Sports year 1960
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Olympic games
- February 18th bis 28. February : 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, USA
- August 25th to September 11th : 1960 Olympic Games in Rome
- 1960 Summer Paralympics
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1960 were the Uber Cup 1960 as well as the All England , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open .
International events
Soccer
- European Cup for the National Football Teams 1955 to 1960
- 6 July to 10 July : 1960 European Football Championship in France
Handball
athletics
Athletics world records
sprint
- February 7th : Wilma Rudolph , USA, runs the women's 200 meters in 22.9 s.
- May 6 : Otis Davis , USA, runs the men's 400 meters in 44.9 seconds.
- June 12 : Wilma Rudolph , USA, runs the women's 100 meters for 11.3 seconds.
- June 21 : Armin Hary , Germany, runs the men's 100 meters in 10 seconds.
- July 2nd : Peter Radford , Great Britain, runs the men's 200 meters in 20.5 s in Wolverhampton. The Americans Ray Norton and Stonewall Johnson run at the same time in Palo Alto on the same day.
Middle distance run
- April 3 : Lyudmila Schewzowa , Soviet Union, runs the women's 800 meters in 2: 04.3 minutes.
- May 6 : Herb Elliott , Australia, runs the men's 1500 meters in 3: 35.6 minutes.
Long distance running
- June 10 : Abebe Bikila , Ethiopia, runs the men's marathon in 2:15:16 h.
- June 15 : Pyotr Bolotnikow , Soviet Union, runs the men's 10,000 meters in 28: 18.8 minutes.
Hurdles
- April 21 : Lee Calhoun , USA, runs the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.2 seconds.
- July 26 : Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak , Poland, runs the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 31.4 minutes.
Go
- May 16 : Abdon Pamich , Italy, completes the men's 50,000 meter walk in 4:03:02 hours.
Throwing disciplines
- March 5 : Dallas Long , USA, hits 19.38 meters in the men's shot put .
- March 19 : Bill Nieder , USA, hits 19.45 m in the men's shot put.
- March 26 : Dallas Long , USA, hits 19.67 m in the men's shot put.
- April 2 : Bill Nieder , USA, hits 19.99 m in the men's shot put.
- May 3 : Elvīra Ozoliņa , Soviet Union, reaches 57.92 m in the women's javelin .
- June 4th : Elvīra Ozoliņa , Soviet Union, reaches 59.55 m in the women's javelin.
- August 12 : Bill Nieder , USA, hits 10.06 m in the men's shot put.
- August 12 : Hal Connolly , USA, throws 70.33 m in the men's hammer throw .
- August 12 : Rink Babka , USA, reaches 59.91 m in the men's discus throw .
- October 12 : Tamara Press , Soviet Union, reaches 57.15 m in the women's discus throw.
Jump disciplines
- April 30th : John Thomas , USA, jumps 2.17 m in the men's high jump .
- May 21 : John Thomas , USA, again reached 2.17 m in the men's high jump.
- June 24th : John Thomas , USA, jumps 2.18 m in the men's high jump.
- July 1st : John Thomas , USA, jumps 2.22 m in the men's high jump.
- July 2 : Don Bragg , USA, overcomes 4.80 m in the men's pole vault .
- July 6 : Iolanda Balaș , Romania, jumps 1.85 m in the women's high jump.
- August 5th : Jozef Schmidt , Poland, jumps 17.03 m in the men's triple jump .
- August 12 : Ralph Boston , USA, jumps 8.21 m in the men's long jump .
- September 6th : Hildrun Claus , GDR, reaches 6.40 m in the women's long jump.
All-around
- July 9 : Rafer Johnson , USA, scores 8,683 points in the men's decathlon .
