Sports year 1956
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badminton
The high points of the badminton year 1956 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the Denmark Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open . National championships were held for the first time in Portugal and Taiwan.
International events
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Soccer
- June 24th: In the final of the German soccer championship , Borussia Dortmund defeated Karlsruher SC after goals from Niepieklo, Kelbassa, Preißler and Peters 4-2 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium in front of 75,000 spectators and became German champions for the first time.
athletics
- March 16 - Betty Cuthbert , Australia , ran the women's 200m in 23.2 seconds.
- March 24th - Mikhail Kriwonosow , Soviet Union , reached 65.85 m in the men's hammer throw.
- May 3 - Hal Connolly , USA , reached 66.71 m in the men's hammer throw.
- May 5 - Parry O'Brien , USA , hit 18.62 meters in the men's shot put.
- June 5th - Thelma Hopkins , Great Britain , reached 1.74m in the women's high jump.
- June 11th - Wladimir Kuz , Soviet Union , ran the men's 10,000 m in 28: 30.4 minutes.
- June 15 - Parry O'Brien , USA , reached 18.69 meters in the men's shot put.
- June 19 - Gordon Pirie , Great Britain , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 36.8 minutes.
- June 22nd - Jack Davis , USA , ran the men's 110m hurdles in 13.4 seconds.
- June 29 - Glenn Davis , USA , ran the men's 400m hurdles in 49.5 seconds.
- June 29 - Charles Dumas , USA , jumped 2.15 m in the men's high jump.
- July 14th - Iolanda Balaș , Romania , jumped 1.75 m in the women's high jump.
- July 30th - Janusz Sidlo , Poland , reached 83.66 m in the men's javelin throw.
- August 3 - Willie Williams , USA , ran the men's 100 m in 10.1 seconds.
- August 3 - István Rózsavölgyi , Hungary , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 40.6 minutes.
- August 8 - Mikhail Kriwonosow , Soviet Union , reached 66.38 m in the men's hammer throw.
- August 14 - Semjon Rschishchin , Soviet Union , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 8: 39.8 minutes.
- August 15 - Sándor Iharos , Hungary , ran the men's 10,000 m in 28: 42.8 minutes.
- August 20 - Elżbieta Krzesińska , Poland , reached 6.35 m in the women's long jump.
- August 24th - Soini Nikkinen , Finland , reached 83.56 m in the men's javelin.
- August 25 - Josef Doležal , Czechoslovakia , walked the men's 20,000 m in 1:30:00 h.
- September 3 - Parry O'Brien , USA , hit 19.06 meters in the men's shot put.
- September 11 - Wladimir Kuz , Soviet Union , ran the men's 10,000 m in 28: 30.4 minutes.
- September 16 - Sándor Rozsnyói , Hungary , ran the men's 3000 m obstacle in 8: 35.6 minutes.
- September 23 - Elisabeth Buda , Romania , ran the women's 1000 m in 2: 50.2 minutes.
- October 13 - Galina Sybina , Soviet Union , hit 16.76 m in the women's shot put.
- October 22 - Mikhail Kriwonosow , Soviet Union , threw 67.32 m in the men's hammer throw.
- November 1st - Mildred McDaniel , USA , reached 1.76 m in the women's high jump.
- November 1st - Parry O'Brien , USA , reached 19.25 meters in the men's shot put.
- November 26th - Egil Danielsen , Norway , threw the men's javelin at 85.71 m.
