Sports year 1963
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Other events
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1963 were the Uber Cup 1963 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open .
International events
basketball
International basketball events
- Brazil is in the Basketball World Championship in Rio de Janeiro in the final against Yugoslavia with 90:71 Basketball World Champion.
- The Soviet Union won the European championship ahead of Poland at the 1963 European basketball championship in Wroclaw .
National basketball championships
- The Boston Celtics win the NBA finals 4-2 against the Los Angeles Lakers .
- Alemannia Aachen wins German basketball championship for men and Heidelberger TV 1846 for women.
Boxing
- July 22nd : Sonny Liston becomes heavyweight world champion in Las Vegas after knockout in the first round against Floyd Patterson .
fencing
Soccer
International football events
- May 15 : Tottenham Hotspur wins in Rotterdam the 1962-63 European Cup Winners' Cup with 5: 1 against Atlético Madrid .
- May 22 : The AC Milan wins in London's Wembley Stadium the 1962-63 European Cup with 2: 1 against Benfica .
National football championships
- June 29 : Borussia Dortmund wins the final of the German soccer championship 3-1 with goals from Kurrat, Wosab and Schmidt against 1. FC Cologne in Stuttgart in front of 78,000 spectators.
- August 14 : Hamburger SV wins the DFB Cup in Hanover 3-0 against Borussia Dortmund in Hanover.
- August 24 : According to the decision of the German Football Association of July 28, 1962 in Dortmund, the Bundesliga starts playing for the 1963/64 season . Friedhelm Konietzka scored the first Bundesliga goal from defending champion Borussia Dortmund in the game against Werder Bremen after just 58 seconds .
Handball
athletics
Athletics world records
sprint
- May 23 : Henry Carr , USA, runs the men's 200 meters in 20.3 s.
Long distance running
- July 15 : Buddy Edelen , USA, completes the men's marathon in 2:14:28 h.
- October 15 : Merry Lepper , USA, runs the women's marathon in 3:37:07 h.
- December 18 : Ron Clarke , Australia, runs the men's 10,000 meters in 28: 15.6 minutes.
Hurdles
- September 7th : Gaston Roelants , Belgium, runs the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 29.6 minutes.
Go
- May 27 : Irma Hansson , Sweden, walks in the women's 20,000 meter walk in 1: 57.3 hours.
Throwing disciplines
- March 26th : Al Oerter , USA, reached 62.62 m in the men's discus throw .
- July 3 : Elvīra Ozoliņa , Soviet Union, reaches 59.78 m in the women's javelin .
Jump disciplines
- April 27 : Brian Sternberg , USA, overcomes 5.00 m in the men's pole vault .
- June 7th : Brian Sternberg , USA, reaches 5.08 m in the men's pole vault.
- July 21 : Valeri Brumel , Soviet Union, jumps 2.28 m in the men's high jump .
- August 5th : John Pennel , USA, reaches 5.13 m in the men's pole vault.
- August 24 : John Pennel , USA, jumps 5.20 m in the men's pole vault.
Cycling
- June 9th : Franco Balmamion wins the Giro d'Italia 1963 .
- July 14 : Jacques Anquetil wins the 1963 Tour de France .
- 1963 UCI Track World Championships
- UCI Road World Championships 1963
Wrestling
chess
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1963 April 5th to 14th in Prague (ČSR)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- January 28: Nortälje: D. - Sweden 3: 5 (men)
- February 21: Pirmasens: D. - France 5: 2 (men)
- February 21: Pirmasens: D. - France 3-0 (women)
- April 20: Lörrach: D. - Japan 0: 5 (men)
- May: Munich: D. - China 2: 5 (men)
- May: Munich: D. - China 0: 3 (women)
- 23 May: Lübeck: D. - Sweden 3: 5 (men)
- December 7th: Saulgau: D. - Austria 5: 1 (men)
- December 7th: Saulgau: D. - Austria 5-0 (women)
Winter sports
Skiing
- January 6th : The Norwegian Toralf Engan is the overall winner of the Four Hills Tournament 1962/63 .
