Sports year 1965
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badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1965 was the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open and the Southeast Asian Games .
International events
athletics
- January 16 - Ron Clarke , Australia , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 34.8 minutes.
- May 8 - Randy Matson , USA , hit 21.52 meters in the men's shot put.
- May 17 - Gennady Agapov , Russia , finished the men's 50,000-meter walk in 3:55:36 hours.
- May 29 - Ralph Boston , USA , jumped 8.35 meters in the men's long jump.
- May 30 - Kipchoge Keino , Kenya , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 24.2 minutes.
- June 8 - Randy Matson , USA , reached 21.52 meters in the men's shot put.
- June 16 - Ron Clarke , Australia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 28: 14.0 minutes.
- June 20 - Hal Connolly , USA , threw 71.26 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- June 29 - Hal Connolly , USA , reached 71.26 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- July 9 - Irena Kirszenstein , Poland , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.1 seconds.
- July 14 - Ron Clarke , Australia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 39.4 minutes.
- July 20 - Jürgen May , GDR , ran the men's 1000 meters in 2: 16.2 minutes.
- August 11 - Tamara Press , Soviet Union , threw 59.7 meters in the women's discus throw.
- August 14 - Ron Clarke , Australia , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 39.4 minutes.
- August 21 - Hal Connolly , USA , reached 71.06 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- August 27 - Kipchoge Keino , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meters in 7: 39.6 minutes.
- August 31 - Wyomia Tyus , USA , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.1 seconds.
- September 6th - Gaston Roelants , Belgium , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 26.4 minutes.
- September 7 - Irena Kirszenstein , Poland , ran the women's 200 meters in 22.7 seconds.
- September 19 - Tamara Press , Soviet Union , hit 18.59 meters in the women's shot put.
- October 3 - Randy Matson , USA , reached 21.05 meters in the men's shot put.
- October 4th - Gyula Zsivótzky , Hungary , reached 73.74 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- October 10 - Tamara Press , Soviet Union , reached 59.7 meters in the women's discus throw.
- October 12 - Ludvík Daněk , Czechoslovakia , threw the discus in the men's 65.22 meter discipline.
- October 15 - Ron Clarke , Australia , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 34.8 minutes.
- November 30th - Kipchoge Keino , Kenya , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 24.2 minutes.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1965 April 15th to 25th in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March 25: Venlo: D. - Netherlands 8-1 (men)
- May 8: Lörrach: D. - Japan 1: 5 (men)
- May 8: Lörrach: D. - Japan 1: 3 (women)
- February: GDR - Yugoslavia 4: 5 (men)
- February: GDR 3-1 Yugoslavia (women)
- February 6: Magdeburg: GDR - Hungary 0-3 (women)
Born
January
- January 1st : Asjat Saitow , Soviet and Russian racing cyclist
- January 2nd : Andy Ashurst , British pole vaulter
- January 4th : Guy Forget , French tennis player
- January 5th : Vinnie Jones , Welsh football player and actor
- January 5th : Patrik Sjöberg , Swedish athlete
- January 6th : Marco Branca , Italian football player and official
- January 6th : Christine Wachtel , German athlete
- January 8th : Ahn Jae-hyung , South Korean table tennis player
- January 10 : Matthias Hahn , German handball player and coach
- January 11th : Andreas Diebitz , German soccer player
- January 12th : Marina Kiehl , German ski racer
- January 14th : Roswitha Bindl , German soccer player
- January 15th : Maurizio Fondriest , Italian cyclist
- January 17th : Fred Radig , German handball player († 2019 )
- January 21 : Christine Paul , German soccer player
- January 23 : Thomas Adler , German soccer player
- January 28th : Nadia Bonfini , Italian ski racer
- January 29 : Dominik Hašek , Czech ice hockey player
- January 31 : Andri Marteinsson , Icelandic football player
February
- February 2 : Ajrat Khamatov , Soviet boxer and 1989 featherweight champion
- February 2nd : Swetlana Nageikina , Russian cross-country skier
- February 5 : Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian football player
- February 5 : Lawrence Iquaibom , Nigerian weightlifter
