Sports year 1959
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badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1959 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open . Badminton was first represented at the Southeast Asian Games and the Chinese National Games.
International events
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athletics
- March 21 - Iolanda Balaș , Romania , reached 1.84 m in the women's high jump.
- April 26 - Tamara Press , Soviet Union , hit 17.25 m in the women's shot put.
- May 3 - Oleg Fjodossejew , Soviet Union , jumped 16.70 m in the men's triple jump.
- May 12 - Marija Itkina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 400 meters in 53.4 seconds.
- July 5th - Al Cantello , USA , reached 86.04 m in the men's javelin throw.
- July 7th - Martin Lauer , Germany , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- July 12 - Dallas Long , USA , reached 19.26 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 14th - Edmund Piątkowski , Poland , reached 59.91 m in the men's discus throw.
- July 17th - Vasily Kuznetsov , Soviet Union , scored 8357 points in the men's decathlon.
- August 1 - Parry O'Brien , USA , hit 19.3 meters in the men's shot put.
- August 5 - Volodymyr Holubnytschyj , Soviet Union , walked in the men's 20,000 meter walk in 1:27:04 h.
- August 7 - Leonid Spirin , Soviet Union , walked in the men's 20,000 meter walk in 1:27:29 h.
- August 7th - Martin Lauer , Germany , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- August 21 - Dan Waern , Sweden , ran the men's 1000 meters in 2: 17.8 minutes.
- September 12 - Anatoly Wedjakow , Soviet Union , walked in the men's 50,000 meter walk in 4:03:53 h.
- December 18 - Mary Bignal , Great Britain , reached 12.22m in the women's triple jump.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1959 March 27th to April 5th in Dortmund (Germany)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- April 11: Donaueschingen: D. - Japan 0: 5 (men)
- April 11: Donaueschingen: D. - Japan 0: 3 (women)
- August: Liège: D. - Belgium 5-2 (men)
- December: Berlin: D. - Austria 5: 2 (men)
- December: Berlin: D. - Austria 3-0 (women)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Ines Müller , German athlete
- January 3 : Alessandro Andrei , Italian shot putter and Olympic champion
- January 7th : Manfred Fischer , German motorcycle racer
- January 8 : Kim Duk-koo , South Korean boxer († 1982 )
- January 9 : Monika Staab , German soccer coach
- January 10 : Chandra Cheeseborough , American athlete and Olympic champion
- January 10th : Maurizio Sarri , Italian football coach
- January 11 : Majid Mohammed Abdullah , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- January 12 : Vladimir Yashchenko , Soviet-Ukrainian high jumper († 1999 )
- January 15 : Frank Pfütze , German swimmer († 1991 )
- January 18 : Dagmar Lurz , German figure skater
- January 19 : Harold Kreis , German-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- January 22nd : Urs Meier , Swiss football referee
- January 23 : Sergei Koplyakov , Soviet swimmer and 1980 Olympic champion
- January 24th : Michel Preud'homme , Belgian football player
- January 25 : Viktor Losev , Russian football player and coach
- January 26 : Salvador Sánchez , Mexican featherweight boxer († 1982 )
- January 26 : Erwin Vandenbergh , Belgian football player
- January 29 : Serhiy Fessenko , Soviet-Ukrainian swimmer
- January 30th : Lutz Hoffmann , German gymnast († 1997 )
- January 30th : Davide Tardozzi , Italian motorcycle racer
- January 31 : Alessandro Paganessi , Italian cyclist
- January 31 : Petar Popangelow , Bulgarian ski racer
February
- February 2nd : Hubertus von Hohenlohe , Liechtenstein musician and photographer, Mexican ski racer
- February 4th : Darryl Johansen , Australian chess grandmaster
- February 4 : Lawrence Taylor , American football player
- February 8 : Heinz Günthardt , Swiss tennis player
- February 8 : Irina Kalinina , Soviet-Russian water diver and Olympic champion
- February 9 : Kevin Buckler , American racing car driver, racing team owner and winemaker
- February 11 : Roberto Moreno , Brazilian racing driver
- February 11 : René Müller , German soccer player and coach
- February 16 : John McEnroe , American tennis player
- February 16 : Gordon Herbert , Canadian basketball coach
- February 18 : Gerry Ehrmann , German soccer player
- February 18 : Vladimir Lapitsky , Soviet foil fencer
- February 22nd : Mikhail Gurevich , Russian-Belgian chess master
- February 22nd : Holger Hieronymus , German soccer player
- February 23 : Jürgen Friedl , German soccer player
March
- March 8 : Thomas Åhlén , Swedish ice hockey player
- March 11th : Maria Epple-Beck , German ski racer
- March 12 : Dennis Alexio , American actor and boxer
