Sports year 1964
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The sporting year 1964 contains sporting events and records. From January 29th to February 9th the IX. Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in Austria . The XVIII. The Olympic Games were held in Tokyo , Japan , from October 10th to 24th .
Olympic games
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1964 were the Thomas Cup 1964 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the French Open .
International events
Soccer
International football events
- 17th - 21st June : European Football Championship 1964
- June 21 : Spain become European champions in their own country with a 2-1 final victory over the USSR .
National football championships
- German soccer champions in 1964 were won by 1. FC Köln in the first Bundesliga championship .
athletics
Athletics world records
sprint
- April 4 : Henry Carr , USA, runs the men's 200 meters in 20.2 s.
- June 15 : Wyomia Tyus , USA, runs the women's 100 meters for 11.2 seconds.
- August 22 : Margaret Burvill , Australia, runs the women's 200 meters in 22.9 seconds.
Middle distance run
- June 20 : Ann Packer , Great Britain, runs the women's 800 meters in 2: 01.1 minutes.
Long distance running
- June 23 : Dale Greig , UK, runs the women's marathon in 3:27:45 h.
- July 13th : Basil Heatley , Great Britain, runs the men's marathon in 2:13:55 h.
- July 21 : Mildred Sampson , New Zealand, runs the women's marathon 3:19:33 h.
- October 21 : Abebe Bikila , Ethiopia, runs the men's marathon in 2:12: 11.2 hours.
Hurdles
- September 13 : Rex Cawley , USA, runs the men's 400 meter hurdles in 49.1 s.
Throwing disciplines
- April 4 : Dallas Long , USA, reaches 20.10 m in the men's shot put
- April 25 : Al Oerter , USA, reached 62.94 m in the men's discus throw .
- May 29 : Dallas Long , USA, reaches 20.20 m in the men's shot put
- July 1st : Terje Pedersen , Norway, reaches 87.12 m in the men's javelin .
- July 25 : Dallas Long , USA, hits 20.68 meters in the men's shot put.
- August 27 : Elvīra Ozoliņa , Soviet Union, reaches 61.38 m in the women's javelin.
- September 2 : Terje Pedersen , Norway, throws 91.72 m in the men's javelin.
- October 16 : Jelena Gorchakova , Soviet Union, reaches 62.40 m in the women's javelin.
- October 24th : Al Oerter , USA, reached 62.94 m in the men's discus throw.
Jump disciplines
- June 13 : Fred Hansen , USA, reaches 5.23 m in the men's pole vault.
- July 25 : Fred Hansen , USA, reaches 5.28 m in the men's pole vault.
- August 4th : Tatiana Schchelkanowa , Soviet Union, reaches 6.70 m in the women's long jump .
- September 14 : Ralph Boston , USA, reaches 8.31 m in the men's long jump.
- October 12 : Ralph Boston , USA, reaches 8.34 m in the men's long jump.
- October 14 : Mary Rand , Great Britain, jumps 6.76 m in the women's long jump.
Cycling
- The Giro d'Italia wins Jacques Anquetil of France
- The Tour de France wins Jacques Anquetil of France
- Jan Janssen from the Netherlands becomes world cycling champion on the road .
