rd : Hennie Kuiper , Dutch cyclist
- February 6 : Adrian Alston , Australian soccer player
- February 6th : Manuel Orantes , Spanish tennis player
- February 9 : Gennady Korban , Soviet wrestler and 1980 Olympic champion
- February 12 : Fergus Slattery , Irish rugby player
- February 19 : Gennady Korschikow , Soviet-Russian rower and Olympic champion
- February 20 : Mario Lega , Italian motorcycle racer
- February 21 : Ronnie Hellström , Swedish football goalkeeper
- February 22nd : Niki Lauda , Austrian Formula 1 world champion 1975, 1977 and 1984 († 2019 )
- February 22nd : Olga Morozova , Soviet-Russian tennis player
- February 24th : Dieter Büttner , German athlete
- February 25 : Viktor Klimenko , Russian gymnast and Olympic champion on the pommel horse
- February 28 : Jennifer Lamy , Australian athlete
March
- March 2nd : Isabelle Mir , French ski racer
- March 4th : Karel Loprais , Czech rally driver
- March 8 : Teófilo Cubillas , Peruvian football player
- March 12th : Natalja Kutschinskaja , Soviet gymnast and two-time Olympic champion
- March 13 : Yuri Skobow , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- March 17 : Hartmut Briesenick , German athlete († 2013 )
- March 18 : Jacques Secrétin , French table tennis player
- March 18 : Alex Higgins , Northern Irish snooker player († 2010 )
- March 21 : Rolf-Dieter Amend , German canoeist and Olympic champion
- March 24th : Erwin Kremers , German soccer player
- March 24th : Helmut Kremers , German soccer player
- March 24th : Ruud Krol , Dutch football player
- March 26 : Giuseppe Sabadini , Italian football player and coach
- March 28 : Ernst Diehl , German football player
- March 28 : Ronnie Ray Smith , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2013 )
- March 30th : Hans Zach , German ice hockey coach
April
- April 2nd : Steve Saleen , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
- April 7th : Meta Antenen , Swiss athlete
- April 8th : Hagen Klein , German motorcycle racer
- April 13 : Ricardo Zunino , Argentine racing car driver
- April 14th : Chas Mortimer , British motorcycle racer
- April 19 : Sergej Volkov , Soviet-Russian figure skater († 1990 )
- April 20 : Great Cranston , Canadian figure skater and artist († 2015 )
- April 22nd : Spencer Haywood , American basketball player
- April 26th : Carlos Bianchi , Argentine soccer player and coach
- April 27 : Gennadij Timoščenko , Russian-Slovak chess master and coach
- April 28 : Didier Bonnet , French racing driver and racing car designer († 2011 )
- April 28 : Christian Neureuther , German skier
- April 29th : Kent-Harry Andersson , Swedish handball coach
- April 30th : Jean-Louis Bousquet , French racing car driver
- April 30th : Karl Meiler , German tennis player and coach († 2014 )
May
- May 2 : Walter Corbo , Uruguayan soccer player
- May 4th : Pekka Päivärinta , Finnish athlete
- May 14th : Klaus-Peter Thaler , German racing cyclist
- May 15 : Douglas Raymond Acomb , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 16 : Paul Ackerley , New Zealand field hockey player and coach († 2011 )
- May 16 : Haig Oundjian , British figure skater
- May 19 : Uwe Braunschweig , German handball player († 2013 )
- May 21 : Stefano Anzi , Italian entrepreneur and ski racer
- May 26 : Ricardo Arredondo , Mexican boxer († 1991 )
- May 29 : Gina Bovaird , American motorcycle racer
- May 30th : Hans Baumgartner , German athlete
June
- June 4th : Maria Canins , Italian cyclist, cross-country skier and mountain biker
- June 4th : Rainer Ulrich , German soccer player and coach
- June 5th : Frank Schubert , German enduro athlete
- June 7th : Albert Zweifel , Swiss cyclist
- June 8th : Hildegard Falck , German athlete
- June 10 : Simon Webb , British chess player († 2005 )
- June 15 : Klaus Havenstein , German football player (GDR)
- June 16 : Paulo César Lima , Brazilian soccer player ("Caju")
- June 18 : Anton Gorbunow , German long-distance runner
- June 19 : Hassan Shehata , Egyptian football coach
- June 25th : Patrick Tambay , French racing car driver
- June 27th : Michael Quaas , German handball trainer and handball player
