Sports year 1957
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1957 was the Uber Cup , which was held for the first time with the winner USA, as well as the All England , Irish Open , Scottish Open , German Open , Dutch Open and French Open . In South Korea, national title fights were held for the first time.
International events
Soccer
- June 23: In the final of the German soccer championship , Borussia Dortmund wins 4-1 at the Lower Saxony Stadium in Hanover in front of 82,000 spectators against Hamburger SV .
athletics
- April 24 - Nancy Boyle , Australia , ran the women's 400m in 56.3 seconds.
- April 27 - Bob Gutowski , USA , jumped 4.78 m in the men's pole vault.
- May 10 - Polina Lazarewa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 400 m in 55.2 s.
- May 13 - Wladimir Kuz , Soviet Union , ran the men's 5000 m in 13: 35.0 min.
- June 10 - Polina Lasareva , Soviet Union , ran the women's 400 m in 55.2 seconds.
- July 12th - Stanislav Jungwirth , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 38.1 minutes.
- July 13 - Yuri Stepanow , Soviet Union , jumped 2.16 m in the men's high jump.
- July 19 - Diane Leather , Great Britain , ran the women's 1500 m in 4: 29.7 minutes.
- July 24 - Tom Courtney , USA , ran the men's 800 m in 1: 46.8 minutes.
- August 6 - Marija Itkina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 400 m in 53.6 seconds.
- August 11 - Olavi Salonen , Finland , ran the men's 1500m in 3: 40.2 minutes (see also the 1500m world record run in Turku 1957 ).
- August 11 - Olavi Salsola , Finland , ran the men's 1500m in 3: 40.2 minutes (see also the 1500m world record run in Turku 1957 ).
- August 12 - Stanislav Jungwirth , Czechoslovakia , ran the men's 1500 m in 3: 38.1 minutes.
- August 13 - Yuri Stepanow , Soviet Union , reached 2.16 m in the men's high jump.
- September 12 - Vladimir Guk , Soviet Union , walked in the men's 20,000 m in 1:28:39 h.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1957 March 7th to 15th in Stockholm (Sweden)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February 8th: Belli: D. - Italy 6-3 (women + men)
- March 8: Berlin: D. - Japan 0: 5 (women)
- March 18: Berlin: D. - Japan 1: 4 (men)
- March 19: Munich: D. - Japan 0: 5 (men)
- November 23: Uddevalla: D. - Netherlands 1-3 (women)
- November 27: Uddevalla: D. - Sweden 5-0 (women)
- November 23: Karlshamn: D. - Sweden 1: 5 (men)
Born
January
- January 3 : Bojan Križaj , Slovenian ski racer
- January 5th : Karl Allgöwer , German soccer player
- January 8 : Dwight Clark , American football player and official († 2018 )
- January 11 : Darryl Dawkins , American basketball player († 2015 )
- January 16 : Ian Atkins , English football player and coach
- January 20 : Michael Veith , German ski racer
- January 22nd : Mike Bossy , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 23 : Paul Steiner , German soccer player
- January 28th : Wassyl Archypenko , Soviet-Ukrainian hurdler
- January 29th : Manuela Groß , German figure skater, Olympic medalist
- January 30 : Payne Stewart , American golfer († 1999 )
- January 31 : Ronald Åhman , Swedish football player
February
- February 1st : Andreas Anderegg , Swiss boxer
- February 1 : Lyudmila Matwejewa , Russian long-distance runner
- February 1st : Walter Schachner , Austrian soccer coach
- February 2nd : Matthias Assmann , German athlete
- February 10 : Olivier Anken , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- February 18 : Marita Koch , athlete in the GDR
- February 21 : Raymond Roche , French motorcycle racer
- February 26 : Joe Mullen , American ice hockey player and coach
- February 26 : Sergej Saitschik , Russian-Soviet ski jumper († 2000 )
- February 27 : Viktor Markin , Russian-Soviet athlete and Olympic champion