- February 3 : 1963 Biathlon World Championship
Tobogganing and bobsleigh
- 26 / January 27 : Luge World Championships 1963
- January 28 / February 11 : 1963 World Bobsleigh Championship
Ice sports
- 20th bis 24. February : Bandy World Championship 1963
- February 28 to March 3 : 1963 World Figure Skating Championships
- March 7th to 17th : Ice Hockey World Championship 1963
- The 1963 Scotch Cup is considered the fifth world curling championship . Canada wins for the fifth time in a row.
Born
January
- January 1st : Alberigo Evani , Italian football player and coach
- January 1st : Lina Kačiušytė , Soviet-Lithuanian swimmer
- January 2nd : Luis d'Antin , Spanish motorcycle racer and team owner
- January 2nd : Jelena Walowa , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- January 3rd : Linda Southern-Heathcott , Canadian show jumper
- January 4th : Ihar Astapkovich , Belarusian hammer thrower
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- January 5th : Ralf Loose , German soccer coach
- January 5 : Vitalij Grossmann , German-Kazakh ice hockey player († 2005 )
- January 6 : Paul Kipkoech , Kenyan long-distance runner († 1995 )
- January 7th : Georg Arnfinn Andersen , Norwegian shot putter
- January 8 : Daniele Fortunato , Italian football player
- January 10 : Kira Iwanowa , Russian figure skater († 2001 )
- January 10th : Francesco Panetta , Italian athlete
- January 11th : Roland Wohlfarth , German soccer player
- January 14th : Frank Dahmke , German handball player
- January 15 : Rick Nasheim , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 15 : Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , Polish-American chess master († 2006 )
- January 16 : Corb Denneny , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 18 : Yuri Sakharevich , Soviet-Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion
- January 19 : Jay Cochran , American racing car driver
- January 20 : Sascha Jusufi , German football player of Serbian origin
- January 21 : Detlef Schrempf , German basketball player
- January 21 : Bernd Hoffmann , German sports official
- January 21 : Hakeem Olajuwon , Nigerian-American basketball player
- January 26 : José Mourinho , Portuguese football coach
- January 31 : Brian Adams , American wrestler († 2007 )
- January 31 : Manuela Di Centa , Italian cross-country skier
February
- February 2 : Ilya Bjakin , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- February 2nd : Karin Dedler , German ski racer
- February 2nd : Kjell Dahlin , Swedish ice hockey player
- February 3 : Jørn Andersen , Norwegian football player
- February 3 : José Biriukov , Spanish-Russian basketball player
- February 4th : Sergei Fokitschew , Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
- February 4th : Pirmin Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
- February 6 : David Vanole , American football goalkeeper († 2007 )
- February 8th : Jóhann Hjartarson , Icelandic chess grandmaster
- February 9 : Gabriel Tiacoh , Ivorian sprinter († 1992 )
- February 10 : Alan McInally , Scottish soccer player
- February 11 : Ralf Falkenmayer , German soccer player
- February 11 : Dan Osman , American extreme athlete of Japanese origin († 1998 )
- February 12 : Borislav Michajlow , Bulgarian football player
- February 12 : Rüdiger Vollborn , German soccer player
- February 17th : Monica Äijä , Swedish ski racer
- February 17 : Michael Jordan , American basketball player
- February 18 : Michel Der Zakarian , French football player
- February 18 : Anders Frisk , Swedish FIFA referee
- February 20 : Charles Barkley , American basketball player
- February 24th : Dene O'Kane , New Zealand snooker player
- February 24 : Mike Vernon , Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- February 28 : Claudio Chiappucci , Italian cyclist
March
- March 1 : Ron Francis , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 1st : Ubaldo Righetti , Italian football player
- March 8 : Júlio César da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- March 12 : John Andretti , American racing driver († 2020 )
