Sports year 1950
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Other events
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1950 were the All England , Denmark Open , Irish Open , Scottish Open and French Open . National championships were held for the first time in Iceland.
International events
athletics
- March 31 - Emil Zátopek , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 29: 02.6 minutes.
- May 19 - Imre Németh , Hungary , threw the men's hammer throw 59.88 m.
- June 19 - Imre Németh , Hungary , reached 59.88 m in the men's hammer throw.
- June 28 - Jim Fuchs , USA , reached 17.82 m in the men's shot put.
- July 10 - Dick Attlesey , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.5 seconds.
- July 17 - Jewdokija Wassiljewa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters 2: 13.0 min.
- July 30th - Bob Mathias , USA , scored 8042 points in the men's decathlon.
- August 17th - Jewdokija Wassiljewa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 13.0 minutes.
- August 22 - George Rhoden , Jamaica , ran the men's 400 meters in 45.8 seconds.
- August 22nd - Jim Fuchs , USA , hit 17.95 m in the men's shot put.
- August 24 - Richard Attlesey , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.6 seconds.
- September 12 - Jim Fuchs , USA , reached 17.9 m in the men's shot put.
- September 18 - Mal Whitfield , USA , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 49.2 minutes.
- September 29 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva , Brazil , reached 16.00 m in the men's triple jump.
- October 21 - George Rhoden , Jamaica , ran the men's 400 meters in 45.8 seconds.
- October 21 - Jim Fuchs , USA , reached 17.95 m in the men's shot put.
- November 9 - Anna Andrejewa , Soviet Union , hit 15.02 m in the women's shot put.
Motorsport
Motorcycling
Motorcycle world championship
By the FIM advertised motorcycle world championship was between June 5 and September 10 held.
500 cc class
24-year-old Gilera factory driver Umberto Masetti from Italy is world champion in the 500 cc class . The two Britons Geoff Duke ( Norton ) and Leslie Graham ( AJS ) follow in second and third place . In the constructors' championship, Norton wins against Gilera and AJS.
350 cm³ class
In the 350 cm³ class, 39-year-old Brit Bob Foster won the title on a Velocette . Second was his compatriot Geoff Duke in a Norton , and third was AJS pilot Leslie Graham (also Great Britain). In the constructors' championship, Velocette wins ahead of AJS and Norton.
250 cc class
The 32-year-old Italian Dario Ambrosini ( Benelli ) won the title in the 250 cc class, ahead of the British Maurice Cann and Bruno Ruffo (Italy) - both on Moto Guzzi . In the constructors' championship, Benelli prevailed ahead of Moto Guzzi and Velocette .
125 cc class
29-year-old FB Mondial factory driver Bruno Ruffo is world champion in the 125 cm³ class . Second place is shared by his compatriots and teammates Gianni Leoni and Carlo Ubbiali . In the constructors' championship, FB Mondial prevailed against Morini and MV Agusta .
Team class (600 cm³)
The British-Italian duo Eric Oliver / Lorenzo Dobelli on Norton becomes world champion in the sidecar . The Italians Ercole Frigerio / Ezio Ricotti on Gilera follow in second place, the Swiss Hans Haldemann / Josef Albisser on Norton third . Oliver was the first rider in the history of the motorcycle world championship to defend his title. Norton wins the constructors' championship ahead of Gilera and FN .
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Hermann Paul Müller ( DKW , 125 cm³), Hermann Gablenz ( Parilla , 250 cm³), Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU , 350 cm³), Georg Meier ( BMW , 500 cm³), Hermann Böhm / Karl Fuchs ( NSU , team 600 cm³) and Wiggerl Kraus / Bernhard Huser ( BMW , sidecar 1000 cm³).
