Sports year 1967
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Other events
badminton
The highlights of the 1967 badminton year were the Thomas Cup in 1967 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open , the Southeast Asian Games and the French Open .
International events
athletics
- January 28 - Judy Pollock , Australia , ran the women's 800 meters in 2: 01.0 minutes.
- February 3 - Anne Smith , Great Britain , ran the women's 1,500 meters in 4: 17.3 minutes.
- May 5th - Liesel Westermann , Germany , reached 61.26 meters in the women's discus throw.
- May 6 - Maureen Wilton , Canada , ran the women's marathon 3:15:22 hours.
- May 14 - Kurt Bendlin , Germany , scored 8,234 points in the men's decathlon.
- May 20 - Tommie Smith , USA , ran the men's 400 meters in 44.5 seconds.
- June 3 - Anne Smith , Great Britain , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 17.3 minutes.
- June 20 - Tommie Smith , USA , ran the men's 400 meters in 44.5 seconds.
- June 22nd - Irma Hansson , Sweden , completed the women's 20,000 meter walk in 1: 54.3 hours.
- June 24th - Maria Gommers , Netherlands , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 15.6 minutes.
- July 6 - Maureen Wilton , Canada ran the women's marathon in 3:15:22 hours.
- July 8 - Jim Ryun , USA , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 33.1 minutes.
- July 10 - Bob Seagren , USA , reached 5.36 meters in the men's pole vault.
- July 14th - Kurt Bendlin , Germany , scored 8,319 points in the men's decathlon.
- July 23 - Paul Wilson , USA , reached 5.38 meters in the men's pole vault.
- August 12 - Barbara Ferrell , USA , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.1 seconds.
- August 8 - Jim Ryun , USA , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 33.1 minutes.
- September 29 - Derek Clayton , Australia , ran the men's marathon in 2:09:36 hours.
- October 21 - Randy Matson , USA , reached 21.78 meters in the men's shot put.
- November 5th - Liesel Westermann , Germany , threw 61.26 meters in the women's discus throw.
- December 3 - Derek Clayton , Australia , ran the men's marathon in 2:09:37 hours.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1967 April 11-21 in Stockholm (Sweden)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March: Karlsruhe: D. - CSSR 2: 3 (men)
- March: Karlsruhe: D. - CSSR 2: 3 (women)
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European League
- November 9: Leeds: D. - England 1: 6 (women + men)
- December 7th: Duisburg: D. - USSR 2: 5 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Francois Pienaar , South African rugby union player
- January 5th : David Donohue , American racing car driver
- January 6th : Irina Muschailowa , Russian long jumper
- January 7th : Ole Kristian Furuseth , Norwegian ski racer
- January 7th : Marina Trandenkowa , Russian sprinter
- January 8 : Willie Anderson , American basketball player
- January 9 : Claudio Caniggia , Argentine football player
- January 10 : Monika Maierhofer , Austrian ski racer
- January 11 : Teoman Alibegović , Yugoslav basketball player
- January 11th : Fynn Holpert , German handball goalkeeper
- January 11th : Oleg Kisseljow , Russian handball coach and handball player
- January 12 : Meho Kodro , Yugoslavian, later Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- January 16 : Alberto Puig , Spanish motorcycle racer
- January 18 : Iván Zamorano , Chilean football player
- January 29 : Dmitri Karlov , Russian handball player
- January 29th : Khalid Skah , Moroccan athlete
- January 30th : Sergei Tschepikow , Russian biathlete, cross-country skier and Olympic champion
February
- February 3 : Mixu Paatelainen , Finnish football player
- February 3 : Aurelio Vidmar , Australian football player and coach
- February 4th : Vyacheslav Atavin , Russian handball player
- February 4 : Sergei Grinkow , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion († 1995 )
- February 8 : Matthias Baranowski , German soccer player
- February 8 : Lorenzo Minotti , Italian football player
- February 11 : Ciro Ferrara , Italian football player and coach
- February 12 : Anita Wachter , Austrian ski racer
- February 13th : Tadayuki Okada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- February 14 : Manuela Maleeva , Bulgarian tennis player
- February 18 : Roberto Baggio , Italian football player
- February 18 : Colin Jackson , British hurdle sprinter
