Sports year 1962
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Multisport events
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1962 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open .
International events
fencing
Soccer
athletics
European Athletics Championships
Athletics world records
sprint
- September 14 : Marija Itkina , Soviet Union, runs the women's 400 meters in 53.4 seconds.
Middle distance run
- February 3 : Peter Snell , New Zealand, runs the men's 800 meters in 1: 44.3 minutes.
- March 3 : Dixie Willis , Australia, runs the women's 800 meters in 2:01.2 minutes.
Long distance running
- May 10 : Pyotr Bolotnikow , Soviet Union, runs the men's 10,000 meters in 28: 18.2 minutes.
- June 27 : Michel Jazy , France, runs the men's 3000 meters in 7: 49.2 minutes.
Hurdles
- March 14 : Salvatore Morale , Italy, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 49.2 seconds.
Go
- August 28 : Marie van Tonder , South Africa, walks in the women's 20,000-meter walk in 1: 57.4 hours.
Throwing disciplines
- June 10 : Tamara Press , Soviet Union, hits 18.55 meters in the women's shot put .
- June 18th : Al Oerter , USA, reached 61.10 meters in the men's discus throw .
- June 18 : Dallas Long , USA, reaches 20.08 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 4th : Vladimir Trussenjow , Soviet Union, reaches 61.64 meters in the men's discus throw.
- September 11th : Hal Connolly , USA, reaches 70.67 meters in the men's hammer throw .
Jump disciplines
- April 28 : Dave Tork , USA, jumps 4.93 meters in the men's pole vault .
- June 10 : Igor Ter-Owanesjan , Soviet Union, jumps 8.31 meters in the men's long jump .
- July 22nd : Valeri Brumel , Soviet Union, reaches 2.26 meters in the men's high jump .
- July 22nd : Pentti Nikula , Finland, reaches 4.94 meters in the men's pole vault.
- August 10 : Tatiana Schchelkanowa , Soviet Union, reaches 6.53 meters in the women's long jump.
- September 29 : Valeri Brumel , Soviet Union, jumps in the men's high jump 2.27 meters.
Motorsport
Cycling
- Giro d'Italia 1962
- Tour de France 1962
- Vuelta a España 1962
- International Afri-Cola Tour of Germany 1962
- International Peace Tour 1962
- UCI Track World Championships 1962
- UCI Road World Championships 1962
Wrestling
rowing
chess
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1962 March 31 to April 7 in West Berlin
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- 11 February: London: D. - England 5-3 (men)
- February 22nd: Wuppertal: D. - Yugoslavia 5: 4 (men)
- February 22nd: Wuppertal: D. - Yugoslavia 3-1 (women)
- September 3: London: D. 3-2 England (women)
- November: Fulpmes: D. - Austria 5: 2 (men)
- November: Wattens: D. - Austria 6-0 (women)
do gymnastics
volleyball
Winter sports
- Alpine World Ski Championships 1962
- Biathlon World Championship 1962
- 1962 World Bobsleigh Championship
- Ice Hockey World Championship 1962
- World Figure Skating Championships 1962
- Nordic World Ski Championships 1962
- Luge World Championships 1962
Born
January
- January 2 : Iván Palazzese , Venezuelan motorcycle racer († 1989 )
- January 4th : Natalja Botschina , Russian athlete
- January 5th : Carmine Abbagnale , Italian rower
- January 6th : Daniel Mahrer , Swiss ski racer
- January 8th : Michel Ligonnet , French racing car driver
- January 11 : Steve Hislop , British motorcycle racer († 2003 )
- January 12 : Radek Drulák , Czech football player
- January 12th : Gunde Svan , Swedish cross-country skier
- January 16 : Petra Landers , German soccer player
- January 21 : Gabriele Pin , Italian football player and coach
- January 24th : Zoë Haas , Swiss ski racer
- January 24th : Shunji Kasuya , Japanese racing car driver
- January 24th : Andreas Ritter , German sports official
- January 25 : Chris Chelios , American ice hockey player
- January 25 : Georges Grün , Belgian football player
- January 26th : Andreas Aguilar , German gymnast