Motorsport
Cycling
- Giro d'Italia 1960
- Tour de France 1960
- International Afri-Cola Tour of Germany 1960
- International Peace Tour 1960
- UCI track world championships 1960
- UCI Road World Championships 1960
chess
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1960 April 5th to 12th in Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- November: St. Pölten: D. - Austria 5: 3 (men)
- November: St. Pölten: D. - Austria 4: 5 (women)
volleyball
Winter sports
- Alpine World Ski Championships 1960
- 1960 World Bobsleigh Championship
- Ice Hockey World Championship 1960
- World Figure Skating Championships 1960
- Nordic World Ski Championships 1960
- Luge World Championships 1960
Born
January
- January 1 : Frank Minnifield , American football player
- January 1st : Kevin Weeda , American racing car driver
- January 3 : Bruno Bonhuil , French motorcycle racer († 2005 )
- January 5th : Hans Stanggassinger , German luge rider
- January 7th : Steve Webster , British motorcycle racer
- January 10 : Claudia Losch , German athlete and Olympic champion
- January 13th : Monika Steinmetz , German soccer player
- January 18 : Anatoly Starostin , Soviet-Russian modern pentathlon and Olympic champion
- January 20 : Falk Boden , German racing cyclist
- January 29 : Greg Louganis , American skydiver and Olympic champion
February
- February 1st : Andreas Asche , German football goalkeeper
- February 1 : Fabrizio Pirovano , Italian motorcycle racer († 2016 )
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- February 3rd : Joachim Löw , German soccer coach
- February 6th : Erich Amplatz , Austrian table tennis player
- February 7th : Gabriel Calderón , Argentinian football player and coach
- February 8 : Sedat Karaoğlu , Turkish football player († 2014 )
- February 9 : Olesja Barel , Russian basketball player
- February 10 : Rawilja Agletdinova , Soviet middle-distance runner († 1999 )
- February 13th : Pierluigi Collina , Italian football referee
- February 13 : Artur Jussupow , German chess player of Russian origin
- February 16 : Olga Antonova , Russian athlete
- February 16 : Rike Koekkoek , German soccer player
- February 16 : Reiner Maurer , German soccer player and coach
- February 17th : Bernard Santal , Swiss racing driver
- February 18 : Niggi Schmassmann , Swiss motorcycle racer
- February 20 : Paul Arpin , French long distance runner
- February 21 : Marc Dutreeuw , Belgian chess player
- February 22nd : Tillmann Loch , German urologist and handball player
- February 25 : Heiko Fischer , German figure skater († 1989 )
- February 27 : Pär Arvidsson , Swedish swimmer
- February 27 : Andrés Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis player
March
- March 1st : Armin Reutershahn , German soccer coach
- March 2nd : Frank Rohde , German soccer player
- March 3 : Andreas Thiel , German handball goalkeeper
- March 6 : Mike Munchak , American football player and coach
- March 7th : Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player
- March 7th : Siegfried Wentz , German athlete
- March 15th : Ioan Andone , Romanian football player and coach
- March 16 : Zurab Asmaiparashvili , Georgian chess master
- March 17th : Thomas Kempe , German soccer player
- March 21 : Ayrton Senna , Brazilian racing car driver († 1994 )
- March 24th : Ralf Regenbogen , German soccer player
- March 24th : Yasser Seirawan , American chess player
- March 25th : Peter Seisenbacher , Austrian judoka
- March 26 : Allan Peiper , Australian cyclist
- March 27th : Hans Pflügler , German football player
- March 28 : Heidi Wiesler , German ski racer
- March 30th : Bill Johnson , American ski racer († 2016 )
- March 31 : Sándor Balogh , Hungarian-German handball player and coach
April
- April 1st : Marina Koschewaja , Russian swimmer and Olympic champion in 1976
- April 1st : Reijo Ruotsalainen , Finnish ice hockey player
- April 2nd : Linford Christie , British athlete
- April 4th : Jonathan Agnew , English cricketer
- April 4th : Murray Chandler , British chess master with New Zealand roots
- April 5th : Jorma Paavilainen , Finnish chess composer and player
- April 7th : Norbert Schramm , German figure skater
- April 8th : Birgit Friedmann , German athlete
- April 12th : Viktor Moskalenko , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
