Sports year 1953
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badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1953 were the All England , the Denmark Open , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open . National championships were held for the first time in Germany, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka.
International events
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athletics
- April 27th - Nina Otkalenko , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 07.3 minutes.
- May 5th - Sverre Strandli , Norway , reached 62.36 m in the men's hammer throw.
- May 9 - Parry O'Brien , USA , hit 18 yards in the men's shot put.
- May 20 - Yuri Litujew , Soviet Union , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 50.4 seconds.
- June 1st - Emil Zátopek , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 29: 01.6 minutes.
- June 13 - Jim Peters , Great Britain , ran the men's marathon in 2:18:41 hours.
- June 27 - Walter Davis , USA , jumped 2.12 m in the men's high jump.
- July 5 - Parry O'Brien , USA , reached 18.04 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 9 - Parry O'Brien , USA , reached 18.00 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 19 - Leonid Shcherbakov , Soviet Union , reached 16.23 m in the men's triple jump.
- July 20 - Sam Iness , USA , reached 57.93 m in the men's discus throw.
- July 27 - Walter Davis , USA , reached 2.12 m in the men's high jump.
- August 8 - Bud Held , USA , threw the men's javelin 80.41 m.
- August 11th - Fortune Gordien , USA , reached 58.1 m in the men's discus throw.
- August 17th - Mal Whitfield , USA , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 48.6 minutes.
- August 22 - Fortune Gordien , USA , threw the discus in the men's 59.28 m discipline.
- September 7th - Bud Held , USA , reached 80.41 m in the men's javelin throw.
- September 20 - Yuri Litujew , Soviet Union , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 50.4 seconds.
- September 21 - Fortune Gordien , USA , reached 59.28 m in the men's discus throw.
- October 9 - Galina Zybina , Soviet Union , hit 16.2 m in the women's shot put.
- Josef Doležal , Czechoslovakia , went in the men's 50,000 meter walk in 4:23:14 h.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1953 March 20th to 29th in Bucharest (Romania)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- 9 January: Strasbourg: D. 0-5 France (men)
- January 21: Berlin: D. - France 3: 2 (men)
- March 5: Munich: D. - Brazil 5-3 (men)
- March 10: Copenhagen: D. - Denmark 5-0 (men)
- March 10: Copenhagen: D. - Denmark 3-0 (women)
- April 4: Ludwigshafen: D. - Sweden 2: 5 (men)
- April 19: Ettelbrück: D. - Luxembourg 5-3 (men)
- August 30: Deventer: D. 6-3 Netherlands (men)
- August 30: Deventer: D. 6-3 Netherlands (women)
- October 28: Belgrade: D. - Yugoslavia 2: 3 (women)
- October: Belgrade: D. - Yugoslavia 1: 3 (men)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Jürgen Rohde , German handball goalkeeper
- January 5 : Wassilij Solomin , Russian-Soviet boxer († 1997 )
- January 5th : Alison Owen-Spencer , American cross-country skier
- January 6th : Manfred Kaltz , German soccer player and national player
- January 7th : Dieter Hoeneß , German soccer player and manager
- January 10th : Guido Kratschmer , German athlete
- January 14th : Gunter Amler , German soccer player
- January 15 : Randy White , American football player
- January 19 : Jürgen Gelsdorf , German soccer player and coach
- January 22nd : Winfried Berkemeier , German soccer player
- January 23 : Raul Arnemann , Soviet rower
- January 26 : Robertas Sutkus , Lithuanian chess grandmaster in correspondence chess († 2008 )
- January 31 : Louis Wright , American football player
February
- February 1st : Christian Geistdörfer , German motor sportsman
- February 1 : Jerzy Potz , Polish ice hockey player and coach († 2000 )
- February 2 : Vladimir Kovalev , Russian-Soviet figure skater
- February 5th : Peter Arntz , Dutch soccer player
- February 5 : Alexej Woltschenkow , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player († 2011 )
- February 7 : Robert Brazile , American football player
- February 9 : Vito Antuofermo , Italian professional boxer
- February 12th : Irene Abel , German gymnast
- February 12 : Helmut Wechselberger , Austrian cyclist
- February 14th : Hans Krankl , Austrian football player, singer
- February 17th : Thom Åhlund , Swedish football player
- February 17th : Bernard Chauvin , French racing car driver
- February 20 : Reinhard van der Heusen , German handball player
- February 23 : Satoru Nakajima , Japanese Formula 1 driver
- February 26 : Héctor Resola , Uruguayan football player
March
- March 1st : Rolf Danneberg , German athlete