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1950 January 29th to February 5th in Budapest (Hungary)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- January 24th: Gelsenkirchen: D. - Sweden 4: 5 (men)
- December 5: Kalmar: D. - Sweden 1: 5 (men)
Born
January
- January 2 : Yevgeny Jewsjukov , Soviet walker
- January 2 : Johannes Riedl , German soccer player († 2010 )
- January 10 : Winfried Schäfer , German football coach
- January 12th : Sinaida Amossova , Russian cross-country skier
- January 12th : Heinrich Fischer , Swiss rower
- January 13th : Wolfgang Holzhäuser , German football official
- January 15th : Uli Frommer , German soccer player
- January 15 : Rudi Rauer , German handball player († 2014 )
- January 18 : Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1 racing driver († 1982 )
- January 21 : Marion Becker , German athlete
- January 26 : Ivan Hlinka , Czech ice hockey player and coach († 2004 )
- January 28th : Heinz Wewering , German harness racing driver and trainer
- January 31 : Nikolai Kruglow , Soviet biathlete and 1976 Olympic champion
- January 31 : Leili Pärnpuu , Estonian chess player
February
- February 6 : René Fasel , Swiss ice hockey player, President of the IIHF
- February 6 : Paul Gentilozzi , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- February 7th : Mauro Bellugi , Italian soccer player
- February 7th : Marilyn Cochran , American ski racer
- February 8 : Jochen Leiß , German table tennis player
- February 10 : Horst Spengler , German handball player and coach
- February 10 : Mark Spitz , American swimmer, Olympic champion
- February 11 : Yevgeny Sveshnikov , Russian-Latvian chess master
- February 19 : Takanohana Kenshi , Japanese sumo wrestler († 2005 )
- February 20 : Ruslan Ashuraliyev , Soviet wrestler († 2009 )
- February 22 : Julius Erving , American basketball player
- February 22nd : Simon Schobel , Romanian-German handball player and coach
- February 25 : Francisco Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer († 2006 )
March
- March 3 : Peter Lovett , British racing car driver
- March 6th : Walter Vesti , Swiss ski racer
- March 9 : Danny Sullivan , American racing car driver
- March 10th : Karlheinz Klotz , German athlete
- March 12th : Manfred Jäger , German enduro athlete
- March 16 : Joe Bugner , Hungarian-English-Australian heavyweight boxer
- March 18 : Larry Perkins , Australian racing car driver
- March 19 : Tatyana Ovechkina , Soviet basketball player
- March 27 : David Edgar , American swimmer and Olympic champion
- March 28 : Roland Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
- March 31 : András Adorján , Hungarian chess player
April
- April 1 : Paolo Conti , Italian football player
- April 1 : Loris Kessel , Swiss racing driver († 2010 )
- April 3 : Vera Krasnova , Soviet-Russian speed skater
- April 6 : Nelson Dawidjan , Soviet wrestler († 2016 )
- April 7th : Franz Wittmann sen. , Austrian rally driver
- April 8th : Grzegorz Lato , Polish football player
- April 12th : Flavio Briatore , Italian Formula 1 team boss
- April 19 : Harald Hein , German fencer († 2008 )
- April 20 : Humberto Coelho , Portuguese football player and coach
- April 27 : Paolino Pulici , Italian football player
May
- May 4th : Valery Dvoinikov , Soviet-Russian sambo fighter and judoka
- May 6 : Stelian Moculescu , coach of the German men's national volleyball team
- May 6 : Rainer Potschak , German football player
- May 7 : John Coates , Australian lawyer and sports official
- May 9 : Luciano Spinosi , Italian football player
- May 12th : Renate Stecher , German athlete
- May 19 : Tadeusz Ślusarski , Polish athlete († 1998 )
- May 20th : Ray Bellm , British racing car driver
- May 22 : Michio Ashikaga , Japanese soccer player
- May 23 : Alexander Klepikow , Soviet-Russian rower and 1976 Olympic champion
- May 25 : Yevgeny Kulikov , Soviet-Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
- May 30th : Peter van Roye , German rower
June
- June 1st : Roger Van Gool , Belgian football player
- June 3 : Yuri Ovchinnikov , Soviet-Russian figure skater
- June 5th : Avi Assouly , French football player, sports journalist and politician
- June 5 : Viktor Novoshilov , Soviet-Russian wrestler († 1991 )
- June 9th : Angelika Buck , German figure skater
- June 10 : Hans Hugenholtz Junior , Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur
- June 13 : Gerd Zewe , German soccer player
- June 18 : Annelie Ehrhardt , German athlete
- June 23 : Dave Butz , American football player
- June 25 : Tatjana Awerina , Soviet-Russian speed skater († 2001 )
- June 25 : Uğur Erdener , Turkish sports official
- June 26th : Klaus Schlagheck , German handball player
July
- July 1st : Reinhard Mirmseker , German figure skater
- July 6th : Hans-Joachim Andree , German soccer player
- July 6 : Rainer Osmann , German handball player and trainer
- July 9 : Adriano Panatta , Italian tennis player
- July 19 : Craig Siebert , American racing driver († 1999 )
- July 26 : Nelinho , Brazilian soccer player
- July 29th : Maricica Puică , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
- July 29th : Radu Voina , Romanian handball player and coach
- July 31st : Gérard Tremblay , French racing driver
August
- August 1 : Roy Williams , American basketball coach
- August 3rd : Waldemar Cierpinski , German marathon runner
- August 4th : István Jónyer , Hungarian table tennis player
- August 5th : Galina Mischenina , Soviet-Russian rower