- January 26 : Óscar Ruggeri , Argentinian football player
- January 30th : Eugen Tripolsky , Ukrainian chess referee and trainer
February
- February 1st : Manuel Amoros , French football player and coach
- February 2nd : Mustapha Moussa , Algerian amateur boxer
- February 2nd : Anne-Flore Rey , French ski racer
- February 7th : Salvatore Antibo , Italian athlete
- February 7th : Nicolò Napoli , Italian football player and coach
- February 8 : Bhushan Akut , Indian badminton player
- February 8 : Israil Magomedgireevich Arsamakov , Soviet weightlifter
- February 9 : Csaba Kesjár , Hungarian racing car driver († 1988 )
- February 10 : Pieter Jan Leeuwerink , Dutch volleyball player († 2004 )
- February 11 : Uwe Zimmermann , German soccer player
- February 13 : Michael Mair , Italian ski racer
- February 13 : Jackie Silva , Brazilian beach volleyball player, world champion and Olympic champion
- February 15 : Michael Roth , German handball player and coach
- February 15 : Ulrich Roth , German handball player
- February 16 : Uwe Jungandreas , German handball player and coach
- February 19 : Hana Mandliková , Czech tennis player
- February 24th : John Bemme , German soccer player
- February 25 : Birgit Fischer , German canoeist
- February 27th : Hou Xuemei , Chinese discus thrower
- February 28 : Angela Bailey , British athlete
March
- March 1st : Ni Amorim , Portuguese racing car driver
- March 2nd : Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- March 2nd : Dirk Aschmoneit , German triathlete and Ironman winner
- March 2nd : Gabriele Tarquini , Italian racing car driver
- March 3 : Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American athlete
- March 6th : Erika Hess , Swiss ski racer
- March 6th : Stephan Schöne , German handball player, trainer and manager
- March 7th : Améleté Abalo , Togolese football player and coach († 2010 )
- March 8 : Richard Stanton , British racing car driver
- March 9 : Jan Furtok , Polish football player and coach
- March 12th : Andreas Köpke , German soccer player
- March 12 : Darryl Strawberry , American baseball player
- March 15 : Markus Merk , German football referee
- March 16 : Lasse Larsson , Swedish football player († 2015 )
- March 17th : Christiane Weber , German fencer
- March 18 : Keith Millard , American football player
- March 19 : Adrian Bosshard , Swiss motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
- March 22nd : Juan Aguilera , Spanish tennis player
- March 23 : Stefan Kellner , German handball goalkeeper
- March 23 : Steven Redgrave , British rower
- March 25th : Hans-Peter Wiegert , German karateka multiple world champion and national trainer
- March 26 : Falko Götz , German football player and coach
- March 26 : John Stockton , American basketball player
- March 27th : Christoph Langen , German bobsleigh driver
- March 28th : Jure Franko , Slovenian ski racer
- March 31 : Skylet Andrew , English table tennis player
April
- April 3 : Werner Rusche , German soccer player
- April 6 : Tomoyasu Asaoka , Japanese soccer player
- April 7th : Andrew Hampsten , American cyclist
- April 7th : Stefan Schneider , German radio presenter and stadium announcer
- April 10 : Jukka Tammi , Finnish ice hockey player
- April 11th : Franz Heinzer , Swiss ski racer
- April 12th : Carlos Sainz , Spanish rally driver
- April 13 : Matthias Hönerbach , German football player
- April 15 : Wallace Schreiber , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- April 15 : Nawal El Moutawakel , Moroccan athlete
- April 17th : Georg Böhm , German table tennis player
- April 19 : Silvia Schmitt , German handball player
- April 19 : Pål Trulsen , Norwegian curler and Olympic champion
- April 19th : Dorian Yates , British bodybuilder
- April 20 : Lionel Robert , French racing car driver
- April 23 : Roswitha Aschenwald , Austrian ski racer
- April 24 : Stuart Pearce , English football player