- November 27th - Elżbieta Krzesińska , Poland , jumped 6.35 m in the women's long jump.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1956 April 2nd to 11th in Tokyo (Japan)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February: Liège: D. - Belgium 3-2 (women)
- February: Frankfurt / Main: D. - Wales 1: 3 (women)
- February 2: Augsburg: D. - Czechoslovakia 3-0 (women)
- February 3: Zurich: D. - Switzerland 5: 2 (men)
- February 25: Koblenz: D. - Italy 5: 1 (men)
- February 26th: Neuwied: D. - Italy 3-0 (women)
- April 21: Lüneburg: D. - Belgium 5: 0 (men)
- November 1: Vienna: D. - Austria 0-3 (women)
- November 1: Vienna: D. - Austria 5: 2 (men)
- November 6: Burgkunstadt: D. - Sweden 5-0 (men)
- November 6: Speyer: D. - Sweden 3-1 (women)
- November 24: Venlo: D. - Netherlands 5-1 (men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Vasily Pervukhin , Russian ice hockey player
- January 3 : Willy T. Ribbs , American racing driver
- January 4th : Paul Linz , German soccer coach
- January 5 : James Lofton , American football player
- January 6th : Clive Woodward , English rugby union player
- January 9 : Lucyna Langer , Polish athlete and Olympian
- January 15 : Lee Hee-wan , coach of the German national women's volleyball team († 2011 )
- January 20 : John Naber , American swimmer
- January 24 : Bernd Thiele , German football player († 2017 )
- January 25 : Johnny Cecotto , Venezuelan automobile and motorcycle racer
- January 25th : Piergiuseppe Perazzini , Italian racing car driver
- January 30th : Thomas Albeck , German football player and official († 2017 )
- January 31 : Klaus Ploghaus , German athlete
February
- February 3rd : Sergei Kalinitschew , Russian chess player and coach
- February 5th : Vytautas Andriulaitis , Lithuanian correspondence chess player
- February 5th : Héctor Rebaque , Mexican racing car driver
- February 6 : Peter Gailer , German ice hockey player and coach
- February 6 : Natalja Linitschuk , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- February 7th : John Nielsen , Danish racing car driver
- February 8 : Viktor Alexejew , Russian-Soviet wrestler and world champion in 1983 and 1985 in free style in featherweight
- February 11 : Gianpietro Zappa , Swiss football player († 2005 )
- February 13 : Liam Brady , Irish football player and coach
- February 14 : John Anderson , American football player
- February 15 : Hitoshi Ogawa , Japanese racing car driver († 1992 )
- February 16 : Zbigniew Tłuczyński , Polish handball player and coach
- February 16 : Claudia Wunderlich , German handball player
- February 18 : Rüdiger Abramczik , German soccer player and coach
- February 28 : Yehuda Grünfeld , Israeli chess player
March
- March 3 : Zbigniew Boniek , Polish football player
- March 3 : Dmitri Dmitrijew , Russian-Soviet long-distance runner
- March 8 : Bertrand Balas , French racing car driver
- March 11 : Ozzie Newsome , American football player
- March 14th : Tessa Sanderson , British javelin thrower and Olympic champion of Jamaican origin
- March 15 : Marcus Kuhl , German ice hockey player and manager
- March 17th : Jürgen Pahl , German soccer player
- March 18 : Ingemar Stenmark , Swedish ski athlete, Olympic champion
- March 19 : Chris O'Neil , Australian tennis player
- March 21 : Ingrid Kristiansen , Norwegian athlete
- March 21 : Dick Beardsley , American marathon runner
- March 25 : Alexander Kochiev , Russian chess player
- March 27th : Axel Richter , German ice hockey goalkeeper
- March 27th : Thomas Wassberg , Swedish cross-country skier
- March 28th : Evelin Jahl , German athlete
- March 29th : Kurt Thomas , American gymnast, world champion
April
- April 3 : Rainer Höft , German handball player
- April 9 : Marina Sujewa , Russian-Soviet ice dancer and ice dance trainer
- April 15th : Gert Jan Timmerman , Dutch chess player
- April 15 : Michael Cooper , American basketball player and coach
- April 16 : Lise-Marie Morerod , Swiss ski racer
- April 19 : Ulrich Sude , German football coach
- April 23 : Klaus Wöller , German handball player
- April 25 : Mirko Votava , German-Czech football player and coach
May
- May 1st : Dirk Jung , German Taekwondo athlete and doctor
- May 1st : Alexander Ivanov , American chess player and coach of Russian origin
- May 3rd : Bernd Förster , German soccer player