- February 18 : Michael Wittwer , German soccer player
- February 19 : Alexander Baburin , Irish chess player of Russian origin
- February 20 : Paul Accola , Swiss ski racer
- February 20 : Damian Adamus , German-Polish ice hockey player
- February 21 : Leroy Burrell , American athlete and Olympic champion
- February 21 : Silke-Beate Knoll , German sprinter
- February 23 : Tetsuya Asano , Japanese football player and coach
- February 26 : Kazuyoshi Miura , Japanese soccer player
March
- March 1st : Jelena Afanassjewa , Russian middle-distance runner
- March 2nd : Oscar Ferro , Uruguayan soccer player
- March 3 : Claudio Arbiza , Uruguayan football player
- March 3 : Alexander Volkov , Russian tennis player († 2019 )
- March 4th : Michael Andersson , Swedish cyclist
- March 4th : Kubilay Türkyılmaz , Swiss football player
- March 7th : Mayumi Abe , Japanese curler
- March 14th : Pablo Correa , Uruguayan soccer coach and player
- March 16 : Heidi Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
- March 19 : Vladimir Konstantinov , Russian ice hockey player
- March 20 : Igor Polyansky , Russian swimmer and 1988 Olympic champion
- March 20 : Miriam Vogt , German ski racer
- March 22nd : Bibi Appel , German ice hockey goalkeeper
- March 22nd : Mario Cipollini , Italian racing cyclist
- March 24 : Yuri Nesterov , Russian handball player
- March 24th : Kathy Rinaldi , American tennis player
- March 24th : Diann Roffe-Steinrotter , American ski racer
- March 28th : Kai Abraham , German-Austrian badminton player
- March 31 : Andrei Masunow , Soviet-Russian table tennis player
April
- April 1st : Elke Walther , German soccer player
- April 3rd : Mark Skaife , Australian racing car driver
- April 4th : Edith Masai , Kenyan athlete
- April 6th : Chantal Bournisse , Swiss ski racer
- April 6 : Andrei Ivanov , Russian football player († 2009 )
- April 7th : Bodo Illgner , German soccer player
- April 11th : Joop Stokkel , Dutch swimmer and rider
- April 17th : Nadezhda Talanova , Russian biathlete and Olympic champion
- April 22nd : Bart Bowen , American cyclist
- April 22nd : Kristi Terzian , American ski racer
- April 26 : Klaus Merk , German ice hockey player and coach
- April 26 : Glenn Jacobs , American wrestler
- April 28th : Michel Andrieux , French rower
- April 28th : Dario Huebner , Italian soccer player
May
- May 2nd : Luigi Apolloni , Italian football player and coach
- May 2nd : Masami Kageyama , Japanese racing car driver
- May 6th : Thomas Abratis , German Nordic combined athlete
- May 6th : Christophe Pillon , Swiss racing driver
- May 7th : Oliver Anthofer , Austrian disabled athlete
- May 8 : Christian Abt , German automobile racing driver
- May 9 : Nataša Bokal , Slovenian ski racer
- May 10 : Antje Harvey , German biathlete
- May 11 : Alberto García Aspe , Mexican soccer player
- May 12 : Tim Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 15th : Simen Agdestein , Norwegian chess grandmaster and soccer player
- May 15 : John Smoltz , American baseball player
- May 18th : Heinz-Harald Frentzen , German racing driver
- May 20th : Patrick Ortlieb , Austrian skier
- May 21 : Andrei Antropov , Russian badminton player
- May 21 : Chris Benoit , American wrestler († 2007 )
- May 23 : Didier Cottaz , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- May 24th : Sergei Klischin , Russian and later Austrian judoka
- May 25 : Luc Nilis , Belgian football player
- May 25th : André Tempelmeier , German handball player
- May 27 : Yevgeny Davydov , Russian ice hockey player
- May 27 : Paul Gascoigne , English football player
- May 28 : Len Soccio , Canadian-German ice hockey player
- May 29 : Yevgeny Aleinikov , Russian marksman
- May 29 : Omar Arellano Nuño , Mexican soccer player and coach
- May 29 : Heidi Mohr , German soccer player († 2019 )
- May 30th : Jean-Jacques Aeschlimann , Swiss ice hockey player
- May 30th : Ian Hodgkinson , Canadian wrestler
June
- June 1st : Olivier Delaître , French tennis player
- June 2nd : Andreas Tam , German handball trainer and handball player
- June 3 : Sven Ottke , German boxer
- June 5 : Joe DeLoach , American track and field athlete
- June 7th : Robert Jonás , Andorran football player
- June 8th : Edgar Itt , German athlete
- June 9 : Dave McLlwain , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 11 : Konstantin Tschernyschow , Russian chess grandmaster
- June 13 : Taşkın Aksoy , Turkish football player and coach
- June 15 : Pavel Muslimow , Russian biathlete