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- April 13 : Rudi Völler , German soccer player
- April 13th : Olaf Ludwig , German cyclist
- April 15th : Pedro Delgado , Spanish cyclist
- April 16 : Pierre Littbarski , German soccer player and coach
- April 16 : Rafael Benítez , Spanish football coach
- April 18 : Jelena Schupijewa-Vjasowa , Ukrainian long-distance runner
- April 20 : Debbie Flintoff-King , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- April 25 : Francesco Romano , Italian football player
- April 27th : Hanne Hegh , Norwegian handball player
- April 28 : Rui Águas , Portuguese football player and coach
- April 28 : Walter Zenga , Italian football player and coach
May
- May 3 : Kathy Cook , British athlete and Olympian
- May 6th : Lyudmila Andonova , Bulgarian high jumper
- May 7th : Eric Lobron , German chess master
- May 8 : Kadir Akbulut , Turkish football player
- May 8 : Franco Baresi , Italian football player
- May 10 : Klaus-Peter Nabein , German medium and long distance runner († 2009 )
- May 10 : Merlene Ottey , Slovenian-Jamaican athlete
- May 11th : Jürgen Schult , German athlete
- May 12 : Lisa Martin-Ondieki , Australian long-distance runner and Olympian
- May 13 : Uwe Dreher , German soccer player and coach († 2016 )
- May 14 : Mohamed Zaoui , Algerian amateur boxer
- May 14 : Steve Williams , American wrestler († 2009 )
- May 18 : Brent Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 18 : Yannick Noah , French tennis player and pop singer with Cameroonian roots
- May 18 : Jari Kurri , Finnish ice hockey player
- May 21 : Vladimir Salnikov , Russian swimmer and Olympic champion
- May 27 : Ray Armstead , American athlete and Olympic champion
- May 27 : Emir Mutapčić , Yugoslav and Bosnian basketball player and coach
June
- June 1 : Vladimir Krutov , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2012 )
- June 2 : Olga Bondarenko , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- June 7th : Svetlana Dašić-Kitić , Serbian handball player
- June 11th : Sissy Raith , German soccer player and trainer
- June 12th : Hagen Stamm , German water polo player
- June 19 : Raúl Vicente Amarilla , Paraguayan football player and coach
- June 21 : Andreas Knebel , German athlete
- June 25 : Aldo Serena , Italian football player
- June 26th : Peter Pysall , German handball trainer and handball player
July
- July 1 : Lynn Jennings , American athlete and Olympian
- July 1st : Marie-Luce Waldmeier , French ski racer
- July 4th : Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian racing driver († 1994 )
- July 4th : Barry Windham , American wrestler
- July 6 : Valerie Brisco-Hooks , American athlete and Olympic champion
- July 6 : Robbie Dunn , Australian soccer player and coach
- July 8th : Sabine Bothe , German handball goalkeeper
- July 9 : Michael Feichtenbeiner , German football coach
- July 17th : Andrea Mandorlini , Italian football player and coach
- July 20th : Kris Nissen , Danish racing car driver
- July 21 : Fritz Walter , German soccer player
- July 23 : Fadil Vokrri , Yugoslav football player and President of the Football Association of Kosovo († 2018 )
- July 24 : Vyacheslav Bykov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- July 24th : Catherine Destivelle , French mountaineer
- July 26 : Elena Grölz , German handball player
- July 28 : Alexandre Czerniatynski , Belgian football player
- July 28 : Viktor Manakov , Russian-Soviet cyclist and cycling coach († 2019 )
August
- August 1st : Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff , German dressage rider
- August 3 : Tim Mayotte , American tennis player
- August 3rd : Kim Milton Nielsen , Danish football referee
- August 6 : Landis Arnold , American ski jumper
- August 7th : Dirk Sommerfeld , German handball player
- August 12 : Laurent Fignon , French cyclist († 2010 )
- August 13th : Phil Taylor , English darts player
- August 17th : Ágúst Már Jónsson , Icelandic football player
- August 19 : Morten Andersen , Danish American football player
- August 19 : Bobby Hebert , American football player
- August 24 : Kim Christofte , Danish football player
- August 28 : Julio César Romero , Paraguayan football player
September
- September 1st : Ralf Aussem , German soccer player
- September 2nd : Doug Poland , American motorcycle racer
- September 3 : Anett Pötzsch , German figure skater