- May 4th : Ulrike Meyfarth , German high jumper and two-time Olympic champion
- May 6 : Barbara Krug , German athlete
- May 6th : Roland Wieser , German athlete
- May 8 : Sharon Burley , Australian figure skater
- May 9 : Frank Andersson , Swedish wrestler († 2018 )
- May 15 : Adílio , Brazilian soccer player
- May 16 : Sergei Andreyev , Soviet football player and coach
- May 18 : Lothar Thoms , German cyclist († 2017 )
- May 19 : Hellmut Krug , German referee
- May 24th : Sean Kelly , Irish cyclist
- May 25 : Carlos Lavado , Venezuelan motorcycle racer
- May 30th : Allen Timpany , British racing car driver
- May 31 : Valery Bragin , Russian ice hockey player
- May 31 : Rolf Hübler , German enduro athlete († 2013 )
June
- June 3 : Suren Nalbandjan , Soviet wrestler
- June 4th : Martin Adams , English darts player
- June 6th : Björn Borg , Swedish tennis player
- June 10 : Laimutė Baikauskaitė , Soviet-Lithuanian middle-distance runner and Olympic runner-up
- June 10 : Peter van Merksteijn senior Dutch racing driver
- June 11 : Joe Montana , American football player
- June 21 : Mikhail Burzew , Russian-Soviet saber fencer, two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion († 2015 )
- June 25th : Frank Paschek , German athlete
- June 27 : Larry Christiansen , American chess player
- June 28th : Romy Kermer , German figure skater, Olympic medalist
- June 30th : Volker Beck , German athlete
July
- July 5th : Peter Oberndorfer , German racing car driver
- July 8 : Millard Hampton , American athlete and Olympic champion
- July 15th : Wayne Taylor , South African racing car driver
- July 16 : Lutz Eigendorf , German soccer player († 1983 )
- July 18 : Edmund Becker , German soccer player and coach
- July 20 : Julio Falcioni , Argentine football goalkeeper and coach
- July 23 : Arno Del Curto , Swiss hockey coach
- July 25 : Patrick de Radiguès , Belgian sailor, motorcycle and car racer
- July 26 : Teddy Atlas , American boxing coach and television commentator
- July 26 : Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater
- July 29 : Viv Anderson , English soccer player
- July 29th : Evelyne Dirren , Swiss ski racer
August
- August 10 : Sergei Sukhoruchenkov , Soviet-Russian racing cyclist
- August 17 : John Kosmina , Australian football player and coach
- August 19 : Sergio Brio , Italian football player
- August 22 : Valery Abramov , Russian long-distance runner († 2016 )
- August 24th : Jürgen Krause , German handball player and coach
- August 24 : Frank-Michael Wahl , German handball player and coach
- August 25 : Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally driver († 1986 )
- August 29 : Eddie Murray , Canadian American football player
- August 30th : Bernadette Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
September
- September 1 : Vinnie Johnson , American basketball player
- September 2nd : Zlatan Arnautović , Yugoslav handball player
- September 3 : Masahiro Akimoto , Japanese ski jumper
- September 3 : Hans-Georg Beyer , German handball player
- September 4th : Werner Zirngibl , German tennis player
- September 8 : Maurice Cheeks , American basketball player
- September 8 : Gerd Rosendahl , German handball player
- September 10 : Henrik Agerbeck , Danish football player
- September 14 : Ray Wilkins , English football player and coach († 2018 )
- September 15th : Rick Sutherland , American racing car driver
- September 16 : Seppo Eichkorn , German soccer coach
- September 16 : Peter Stellwag , German table tennis player
- September 20th : Elisabeth Theurer , Austrian dressage rider and Olympic champion
- September 21 : Pamela Behr , German ski racer
- September 22nd : Fritz Fischer , German biathlete and Olympic champion
- September 23 : Paolo Rossi , Italian football player
- September 24th : Ilona Slupianek , German athlete
- September 25 : Salvatore Bagni , Italian football player
- September 27 : Steve Archibald , Scottish football player and coach
- September 29th : Sebastian Coe , British athlete and politician
- September 30th : Frank Arnesen , Danish football official and football player
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October
- October 4th : Hans van Breukelen , Dutch football player
- October 4th : Doug Padilla , American athlete
- October 7th : Atanas Atanassow , Bulgarian long jumper
- October 14 : Valery Zyganov , Russian skier