- March 12th : Joaquim Cruz , Brazilian athlete
- March 12 : Igor Stelnow , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2009 )
- March 14 : Ricardo Peláez , Mexican soccer player
- March 15 : Edwin Rosario , Puerto Rican boxer († 1997 )
- March 16 : Rüdiger Neitzel , German handball player
- March 16 : Jesús Puras , Spanish rally driver
- March 20 : Paul Annacone , American tennis player
- March 20 : Jelena Romanowa , Russian long-distance runner († 2007 )
- March 20th : Andreï Sokolov , French chess master of Russian origin
- March 21 : Ronald Koeman , Dutch football player
- March 22nd : Giuseppe Galderisi , Italian football player and coach
- March 23 : José Miguel González , Spanish football player
- March 23 : Ana Fidelia Quirot , Cuban athlete
- March 24th : Torsten Voss , German athlete
April
- April 3 : Duanne Moeser , German and Canadian ice hockey player
- April 4th : Fabrizio Barbazza , Italian racing driver
- April 11th : Chris Ferguson , American poker player
- April 12th : Kerstin Knüpfer , German handball player
- April 13th : Garry Kasparov , Russian chess player
- April 14 : Cynthia Cooper , American basketball player
- April 14th : Josep Maragues , Andorran football player
- April 15 : Walter Casagrande , Brazilian soccer player
- April 20 : Maurício Gugelmin , Brazilian racing car driver
- April 20th : Manuel Herreros , Spanish motorcycle racer
- April 21 : Jens Petersen , German racing car driver
- April 22nd : Blanca Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer († 2019 )
- April 23 : Paul Belmondo , French racing car driver
- April 23 : Pia Cramling , Swedish chess player
- April 23 : Robby Naish , American windsurfer
- April 24th : Lajos Détári , Hungarian football player
- April 25th : Christopher Campbell , French racing car driver
- April 25th : Andreas Rettig , German football official
- April 26th : Cornelia Ullrich , German athlete
- April 29 : Jim Benning , Canadian ice hockey player and team manager
- April 29th : Edgar Schmitt , German soccer player
- April 29 : Raúl Servín , Mexican soccer player
- April 30th : Jin-Sook Cords , Korean-German table tennis player
May
- May 1st : Philip Ma , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
- May 4th : Martin Schwalb , German handball player and coach
- May 5 : Alexis Noble , Uruguayan soccer player
- May 11 : Mark Breland , American boxer
- May 11 : Mohammad Yousef Kargar , Afghan soccer player
- May 12th : Stefano Modena , Italian racing car driver
- May 14 : José Asconeguy , Uruguayan road cyclist
- May 14th : Jochen Fraatz , German handball player
- May 17th : Luca Cadalora , Italian motorcycle racer
- May 20 : Juan Verzeri , Uruguayan football coach
- May 21 : Jelena Wodoresowa , Russian figure skater
- May 24th : Ivan Capelli , Italian racing car driver
- May 24 : Joe Dumars , American basketball player
- May 25 : José Enrique Peña , Uruguayan football player
- May 26th : Hinrich Romeike , German eventing rider
- May 27th : Maria Walliser , Swiss ski racer
- May 29 : Ukyō Katayama , Japanese Formula 1 driver
June
- June 1st : Juan Manuel Llop , Argentinian football coach
- June 4th : Jim Boni , Italian ice hockey player and ice hockey coach
- June 7th : Luca Fusi , Italian football player and coach
- June 11 : Sandra Schmirler , Canadian curler and Olympic champion († 2000 )
- June 12 : Philippe Bugalski , French rally driver († 2012 )
- June 13 : Sergej Ageikin , Russian ice hockey player († 2001 )
- June 13 : Bettina Bunge , German tennis player
- June 13 : Josef Heiss , German ice hockey player
- June 15th : Marina Asjabina , Russian hurdler
- June 18 : Bruce Smith , American football player
- June 19 : Roswitha Steiner , Austrian ski racer
- June 20 : Matt Anger , American tennis player
- June 20 : Kirk Baptiste , American track and field athlete
- June 20 : José Basualdo , Argentinian football player
- June 22nd : John Tenta , Canadian wrestler († 2006 )
- June 24 : Predrag Radosavljević , Serbian-American football coach-player
- June 24th : Gennadij Timofejew , Russian football player.
