Sports year 1971
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badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1971 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open , the Asian Championship and the French Open .
International events
athletics
- January 25th - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.7 seconds.
- April 15th - Karin Burneleit , GDR , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 09.6 minutes.
- May 15 - Sandra Dyson , Great Britain , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 61.1 seconds.
- June 9 - Beth Bonner , USA , ran the women's marathon in 3:01:42 hours.
- June 30th - Sara Mae Berman , USA , ran the women's marathon in 3:00:35 hours (distance probably 400 m too short)
- July 3rd - Pat Matzdorf , USA , jumped 2.29 meters in the men's high jump.
- July 11th - Hildegard Falck , Germany , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 58.5 minutes.
- July 16 - Joyce Smith , Great Britain , ran the women's 3000 meters in 9: 23.4 minutes.
- July 31st - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the women's 100 meter hurdles in 12.6 seconds.
- August 5th - Pedro Perez , Cuba , jumped 17.4 meters in the men's triple jump.
- August 11th - Hildegard Falck , Germany , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 58.5 minutes.
- August 12 - Faina Melnik , Russia , threw 64.22 meters in the women's discus throw.
- August 15 - Karin Burneleit , GDR , ran the women's 1500 meters in 4: 09.6 minutes.
- August 31st - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.0 seconds.
- August 31 - Karin Balzer , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.6 seconds.
- September 4th - Pedro Perez Duenas , Cuba , reached 17.40 meters in the men's triple jump.
- September 4th - Walter Schmidt , Germany , threw 76.40 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- September 4th - Ilona Gusenbauer , Austria , jumped 1.92 meters in the women's category.
- September 11th - Faina Melnik , Russia , reached 64.22 meters in the women's discus throw.
- September 19 - Beth Bonner , USA , ran the women's marathon in 2:55:22 hours.
- October 4th - Faina Melnik , Russia , reached 64.88 meters in the women's discus throw.
- October 4th - Ilona Gusenbauer , Austria , reached 1.92 meters in the women's high jump.
- December 5th - Cheryl Bridges , USA , ran the women's marathon in 2:49:40 hours.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1971 March 28th to April 7th in Nagoya (Japan)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- April 9: Hong Kong: D. - Hong Kong 7: 2 (women + men)
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European League
- January 6th: Gronau: D. - Hungary 1: 6 (women + men)
- March 5: Moscow: D. - USSR 1: 6 (women + men)
- May 1st: Freudenstadt: D. - Austria 5: 2 (women + men)
- October 27: Troisdorf: D. - England 4: 3 (women + men)
- November 2: Budapest: D. - Hungary 1: 6 (women + men)
- December 6: Falköping: D. - Sweden 4: 3 (women + men)
- December 15: Carlsbad: D. - CSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Markus von Ahlen , German soccer coach and soccer player
- January 2nd : Vasile Sănduleac , Moldovan chess player
- January 4th : Namig Abdullaev , Azerbaijani wrestler
- January 4th : Murat Kardanow , Russian wrestler and 2000 Olympic champion
- January 5th : Chris-Carol Bremer , German swimmer
- January 5th : Manuela Goller , German soccer player
- January 7th : Jens Lüdtke , German handball trainer and handball player
- January 10 : Mark Loram , British track athlete
- January 11th : Pekka Päivärinta , Finnish motorcycle racer
- January 14th : Thomas Hellriegel , German triathlete
- January 14th : Lasse Kjus , Norwegian ski racer
- January 14 : Sergei Russinow , Russian biathlete
- January 16 : Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player
- January 16 : Frank Cordes , German handball player
- January 16 : Jelena Lebedenko , Russian heptathlete and triple jumper
- January 17th : Richard Burns , British rally driver († 2005 )
- January 18 : Pep Guardiola , Spanish football player and coach
- January 18 : Adriana Santos , Brazilian basketball player and coach
- January 20th : Uni Arge , Faroese journalist, musician, soccer and handball player
- January 20 : Wakanohana Masaru , Japanese sumo wrestler and 66th yokozuna
- January 21 : Alan McManus , Scottish snooker player