- June 16 : Jürgen Klopp , German soccer player and coach
- June 17th : Barbara Sadleder , Austrian ski racer
- June 18 : Michelle Ruthven , Canadian ski racer
- June 19 : Bjørn Dæhlie , Norwegian cross-country skier
- June 22nd : Paul Stanton , American ice hockey player
- June 22nd : Yutaka Yamagishi , Japanese racing car driver
- June 27th : Andre Arendse , South African soccer goalkeeper
- June 28th : Denis Petouchinski , New Zealand pole vaulter of Russian origin
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- June 28th : Lars Riedel , German discus thrower
- June 30th : Silke Renk , German athlete and Olympic champion
July
- July 2 : Roman Swonkow , Ukrainian biathlete († 1995 )
- July 5th : Henry Urday Cáceres , Peruvian chess grandmaster and official
- July 7th : Tom Kristensen , Danish racing driver
- July 8 : Uwe Spies , German soccer player
- July 12th : Bruny Surin , Canadian athlete and Olympic champion
- July 14th : Alexander Lagunow , German chess player and trainer
- July 15 : Vladislav Kormschtschikow , Russian orienteering skier
- July 21 : Walter Arencibia , Cuban chess master
- July 23 : Noboru Ueda , Japanese motorcycle racer
- July 25 : Magdalena Forsberg , Swedish biathlete
- July 25th : Heidi Zeller-Bähler , Swiss ski racer
- July 26 : Dai Young , Welsh rugby player and coach
- July 31 : Peter Rono , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion
August
- August 2nd : Marco Giampaolo , Italian football player and coach
- August 4th : Marcelo Filippini , Uruguayan tennis player
- August 4th : Michael Marsh , American sprinter and Olympic champion
- August 4th : Jana Sorgers , German rower, two-time Olympic champion and nine-time world champion in rowing
- August 6 : Marcel Wüst , German racing cyclist
- August 7 : Yevgeny Platov , Russian figure skater
- August 8 : Marcelo Balboa , American football player
- August 8th : Shane Lewis , American racing car driver
- August 8 : Gunther Metz , German football player
- August 9 : Ulrich Kirchhoff , German show jumper
- August 10 : Philippe Albert , Belgian football player
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- August 11 : Massimiliano Allegri , Italian football player and coach
- August 11th : Wolfgang Fasching , Austrian extreme athlete
- August 12th : Emil Kostadinow , Bulgarian football player
- August 14 : Jelena Guljajewa , Russian high jumper
- August 14 : Dirk Rehbein , German soccer player
- August 14th : Kathrin Weßel , German long-distance runner
- August 15 : Brahim Boutayeb , Moroccan athlete
- August 17th : Michael Preetz , German soccer player
- August 18th : Uwe Alzen , German racing car driver
- August 18th : Beate Koch , German athlete
- August 19 : Said al-Uwairan , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- August 20 : Uwe Amstein , German soccer player
- August 22nd : Paul Ereng , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion
- August 23 : Jörg Gerlach , German soccer player
- August 27 : Jens Häusler , German handball player and trainer
- August 31 : Ralf Inderthal , German handball player
- August 31 : Uwe Inderthal , German handball trainer and handball player
- August 31 : João Manuel , Portuguese football player († 2005 )
September
- September 1st : Bernd Roos , German handball player
- September 1st : Carl-Uwe Steeb , German tennis player
- September 2nd : Kerstin Behrendt , German athlete
- September 2nd : Andreas Möller , German soccer player
- September 2nd : Ruggiero Rizzitelli , Italian football player
- September 4th : Rainer Aigner , German soccer player
- September 4th : Igor Korneev , Russian football player and coach
- September 5th : Matthias Sammer , German soccer player and coach
- September 5th : Rein van Duijnhoven , Dutch football player
- September 8th : Luis Marques , French racing car driver
- September 9 : BJ Armstrong , American basketball player
- September 13 : Warren Aspinall , English soccer player
- September 13 : Michael Johnson , American athlete
- September 14th : Franz Aigner , Austrian soccer player
- September 15th : Gustavo Artacho , Argentine cyclist
- September 15th : Steve Cox , Swiss paraglider pilot
- September 15 : Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm , German biathlete
- September 15th : Hansjörg Tauscher , German ski racer
- September 17th : Stefan Krauße , German luge rider
- September 17th : Wolfgang Perner , Austrian biathlete