- June 26th : Felipe Ortiz , Bolivian racing car driver
- June 30th : Olha Wladykina-Bryshina , Ukrainian sprinter and Olympic champion
July
- July 4th : Ni Xialian , Chinese table tennis player
- July 10 : Yuri Golovshchikov , Soviet-Russian ski jumper
- July 13 : Spud Webb , American basketball player
- July 14th : Rolando Maran , Italian football player and coach
- July 14th : Heinz Weis , German athlete
- July 16 : Gustavo Bueno , Uruguayan football player and coach
- July 16 : Armin Schwarz , German rally driver
- July 17th : Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper († 2019 )
- July 18th : Marc Girardelli , Luxembourgish ski racer
- July 18 : Allen Sarven , American wrestler
- July 20 : Paula Ivan , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
- July 20 : Alexander Schulin , Russian figure skater
- July 22nd : Emilio Butragueño , Spanish football player
- July 22 : Ian Gray , Australian football player († 2010 )
- July 22nd : Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler
- July 23 : Slobodan Živojinović , Yugoslav tennis player
- July 24 : Karl Malone , American basketball player
- July 29th : Patty Dodd , American volleyball and beach volleyball player of Colombian origin
- July 30 : Chris Mullin , American basketball player
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August
- August 2nd : Andreas Dörhöfer , German handball player
- August 3 : Graham Arnold , Australian soccer player
- August 3 : Giovanni Francini , Italian football player
- August 4th : Holger Schneider , German handball player and coach
- August 7th : Bahne Rabe , German rower († 2001 )
- August 8 : Masahiko Kageyama , Japanese racing car driver
- August 8 : Igor Lapschin , Russian athlete
- August 9 : Maria Manuela Machado , Portuguese long-distance runner
- August 9 : Alain Menu , Swiss racing driver
- August 12 : Futahaguro Kōji , Japanese sumo wrestler and 60th yokozuna († 2019 )
- August 16 : Larry Nassar , American doctor and serial sex offender
- August 16 : Marilena Vlădărău , Romanian gymnast
- August 17 : Jon Gruden , American football coach
- August 17th : Maritza Martén , Cuban discus thrower and 1992 Olympic champion
- August 18 : Luiz Mattar , Brazilian tennis player
- August 20 : Riccardo Ferri , Italian football player
- August 21 : Michael Krieter , German handball player
- August 25 : Roberto Mussi , Italian football player
- August 25 : Avi Ran , Israeli soccer player († 1987 )
- August 26th : Ludger Beerbaum , German show jumper
- August 26th : Valery Schyrjajew , Swiss-Ukrainian ice hockey player and coach
- August 28 : Regina Jacobs , American middle and long distance runner
- August 30 : Gerardo Miranda , Uruguayan soccer player
September
- September 1 : Rich Chernomaz , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- September 4th : Luigino Pagotto , Italian racing driver
- September 4 : John Vanbiesbrouck , American ice hockey player
- September 8 : Herbert Waas , German football player
- September 9th : Markus Wasmeier , German ski racer
- September 11th : Donato Sabia , Italian athlete († 2020 )
- September 12 : Larissa Seleznjowa , Russian figure skater
- September 13th : Phillip Dutton , Australian eventing rider
- September 18 : Heiko Peschke , German soccer player
- September 19 : David Seaman , English football player
- September 22nd : Phillip McCallen , British motorcycle racer
- September 23 : Jurij Koschelenko , Russian extreme mountaineer
- September 24th : Maike Arlt , German volleyball player
- September 29 : Dave Andreychuk , Canadian ice hockey player
October
- October 1st : Jean-Denis Delétraz , Swiss racing driver
- October 2nd : Tony Agana , English soccer player
- October 6 : Sven Andersson , Swedish football player
- October 7th : Tatjana Alexejewa , Russian sprinter
- October 9 : Martin Adomeit , German table tennis trainer
- October 9 : Brigitte Gadient , Swiss ski racer
- October 9 : Roland Marcenaro , Uruguayan football coach and player
- October 10 : Leif Andersson , German volleyball player
- October 10 : Vegard Ulvang , Norwegian cross-country skier
- October 12 : Raimond Aumann , German soccer player
- October 16 : Thomas König , German handball player and trainer
- October 19 : Christian Hochstätter , German soccer player
- October 22 : Brian Boitano , California figure skater
- October 26th : Theresia Kiesl , Austrian athlete
- October 26 : José Luis Zalazar , Uruguayan soccer player
- October 30th : Thomas Erdos , Brazilian racing car driver
- October 30th : Gilberto Milos , Brazilian chess player