tennis
Men
Women
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1964 November 22nd to 29th in Malmö
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March 22nd: Hilversum: D. - Netherlands 5-0 (men)
- April 12: Groenlo: D. 5-4 Netherlands (women)
- May 9: Schwetzingen: D. - France 5: 2 (men)
- May 9: Schwetzingen: D. - France 3-0 (women)
- October 20: Siegburg: D. - Sweden 2: 5 (men)
- October 23: Innsbruck: D. - Austria 5-0 (men)
- October 23: Innsbruck: D. - Austria 5-3 (women)
- November: Roskilde: D. - Denmark 6-1 (men)
- November: Roskilde: D. - Denmark 6-0 (women)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Ingo Anderbrügge , German soccer player
- January 2nd : Wolfgang de Beer , German soccer goalkeeper
- January 2 : Christian Welp , German basketball player († 2015 )
- January 3 : Cheryl Miller , American basketball player
- January 4th : Alexander Fadeev , Russian figure skater
- January 5th : Miloš Pavlović , Serbian chess player
- January 6 : Davide Ballardini , Italian football player and coach
- January 6th : Henry Maske , German boxer
- January 12th : Laura Arraya , Peruvian tennis player
- January 12th : Vladimir Shishkin , Russian hurdler
- January 13th : Gloria Siebert , German athlete
- January 14 : Sergei Nemchinov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- January 14th : Uwe Wegmann , German soccer player
- January 16 : Sergei Vostrikov , Russian ice hockey player
- January 17th : Sergio Allievi , German soccer player
- January 18 : Gennadij Prokopenko , Soviet-Russian ski jumper
- January 19 : Sergei Shendelev , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- January 22nd : Catherine Quittet , French ski racer
- January 22nd : Carsten Kadach , German soccer referee
- January 24th : Carole Merle , French ski racer
- January 25 : Billy Andrade , American professional golfer
- January 26th : Danilo Antonipieri , Italian biathlete and cross-country skier
- January 26th : Torkil Nielsen , player in the Faroese national football team and chess player
- January 31 : Sharon Cain , American handball player
February
- February 2 : Igor Boldin , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- February 3 : Michael Rummenigge , German soccer player
- February 9 : Michael Arenz , German archer
- February 10 : Sam Graddy , American athlete and Olympic champion
- February 12th : Geir Andersen , Norwegian Nordic combined
- February 12 : Stéphane Franke , German athlete († 2011 )
- February 12 : Mikael Källman , Finnish handball player
- February 14th : Gianni Bugno , Italian cyclist
- February 14th : Andreas Neitzel , German handball player
- February 14th : Sigrid Wolf , Austrian ski racer
- February 16 : Bebeto , Brazilian soccer player
- February 16 : Valentina Egorova , Russian long-distance runner and Olympic champion
- February 20 : To Young-su , South Korean boxer
- February 22nd : William Tanui , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion
- February 22nd : Magnus Wislander , Swedish handball player and coach
- February 23 : Peter Kox , Dutch racing car driver
- February 23 : Miroslava Ritskiavitchius , German handball player
- February 24 : Ute Geweniger , swimming athlete from the GDR, Olympic champion
- February 25th : Marion Isbert , German soccer player
- February 25 : César Olivera , Uruguayan football player and coach
- February 25 : Sergei Pushkov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- February 26th : Alfred Kaminski , German soccer coach
- February 26 : Vladimir Krylov , Russian sprinter and 1988 Olympic champion
- February 27th : Thomas Lange , German rower and two-time Olympic champion
- February 28 : Jamolidin Abduschaparov , Uzbek cyclist
- February 29 : Henrik Sundström , Swedish tennis player
- February 29 : Marek Leśniak , Polish football player and coach
- February 29 : Ola Lindgren , Swedish handball coach
- February 29 : Larissa Peleschenko , Russian shot putter
- February 29th : Swilen Rusinow , Bulgarian super heavyweight amateur boxer
March
- March 3rd : Raymond Narac , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- March 4th : Emilia Eberle , Romanian gymnast
- March 9 : Paul Caligiuri , American football player
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- March 10th : Toni Polster , Austrian soccer player
- March 11th : Steffen Bringmann , German athlete