- March 16 : Arben Minga , Albanian football player († 2007 )
- March 17 : Danny Ainge , American basketball player
- March 18 : Roberto Tricella , Italian football player
- March 19 : Gunar Schimrock , German handball goalkeeper
- March 20 : Sting , American wrestler
- March 20 : Martin Short , British racing car driver
- March 24 : Renaldo Nehemiah , American athlete
- March 24th : Uwe Schwenker , German handball player and official
- March 26th : Siegfried Roch , German handball player
- March 27 : Klaus-Dieter Dieckmann , German football player
- March 31 : Thierry Claveyrolat , French cyclist († 1999 )
April
- April 2nd : Gelindo Bordin , Italian marathon runner
- April 2nd : Juha Kankkunen , Finnish rally driver
- April 3 : Fermín Vélez , Spanish racing car driver († 2003 )
- April 5 : Armin Andres , German basketball player and coach
- April 6th : Aljaksandr Karschakewitsch , Belarusian handball coach and player
- April 6 : Pietro Vierchowod , Italian football player
- April 9 : Erik Veje Rasmussen , Danish handball player and coach
- April 10 : Katrin Mietzner , German handball player
- April 16 : Stefan Hecker , German handball player († 2019 )
- April 21 : Dmitry Barash , Russian-American chess player
May
- May 1 : Eddie Johnson , American basketball player
- May 7th : Bruno Ilien , French racing car driver
- May 10 : Heinz Karrer , Swiss manager and handball player
- May 10 : Agustin Kola , Albanian football player
- May 14th : Stéphane Mertens , Belgian motorcycle racer
- May 15 : Thomas Springel , German handball player
- May 21 : Andreas Trautmann , German soccer player
- May 23 : Marcella Mesker , Dutch tennis player
- May 24 : Pelle Lindbergh , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper († 1985 )
- May 26th : Lothar Neukirchner , German motorcycle racer
- May 28 : Frank Astor , German trainer, entertainer, actor and author
- May 29th : Reimund Dietzen , German racing cyclist
- May 31 : Andrea de Cesaris , Italian racing car driver († 2014 )
June
- June 1st : Martin Brundle , British Formula 1 racing driver
- June 2nd : Conradin Cathomen , Swiss ski racer
- June 5th : Werner Schildhauer , German athlete
- June 6 : David Schultz , American wrestler († 1996 )
- June 6th : Andrei Prokofiev , Soviet-Russian hurdler and sprinter († 1989 )
- June 10 : Carlo Ancelotti , Italian football player and coach
- June 12 : Beniamino Vignola , Italian football player
- June 13 : Mike Smith , American football coach
- June 16 : Warrior , American wrestler († 2014 )
- June 16 : Hagen Melzer , German athlete
- June 17th : Baltazar Maria de Moráis Junior , Brazilian soccer player
- June 17th : Adrie van der Poel , Dutch cyclist
- June 21 : Tom Chambers , American basketball player
- June 21 : Hans-Joachim Watzke , German football functionary
- June 23 : Michel Trollé , French racing car driver
- June 25th : Lutz Dombrowski , German athlete
- June 28 : Siegfried Grüninger , German football goalkeeper († 2016)
- June 28 : Frank Wörndl , German ski racer
July
- July 1 : Kim Hyung-chil , South Korean rider († 2006 )
- July 3 : Helmut Kurrat , German handball player and trainer
- July 6 : Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- July 6 : Joe Jacoby , American football player
- July 7th : Alessandro Nannini , Italian racing car driver
- July 7th : Kerstin Knabe , German athlete
- July 7th : Wanda Bieler , Italian ski racer
- July 9 : Kevin Nash , American professional wrestler
- July 11th : Heidi-Elke Gaugel , German athlete
- July 14th : Peter Angerer , German biathlete
- July 16 : Gary Anderson , South African American football player
- July 16 : Gerd Wessig , German athlete
- July 24th : Giuseppe Abbagnale , Italian rower
- July 24th : Roland Wetzig , German bobsleigh driver
- July 25 : Fyodor Cherenkov , Soviet football player and Russian football coach († 2014 )
- July 30th : Petra Felke , German athlete and Olympic champion
August
- August 3 : Stefan Oberndorfer , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- August 8th : Leonid Judassin , Israeli chess master of Russian origin
- August 8 : Ronald Weigel , German athlete
- August 9 : James Kwesi Appiah , Ghanaian soccer coach and player
- August 13 : Jürgen Beck , German handball player
- August 13 : Thomas Ravelli , Swedish football player
- August 14 : Magic Johnson , American basketball player
- August 21 : Jiří Lála , Czech ice hockey player
- August 24 : Michael Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 24th : Peter Assion , German soccer coach
- August 25 : Alexander Rymanow , Russian handball player and coach
- August 27 : Gerhard Berger , Austrian Formula 1 driver
- August 31 : Ralph Krueger , American ice hockey coach
September
- September 3 : Wolfgang April , German soccer player