- June 29 : Dan Dierdorf , American football player and sports presenter
July
- July 3rd : Bernard Robin , French racing car driver
- July 5 : Mohammed Ali Akid , Tunisian football player († 1979 )
- July 8th : Christina Heinich , German athlete
- July 18 : Jerzy Gorgoń , Polish football player
- July 21 : Lyudmila Smirnova , Russian figure skater
- July 22nd : Lasse Virén , Finnish athlete
- July 24th : Olga Karassjowa , Russian-Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion
- July 24 : Josef Pirrung , German football player († 2011 )
- July 27 : Bernt Jansen , German table tennis player
- July 27 : Predrag Timko , Yugoslav handball player
August
- August 2nd : Roy Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 2 : Louis Krages , German racing driver and businessman († 2001 )
- August 3 : Valery Vasilyev , Soviet ice hockey player († 2012 )
- August 5th : Helga Seidler , German athlete and Olympic champion
- August 6 : Horst Wohlers , German football player and coach
- August 10 : Jean-Claude Basso , French racing car driver
- August 14 : Morten Olsen , Danish football player and coach
- August 16 : Klaus Ehl , German athlete
- August 17th : Edgar Schneider , German soccer player
- August 19 : Alexander Lukyanov , Russian rower
- August 20 : Nikolai Ivanov , Russian rower and Olympic champion in four-man with helmsman († 2012 )
- August 24th : Natalja Lebedewa , Soviet-Russian hurdler
- August 24 : David Zwilling , Austrian ski racer
- August 28 : Svetislav Pešić , Serbian basketball player and coach
- August 28 : Conny Torstensson , Swedish football player
- August 31 : Olaf Berner , German teacher and handball player
September
- September 3 : José Pékerman , Argentinian football player
- September 9 : John Curry , British figure skater († 1994 )
- September 9 : Joe McNulty , American cross-country skier
- September 11th : Bill Whittington , American racing car driver
- September 12 : Irina Rodnina , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- September 15 : Michael Lameck , German soccer player
- September 16 : Franz-Josef Pauly , German football player
- September 18 : Peter Shilton , English football player
- September 20 : Carlos Babington , Argentinian soccer player
- September 22 : Harold Carmichael , American football player
- September 23 : Juan Manuel Asensi , Spanish soccer player
- September 24th : Donald Allan , Australian cyclist
- September 29 : Rolf Birkhölzer , German football player
- September 29th : Toni Mang , German motorcycle racer
- September 30th : Klaus Westebbe , German handball player
October
- October 2nd : Michael Bleekemolen , Dutch racing driver
- October 4th : Mike Adamle , American sports writer and American football player
- October 4th : Antonello Cuccureddu , Italian football player and coach
- October 5th : Klaus Ludwig , German automobile racing driver
- October 6 : Natalja Sokolowa , Soviet-Russian sprinter
- October 13 : Leif Andersson , Swedish wrestler
- October 13 : Patrick Nève , Belgian racing driver († 2017 )
- October 15 : Bilal Arular , Turkish football player and coach
- October 19 : Tatiana Anissimowa , Russian athlete and Olympian
- October 20 : Valery Borsov , Soviet athlete
- October 22nd : Butch Goring , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- October 22nd : Joël Gouhier , French racing car driver
- October 22nd : Arsène Wenger , French football coach
- October 28 : Bruce Jenner , American athlete, actor, and producer
- October 30th : Angelo Zadra , Italian racing driver
November
- November 1st : Bernhard Cullmann , German soccer player
- November 1st : Gunter Funk , German handball player and coach
- November 1st : Bruno Sotty , French racing car driver
- November 2nd : Hermann Ohlicher , German soccer player
- November 3rd : Roswitha Krause , German swimmer and handball player
- November 6th : Josef Angermüller , German motorcycle track racer († 1977 )
- November 7th : Peter Anders , German soccer player
- November 15 : Michael Meier , German football official
- November 17th : Thomas Hill , American hurdler