- March 11th : Christian Henn , German cyclist
- March 12 : Dieter Eckstein , German football player
- March 13 : Steve Collins , Canadian ski jumper
- March 15 : Fernando De Napoli , Italian football player
- March 16 : Pascal Richard , Swiss cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion
- March 16 : Jörg Schmadtke , German soccer player
- March 17 : Stefano Borgonovo , Italian football player and coach († 2013 )
- March 17 : Lee Dixon , English football player
- March 19 : Sergei Dmitriev , Russian football player and coach
- March 19 : Nicola Larini , Italian racing car driver
- March 24th : Claude Landenbergue , Swiss chess player
- March 24th : Liz McColgan , Scottish athlete
- March 25th : Christine von Grünigen , Swiss ski racer
- March 25 : Alexei Prokurorow , Soviet-Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion († 2008 )
- March 26th : Michael Frontzeck , German soccer player and coach
- March 26th : Staffan Olsson , Swedish handball player and coach
- March 26th : Arnaldo da Silva , Brazilian sprinter
- March 29 : Alberto Di Chiara , Italian football player
- March 29 : Alexander Volkov , Soviet-Ukrainian basketball player
- March 31 : Jürgen Wegmann , German soccer player
April
- April 1st : John Bosch , Dutch racing driver
- April 1st : Igor Wassiljew , Russian handball player and coach
- April 3 : Lincoln Asquith , British sprinter
- April 3 : Marco Ballotta , Italian football player
- April 3rd : Bjarne Riis , Danish cyclist
- April 3 : Jelena Rusina , Russian sprinter
- April 4th : Ralf Allgöwer , German soccer player
- April 4th : Branco , Brazilian soccer player
- April 4th : Jeremy McWilliams , British motorcycle racer
- April 5 : Marius Lăcătuș , Romanian football player
- April 6 : Juliet Cuthbert , Jamaican track and field athlete and Olympian
- April 8th : Dordi Nordby , Norwegian curler
- April 11 : Dirk Leun , German handball trainer
- April 12th : Ross Cheever , American racing car driver
- April 14th : Jeff Andretti , American racing car driver
- April 15 : Jörg-Uwe Lütt , German handball player
- April 19 : Frank-Peter Roetsch , German biathlete
- April 21 : Ludmila Engquist , Russian-Swedish athlete and Olympic champion
- April 22nd : Massimo Carrera , Italian football player and coach
- April 24th : Helga Arendt , German athlete († 2013 )
- April 26th : Tim Sugden , British racing car driver
- April 27 : Julia Bogdanova , Russian swimmer
- April 27th : Þórir Hergeirsson , Icelandic handball coach
- April 28 : Stephen Ames , Canadian golfer
- April 28th : Urs Sonderegger , Swiss racing driver
- April 30th : Ian Healy , Australian cricketer
- April 30th : Lorenzo Staelens , Belgian football player and coach
May
- May 1st : Yvonne van Gennip , Dutch speed skater
- May 2nd : Silvia Neid , German soccer player and trainer
- May 5th : Heike Henkel , German high jumper
- May 6th : Andrea Chiesa , Swiss racing driver
- May 7th : Giuseppe Iachini , Italian football player and coach
- May 10 : Leonid Voloshin , Czech chess player of Russian origin
- May 11 : Efstratios Apostolakis , Greek football player
- May 13 : Fernando Barboza , Uruguayan football player and coach († 2014 )
- May 17th : Mauro Martini , Italian racing car driver
- May 18 : Andrej Sujew , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
- May 19 : Miloslav Mečíř , Slovak tennis player
- May 26 : Patrick Antaki , Lebanese skeleton athlete
- May 26th : Valery Salov , Russian chess master
- May 26th : Alison Wyeth , British medium and long distance runner
- May 27 : Volker Abramczik , German soccer player
- May 28 : Jeff Fenech , Australian boxer and boxing coach
- May 30th : Andrea Montermini , Italian racing car driver
- May 30th : Corinne Schmidhauser , Swiss ski racer and politician
June
- June 1st : Davy Jones , American racing car driver
- June 5th : Martin Heuberger , German handball player and coach
- June 7th : Armin Assinger , Austrian ski racer and television presenter
- June 8 : Harry Reynolds , American athlete and Olympic champion
- June 9th : Thomas Klauser , German ski jumper
- June 11th : Gunnar Sauer , German soccer player
- June 11th : Jean Alesi , French Formula 1 racing driver
- June 11 : Kim Gallagher , American athlete († 2002 )
- June 12 : Uwe Kamps , German soccer player
- June 13 : Šarūnas Marčiulionis , Lithuanian basketball player