- August 5th : Rosi Mittermaier , German ski racer
- August 5th : Frank Terletzki , German soccer player
- August 7th : Éric Graham , French racing car driver
- August 7th : Dave Wottle , American middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- August 12 : George McGinnis , American basketball player
- August 12 : Alexander Sidelnikow , Russian-Soviet national ice hockey goalkeeper († 2003 )
- August 15 : Erwin Stricker , Italian ski racer and entrepreneur († 2010 )
- August 16 : Hasely Crawford , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
- August 16 : Wiltrud Drexel , Austrian ski racer
- August 18th : Jerry Martin , American ski jumper
- August 20 : Petra Kandarr , German sprinter († 2017 )
- August 23 : Luigi Delneri , Italian football player and coach
- August 24th : Andrei Jakubik , Russian football player
September
- September 1st : Stefan Junge , German athlete
- September 1st : Per-Inge Walfridsson , Swedish car athlete
- September 2nd : Zvonimir Serdarušić , German handball coach
- September 6 : Uwe Kagelmann , German figure skater
- September 7th : Farchat Mustafin , Soviet wrestler, multiple world and European champion and bronze medal winner at the 1976 Olympic Games
- September 7th : Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva , Brazilian soccer player and journalist († 2016 )
- September 11th : Barry Sheene , British motorcycle racer († 2003 )
- September 13 : Peter Larisch , German handball player
- September 19 : André Lombard , Swiss chess player
- September 23 : Carlos Kirmayr , Brazilian tennis player
- September 23 : Dietmar Lorenz , German judo Olympic champion 1980
- September 24th : Philippe Dermagne , French racing car driver
- September 26 : Bärbel Struppert , German athlete
- September 30th : Mariano García Remón , Spanish football coach
October
- October 3 : Andrzej Szarmach , Polish football player and coach
- October 3 : Siegfried Voigt , German handball player
- October 4th : Klaus Scheer , German soccer player
- October 5th : Hugo Hovenkamp , Dutch football player
- October 8 : Miguel Brindisi , Argentinian soccer player
- October 10 : Takashi Yorino , Japanese racing car driver
- October 12 : Roland Asch , German racing driver
- October 13 : Annegret Richter , German athlete
- October 13 : Rolf Rüssmann , German football player and manager († 2009 )
- October 14 : Kurt Jara , Austrian football player and coach
- October 16 : Viktor Rashchupkin , Russian discus thrower and Olympic champion
- October 17th : Erich Kühnhackl , German ice hockey player and coach
- October 21 : Riccardo Agusta , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver († 2018 )
- October 23 : Lothar Doering , German handball player and trainer
- October 24 : Bert Pronk , Dutch cyclist († 2005 )
November
- November 2nd : Ljubomir Ljubojević , Serbian chess player
- November 2nd : Jürgen Wilhelm , German soccer player
- November 6th : Lothar Kurbjuweit , German soccer player and coach
- November 7th : Robert Redl , German soccer player († 2016 )
- November 11th : Pierre Pagani , French racing car driver
- November 12th : Ulrich Schulze , German chess player
- November 15 : John Vande Velde , American track cyclist and sports official
- November 16 : Harvey Martin , American football player († 2001 )
- November 17 : Roland Matthes , German swimmer, world record holder and four-time Olympic champion in swimming († 2019 )
- November 21 : Alberto Juantorena , Cuban athlete
- November 21 : Gennadij Karponossow , Russian figure skater
- November 26th : Dieter Burdenski , German soccer player
- November 28 : George Yonashiro , Japanese soccer player
- November 29th : Jean-François Baldé , French motorcycle racer
- November 29th : Dietmar Danner , German soccer player
- November 30th : Wolfgang Niersbach , German sports journalist and football official
December
- December 6th : Guy Drut , French athlete
- December 6th : Chris Hodgetts , British racing car driver
- December 14th : Christiane Krause , German athlete
- December 15th : Alain Flotard , French racing car driver
- December 19 : Hans-Jürgen Andexer , German soccer player
- December 19 : Walter Frosch , German football player († 2013 )
- December 19 : Imerio Testori , Italian motorcycle racer († 1976 )
- December 22nd : Roland Stegmayer , German soccer player
- December 23 : Vicente del Bosque , Spanish football coach and football player
- December 23 : Axel Kählert , German handball player
- December 24th : Jürgen Achtel , German soccer player
- December 27th : Nadezhda Besfamilnaja , Soviet-Russian sprinter
- December 27 : Roberto Bettega , Italian football player
- December 28 : Nikolai Yuryevich Anfimov , Soviet boxer
- December 31 : Inge Helten , German athlete
Died
- February 8 : Ralph Roese , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1900 )
- July 3 : David Whitworth , British motorcycle racer (* 1904 )
- September 8 : Victor Hémery , French racing car driver (* 1876 )
- September 10 : Raymond Sommer , French racing car driver (* 1906 )
- September 10 : Piet Valkenburg , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- October 10 : Josef Straßberger , German weightlifter and Olympic champion (* 1894 )
- November 2 : Piet van Wijngaarden , Dutch motorcycle racer (* 1898 )
- November 12 : Lesley T. Ashburner , American hurdler (* 1883 )
- December 6th : Pietro Lana , Italian football player (* 1888 )
- December 30th : Billy Burch , American ice hockey player (* 1900 )