- September 4th : Elke Richter , German soccer player
- September 6th : Stephan Engels , German soccer player
- September 7th : Stephan Kuhnert , German soccer player
- September 8th : Aguri Suzuki , Japanese racing car driver and racing team owner
- September 11th : Predrag Nikolić , Bosnian chess player
- September 11 : Ágúst Hauksson , Icelandic football player
- September 12th : Uwe Ackermann , German athlete
- September 12 : Marie-Agnès Annequin-Plantagenet , French soccer player
- September 15th : Klaus Abbelen , German racing driver and entrepreneur
- September 17th : Damon Hill , British Formula 1 racing driver, 1996 World Champion
- September 18 : Lassaad Abdelli , Tunisian football player
- September 20 : Alice Brown , American athlete and Olympic champion
- September 21 : Marion Appel , German volleyball player
- September 23 : Barbara Mensing , German archer
- September 25 : Igor Belanov , Soviet football player
- September 26 : Uwe Bein , German football player
- September 27th : Marco Saviozzi , French racing car driver
- September 28 : Mehmed Baždarević , Yugoslav football player and Bosnian-Herzegovinian football coach
October
- October 2 : Glenn Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 2nd : Volker Beck , German soccer player
- October 5th : Careca , Brazilian soccer player
- October 6 : Sergei Ponomarenko , Russian figure skater and 1992 Olympic champion
- October 8th : Andrea Anastasi , Italian volleyball coach and player
- October 8 : Ralf Minge , German soccer player
- October 12 : Karsten Heinz , German handball trainer and handball goalkeeper
- October 14th : Steve Cram , English athlete
- October 14 : Hubertus Hess-Grunewald , German lawyer and football official
- October 16 : Jürgen Jansen , German referee
- October 16 : Petra Pfaff , German athlete
- October 17th : Hartmut Weber , German athlete
- October 18 : Horst Wiemann , German handball player and coach
- October 21 : Israel Akopkochjan , Armenian boxer
- October 22nd : Harri Toivonen , Finnish racing car driver
- October 23 : Wayne Rainey , American motorcycle racer
- October 24th : Bernd Andler , German handball referee
- October 24th : Wolfgang Güllich , German sport climber († 1992 )
- October 24th : Joachim Winkelhock , German automobile racing driver
- October 30 : Diego Maradona , Argentine soccer player
- October 31 : Wilfried Aepinus , German soccer player
November
- November 9th : Andreas Brehme , German soccer player and coach
- November 11th : Marcel Koller , Swiss football player and coach
- November 17th : Petrik Sander , German soccer coach and official
- November 23 : Sam Ermolenko , American track athlete
- November 25 : Robert Dunlop , British motorcycle racer († 2008 )
- November 26th : Delio Rossi , Italian football player and coach
- November 27 : Eike Immel , German soccer player
- November 30th : Gary Lineker , English soccer player
December
- December 1st : Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich , German speed skater
- December 3 : Igor Larionov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 4th : Glynis Nunn , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- December 5th : Frans Adelaar , Dutch football player and coach
- December 5 : Günter Hermann , German football player
- December 12th : Martina Hellmann , German athlete
- December 17th : Moreno Argentin , Italian cyclist
- December 18 : Hans-Jörg Criens , German football player († 2019 )
- December 26 : Ruud Kaiser , Dutch football player and coach
- December 28 : Ray Bourque , Canadian ice hockey player
- December 29th : Carola Anding , German cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- December 30th : Rick Amann , German ice hockey player
Died
- January 2 : Fausto Coppi , Italian racing cyclist (* 1919 )
- March 13 : Louis Wagner , French racing car driver (* 1882 )
- March 31 : Franz-Josef Binder , Austrian motorcycle racer and development engineer (* 1908 )
- April 19 : Benjamin Bradshaw , American wrestler (* 1879 )
- June 28 : Juan Jover , Spanish automobile racing driver (* 1903 )
- August 4th : Frédéric Théllusson , Belgian racing driver (* 1894 )
- August 30 : Jimmy Slattery , American light heavyweight boxer (born 1904 )
- September 2 : Max Nathan , German automobile racing driver (* 1919 )
See also
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