- February 7th : Ignacio Ambríz , Mexican soccer coach and soccer player
- February 9 : Dieter Baumann , German long-distance runner
- February 9 : Igor Malkov , Soviet speed skater and 1984 Olympic champion
- February 9 : Christian Schenk , German athlete, Olympic champion
- February 13 : Sven Demandt , German soccer player and coach
- February 13 : Valery Kiriyenko , Russian biathlete
- February 13 : Ida Ladstätter , Austrian ski racer
- February 13 : Yuri Sawitschew , Russian football player and 1988 Olympic champion
- February 14 : Karl Erik Bøhn , Norwegian handball player and coach († 2014 )
- February 15 : Sergei Tarasov , Russian biathlete and Olympic champion
- February 18 : Rainer Schmidt , German table tennis player
- February 19 : Michael Westphal , German tennis player († 1991 )
- February 20 : Michel Ansermet , Swiss marksman
- February 21 : Evair Aparecido Paulino , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- February 21 : Thomas Sivertsson , Swedish handball player and coach
- February 21 : Atsushi Yogō , Japanese racing car driver
- February 23 : Helena Suková , Czechoslovak tennis player
- February 24th : Harald Andler , German handball referee
- February 24th : Hansi Flick , German soccer player
- February 26th : Kōsei Akaishi , Japanese wrestler
- February 27 : Alexander Goldin , Russian chess grandmaster
- February 27 : Oliver Reck , German football goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach
March
- March 3 : Dragan Stojković , Serbian football player
- March 4th : Radouane Abbes , Algerian football player
- March 5 : Johnny Ekström , Swedish football player
- March 7th : Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
- March 10th : Alessandro Fiorio , Italian rally driver
- March 11 : Nigel Adkins , English football player and coach
- March 11th : Eric Jelen , German tennis player
- March 16 : Utut Adianto , Indonesian chess player, chess official and politician
- March 16 : Sergei Bazarevich , Russian basketball coach and former Soviet and Russian national team
- March 21 : Steffen Krauss , German soccer player († 2008 )
- March 23 : Trine Haltvik , Norwegian handball player and trainer
- March 24 : Mark William Calaway , American wrestler (The Undertaker)
- March 24th : Peter Öttl , German motorcycle racer
- March 25th : Stefka Kostadinowa , Bulgarian high jumper
- March 25 : Frank Ordenewitz , German soccer player
- March 26th : Violeta Szekely , Romanian athlete and Olympian
- March 29 : Paraskevi Patoulidou , Greek athlete and Olympic champion
- March 31 : Tom Barrasso , American ice hockey player
April
- April 5 : Swetlana Paramygina , Soviet-Belarusian biathlete
- April 7th : Alexander Mronz , German tennis player
- April 8 : Heiko Brestrich , German football player and coach
- April 8 : Michael Jones , New Zealand rugby union player
- April 10 : Bernd Schneider , German chess player
- April 13th : Nina Gavriljuk , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- April 15 : Claudia Leistner , German figure skater
- April 17th : Mike Fuhrig , German handball player
- April 18 : Liz Aronsohn , American badminton player
- April 19 : Melitta Rühn , Romanian gymnast
- April 21 : Thomas Helmer , German soccer player
- April 21 : Ed Belfour , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 25 : Jens Adler , German soccer player
- April 28 : Eva Twardokens , American ski racer
- April 29 : Angelo Alessio , Italian football player and coach
May
- May 3rd : Dirk Helmig , German soccer player
- May 5th : Chris McMurry , American racing car driver
- May 6 : Greg Poss , American ice hockey coach
- May 7th : Henrik Andersen , Danish football player
- May 8 : Antonio Ananiew , Bulgarian football goalkeeper
- May 9 : Steve Yzerman , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 11th : Stefano Domenicali , Italian team manager at Scuderia Ferrari
- May 11th : Charles-Louis Seck , Senegalese athlete
- May 13 : Eberhard Carl , German soccer player
- May 15 : George Fouché , South African racing car driver
- May 15 : Raí , Brazilian soccer player
- May 18 : Heiko Burmeister , German handball player and trainer
- May 20th : Bruno Marie-Rose , French athlete
- May 20th : Jean-Charles Trouabal , French athlete
- May 20th : Roberta Brunet , Italian athlete
- May 20th : Kristina Andersson , Swedish ski racer
- May 22 : Maja Ussowa , Russian figure skater
- May 23 : Manolo Sanchís , Spanish soccer player
- May 27 : Pat Cash , Australian tennis player
- May 28 : André Trulsen , German football player
June
