Sports year 1955
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1955 was the Thomas Cup with the winner Malaya as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open . National championships were held for the first time in Finland and Switzerland.
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
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| All of England |
 Wong Peng Soon
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 Margaret Varner
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 Finn Kobberø Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen
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 Iris Rogers June White
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Finn Kobberø Kirsten Thorndahl
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| French Open |
 SD McLean
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A. Thirst
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 Pierre Lenoir Ghislain Vasseur
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Yvonne Girard Mireille Laurent
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SD McLean H. Laing
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| Malaysia Open |
 Ferry Sonneville
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 Cecilia Samuel
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Cecilia Samuel Phua Yoke Chin
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Jørgen Hammergaard Hansen Amy Choong
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athletics
- March 16 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva , Brazil , jumped 16.56 m in the men's triple jump.
- March 18 - Lou Jones , USA , ran the men's 400m in 45.4 seconds.
- March 24th - Nina Otkalenko , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 m in 2: 05.0 min.
- April 4 - Shirley de la Hunty , Australia , ran the womens 100m for 11.3s.
- April 4 - Mikhail Kriwonosow , Soviet Union , reached 64.33 m in the men's hammer throw.
- May 19 - Mikhail Kriwonosow , Soviet Union , reached 64.52 m in the men's hammer throw.
- May 23 - Sándor Iharos , Hungary , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 40.6 minutes.
- June 10 - Sándor Iharos , Hungary , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 50.8 minutes.
- June 16 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Brazil , reached 16.56 m in the men's triple jump.
- June 17 - Anatoly Jegorow , Soviet Union , completed the men's 50 km in 4:07:29 h.
- June 18 - Galina Vinogradowa , Soviet Union , reached 6.31 m in the women's long jump.
- June 21 - Bud Held , USA , reached 81.75 m in the men's javelin throw.
- June 26th - Lonnie Spurrier , USA , ran the men's 880 yards in 1: 47.5 minutes.
- July 11 - Rafer Johnson , USA , scored 7985 points in the men's decathlon.
- July 28 - Sándor Iharos , Hungary , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 40.8 minutes.
- August 3 - Roger Moens , Belgium , ran the men's 800 m in 1: 45.7 minutes.
- August 4th - Shirley Strickland , Australia , ran the womens 100m 11.3s.
- August 15th - Pentti Karvonen , Finland , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 8: 45.4 minutes.
- August 28 - Sándor Iharos , Hungary , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 40.8 minutes.
- September 6 - Gunnar Nielsen , Denmark , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 40.8 minutes.
- September 6th - László Tábori , Hungary , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 40.8 minutes.
- September 18 - Wladimir Kuz , Soviet Union , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 46.8 min.
- September 24th - Nina Otkalenko , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 m 2: 05.0 min.
- October 17th - Wassili W Lassenko , Soviet Union , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 8: 45.4 minutes.
- October 18 - Wladimir Kuz , Soviet Union , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 46.8 min.