- January 22nd : Markus Baur , German handball player and coach
- January 25 : Brett Aitken , Australian track and road cyclist
- January 25 : Luca Badoer , Italian racing car driver
- January 25th : Torsten Friedrich , German handball goalkeeper
- January 25 : Jaques Lazier , American racing driver
- January 27th : Rolando Uríos , Cuban-Spanish handball player
- January 29 : Jörg Albertz , German football player
- January 29th : Sonja Pfeilschifter , German marksman
February
- February 1 : Zlatko Zahovič , Slovenian football player
- February 3 : Gustavo Méndez , Uruguayan football player
- February 4th : Chrischa Hannawald , German handball goalkeeper and handball trainer
- February 6 : José María Jiménez , Spanish cyclist († 2003 )
- February 7th : Björn Monnberg , Finnish handball player
- February 8 : Andrus Veerpalu , Estonian cross-country skier
- February 8 : Dmitrij Neljubin , Soviet or Russian cyclist and Olympic champion († 2005 )
- February 9 : Dirk Beuchler , German handball player and handball trainer
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- February 9th : Hans Knauß , Austrian ski racer
- February 13 : Natalja Snytina , Russian biathlete and Olympic champion
- February 13 : Mats Sundin , Swedish ice hockey player
- February 17th : Hermann Achmüller , Italian long-distance runner
- February 17th : Sergej Svyagin , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- February 20 : Jari Litmanen , Finnish football player
- February 22nd : Jason Marshall , Canadian ice hockey player
- February 24th : Thomas Franck , German soccer player
- February 24th : Pedro de la Rosa , Spanish Formula 1 racing driver
March
- March 1st : Tyler Hamilton , American professional cyclist
- March 1st : Dick Norman , Belgian tennis player
- March 3 : Lothar Leder , German triathlete
- March 4th : Marc Baumgartner , Swiss handball player
- March 6 : Héctor del Ángel , Mexican football player
- March 6th : Servais Knaven , Dutch cyclist
- March 7th : Thies Heinemann , German chess player
- March 10 : Ingo Ahrens , German handball player
- March 11th : Steffen Wesemann , German racing cyclist
- March 12 : Karolina Arewång-Højsgaard , Swedish orienteer
- March 12 : Yuri Tischkow , Russian football player († 2003 )
- March 15th : Ralf Bißdorf , German foil fencer
- March 16 : Oleg Davydov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- March 16 : Larissa Merk , Russian rower
- March 18 : Wayne Arthurs , Australian tennis player
- March 20th : Monique Kavelaars , Canadian fencer
- March 23 : Erik Dreesen , German bodybuilder and strength athlete († 2013 )
- March 23 : Alexander Selivanov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- March 24th : Masao Azuma , Japanese motorcycle racer
- March 25 : Stacy Dragila , American athlete and Olympic champion
- March 26th : Heidi Hartmann (boxer) , German boxer , boxing world champion
- March 27 : David Coulthard , British Formula 1 racing driver
- March 30th : Fabrizio De Simone , Italian racing driver
- March 30 : Dmitri Satonsky , Russian ice hockey player
- March 31 : Pavel Bure , Russian ice hockey player
April
- April 1st : Vladimir Selkov , Russian swimmer
- April 1st : Christian Titz , German soccer player and coach
- April 2nd : Francisco Arce , Paraguayan soccer player and coach
- April 2nd : Edmundo , Brazilian soccer player
- April 2nd : Todd Woodbridge , Australian tennis player
- April 3 : Picabo Street , American skier
- April 4th : Dietmar Kühbauer , Austrian soccer player
- April 4 : Mentor Miftari , Albanian football player
- April 9 : Jacques Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1 racing driver and world champion
- April 11th : Tomasz Gollob , Polish track athlete
- April 12th : Christophe Moreau , French cyclist
- April 14th : Eugène Afrika , Luxembourg soccer player
- April 14 : Vasily Karassev , Russian basketball player and coach
- April 14 : Marcelo Otero , Uruguayan soccer player
- April 16 : Kristian Asmussen , Danish handball player
- April 16 : Sven Fischer , German biathlete
- April 16 : Natascha Swerewa , Belarusian tennis player
- April 18 : Oleg Petrov , Russian ice hockey player
- April 19 : Stanislav Kulintschenko , Russian handball player and official
- April 22nd : Vladimir Fyodorov , Russian figure skater
- April 22nd : Josia Thugwane , South African marathon runner
- April 24th : Yves Eigenrauch , German soccer player