- June 1st : Larissa Lasutina , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- June 1st : Olga Nazarova , Russian sprinter and Olympic champion
- June 1st : Nigel Short , English chess player
- June 2nd : Jens-Peter Herold , German athlete
- June 3rd : Anja Langer , German bodybuilder
- June 4th : Mick Doohan , Australian motorcycle racer
- June 4th : Andrea Jaeger , American tennis player
- June 6th : Donat Acklin , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- June 9th : Giuseppe Cipriani , Italian racing driver
- June 12 : Gwen Torrence , American athlete and Olympic champion
- June 13 : Michael Klemm , German handball player
- June 17 : Dermontti Dawson , American football player
- June 17th : Ralf Lübke , German athlete
- June 17th : Carlos Medina , Andorran football player
- June 19 : Sabine Braun , German athlete
- June 24th : Uwe Krupp , German ice hockey player and coach
- June 26 : Ulrich Derad , German handball player
- June 28th : Hansjörg Aschenwald , Austrian Nordic combiner
- June 28th : Thomas Vogel , German soccer player
- June 29th : Michaela Erler , German handball player
- June 30th : Anna Kondraschowa , Russian figure skater
- June 30 : Mitch Richmond , American basketball player
July
- July 1st : Carl Fogarty , British motorcycle racer
- July 3 : Hans Dorfner , German soccer player
- July 4th : Harvey Grant , American basketball player
- July 4th : Horace Grant , American basketball player
- July 4th : Giancarlo Marocchi , Italian football player
- July 6th : Jens Müller , German luge and Olympic champion
- July 6th : Hannes Zehentner , German ski racer
- July 7th : Jeremy Guscott , English rugby player
- July 9th : Natalja Voronowa , Russian sprinter
- July 10 : Yelena Chudaschowa , Russian basketball player and Olympic champion
- July 13 : Arnd Schmitt , German fencer
- July 14th : Tan Liangde , Chinese water diver
- July 15 : Olga Evkova , Soviet-Russian basketball player
- July 16 : Gianni Faresin , Italian cyclist
- July 16 : Claude Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 18 : Petra Schersing , German sprinter
- July 19 : Claus-Dieter Wollitz , German soccer player and coach
- July 20 : Joe Arlauckas , American basketball player
- July 21 : Jovy Marcelo , Filipino racing car driver († 1992 )
- July 22nd : Shawn Michaels , American wrestler
- July 23 : Jörg Stübner , German soccer player († 2019 )
- July 27 : José Luis Chilavert , Paraguayan football player
- July 27 : Trifon Ivanov , Bulgarian football player († 2016 )
- July 27 : Alexej Jaschkin , Czech-Russian ice hockey player
- July 27 : Vladimir Resnichenko , Soviet and German fencer and Olympic champion
- July 27 : Heiko Triepel , German handball player and trainer
- July 28th : Pedro Troglio , Argentine soccer player and coach
- July 31 : Mario von Appen , German canoeist
August
- August 4th : Michael Skibbe , German soccer player and coach
- August 6th : Stéphane Peterhansel , French rally driver
- August 6th : Luc Alphand , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- August 6 : David Robinson , American basketball player
- August 7th : Jocelyn Angloma , French soccer player
- August 7 : Bernd Truntschka , German ice hockey player
- August 9 : Aleksandar Abutovic , Serbian football player
- August 17th : Mak Ka Lok , Macau racing car driver
- August 17th : Anton Pfeffer , Austrian soccer player
- August 20th : Raphael Sperrer , Austrian rally driver
- August 24th : Sylvia Eder , Austrian ski racer
- August 24 : Reggie Miller , American basketball player
- August 25 : Holger Aden , German soccer striker and soccer coach
- August 28 : Dmitri Kuznetsov , Soviet and Russian football player and coach
- August 29 : Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- August 29th : Neno Ašćerić , Austrian basketball coach and player
- August 29th : Gerhard Rodax , Austrian football player
- August 31 : Henry Acquah , Ghanaian soccer player
September
- September 2nd : Lennox Lewis , British boxer
- September 4th : Marc Degryse , Belgian football player
- September 5th : David Brabham , Australian racing car driver
- September 7th : Andreas Thom , German soccer player and coach
- September 7th : Darko Pančev , Yugoslav and Macedonian football player
- September 7th : Uta Pippig , German athlete and marathon runner
- September 8th : Maik Heydeck , German amateur boxer
- September 13 : Diego Aguirre , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 15th : Thomas Stangassinger , Austrian ski racer
- September 16 : Karl-Heinz Riedle , German soccer player
- September 19 : Carsten Linke , German soccer player