- March 3rd : Zico , Brazilian soccer player, coach of the Japanese national soccer team
- March 4 : Lothar Kremershof , German ice hockey player († 2003 )
- March 4th : Reinhold Roth , German motorcycle racer
- March 7th : Guy Abrahams , Panamanian sprinter
- March 11th : László Bölöni , Romanian football player and coach
- March 16 : Rainer Knaak , German chess player
- March 19 : Hans Rinn , German luge rider
- March 22nd : Vladimir Trofimenko , Russian athlete († 1994 )
- March 22 : Lorenzo Unanue , Uruguayan soccer player
- March 25 : Christos Ardizoglou , Greek football player
- March 26th : Tatiana Prowidochina , Russian middle-distance runner
- March 27th : Annemarie Moser-Pröll , Austrian skier
April
- April 2 : Will Hoy , British racing car driver († 2002 )
- April 5 : Salman Chassimikov , Soviet wrestler
- April 10 : David Moorcroft , British athlete
- April 11th : Lyubov Burda , Soviet gymnast
- April 11th : Elvira Possekel , German athlete
- April 12th : Anne Abernathy , Luge Luge from the US Virgin Islands
- April 19 : Sara Simeoni , Italian athlete
- April 20 : Serge Aubey , French cyclist
- April 22nd : Alain Oreille , French rally driver
- April 23 : Jerzy Klempel , Polish handball player († 2004 )
- April 23 : Liane Michaelis , German handball player
- April 24th : Naoki Nagasaka , Japanese racing car driver
- April 27 : Pat Hennen , American motorcycle racer
- April 30th : Peter Maulshagen , German soccer player
May
- May 1 : Mayumi Aoki , Japanese swimmer
- May 6th : Graeme Souness , Scottish football player and coach
- May 8 : Walter Krause , German national soccer player
- May 8 : Hartmut Krüger , German handball player and trainer
- May 13th : Georg Zipfel , German cross-country skier, Olympic participant and ex-national trainer
- May 15th : Jacques Cornu , Swiss motorcycle racer
- May 15 : Franco Selvaggi , Italian football player
- May 18 : Richard Boczkowski , German handball player
- May 19 : Alain Iannetta , French racing car driver
- May 20 : Roland Gerber , German football player († 2015 )
- May 20 : Dick Decloe , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 22 : Cha Bum-kun , South Korean soccer player
- May 23 : Enzo Trossero , Argentine soccer player and coach
- May 25 : Daniel Passarella , Argentine soccer player
- May 25 : Gaetano Scirea , Italian football player († 1989 )
June
- June 1st : Liv Arnesen , Norwegian cross-country skier and adventurer
- June 1st : Caspar Memering , German soccer player
- June 4th : Walter Novellino , Italian football player and coach
- June 7th : Peter Ascherl , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- June 11 : Vera Komissova , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- June 13 : Gustav Reiner , German motorcycle racer († 2007 )
- June 15 : Eje Elgh , Swedish racing car driver
- June 21 : Gábor Gergely , Hungarian table tennis player
- June 24th : Takao Wada , Japanese racing car driver
July
- July 1 : Mike Haynes , American football player
- July 8 : Rick Knoop , American racing car driver
- July 10 : Ron Andruff , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 19 : René Houseman , Argentinian football player († 2018 )
- July 19 : John Murphy , American swimmer
- July 19 : Silvia Siefert , German handball player
- July 21 : Thomas Emmrich , German tennis player
- July 21 : Harald Nickel , German football player († 2019 )
- July 22nd : Peter Ehmke , German soccer player
- July 22nd : René Vandereycken , Belgian football player and coach
- July 23 : Matthias Brücken , German soccer player
- July 25 : Valery Dolinin , Russian-Soviet rower
- July 26th : Felix Magath , German soccer coach and player
- July 31 : Hans-Otto Pingel , German track athlete
August
- August 2nd : Peter-Michael Kolbe , German rower
- August 6 : Karl Anderson , American ski racer
- August 8th : Rolf Beilschmidt , German athlete
- August 8th : Nigel Mansell , British racing driver
- August 9 : Walter Smuch , German handball trainer and handball player
- August 11 : Hulk Hogan , American wrestler and actor
- August 13 : Carla Bodendorf , German athlete
- August 14 : Hany Abo Rida , Egyptian football official
- August 14 : Norbert Ziegler , German soccer player
- August 15 : Joaquín Montañés , Spanish-German soccer player
- August 24th : Elfi Zinn , German athlete
- August 27 : Jørn Didriksen , Norwegian speed skater
- August 28 : Ditmar Jakobs , German soccer player
- August 31 : Miguel Ángel Guerra , Argentine racing car driver
September
- September 3 : Günther Thomae , German volleyball player, national and world selection player
- September 4th : Fatih Terim , Turkish football player and coach
- September 6 : Renato Antonioli , Italian ski racer
- September 8 : Nikolaj Kolesnikow , Russian-Soviet sprinter