- November 30th - Jerzy Chromik , Poland , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 8: 41.2 minutes.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1955 April 16th to 24th in Utrecht (Netherlands)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March 24th: Munich: D. - CSSR 3: 5 (men)
- October 12: Prague: D. - CSSR 0: 3 (women)
- November 6th: Agram: D. - Yugoslavia 3-2 (women)
- December 2: Skara: D. 2-3 Sweden (women)
- December 10: Würzburg: D. - Austria 2: 3 (women)
- December 10: Würzburg: D. - Austria 5-2 (men)
- Prague: D. - CSSR 1: 5 (men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Ekrem Al , Turkish football coach
- January 2nd : Lars Bock , Danish handball player
- January 6th : Ajayi Agbebaku , Nigerian athlete
- January 10 : Choren Ohanessjan , Soviet-Armenian football player
- January 11 : Günther Schubert , German football player († 2002 )
- January 12th : Hans-Joachim Hartnick , German cyclist and trainer
- January 15 : Mike Baldwin , American motorcycle racer
- January 16 : Klaus-Dieter Kurrat , German athlete
- January 19 : Uwe Reinders , German soccer player and coach
- January 21 : Nikolina Schterewa , Bulgarian athlete
- January 21 : Peter Fleming , American tennis player
- January 22nd : Sonja Morgenstern , German figure skater and trainer
- January 25 : Rick Adduono , Canadian ice hockey coach and player
February
- February 3 : Bruno Pezzey , Austrian football player († 1994 )
- February 5 : Adán Machado , Uruguayan football player and coach
- February 5th : Markus Ryffel , Swiss long-distance runner
- February 9 : Wolfgang Jerat , German soccer coach
- February 10 : Chris Adams , English wrestler and judoka († 2001 )
- February 17th : Tom Dodd-Noble , British racing car driver
- February 20th : Tim Lee-Davey , British racing driver and team owner
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- February 24th : Alain Prost , French Formula 1 racing driver
- February 26 : Rupert Keegan , British racing car driver
March
- March 4th : James Weaver , British racing car driver
- March 6th : Horst Appel , German weightlifter
- March 6th : Jesús Pareja , Spanish racing car driver
- March 6th : Brigitte Wujak , German athlete
- March 8 : Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player († 1981 )
- March 9 : Teo Fabi , Italian ski racer and automobile racing driver
- March 9th : Franco Uncini , Italian motorcycle racer
- March 10 : Claus Fey , German handball player
- March 10 : Toshio Suzuki , Japanese racing car driver
- March 13 : Sinetula Biljaletdinow , Russian ice hockey player and coach of Tatar origin
- March 13 : Bruno Conti , Italian football player and coach
- March 13 : Olga Rukawischnikowa , Soviet-Russian athlete
- March 14th : Daniel Bertoni , Argentinian soccer player
- March 19 : Muhedin Targaj , Albanian football player
- March 21 : Bärbel Eckert , German athlete and multiple Olympic champion (GDR)
- March 22nd : Doris Kresimon , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Andreas Rudolph , German entrepreneur, handball official and handball player
- March 23 : Moses Malone , American basketball player († 2015 )
- March 24th : Michael Kutzop , German soccer player
- March 24th : Candy Reynolds , American tennis player
- March 27 : Christian Sarron , French motorcycle racer
April
- April 1st : Matthias Behr , German foil fencer
- April 1st : Roberto Pruzzo , Italian football player and coach
- April 1st : Pascal Witmeur , Belgian racing driver
- April 4th : Manfred Nimtz , German chess grandmaster in correspondence chess
- April 6 : Karsten Heine , German football player and coach
- April 6th : Ralf Knütter , German athlete
- April 8 : Mike Nelms , American football player
- April 10th : Marit Breivik , Norwegian handball player and coach
- April 11th : Michel Neugarten , Belgian racing driver
- April 12 : Eraldo Pecci , Italian football player
- April 14 : Ana Ambrazienė , Soviet-Lithuanian hurdler
- April 21 : Teimuras Apchasawa , Georgian wrestler
- April 23 : Tony Miles , British chess master († 2001 )
- April 25 : John Nunn , English chess player and theorist