- April 29 : Dieter Hegen , German ice hockey player and coach
May
- May 2nd : Jimmy White , English snooker player
- May 5th : Rodica Arba-Pușcatu , Romanian rower
- May 5 : Scott Tucker , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- May 6 : Andreas Köckeritz , German handball player and trainer
- May 6th : Mario Kummer , German cyclist
- May 7th : Piero Liatti , Italian rally driver
- May 8th : Tatiana Alexejewna Rubzowa , Russian chess player
- May 10 : John Ngugi , Kenyan athlete
- May 11 : Luca Drudi , Italian racing car driver
- May 14th : Thomas Bubendorfer , Austrian extreme mountaineer and author
- May 18 : John Chabot , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- May 19 : Uli Borowka , German soccer player
- May 21 : Uwe Rahn , German soccer player
- May 22nd : Darcy Lima , Brazilian chess player, official, editor, and teacher
- May 24th : Massimo Mauro , Italian football player and politician
- May 31st : Philippe Gache , French racing car driver and racing team owner
June
- June 3rd : Dagmar Neubauer , German athlete
- June 4th : Krzysztof Hołowczyc , Polish rally driver and politician
- June 6 : Carol Cady , American athlete
- June 8 : Thomas Jefferson , American track and field athlete and Olympian
- June 8th : Andreas Keim , German soccer player
- June 9 : Günther Schäfer , German football player and coach
- June 10 : Brigitte Oertli , Swiss ski racer
- June 10 : Ralf Schumann , German marksman
- June 13 : Davey Hamilton , American racing car driver
- June 21 : Chris Palmer , British motorcycle racer
- June 22nd : Clyde Drexler , American basketball player
- June 26th : Hubert Strolz , Austrian ski racer
- June 27th : Andrei Wassiljew , Soviet-Russian rower
- June 30th : Anelija Nunewa , Bulgarian athlete
July
- July 4th : Claudia Zaczkiewicz , German athlete
- July 4th : Pam Shriver , American tennis player
- July 9 : Boris Rosenberg , Soviet table tennis player
- July 10 : Santiago Ostolaza , Uruguayan football player and coach
- July 11th : Manuela Mager , German figure skater
- July 11th : Hans-Marcus Elwert , German correspondence chess grandmaster
- July 16 : Uwe Hohn , German athlete
- July 16 : Natalia Lisovskaya , Russian shot putter and Olympic champion in 1988
- July 20 : Giovanna Amati , Italian racing car driver
- July 24 : Johnny O'Connell , American racing car driver
- July 26th : Uwe Raab , German cyclist
- July 28th : Torsten Gütschow , German soccer player
- July 29th : Frank Neubarth , German soccer player and coach
August
- August 1st : Spyros Andriopoulos , Greek long distance runner
- August 3 : Gudrun Maria Abt , German athlete
- August 5 : Patrick Ewing , American basketball player
- August 6 : Steven Lee , Australian ski racer
- August 7th : Adriano Baffi , Italian cyclist
- August 9 : Holger Anthes , German soccer player
- August 10 : Thomas Brunner , German soccer player and coach
- August 10 : Markus Schöffl , German dance teacher and competition dancer
- August 15 : Moreno Mannini , Italian football player
- August 18th : Ralf Haber , German athlete
- August 18 : Sandra Farmer-Patrick , American athlete
- August 19 : Michelangelo Rampulla , Italian football player
- August 25th : Theresa Andrews , American swimmer
- August 25 : Alexander Graf , German chess player of Uzbek origin
- August 25 : Michael Zorc , German soccer player
- August 27 : Adam Oates , Canadian ice hockey player
- August 29th : Jutta Kleinschmidt , German rally driver
- August 29th : Jorge Martínez , Spanish motorcycle racer
- August 30th : François Delecour , French rally driver
September
- September 1st : Ruud Gullit , Dutch football player and coach
- September 6th : Holger Fach , German soccer player and coach
- September 6 : Kevin Willis , American basketball player
- September 8th : Sergio Casal , Spanish tennis player
- September 16 : Erik Hajas , Swedish handball player
- September 21 : Karl Peter Åslin , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper († 2012 )