- September 12 : Terry Porter , American cross-country skier
- September 15th : Manuel Mello-Breyner , Portuguese racing driver and motorsport official
- September 20 : Renato Curi , Italian football player († 1977 )
- September 20th : Ricardo Moar , Spanish football official
- September 25th : Jean-Philippe Grand , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- September 27 : Claudio Gentile , Italian football player and coach
October
- October 1 : Grete Waitz , Norwegian athlete and sports legend († 2011 )
- October 3rd : Cornelia Bürki , Swiss athlete
- October 5th : Pierre de Thoisy , French racing car driver
- October 7 : Ronald Worm , German soccer player
- October 9 : Helmut Roleder , German soccer player
- October 14 : Aldo Maldera , Italian football player († 2012 )
- October 16 : Falcão , Brazilian soccer player
- October 24th : Christoph Daum , German soccer coach
- October 30 : Vincenzo Guerini , Italian football player, coach and official
November
- November 3rd : Jürgen Straub , German athlete
- November 5th : Dennis Andries , Guyanese boxer
- November 7th : Ursula Kamizuru , German table tennis player († 2008 )
- November 7th : Alexander Romankow , Soviet foil fencer, Olympic champion and twelve-time world champion
- November 9 : David Leslie , British racing driver and television commentator († 2008 )
- November 13 : Charles Tickner , American figure skater
- November 14 : Igor Bobrin , Russian-Soviet figure skater
- November 14th : Herbert Neumann , German soccer player and coach
- November 17th : Ulrike Bruns , German athlete
- November 17th : Sergei Makarychev , Russian chess player
- November 19 : Mikhail An , Soviet football player († 1979 )
- November 21 : René Weller , German boxer
- November 25th : Herbert Breiteneder , Austrian racing driver († 2008 )
- November 25th : Wolfgang Stolz , German handball player
- November 28 : Ewald Lienen , German soccer coach and soccer player
- November 28 : Nadija Olisarenko , Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion († 2017 )
- November 29th : Huub Stevens , Dutch football coach
December
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- December 3rd : Franz Klammer , Austrian ski racer
- December 4th : Jean-Marie Pfaff , Belgian football player
- December 6th : Rolf Brack , German handball player and handball trainer
- December 8th : Władysław Kozakiewicz , Polish athlete
- December 10 : Rainer Adrion , German soccer coach and soccer player
- December 10th : Friedhelm Funkel , German soccer player and soccer coach
- December 11 : Arno Ehret , German handball player and trainer
- December 17th : Alexander Beliavsky , Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master
- December 23 : Wieland Schmidt , German handball goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach
- December 25th : Jürgen Röber , German soccer player and coach
- December 26 : Vladimir Lobanov , Russian speed skater († 2007 )
- December 26th : Dieter Waltke , German handball player
- December 28 : Steffen Mauersberger , German enduro athlete († 2000 )
- December 29th : Thomas Bach , German lawyer, fencer, Olympic champion and sports official
- December 30th : Bill Kazmaier , American powerlifter, world strongman champion and professional wrestler
- December 31st : Frédéric Da Rocha , French racing driver
Died
January to June
- February 4th : Antonio Conte , Italian fencer (* 1867 )
- March 2 : James Lightbody , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1882 )
- March 28 : Jim Thorpe , American athlete (* 1887 )
- March 31 : Jan Akkersdijk , Dutch football player (* 1887 )
- April 9 : Emile Aerts , Belgian track cyclist (* 1892 )
- May 30th : Carl Scarborough , American racing driver (* 1914 )
- June 5 : Bill Tilden , American tennis player (* 1893 )
- June 7th : Pierre Boncompagni , French racing driver (* 1913 )
- June 12 : Leslie Graham , British motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
- June 25 : Antonio Abenoza , Spanish football player (* 1926 )
July to December
- July 11th : Oliver Campbell , American tennis player (* 1871 )
- July 31 : Georg Zacharias , German swimmer (* 1886 )
- August 11 : Tazio Nuvolari , Italian racing driver (* 1892 )
- August 12 : Bobby Kohlrausch , German racing car driver (* 1904 )
- August 13 : Géza Nagy , Hungarian chess player (* 1892 )
- 23 August : Gottfried Hinze , German football functionary (* 1873 )
- September 28 : Charles Chadwick , American athlete (* 1874 )
- October 15 : Helene Mayer , German fencer (* 1910 )
- November 21 : Felice Bonetto , Italian racing driver (* 1903 )
- December 13 : Kurt Diemer , German football player (* 1893 )
See also
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