- April 26th : Peter Neururer , German soccer coach
May
- May 3rd : August Auinger , Austrian motorcycle racer
- May 8 : Ásgeir Sigurvinsson , Icelandic football player
- May 11 : Rainer Niemeyer , German handball player († 2016 )
- May 12 : Natalja Achrimenko , Russian shot putter
- May 14 : Leon White , American wrestler († 2018 )
- May 15 : Alexander Pusch , German sword fencer
- May 16 : Olga Korbut , Soviet gymnast of Belarusian origin
- May 20 : Karl-Heinz Geils , German soccer player
- May 21 : Udo Kießling , German ice hockey player
- May 26th : Paul Stoddart , Australian Formula 1 racing team owner
- May 29 : Frank Baumgartl , German athlete († 2010 )
- May 29th : Frank Wartenberg , German athlete
- May 31 : Sergei Tschuchrai , Soviet-Russian canoeist and three-time Olympic champion
June
- June 1 : Chiyonofuji Mitsugu , Japanese sumo wrestler and 58th yokozuna († 2016 )
- June 1st : Lorraine Moller , New Zealand athlete
- June 2 : Alexander Savyalov , Soviet-Russian cross-country skier
- June 8 : José Antonio Camacho , Spanish football player and coach
- June 9 : David Lee Armstrong , American boxer
- June 10 : Prakash Padukone , Indian badminton player
- June 16 : Patrizio Sala , Italian football player and coach
- June 21 : Michel Platini , French football player and official
- June 23 : Jean Tigana , French football player
- June 26th : Philippe Streiff , French racing car driver
- June 28th : Elmira Korjunovna Antonyan , Soviet-Armenian table tennis player
- June 28 : Nikolai Simjatow , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
July
- July 1st : Christian Estrosi , French motorcycle racer and politician
- July 3rd : Sylvain Boulay , French racing car driver
- July 3 : Irina Moissejewa , Soviet-Russian figure skater
- July 5 : Peter McNamara , Australian tennis player († 2019 )
- July 7 : Sergei Petrenko , Russian football player and coach
- July 12th : Gabriele Askamp , German swimmer
- July 21 : Marcelo Bielsa , Argentine soccer player
- July 27 : Allan Border , Australian cricketer
- July 28th : Vasile Andrei , Romanian wrestler and Olympic champion
August
- August 2nd : Nelson Agresta , Uruguayan football player and coach
- August 8 : Herbert Prohaska , Austrian football player
- August 9 : Udo Beyer , German shot putter
- August 15 : Uli Spieß , Austrian alpine ski racer
- August 18 : Karl Del'Haye , German soccer player
- August 18th : Gerard Nijboer , Dutch marathon runner
- August 19 : Cindy Nelson , American skier
- August 20 : Doug Mason , Canadian and Dutch ice hockey coach
- August 20 : Ned Overend , American mountain biker and cross triathlete
- August 22nd : Tony Burgess , Canadian racing car driver
- August 23 : Helmut Wilk , German handball trainer and handball player
- August 30th : Butch Johnson , American archer
- August 31 : Edwin Moses , American athlete
September
- September 1 : Gerd Strack , German football player († 2020 )
- September 2 : Natalja Petrusjowa , Soviet-Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
- September 4th : Yevgeny Trefilow , Russian handball coach
- September 10 : Armin Hahne , German racing car driver
- September 11th : Kurt Ansperger , Austrian kickboxer
- September 13 : Norbert Koof , German show jumper and entrepreneur
- September 20 : Viki Fleckenstein , American ski racer
- September 20 : Wilhelm Huxhorn , German football player († 2010 )
- September 25 : Ludo Coeck , Belgian football player († 1985 )
- September 25 : Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German football player
October
- October 3 : Francesco Guidolin , Italian football player and coach
- October 4th : Jorge Valdano , Argentine soccer player and coach
- October 8 : Claudio Sulser , Swiss football player
- October 9 : Steve Ovett , British middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- October 11th : Hans-Peter Briegel , German soccer player, official and coach
- October 12 : Jan Einar Aas , Norwegian football player
- October 12 : Samuel Schatzmann , Swiss dressage rider († 2016 )
- October 13th : Detlef Michel , German athlete
- October 14th : Jean-Paul Libert , Belgian racing driver