- April 25 : Igor Waritsky , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- April 26th : Steffen Stiebler , German handball player
- April 28 : Markus Beyer , German boxer († 2018 )
- April 28th : Hamish Carter , New Zealand triathlete and Olympic champion
- April 28th : Leigh Adams , Australian track athlete
- April 30th : Carlos Baldomir , Argentine boxer
- April 30th : Simone Lang , German figure skater
May
- May 1st : Stuart Appleby , Australian golfer
- May 1st : Nenad Peruničić , Montenegrin-German handball player and coach
- May 4th : Leonid Sluzki , Russian football goalkeeper and coach
- May 5th : Anette Hoffmann , Danish handball player
- May 7th : Harald Christian Strand Nilsen , Norwegian ski racer
- May 8 : Radosław Gilewicz , Polish football player
- May 10 : Luan Krasniqi , German boxer of Kosovar Albanian origin
- May 10 : Denis Kriwoschlykow , Russian handball player
- May 10th : Doris Neuner , Austrian luge rider
- May 10 : Tomasz Wałdoch , Polish football player
- May 10 : Beat Zberg , Swiss cyclist
- May 11 : Dominique Arribagé , French football player and coach
- May 12th : Dmitri Masunow , Russian table tennis player
- May 12 : Chris Snell , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 14 : Boris Margolin , German chess player of Russian origin
- May 15 : Zoubaier Baya , Tunisian football player
- May 16 : Thomas Knorr , German handball player and coach
- May 16 : Roman Pungartnik , Slovenian handball player
- May 20 : Niklas Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- May 20 : Ian Feuer , American football goalkeeper
- May 25 : Stefano Baldini , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
- May 25th : Georg Totschnig , Austrian cyclist
- May 26th : Susan Andrews , Australian sprinter and middle distance runner
- May 26th : Sven Lakenmacher , German handball trainer and handball player
- May 28 : Manuel Beltrán , Spanish cyclist
- May 28 : Ekaterina Gordejewa , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- May 28 : Svetlana Goncharenko , Russian sprinter
- May 29 : Eric Lucas , Canadian boxer
- May 30th : Anja Haas , Austrian ski racer
June
- June 1st : Luca Riccitelli , Italian racing driver
- June 3 : Luigi Di Biagio , Italian football player and coach
- June 10 : Alexander Prokopyev , Russian ice hockey player
- June 12 : Mark Henry , American wrestler
- June 12th : Stefan Krebietke , German handball player
- June 15th : José Luis Arrieta , Spanish cyclist
- June 15 : Andrei Saposhnikov , Russian ice hockey player
- June 16 : Askar Abildayev , Kazakh football player and official
- June 16 : Evelyn Großmann , German figure skater
- June 17th : José Emilio Amavisca , Spanish football player
- June 17th : Maike Schrader , German hockey player († 2004 )
- June 19 : Chris Armstrong , English soccer player
- June 21 : Davide Olivares , Italian football player
- June 22nd : Chodadad Azizi , Iranian soccer player
- June 22nd : Christian Menzel , German racing driver
- June 23 : Enrique Romero , Spanish football player
- June 25 : Robert Reichel , Czech ice hockey player
- June 26th : Max Biaggi , Italian motorcyclist
- June 27 : Sérgio Cláudio dos Santos , Brazilian football player
- June 28 : Lorenzo Amoruso , Italian football player
- June 28 : Fabien Barthez , French soccer player
- June 29th : Anthony Hamilton , English snooker player
July
- July 1 : Aleh Antonenka , Belarusian ice hockey player
- July 1 : Igor Pashkewitsch , Russian figure skater († 2016 )
- July 4th : Ned Zelic , Australian soccer player
- July 5th : Gaby König-Vialkowitsch , German soccer player
- July 9th : Andrea Philipp , German athlete
- July 9 : Melissa Morrison-Howard , American athlete and Olympian
- July 12 : Zarinah Abdullah , Singaporean badminton player
- July 12 : Kristi Yamaguchi , American figure skater
- July 13 : Richard Groenendaal , Dutch cyclist
- July 14th : Ross Rebagliati , Canadian snowboarder
- July 18th : Ralf Appel , German chess grandmaster
- July 18 : Heiko Karrer , German handball player and handball trainer
- July 18 : Vasili Zeiher , German freestyle wrestler
- July 19 : Vitali Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer
- July 21 : Anthony Beltoise , French racing car driver
- July 23 : Alexander Schur , German soccer player
- July 24th : Dino Baggio , Italian football player
- July 24th : André Schubert , German football player and trainer
- July 26th : Andrea Fortunato , Italian football player († 1995 )