- February 28 : Jan Ceulemans , Belgian football player
March
- March 3 : Atli Eðvaldsson , Icelandic football player and coach
- March 3rd : Vasile Oprea , Romanian handball player and coach
- March 8 : Herbert Pöck , Austrian ice hockey player and coach
- March 12 : Patrick Battiston , French football player
- March 13 : Marcellino Lucchi , Italian motorcycle racer
- March 15 : Mary Carillo , American tennis player
- March 16 : Dirk Rauin , German handball player and coach
- March 22nd : Jean-Luc Blanchemain , French racing car driver
- March 24th : Thomas Krokowski , German handball player
- March 26 : Manfred Wolf , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- March 28 : John Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
April
- April 6 : Maurizio Damilano , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
- April 8th : Jimmy Ashworth , British marathon runner
- April 9 : Severiano Ballesteros , Spanish professional golfer († 2011 )
- April 10 : Birgit Heinecke , German handball player
- April 11 : Juan Carlos Arteche , Spanish football player († 2010 )
- April 11 : Andrei Smirnow , Russian swimmer († 2019 )
- April 15 : Evelyn Ashford , American athlete
- April 16 : Shamil Abbyasov , Soviet-Kyrgyz long and triple jumper
- April 18 : Marc Duez , Belgian racing driver
- April 25th : Cor Euser , Dutch racing car driver
- April 27 : Michael Henke , German football player and coach
- April 30th : Darko Anić , French chess player and teacher
- April 30 : Ivan Atanasov , Bulgarian ice hockey player
- April 30th : Giuseppe Sannino , Italian football player and coach
May
- May 3 : Claus Hormel , German handball player
- May 4th : Kathy Kreiner , Canadian ski racer
- May 8 : Bill Cowher , American football player
- May 8 : Bernd Krauss , German-Austrian football player and coach
- May 9 : Fulvio Collovati , Italian football player
- May 10 : Frank Dammann , German handball player († 2017 )
- May 10 : Steve Mahre , American ski racer
- May 10th : Phil Mahre , American ski racer
- May 13 : Stefano Tacconi , Italian football player and politician
- May 16 : Joan Benoit , American marathon runner
- May 17th : Wilfried Hannes , German soccer player
- May 19 : Bill Laimbeer , American basketball player
- May 22 : Sergei Lomanov , Russian-Soviet bandy player and coach
- May 23 : Patrick Gonin , French racing car driver
- May 25 : Éder Aleixo , Brazilian soccer player
June
- June 1st : Ferid Rragami , Albanian football player
- June 1 : Viktor Tyumenew , Russian ice hockey player († 2018 )
- June 3rd : Ingrid Eberle , Austrian ski racer
- June 3 : Peter de Villiers , South African rugby coach
- June 4th : Manfred Beckmann , German fencer
- June 4th : Norbert Nachtweih , German soccer player
- June 6th : Fred Arbinger , German soccer player and coach
- June 7th : Rainer Ackermann , German soccer player
- June 14 : Nikolaj Drosdezki , Russian ice hockey player († 1995 )
- June 17th : Sabine Röther-Kirschke , German handball player
- June 18 : Irene Epple , German ski racer
- June 20 : Andrei Bukin , Soviet-Russian figure skater
- June 21 : Lucien DeBlois , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 22nd : Ron Haslam , British motorcycle racer
- June 26 : Pietro Paolo Virdis , Italian football player
- June 27 : Gabriella Dorio , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
- June 28 : Lance Nethery , Canadian ice hockey coach, player and manager
- June 29th : Patrick Bornhauser , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
- June 30th : Daniel Cámpora , Argentine chess player
July
- July 1st : Yasuhiro Yamashita , Japanese judoka
- July 1 : Alexander Sawin , Russian volleyball player
- July 2nd : Bret "The Hitman" Hart , Canadian professional wrestler
- July 4th : Milan Mokroš , German ice hockey coach