- October 26 : Bernd Drogan , German cyclist
- October 26th : Wolfgang Gansert , German cyclist
- October 26 : Jan Hoffmann , German figure skater
- October 29th : Paul Smith , British racing car driver
November
- November 2 : Roberto Pries , German handball player († 2012 )
- November 3rd : Michel Renquin , Belgian football player and coach
- November 5th : Gisela Fischdick , German chess player
- November 6 : Ken Read , Canadian ski racer
- November 7 : Sergei Babinov , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- November 7th : Norbert Eder , German soccer player
- November 7th : Detlef Ultsch , first German judo world champion
- November 8th : Dietmar Hoffmann , German soccer player
- November 14th : Matthias Herget , German soccer player
- November 16 : Héctor Cúper , Argentinian football player and coach
- November 22nd : Evelyn Hübscher , German handball player
- November 25th : Kurt Niedermayer , German soccer player
- November 27 : Valery Chekhov , Russian chess grandmaster
- November 28 : Alessandro Altobelli , Italian football player
December
- December 3 : Piero Nappi , Italian racing car driver
- December 3 : Alberto Tarantini , Argentine soccer player
- December 4th : Andre Arnold , Austrian ski racer
- December 5th : Andreas Hofmann , Swiss motorcycle racer
- December 6th : Tony Woodcock , English soccer player
- December 7th : Klaus Elwardt , German handball player
- December 10th : Lothar Krieg , German athlete
- December 11th : Horst Ehrmantraut , German soccer player and coach
- December 17th : Marina Staden , German volleyball player of Russian origin
- December 19 : Robin Donovan , British racing car driver
- December 27th : Reiner Alhaus , German soccer player and coach
- December 31 : Gregor Braun , German racing cyclist
Died
January to March
- January 21 : Archie Hahn , American athlete (* 1880 )
- January 31 : Henry Ernest Atkins , English chess player (* 1872 )
- February 8 : William Nichol , British sprinter (* 1901 )
- February 15 : Josef Loos , Czechoslovak ice hockey player (* 1888 )
- February 24 : Clemente Biondetti , Italian racing driver (* 1898 )
- February 28 : Josiah Ritchie , British tennis player (* 1870 )
- March 1 : Lothar Budzinski-Kreth , German football player (* 1886 )
- March 11 : Boško Milenković , Yugoslav racing driver (* 1909 )
- March 14th : Jenő Fuchs , Hungarian fencer (* 1882 )
- March 20 : Larry Crockett , American racing driver (* 1926 )
- March 22nd : Franz Schütz , German football player (* 1900 )
April to June
- April 11th : Mario Alborghetti , Italian racing driver (* 1928 )
- May 1 : Mike Nazaruk , American racing driver (* 1921 )
- May 16 : Manuel Ayulo , American racing driver (* 1921 )
- May 23 : Gustav Adolf Baumm , German graphic artist, motorcycle designer and racing driver (* 1920 )
- May 26 : Alberto Ascari , Italian racing driver (* 1918 )
- May 30th : Bill Vukovich , American racing driver (* 1918 )
- June 10 : Margaret Abbott , American golfer (* 1876 )
- June 11th : Pierre Levegh , French racing driver (* 1905 )
July to September
- July 9 : Don Beauman , British racing car driver (* 1928 )
- July 10 : Jerry Hoyt , American racing driver (* 1929 )
- July 14th : Christian Schilling , German soccer player (* 1879 )
- August 9 : Fritz Steuri , Swiss ski racer and mountain guide (* 1903 )
- August 12 : Miloslav Fleischmann , Czech ice hockey player (* 1886 )
- August 22nd : Georg Thumshirn , German motorcycle racer (* 1893 )
October to December
- October 7th : Rodolphe William Seeldrayers , Belgian football official, FIFA President (* 1876 )
- October 31 : Gyula Feldmann , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1890 )
- November 6th : Jack McGrath , American racing driver (* 1919 )
- November 7th : Karl Bodmer , German motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
- November 9 : Henri Delaunay , French football player and UEFA general secretary (* 1883 )
- November 12th : Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer (* 1878 )
- December 3 : Maurice Archambaud , French cyclist (* 1906 )
See also
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