- July 26th : Lioudmila Kortchaguina , Canadian marathon runner of Russian origin
- July 28 : Jan Kaminski , Russian ice hockey player
- July 30th : Mzukisi Sikali , South African boxer († 2005 )
August
- August 2nd : Julie Parisien , American ski racer
- August 5 : Valery Karpov , Russian ice hockey player († 2014 )
- August 6 : Federico Giunti , Italian football player
- August 7th : Stephan Volkert , German rower
- August 9 : Davide Rebellin , Italian-Argentinian cyclist
- August 10 : Roy Keane , Irish football player
- August 12th : Pete Sampras , American tennis player
- August 13 : Tomoe Abe , Japanese long-distance runner
- August 13 : Slađan Ašanin , Croatian football player
- August 13 : Patrick Carpentier , Canadian racing driver
- August 14 : Yuri Muchin , Russian swimmer and Olympic champion
- August 16 : Stefan Klos , German soccer player
- August 16 : Rulon Gardner , American wrestler
- August 18th : Hanna Antoniussen , Faroese soccer player
- August 18 : Patrik Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 18 : Ben Keating , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- August 19 : Erik Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- August 19 : Mary Joe Fernández , American tennis player
- August 19 : Giovanni Martusciello , Italian football player and coach
- August 21 : Pedro Piedrabuena , American carom player
- August 23 : Michael von Ameln , German field and indoor hockey referee
- August 25 : Gilberto Simoni , Italian cyclist
- August 26th : Charles Friedek , German athlete
- August 26th : Thorsten Schmid , German handball trainer
- August 28 : Janet Evans , American swimmer and Olympic champion
- August 29th : Tina Bøttzau , Danish handball player
- August 31 : Nobuatsu Aoki , Japanese motorcycle racer
- August 31 : Alin Artimon , Romanian football player and coach
September
- September 1st : Heike Schmidt , German handball player
- September 1st : Hakan Şükür , Turkish soccer player
- September 2nd : Kjetil André Aamodt , Norwegian ski racer
- September 3 : Paolo Montero , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 3 : Sascha Wolf , German soccer player
- September 4th : Peggy Schwarz , German figure skater
- September 7th : Kjersti Grini , Norwegian handball player and trainer
- September 10 : Mikhail Saizew , Russian chess player
- September 11th : Stéphane Daoudi , French racing car driver
- September 12 : Oscar Camenzind , Swiss cyclist
- September 12th : Chandra Sturrup , Bahamian athlete and Olympic champion
- September 13 : Svetlana Gladysheva , Russian ski racer
- September 13 : Goran Ivanišević , Croatian tennis player
- September 13 : Ann-Elen Skjelbreid , Norwegian biathlete
- September 14th : Alphonse Tchami , Cameroonian football player
- September 15th : Wayne Ferreira , South African tennis player
- September 16 : Annelise Coberger , New Zealand ski racer
- September 17th : Sergei Barbarez , Bosnian football player
- September 17th : Slavko Goluža , Croatian handball player and coach
- September 17th : Jens Voigt , German racing cyclist
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- September 18 : Lance Armstrong , American cyclist
- September 19 : Filip Apelstav , Swedish football player
- September 19 : Tanja Rastetter , German soccer player and trainer
- September 19 : Fatmir Vata , Albanian football player
- September 20 : Henrik Larsson , Swedish football player
- September 21 : Jorge Contreras , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 21 : Pavel Rostovtsev , Russian biathlete
- September 21 : Beate Wendt , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Roy Präger , German soccer player
- September 24th : Claudia Klein , German soccer player
- September 25th : Rico Lieder , German athlete
- September 26 : Frank Carstens , German handball player and coach
- September 26th : Anke Feller , German athlete
- September 28 : Andrei Skopinsev , Russian ice hockey player
October
- October 3 : S. Antonius Budi Ariantho , Indonesian badminton player
- October 5 : Mauricio Pellegrino , Argentine soccer player
- October 5th : Nicola Rizzoli , Italian football referee
- October 6 : Alan Stubbs , English soccer player
- October 7th : Jordi Bazan , Andorran football player
- October 7th : Bettina Wiegmann , German soccer player
- October 10 : Lameck Aguta , Kenyan marathon runner
- October 13th : Pyrros Dimas , Greek weightlifter
- October 15 : Andrew Cole , English soccer player