- July 7th : Dierk Berner , German real estate agent and handball player
- July 13 : Rinat Dassayev , Russian football player
- July 13 : Renate Wolf , German handball player and trainer
- July 14th : Tatjana Ferdman , Russian table tennis player
- July 16 : Adam Robak , Polish foil fencer
- July 16 : Włodzimierz Smolarek , Polish football player († 2012 )
- July 21 : Rumjana Gotschewa , Bulgarian chess player
- July 25th : Bogdan Musiol , German bobsleigh athlete
- July 25 : Steve Podborski , Canadian ski racer
- July 26 : Eugen Ray , German athlete († 1986 )
- July 27th : Hansi Müller , German soccer player
- July 27 : Leon Kalin , Slovenian handball official and former handball referee
- July 28 : Oscar Muller , French football player († 2005 )
- July 31 : Irina Nazarova , Soviet-Russian athlete and Olympic champion
August
- August 3 : Bodo Rudwaleit , German soccer player
- August 4th : Olaf Beyer , German middle distance runner
- August 4th : Alfred Waibel , German motorcycle racer
- August 7th : Alexander Ditjatin , Russian-Soviet gymnast and 1980 Olympic champion
- August 7th : Andrea Gotzmann , German basketball player and association official
- August 9 : Paul Frommelt , ski racer from Liechtenstein
- August 10 : Ronald Borchers , German soccer player
- August 13 : Faisal ad-Dachil , Kuwaiti soccer player
- August 15th : Per-Gunnar Andersson , Swedish racing car driver
- August 17th : Robin Cousins , English figure skater
- August 19 : Rudi Bommer , German soccer player and coach
- August 19 : Engelbert Hüging , German table tennis player
- August 19 : Cesare Prandelli , Italian football player and coach
- August 20th : Finlay Calder , Scottish rugby player
- August 24th : Norbert Trieloff , German soccer player
- August 26th : Dominique Dupuy , French racing car driver
- August 27 : Bernhard Langer , German golfer
September
- September 2nd : Ingrid Auerswald , German athlete and Olympic champion
- September 10 : Karsten Petersohn , German football player and coach (GDR)
- September 11th : Preben Elkjær Larsen , Danish football player
- September 13th : Alexej Junejew , Russian chess master and coach
- September 14th : Dominic Dobson , American racing car driver
- September 14th : Helmut Schulte , German soccer coach
- September 16 : Mark Diese , American chess player († 2008 )
- September 21 : Ernst Höfner , German ice hockey player and coach
- September 21 : Sidney Moncrief , American basketball player
- September 22nd : Giuseppe Saronni , Italian cyclist
- September 24th : Wolfgang Wolf , German soccer coach and soccer player
- September 26 : Klaus Augenthaler , German football player and coach
- September 26 : Luigi De Canio , Italian football player and coach
- September 29th : Harald Schmid , German athlete
October
- October 2nd : Lutz Michael Fröhlich , German soccer referee
- October 3 : Heiko Waßer , German sports journalist and commentator on the Formula 1 races on RTL
- October 6th : Peter Müller , Swiss ski racer
- October 7th : Jayne Torvill , British figure skater
- October 8 : Joseph Atiyeh , Syrian wrestler
- October 8th : Astrid Benöhr , German ultra-triathlete
- October 8 : Antonio Cabrini , Italian football player and coach
- October 10 : Christel Justen , German swimmer and sports therapist († 2005 )
- October 11 : Luciano Favero , Italian football player
- October 11th : Martin Wimmer , German motorcycle racer
- October 16 : Sabine John , German athlete and Olympian
- October 18 : Payao Poontarat , Thai boxer († 2006 )
- October 25 : Harry Arroyo , American boxer
- October 27 : Glenn Hoddle , English football coach and player
- October 28 : Florence Arthaud , French sailor and skipper († 2015 )
- October 28 : Manfred Freisler , German handball player
- October 29 : Raúl Arias , Mexican soccer coach and player