- October 14 : Peter Lüscher , Swiss ski racer
- October 17th : Norbert Henke , German handball trainer and handball player
- October 18 : Martina Navrátilová , Czech tennis player
- October 19 : Didier Theys , Belgian racing driver
- October 27 : Christiane Wartenberg , German athlete
- October 27th : Michèle Chardonnet , French athlete
- October 28 : Franky Vercauteren , Belgian football player and coach
November
- November 6 : Lei Clijsters , Belgian football player († 2009 )
- November 13 : Erhan Arslan , Turkish football goalkeeper and coach
- November 13 : Bill Scanlon , American tennis player
- November 14 : Keith Alexander , British football player († 2010 )
- November 14th : Hans-Jürgen Gede , German soccer coach and soccer player
- November 15 : Zlatko Kranjčar , Croatian football player and football coach
- November 23 : Shane Gould , Australian swimmer
- November 23 : Nikolai Sidorow , Russian sprinter and Olympic champion
- November 27th : Thomas Hörster , German soccer player and coach
- November 27 : Lionello Manfredonia , Italian football player
- November 29th : Andreas Bornschein , German football player (GDR)
- November 30th : Anders Åslund , Swedish football player
December
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- December 5th : Klaus Allofs , German soccer player and manager
- December 7th : Larry Bird , American basketball player
- December 11th : Thomas Andersson , Swedish football player
- December 14th : Dieter Agatha , German soccer player
- December 14 : Béla Réthy , German sports presenter of Hungarian origin
- December 14th : Hanni Wenzel , Liechtenstein ski racer and Olympic champion
- December 14 : Erhard Wunderlich , German handball player († 2012 )
- December 23 : Michele Alboreto , Italian racing driver († 2001 )
- December 27th : Doina Melinte , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
- December 29th : Christine Errath , German figure skater
- December 31 : Helma Knorscheidt , German athlete
Died
January to March
- January 19 : Nikolai Kolomenkin-Panin , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion (* 1872 )
- February 3 : Johnny Claes , Belgian racing driver (* 1916 )
- February 5 : Savielly Tartakower , Polish-French chess player (* 1887 )
- February 14th : Henri Arnaud , French middle-distance runner (* 1891 )
- March 3 : Ernst Loof , German engineer, racing driver, race director and entrepreneur (* 1907 )
- March 4 : Otto Harder , German football player (* 1892 )
- March 31 : Ralph DePalma , American racing car driver (* 1884 )
April to June
- April 13 : Alfred Birlem , German football referee (* 1888 )
- April 22nd : Walt Faulkner , American racing driver (* 1920 )
- May 1 : LeRoy Samse , American athlete (* 1883 )
- May 6 : Fergus Anderson , British motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- May 20 : Zoltán von Halmay , Hungarian swimmer and swimming coach (* 1881 )
- June 5 : Rudolph Sauerwein , German racing car driver (* 1901 )
- June 17 : Bob Sweikert , American racing driver (* 1926 )
- June 30th : Alfredo Ferrari , Italian engineer (* 1932 )
July to September
- July 14th : Jos van Son , Dutch football player (* 1893 )
- August 12 : Giampiero Combi , Italian football player (* 1902 )
- August 26th : Hans Baltisberger , German motorcycle racer (* 1922 )
- September 11th : Herminio Masantonio , Argentinian football player (* 1910 )
- September 25 : Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egyptian weightlifter (* 1915 )
- September 27 : Mildred Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer (* 1911 )
October to December
- October 1 : Stan Ockers , Belgian cyclist (* 1920 )
- October 5 : Juan Armet de Castellví , Spanish football player and coach (* 1895 )
- October 18 : Josef Blum , Austrian football player and coach (* 1898 )
- October 26 : Otto Scheff , Austrian freestyle swimmer (* 1889 )
- October 29 : Louis Rosier , French automobile and motorcycle racing driver (* 1905 )
- November 1st : Lajos Asztalos , Hungarian chess master (* 1889 )
- November 4th : Freddie Dixon , British motorcycle and car racer (* 1892 )
- November 9th : Hubert Houben , German athlete (* 1898 )
- November 13 : Werner Haas , German motorcycle racer (* 1927 )
- November 27th : Peet Stol , Dutch football player (* 1880 )
See also
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