- September 17th : Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke , German handball player
- September 18 : Gary Anderson , New Zealand cyclist and cycling coach
- September 19 : Alexander Karelin , Russian wrestler and Olympic champion
- September 21 : Werner Perathoner , Italian ski racer
- September 22nd : Félix Savón , Cuban boxer
- September 26 : Bruno Akrapović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- September 27th : Anna Biryukova , Russian athlete
- September 27th : Stephan Freilang , German athlete
- September 29th : Yūichi Akasaka , Japanese short tracker
October
- October 1 : Scott Young , American ice hockey player
- October 2nd : Frank Fredericks , Namibian sprinter
- October 2nd : Thomas Muster , Austrian tennis player
- October 5th : Tim Carter , British soccer player († 2008 )
- October 6th : Attila Ambrus , Hungarian-Romanian ice hockey goalkeeper, fur smuggler, bank robber and writer
- October 6 : Kennet Andersson , Swedish football player
- October 9 : Maurice Banach , German soccer player († 1991 )
- October 9 : Eddie Guerrero , Mexican wrestler († 2005 )
- October 10th : Thomas Ritter , German soccer player
- October 12 : Susanne Munk Wilbek , Danish handball player
- October 13 : Javier Sotomayor , Cuban high jumper
- October 14th : Oliver Adler , German soccer player
- October 21 : Alejandro Apud , Uruguayan football player and coach
- October 21 : Paul Ince , English soccer player
- October 21 : Alcindo Sartori , Brazilian soccer player
- October 22nd : Christophe Bourret , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- October 22nd : Ulrike Maier , Austrian ski racer († 1994 )
- October 24 : Robert Julien , Canadian racing car driver
- October 29th : Thorsten Fink , German soccer player
- October 31 : Jörg Lipinski , German soccer player
November
- November 2nd : Zvonimir Soldo , Croatian football player
- November 3rd : Birk Anders , German biathlete
- November 3rd : Pyotr Botschkarev , Russian pole vaulter
- November 3 : Antonio Pettigrew , American athlete († 2010 )
- November 4th : Mino Raiola , Italian football player, player agent
- November 6 : Jun Maeda , Japanese motorcycle racer († 2006 )
- November 12th : Mannhard Bech , German handball player
- November 13th : Dmitri Shevchenko , Russian fencer and Olympic champion
- November 15th : Marko Myyry , Finnish soccer player
- November 15 : Gustavo Poyet , Uruguayan football coach and player
- November 17th : Domenico Schiattarella , Italian racing car driver
- November 19 : Olaf Hense , German athlete
- November 21 : Toshihiko Koga , Japanese judoka
- November 28th : Saeed-Ahmed Saeed , chess player from the United Arab Emirates
- November 22nd : Boris Becker , German tennis player
- November 22nd : Frank Höfle , German disabled athlete
- November 22nd : Roland Meier , Swiss cyclist
- November 29th : Jan Behrendt , German luge rider
December
- December 2 : Giovanni Parisi , Italian boxer († 2009 )
- December 3 : Gilles Marguet , French biathlete
- December 4th : Guillermo Amor , Spanish football player
- December 5th : Frank Luck , German biathlete
- December 10th : Donghua Li , Swiss gymnast of Chinese origin
- December 14th : Georg Schwabenland , German wrestler
- December 15 : Sergei Osipov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 16 : Donovan Bailey , Canadian athlete
- December 16 : Vincent Kinchin , British rail athlete († 2010 )
- December 17th : Jean Baruth , German handball player
- December 17th : Vincent Damphousse , Canadian ice hockey player
- December 18 : Dmitri Bagrjanow , Russian long jumper († 2015 )
- December 19 : Jens Lehmann , German cyclist
- December 22nd : Martina Voss , German soccer player
- December 24th : Mikhail Shchennikov , Russian walker
- December 28th : Jason Danskin , English soccer player
- December 30th : Brynjar Valdimarsson , Icelandic snooker player
Died
- January 2 : Marcello Bertinetti , Italian fencer and two-time Olympic champion as well as soccer player and coach (* 1885 )
- January 12th : Pierre Clause , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
- August 14 : Bob Anderson , British motorcycle and automobile racer (* 1931 )
- October 15 : Gigi Meroni , Italian football player (* 1943 )
- December 6th : Adolf Rosenberger , German automobile racing driver and businessman (* 1900 )
See also
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Commons : Sports Year 1967 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