- September 19 : Gustavo Machaín , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 19 : Gilles Panizzi , French rally driver
- September 22nd : Manfred Binz , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Tony Drago , Maltese snooker player
- September 22nd : Søren Lilholt , Danish cyclist
- September 22nd : Jörg Sievers , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Alexander Chornych , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player
- September 24th : Hans Werner Moser , German soccer player
- September 25 : Rafael Martín Vázquez , Spanish football player
- September 25 : Christine Frai , German soccer referee
- September 25 : Scottie Pippen , American basketball player
October
- October 1st : Dirk Bremser , German soccer player and coach
- October 3rd : Jan-Ove Waldner , Swedish table tennis player
- October 5 : Mario Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 5th : Patrick Roy , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 6 : Jürgen Kohler , German soccer player
- October 7th : Marco Apicella , Italian racing driver
- October 8 : Matt Biondi , American swimmer
- October 9 : Stefan Kohn , German soccer player
- October 12 : Henry Akinwande , Nigerian-British heavyweight boxer
- October 13 : Johan Museeuw , Belgian cyclist
- October 15 : Andrzej Rudy , Polish football player
- October 17th : Jens Kürbis , German handball goalkeeper and journalist
- October 18th : Fulvia Stevenin , Italian ski racer
- October 18 : German Titov , Russian ice hockey player
- October 20 : Stefano Pioli , Italian football player and coach
- October 20 : Mikhail Shtalenkov , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- October 27 : Stefan Prein , German motorcycle racer
- October 28 : Ralf Kohl , German soccer player
- October 29 : Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer († 1995 )
- October 30th : Tomoko Igata , Japanese motorcycle racer
November
- November 1st : Olaf Hampel , German bobsleigh driver
- November 2nd : Bruno Miot , French racing car driver
- November 3 : Alex Tobin , Australian soccer player
- November 4th : Claudia Strobl , Austrian ski racer
- November 7th : Sigrun Wodars , German athlete
- November 10 : Michaela Gerg , German ski racer
- November 10 : Eddie Irvine , Irish Formula 1 racing driver
- November 12th : Regula Aebi , Swiss athlete
- November 16 : Mika Aaltonen , Finnish soccer player
- November 17 : Stefan Kiefer , German motorcycle racer and team boss († 2017 )
- November 19 : Gary Ablett , English football player and coach († 2012 )
- November 19 : Laurent Blanc , French football player
- November 22nd : Gustavo Acosta , Argentinian soccer player
- November 22nd : Daniel Freitas Rodríguez , Uruguayan boxer
- November 23 : Neil Adams , English soccer player
- November 24 : Rui Barros , Portuguese football player and coach
- November 26th : Patrice Goueslard , French racing car driver
- November 28 : Jürgen Fuchs , German motorcycle racer
- November 30th : Aldair , Brazilian soccer player
- November 30th : Zeynəddin Bilalov , Azerbaijani athlete in disabled sports
December
- December 3rd : Katarina Witt , German figure skater, two-time Olympic champion
- December 4th : Ulf Kirsten , German soccer player
- December 14 : Aljoša Asanović , Yugoslav-Croatian football player
- December 14th : Bärbel Weimar , German soccer player
- December 16 : Christian Lavieille , French motorcycle and automobile racer
- December 23 : Andreas Kappes , German cyclist († 2018 )
- December 25th : Olivier Dupard , French racing car driver
- December 25 : Dmitri Mironov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 28th : Mario Wille , German handball player
- December 30th : Essam Abd el-Fatah , Egyptian FIFA referee and airplane pilot
- December 31 : Tony Dorigo , English football player
Died
- March 26th : Heinrich Schomburgk , German tennis player (* 1885 )
- April 5 : Giulio Foresti , Italian racing driver (* 1888 )
- April 10 : Hans Soenius , German motorcycle racer (* 1901 )
- May 19 : Federico Della Ferrera , Italian cyclist and motorcycle racer, engineer and entrepreneur (* 1887 )
- June 16 : René Dély , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
- June 23 : Carlo Carcano , Italian football player and coach (* 1891 )
- July 15 : Tiny Feather , American football player (born 1902 )
- September 11th : Manfred Schiek , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1935 )
- October 22 : Earl Cooper , American racing driver (* 1886 )
- December 11th : Gioacchino Armano , Italian football player (* 1883 )
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