- September 21 : Uli Hiemer , German ice hockey player
- September 23 : John Harbaugh , American football coach
- September 28th : Stellan Brynell , Swedish chess player
- September 28 : Grant Fuhr , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 28th : Fred Merkel , American motorcycle racer
- September 30th : Frank Rijkaard , Dutch football player
October
- October 1st : Nicolaas "Nico" Claesen , Belgian football player and coach
- October 5th : Michael Andretti , American racing car driver
- October 8th : Jörg Vaihinger , German athlete
- October 9 : Jorge Luis Burruchaga , Argentine soccer player and coach
- October 13 : Jerry Rice , American football player
- October 14 : Jaan Ehlvest , Estonian chess player
- October 16 : Marieta Ilcu , Romanian long jumper
- October 16 : Tamara McKinney , American ski racer
- October 19 : Evander Holyfield , American boxer
- October 19 : Marek Kordowiecki , Polish handball player and coach
- October 23 : Stefano Colantuono , Italian football player and coach
- October 24th : Abel Antón Rodrigo , Spanish long distance runner
- October 30th : Stefan Kuntz , German soccer player and coach
November
- November 1st : Ulf Timmermann , German athlete
- November 7th : Bettina Hoy , German eventing rider
- November 9 : Sergio Batista , Argentine football player and coach
- November 10 : José Andrés Anchondo García , Mexican archer
- November 11 : Vlado Kasalo , Croatian football player
- November 11th : Lázaro Martínez , Cuban sprinter
- November 13 : Michael Timm , German boxer and boxing trainer
- November 21 : Sabine Busch , German athlete
- November 26th : László Marosi , Hungarian-German handball player
- November 27th : Conrad Anker , American rock climber, mountaineer and author
- November 27th : Trevor Erhardt , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 30th : Reza Ahadi , Persian soccer player and coach and († 2016 )
December
- December 3 : Georgi Swiridenko , Belarusian handball player and coach
- December 8th : Steve Elkington , Australian golfer
- December 8th : Berry van Aerle , Dutch football player
- December 8th : Dmitri Wassiljew , Soviet-Russian biathlete and two-time Olympic champion
- December 11th : Denise Biellmann , Swiss figure skater
- December 12th : Tracy Austin , American tennis player
- December 13th : Andreas Müller , German soccer player
- December 16 : Charly Mottet , French cyclist
- December 17th : Galina Maltschugina , Russian athlete
- December 19th : Markus Weise , German field hockey coach
- December 25th : Arnold Jonke , Austrian rower
- December 29th : Wynton Rufer , New Zealand soccer player
- December 31st : Traudl Hächer , German ski racer
Day unknown
- Kent Anderson , American football coach
Died
- January 11th : György Orth , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1901 )
- March 5 : Libero Liberati , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1926 )
- June 6 : Tom Phillis , Australian motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- June 6th : John Rimmer , British athlete and two-time Olympic champion (* 1878 )
- June 27 : Willy Walb , German engineer, automobile racing driver and race director (* 1890 )
- July 4th : Adalbert Friedrich , German football player (* 1884 )
- July 10 : Tommy Milton , American racing driver (* 1893 )
- August 6th : George Duller , British jockey and racing car driver (* 1891 )
- September 7th : Graham Walker , British motorcycle racer and journalist (* 1896 )
- October 27 : Otto Froitzheim , German tennis player (* 1884 )
- November 1 : Ricardo Rodríguez , Mexican racing car driver (* 1942 )
- November 30th : Karl Kappler , German automobile racing driver (* 1891 )
- December 21 : Gary Hocking , Rhodesian motorcycle racer (* 1937 )
See also
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Commons : Sports Year 1962 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