- November 18 : Sture Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- November 20th : Juha Mieto , Finnish cross-country skier
- November 24th : Renate Rudolph , German handball player
- November 27th : Otto Breg , Austrian bobsledder († 2010 )
- November 27th : Masanori Sekiya , Japanese racing car driver
- November 30th : Jean-Claude Justice , French racing car driver († 1999 )
December
- December 3 : John Akii-Bua , Ugandan athlete († 1997 )
- December 6th : Josef Wolfgruber , German enduro athlete
- December 7th : Heino Maulshagen , German soccer player († 2014 )
- December 17th : Wolfgang Böhme , German handball player and coach
- December 19 : Hans-Josef Kapellmann , German football player
- December 22nd : Manfred Burgsmüller , German soccer player
- December 22nd : Ray Guy , American football player
- December 24th : Willi Reimann , German soccer player and coach
- December 24th : Warwick Brown , Australian racing car driver
- December 26th : Keiji Matsumoto , Japanese racing car driver († 2015 )
- December 27 : Klaus Fischer , German soccer player and coach
- December 29 : Karl-Heinz Kalbfell , German automobile manager and racing driver († 2013 )
Day unknown
- Volker Wagner , German educator, athletics manager and trainer
Died
January to June
- January 16 : Gabriel Hatton , French racing car driver (* 1877 )
- January 19 : Herbert Drews , German motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
- January 28 : Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing car driver (* 1908 )
- February 6 : Georg Amberger , German athlete (* 1890 )
- April 18 : Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (* 1877 )
- May 4 : Valerio Bacigalupo , Italian football player (* 1924 )
- May 4th : Aldo Ballarin , Italian football player (* 1922 )
- May 4th : Dino Ballarin , Italian football player (* 1925 )
- May 4 : Émile Bongiorni , French football player (* 1921 )
- May 4th : Eusebio Castigliano , Italian football player (* 1921 )
- May 4 : Ernő Erbstein , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1898 )
- May 4 : Rubens Fadini , Italian football player (* 1927 )
- May 4 : Guglielmo Gabetto , Italian football player (* 1916 )
- May 4 : Roger Grava , Italian-French football player (* 1922 )
- May 4th : Giuseppe Grezar , Italian football player (* 1918 )
- May 4 : Leslie Lievesley , English football player and coach (* 1911 )
- May 4 : Ezio Loik , Italian football player (* 1919 )
- May 4th : Virgilio Maroso , Italian football player (* 1925 )
- May 4th : Danilo Martelli , Italian football player (* 1923 )
- May 4 : Valentino Mazzola , Italian football player (* 1919 )
- May 4 : Romeo Menti , Italian football player (* 1919 )
- May 4 : Piero Operto , Italian football player (* 1926 )
- May 4th : Franco Ossola , Italian football player (* 1921 )
- May 4 : Mario Rigamonti , Italian football player (* 1922 )
- May 4 : Július Schubert , Czechoslovak football player (* 1922 )
- May 5 : Carlo Felice Trossi , Italian racing driver (* 1908 )
- May : Willy Rosenstein , German pilot, fighter pilot and automobile racing driver (* 1892 )
- June 4th : Miel van Leijden , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
- June 17th : Arvo Aaltonen , Finnish swimmer (* 1889 )
July to December
- July 17th : Miel Mundt , Dutch football player (* 1880 )
- August 8 : Richard Watney , British racing driver and businessman (* 1904 )
- August 18 : József Viola , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1896 )
- October 15 : Karl Howell Behr , American tennis player and banker and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (* 1885 )
- October 22 : Agne Holmström , Swedish sprinter (* 1893 )
- October 22 : Henry Slocum , American tennis player (* 1862 )
- October 28 : Marcel Cerdan , French professional boxer and world champion in the middleweight division (* 1916 )
- November 12th : Johannes Runge , German athlete and sports official (* 1878 )
- November 28th : Pierre Bacqueyrisses , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1893 )
See also
Web links
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