- October 30th : Andrea Stolletz , German handball goalkeeper
November
- November 1st : Mayk Bullerjahn , German soccer player
- November 2nd : Udo Wagner , German foil fencer
- November 3 : Luděk Čajka , Czech ice hockey player († 1990 )
- November 4th : Hennadij Avdjejenko , Soviet high jumper and Olympic champion
- November 4th : Mike Heidt , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- November 4th : Horacio Elizondo , Argentine football referee
- November 5th : Jean-Pierre Papin , French football player
- November 7th : John Barnes , English soccer player
- November 10 : Mike Powell , American athlete
- November 11th : Holger Winselmann , German handball player
- November 12th : Mikhail Krawez , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- November 14th : Skënder Gega , Albanian football player
- November 14th : Michał Krasenkow , Polish chess player
- November 16 : Dietmar Beiersdorfer , German football functionary and player
- November 17th : Elisabeth Kirchler , Austrian ski racer
- November 18 : Len Bias , American basketball player († 1986 )
- November 18 : Peter Schmeichel , Danish football player
- November 19 : Eduard Abazi , Albanian football player
- November 21 : Mikhail Mamiashvili , Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
- November 21 : Dave Molyneux , British motorcycle racer and designer
- November 25th : Dirk Römer , German soccer player
- November 26th : Richard Ratka , German handball player and handball trainer
- November 30th : Marc Rostan , French racing car driver
December
- December 1st : Marco Greco , Brazilian racing car driver
- December 4th : Jozef Sabovčík , Slovak figure skater
- December 4th : Serhiy Bubka , Soviet and Ukrainian pole vaulter
- December 5th : Eddie Edwards , British ski jumper
- December 6th : Debbie Armstrong , American ski racer
- December 7 : Sergei Prjachin , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- December 8th : Rüdiger Borchardt , German handball player and coach
- December 11th : Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , German tennis player
- December 12th : Enrique Leite , Uruguayan swimmer and kayaker
- December 14th : Diana Gansky , German athlete
- December 14th : Walter Gugele , Austrian ski racer
- December 15 : Lilija Nurutdinova , Russian middle-distance runner
- December 20th : Mats Gren , Swedish soccer coach and soccer player
- December 22nd : Mathias Ahrens , German field hockey coach
- December 22nd : Giuseppe Bergomi , Italian football player
- December 23 : Jim Harbaugh , American football player and coach
- December 26th : Linda Keough , British sprinter
- December 31 : Ahmed Almaktoum , marksman from the United Arab Emirates
Died
January to June
- January 22nd : József Nagy , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1892 )
- January 28th : Gustave Garrigou , French cyclist (* 1884 )
- February 22nd : Fritz Becker , German soccer player (* 1888 )
- March 15 : Bill Adams , English football player (* 1902 )
- March 21 : Josef Gauchel , German football player (* 1916 )
- March 22nd : Cilly Aussem , German tennis player (* 1909 )
- April 1 : Reinier Beeuwkes , Dutch football player (* 1884 )
- April 11th : Arthur Jonath , German athlete (* 1909 )
- April 18 : Adriaan Koonings , Dutch football player (* 1895 )
- May 12 : Bobby Kerr , Canadian athlete, Olympic champion and sports official (* 1882 )
- June 1 : Ambrogio Robecchi , Italian racing cyclist (* 1870 )
- June 15 : Christian Heins , Brazilian racing car driver (* 1935 )
- June 24th : Alan Titherley , English badminton player (* 1903 )
July to December
- July 28 : Gerard Gratton , Canadian weightlifter (born 1927 )
- August 11th : Otto Wahle , Austrian swimmer (* 1879 )
- September 15 : Charles Winslow , South African tennis player (* 1888 )
- September 22nd : Georg Braun , Austrian soccer player and coach (* 1907 )
- October 3 : Bobby McDermott , American basketball player (born 1914 )
- November 3 : Boris Kostić , Serbian chess player (* 1887 )
- November 17th : Peco Bauwens , German football player (* 1886 )
- November: Sepp Müller , German motorcycle racer (* 1906 )
- December 14th : Hans Abraham , German weightlifter (* 1886 )
- December 25th : Heiner Fleischmann , German motorcycle racer (* 1914 )
- December 27 : Wildcat Wilson , American football player (born 1901 )
Date unknown
- Robert Atherley , English football player (* 1878 )
- Rem Fowler , British motorcycle racer (* 1883 )
See also
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