- September 3rd : José Luis Laguía , Spanish cyclist
- September 4th : Robbie Deans , New Zealand rugby player and coach
- September 4th : Armin Kogler , Austrian ski jumper
- September 7th : Alfreð Gíslason , Icelandic handball player and coach
- September 12 : Deron Cherry , American football player
- September 12 : Algimantas Šalna , Lithuanian-Soviet biathlete and Olympic champion
- September 13 : Alexander Koschkin , Soviet-Russian boxer († 2012 )
- September 13 : Ivan Majstorović , German handball player and coach
- September 18 : Christian Wulf , German martial artist and trainer
- September 21 : Andrzej Buncol , Polish football player
- September 23 : Dale Whittington , American racing car driver († 2003 )
- September 25 : Eduardo Mario Acevedo , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 26th : Shi Zhihao , Chinese table tennis player and official
- September 28 : Ron Fellows , Canadian racing car driver and entrepreneur
- September 29th : Carlos Cardús , Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 29 : Rolf Kalb , German sports journalist and commentator
- September 30th : Vladimir Muravyov , Soviet sprinter and Olympic champion
October
- October 3rd : Martina Willing , German athlete
- October 5th : Thomas Remark , German soccer player
- October 7th : Martin Knosp , German freestyle wrestler
- October 7th : Loris Reggiani , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 8th : Gaby Bußmann , German athlete
- October 8 : Christin Cooper , American skier
- October 8 : Erik Gundersen , Danish track athlete
- October 10 : Michael Klein , Romanian football player († 1993 )
- October 11th : Wayne Gardner , Australian motorcycle racer
- October 12th : Beate Peters , German athlete
- October 13 : Massimo Bonini , San Marino soccer player
- October 14 : Alexei Kassatonov , Russian ice hockey player
- October 17th : Kornelia Kunisch , German handball player
- October 18 : Ernesto Canto , Mexican athlete and Olympic champion
- October 19 : Mike Jackel , German-Canadian basketball player
- October 20th : Eriko Asai , Japanese marathon runner
- October 24th : Jouni Yrjölä , Finnish chess grandmaster
- October 27 : Rick Carlisle , American basketball player and coach
- October 28 : Peter Pacult , Austrian soccer player and coach
- October 31 : Mats Näslund , Swedish ice hockey player
November
- November 2nd : Saïd Aouita , Moroccan athlete
- November 2nd : Kai Wandschneider , German handball trainer and handball player
- November 7th : Petra Platen , German handball player and sports medicine specialist
- November 9th : Sito Pons , Spanish motorcycle racer
- November 10 : Randy Mamola , American motorcycle racer
- November 16 : Ursula Konzett , Liechtenstein ski racer
- November 17th : Thomas Allofs , German soccer player
- November 19th : Jack Leconte , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- November 21 : Orlando Maldonado , Puerto Rican boxing champion
- November 22 : Patrice Anderson , American biathlete
- November 22 : Oleg Wassiljew , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion 1984
- November 23 : Udo Degener , German chess problem composer
- November 24th : Helmut Höflehner , Austrian ski racer
- November 26th : Uwe Neuhaus , German soccer player and coach
- November 28th : Stephen Roche , Irish cyclist
- November 30th : Sylvia Hanika , German tennis player
December
- December 4th : Christa Luding-Rothenburger , German speed skater
- December 10 : Mark Anthony Aguirre , American basketball player
- December 16 : Yuri Shevtsov , Belarusian handball player and coach
- December 19 : Dirk Schnell , German handball player
- December 20 : Hildegard Körner , German athlete
- December 21 : Florence Griffith-Joyner , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1998 )
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- December 22nd : Bernd Schuster , German soccer player and coach
- December 22nd : Bryan Willman , American racing car driver
- December 26th : Hans Nielsen , Danish track athlete
- December 26th : Wolfgang Rolff , German soccer player and assistant coach
- December 28th : Hansjörg Kunze , German athlete
- December 31 : Liveris Andritsos , Greek basketball player and coach
Day unknown
- Gebhard Aberer , Austrian ski jumper
Died
- August 1 : Jean Behra , French racing driver (* 1921 )
- September 7th : Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia , Italian industrial designer and graphic artist; Initiator of the first automobile race in Italy (* 1879 )
- September 28 : Rudolf Caracciola , German automobile racing driver (* 1901 )
- November 19 : Kurt C. Volkhart , German engineer, designer and racing driver (* 1890 )
- December 13 : Peter Platzer , Austrian football player (* 1910 )
See also
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