- June 13th : Tamara Tichonowa , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- June 14th : Guga , Brazilian soccer player
- June 15 : Michael Laudrup , Danish football player
- June 16 : Michael Lusch , German soccer player
- June 17th : Michael Groß , German swimmer
- June 17th : Dirk Raudies , German motorcycle racer
- June 17th : Ricardo Moniz , Dutch football coach
- June 19 : Kevin Schwantz , American motorcycle racer
- June 20th : Pierfrancesco Chili , Italian motorcycle racer
- June 20 : Silke Möller , German athlete (GDR)
- June 22 : Miroslav Kadlec , Czech football player
- June 23 : Lou Yun , Chinese gymnast and Olympic champion
- June 24th : Günther Mader , Austrian ski racer
- June 24th : Adel Massaad , German-Egyptian table tennis player
- June 24th : Georg Zug , German soccer player
- June 25th : Ernst Vettori , Austrian ski jumper
- June 25th : Johnny Herbert , British Formula 1 racing driver
- June 26th : Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish rally driver
- June 27th : PT Usha , Indian athlete
- June 30th : Giancarlo Falappa , Italian motorcycle racer
July
- July 1st : Giovanna Arbunic Castro , Chilean chess player
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- July 1st : Franz Wohlfahrt , Austrian soccer player
- July 4th : Misko Antisin , Swiss-Canadian ice hockey player
- July 5th : Filip De Wilde , Belgian football player
- July 5th : Piotr Nowak , Polish football player
- July 8 : Alexei Gussarov , Russian ice hockey player
- July 9 : Gianluca Vialli , Italian football player
- July 12th : Svetlana Bogdanova , Soviet and Russian handball player
- July 16 : Ashot Anastassjan , Armenian chess grandmaster († 2016 )
- July 16 : Miguel Indurain , Spanish cyclist
- July 17th : Norbert Dobeleit , German athlete
- July 17th : Earl Jones , American middle distance runner
- July 19 : Masahiko Kondo , Japanese singer, actor and racing car driver
- July 19 : Mauro Ribeiro , Brazilian cyclist
- July 20 : Bernd Schneider , German automobile racing driver
- July 21 : Jens Weißflog , German ski jumper, Olympic champion (GDR)
- July 26th : Tatjana Mittermayer , German freestyle skier
- July 28 : Karin Buder , Austrian ski racer
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- July 30th : Jürgen Klinsmann , German soccer player and national coach
- July 31 : Wendell Alexis , American basketball player
August
- August 1st : Detlef Dezelak , German soccer player
- August 1st : Maria Usifo , Nigerian athlete
- August 2nd : Frank Biela , German automobile racing driver
- August 9 : Yuri Chmylev , Russian ice hockey player
- August 9 : Brett Hull , Canadian-American ice hockey player
- August 9 : Maurizio Vandelli , Italian cyclist
- August 11 : Uwe Ampler , German cyclist and Olympic champion
- August 15 : André Golke , German soccer player
- August 15 : Sam Schmidt , American racing car driver, racing team owner and businessman
- August 16 : Jimmy Arias , American tennis player
- August 17th : Jorginho , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- August 18th : Richard Hay , British racing car driver
- August 19 : Axel Roos , German soccer player
- August 20 : Giuseppe Giannini , Italian football player and coach
- August 22nd : Mats Wilander , Swedish tennis player
- August 23 : Johan Bruyneel , Belgian cyclist
- August 24th : Éric Bernard , French racing driver
- August 24 : Carlos Hermosillo , Mexican soccer player
- August 29th : Jordi Arrese , Spanish tennis player
- August 29 : Vladislav Broda , German table tennis player
September
- September 4th : Hubertus Becker , German soccer player
- September 4th : Alexandra Leonova , Russian basketball player
- September 4th : Robson da Silva , Brazilian sprinter and Olympic knight
- September 5th : Frank Farina , Italian-Australian soccer coach and soccer player
- September 7th : Andy Hug , Swiss martial artist († 2000 )
- September 12 : Dieter Hecking , German football player and coach
- September 14th : Paoletta Magoni , Italian ski racer
- September 17th : Franck Piccard , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- September 19 : Enrico Bertaggia , Italian racing driver
- September 20 : Mats Ericson , Swedish ski racer
- September 21 : Carlos Aguilera , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 24th : Jeff Krosnoff , American racing driver († 1996 )