November
- November 2nd : Bärbel Broschat , German athlete
- November 2nd : Lucien Favre , Swiss football player and coach
- November 3rd : Ingolf Wiegert , German handball player
- November 4th : Alexander Tkachev , Soviet-Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
- November 5 : Kellen Winslow , American football player
- November 14th : Wolfgang Hoppe , German bobsleigh driver
- November 16 : Tom Bayer , German sports reporter
- November 16 : Rafael Amador Flores , Mexican football player († 2018 )
- November 20 : Stefan Bellof , German racing driver († 1985 )
- November 23 : Andrew Toney , American basketball player
- November 27th : Kenny Acheson , Northern Irish racing driver
December
- December 1st : Arnulf Meffle , German handball player
- December 5th : Patriz Ilg , German athlete
- December 7th : Jürgen Kaminsky , German soccer player and coach
- December 7th : Frank Pastor , German soccer player
- December 8th : Hannelore Anke , German swimmer and Olympic champion
- December 10 : Viktor Pankrashkin , Russian-Soviet basketball player († 1993 )
- December 17th : Hanne Adsbøl , Danish badminton player
- December 19 : Kevin McHale , American basketball player
- December 19 : Burkhard Schröder , German basketball player
- December 24th : António André , Portuguese football player
- December 31 : Fabrizio Meoni , Italian motorcyclist († 2005 )
Day unknown
- Wolfgang Ehrler , German handball player and trainer
Died
January to March
- January 5th : Oldřich Duras , Czechoslovak chess master (* 1882 )
- January 12th : Ken Wharton , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1916 )
- January 15 : Red Dunn , American football player (born 1901 )
- January 20 : Dudley Benjafield , British doctor and racing car driver (* 1887 )
- January 20 : James Connolly , first modern Olympic champion (* 1868 )
- February 9 : Charles Faroux , French motorsport official and race director (* 1872 )
- February 19 : Maurice Garin , French cyclist (* 1871 )
- March 14 : Eugenio Castellotti , Italian racing driver (* 1930 )
April to June
- April 18 : Huug de Groot , Dutch football player (* 1890 )
- April 21 : Lou Brero , American racing driver (* 1909 )
- April 23 : Johannes Christensen , Danish marathon runner and engineer (* 1889 )
- April 28 : Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1902 )
- April 30th : Kathleen Atkinson , American tennis player (* 1875 )
- May 4 : Gé Fortgens , Dutch football player (* 1887 )
- May 12 : Alfonso de Portago , Spanish automobile racing driver and bobsleigh athlete (* 1928 )
- May 14 : Sidney Abrahams , British long jumper and sprinter (* 1885 )
- May 15 : Keith Andrews , American racing driver (* 1920 )
- June 14th : Nico Bouvy , Dutch football player (* 1892 )
- June 24th : Herman Peltzer , Dutch football player (* 1887 )
July to September
- July 12 : Andreas Breynk , German football player (* 1890 )
- July 14 : Herbert MacKay-Fraser , American racing driver (* 1927 )
- July 14th : William Whitehouse , British racing car driver (* 1909 )
- July 15 : Willy de Vos , Dutch football player (* 1880 )
- August 24th : Fritz Hillebrand , German motorcycle racer (* 1917 )
October to December
- October 5 : José Leandro Andrade , Uruguayan football player (* 1901 )
- October 22 : Bok de Korver , Dutch football player (* 1883 )
- November 2 : Ted Meredith , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1891 )
- November 20 : Fritz Erle , German engineer and racing car driver (* 1875 )
- December 10th : Maurice McLoughlin , American tennis player (* 1890 )
- December 24th : Maurice Schilles , French cyclist (* 1888 )
Day unknown
- Heinrich Müller , Swiss football player and coach (* 1889 )
See also
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