- September 28th : Gregor Fisken , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- September 30th : Jürgen Querengässer , German handball player
October
- October 1st : Jérôme Policand , French racing driver
- October 2nd : Macharbek Chadarzew , Russian wrestler
- October 3 : Anatoly Jemelin , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- October 6th : Thorsten Storm , German handball manager and player
- October 9th : Martín Jaite , Argentine tennis player
- October 10 : Maxi Gnauck , German gymnast (GDR)
- October 19 : Márcio Bittencourt , Brazilian football player and coach
- October 22nd : Craig Levein , Scottish football player and coach
- October 22nd : Dražen Petrović , Croatian basketball player († 1993 )
- October 24th : Frode Grodås , Norwegian football coach
- October 27 : Andreas Gielchen , German soccer player
- October 28 : Scott Russell , American motorcycle racer
- October 29 : Alexei Marjin , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper († 2016 )
- October 30th : Steven Andskär , Swedish racing car driver
- October 30 : Jean-Marc Bosman , Belgian football player
- October 31 : Marco van Basten , Dutch football player
November
- November 2 : Desmond Armstrong , American soccer player
- November 5th : Stefan Angehrn , Swiss boxer
- November 8th : Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen , Norwegian cross-country skier
- November 10 : Valery Babanov , Russian climber
- November 12th : Thomas Berthold , German soccer player
- November 12th : Jakob Hlasek , Swiss tennis player
- November 13 : Ronald Agénor , Haitian-American tennis player
- November 16 : Dwight Gooden , American baseball player
- November 16 : Renato Tosio , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- November 17th : Marina Cherkassova , Russian figure skater
- November 18 : Daniel Aceves , Mexican wrestler
- November 19 : Beatrice Gafner , Swiss ski racer
- November 19 : Svetlana Varganowa , Russian swimmer
- November 22 : Robert Slater , Australian soccer player
- November 26th : Vreni Schneider , Swiss ski racer
- November 27th : Jörg Blauert , German chess player
- November 27 : Roberto Mancini , Italian football player and coach
- November 28th : Armin Bittner , German ski racer
December
- December 1st : Salvatore Schillaci , Italian football player
- December 6th : Martin Bell , British ski racer
- December 7th : Vladimir Artyomov , Russian gymnast
- December 8th : Armin Eck , German soccer player
- December 9th : Jörg Kretzschmar , German soccer player
- December 11th : Franco Ballerini , Italian cyclist († 2010 )
- December 13 : Dieter Eilts , German football player and coach
- December 13 : Ricardo Gomes , Brazilian soccer coach and player
- December 16 : Roberto Conti , Italian cyclist
- December 16 : Heike Drechsler , German athlete
- December 16 : Anfissa Reszowa , Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and Olympic champion
- December 18 : Steve Austin , American wrestler and actor
- December 19 : Randall McDaniel , American football player
- December 19 : Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
- December 20th : Marina Pestova , Russian figure skater
- December 23 : Jens Heppner , German cyclist
- December 30th : Hans-Georg Dreßen , German soccer player
- December 31st : Fljura Khasanova , Kazakh chess player
Died
- January 1 : Ernst Zündorf , German motorcycle racer (* 1897 )
- January 7th : Reg Parnell , British racing car driver and team boss (* 1911 )
- February 5 : Max Sailer , German racing car driver and engineer (* 1882 )
- February 25 : Maurice Farman , French track cyclist, automobile racing driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (* 1877 )
- May 4th : André Lefèbvre , French automobile designer and racing driver (* 1894 )
- May 17th : John Moore-Brabazon , British aviation pioneer and conservative politician and racing car driver (* 1884 )
- July 19 : Karl Recktenwald , German motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- July 26th : Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , British officer, politician and racing car driver (* 1884 )
- September 14 : Josef Imbach , Swiss sprinter (* 1894 )
- September 30th : Cyril de Vère , French racing car driver (* 1881 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1964 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