- October 15 : Niko Kovač , Croatian football player
- October 16 : Alexei Franzusow , Russian handball player
- October 18 : Líber Vespa , Uruguayan football player († 2018 )
- October 22nd : Amanda Coetzer , South African tennis player
- October 22nd : José Manuel Martínez , Spanish athlete
- October 23 : Christopher Horner , American cyclist
- October 25 : Kay-Uwe Jendrossek , German soccer player
- October 29 : Lucio España , Colombian football player († 2005 )
- October 29 : Matthew Hayden , Australian cricketer
- October 30th : Fredi Bobic , German soccer player
- October 30 : Alex Godoy , Andorran football player
- October 31 : Ian Walker , English football player
November
- November 1st : Alexei Tikhonov , Russian figure skater
- November 3rd : Christian Dollberg , Argentine soccer player
- November 3rd : Dwight Yorke , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
- November 5 : Sergei Berezin , Russian ice hockey player
- November 6th : Yuri Andronov , Russian walker
- November 10 : Necla Akdoğan , Turkish soccer player
- November 10 : Musemestre Bamba , Congolese football player
- November 11th : Ruslan Mashchenko , Russian hurdler and sprinter
- November 14 : Adam Gilchrist , Australian cricketer
- November 16 : Tanja Damaske , German athlete
- November 16 : Alexander Popov , Russian swimmer and Olympic champion
- November 17 : Tərlan Əhmədov , Azerbaijani football player
- November 17th : Michael Adams , English chess player
- November 18 : Bobby Julich , American cyclist
- November 22nd : Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen , Danish handball player
- November 25 : Luíz Filho Jairo , Brazilian soccer player
- November 25 : Magnus Arvedson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- November 27th : Troy Corser , Australian motorcycle racer
- November 27th : Dmitri Swatkowski , Russian modern pentathlon and Olympic champion
- November 28th : Carlos Slusher , Belizean football player
- November 29 : Oleg Shevtsov , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
December
- December 1st : Christian Pescatori , Italian racing car driver
- December 3 : Heiko Herrlich , German soccer player
- December 4th : Gábor Wéber , Hungarian racing car driver
- December 5th : Markus Aerdken , German soccer player
- December 6th : Richard Krajicek , Dutch tennis player
- December 6th : Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset , Norwegian cross-country skier
- December 6th : Carole Thate , Dutch field hockey player
- December 7th : Vladimir Hakobjan , Armenian chess player
- December 7th : Christian Kellner , German motorcycle racer
- December 7th : Massimo Rivola , Italian motorsport official
- December 9 : Víctor Aristizábal , Colombian football player
- December 9th : Astrid Lødemel , Norwegian ski racer
- December 10th : Alessia Arisi , Italian table tennis player
- December 10th : Carla Sacramento , Portuguese athlete
- December 11th : Moudachirou Amadou , Beninese football player
- December 12th : Philip Boit , Kenyan cross-country skier
- December 12th : Lamine Cissé , Senegalese soccer player
- December 14th : Zhai Chao , Chinese handball player
- December 14th : Matthias Scherz , German soccer player
- December 17th : Artur Petrosyan , Armenian football player
- December 18 : Christian Beeck , German soccer player
- December 18th : Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , Spanish tennis player
- December 21 : Margarita Drobiazko , Lithuanian figure skater
- December 21 : Pavel Tregubov , Russian chess master
- December 21 : Harri Ylönen , German soccer player
- December 25th : Chioma Ajunwa , Nigerian athlete
- December 25th : Besnik Hasi , Albanian football player
- December 26th : Mika Nurmela , Finnish soccer player
- December 27th : Sabine Spitz , German mountain biker
- December 29th : Frank Amankwah , Ghanaian soccer player
- December 29th : Dominic Dale , Welsh snooker player
- December 31 : Diego Dorta , Uruguayan soccer player
Died
- March 8 : Carlo Maria Pintacuda , Italian racing driver (* 1900 )
- March 19 : Hans Walter Imhoff , Swiss football player (* 1886 )
- March 29 : Hermann zu Leiningen , German automobile racing driver (* 1901 )
- April 4 : Angelo Bergamonti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1939 )
- April 8th : Fritz von Opel , German industrialist, rocket pioneer and motor sportsman (* 1899 )
- April 9 : Luigi Piotti , Italian racing driver (* 1913 )
- May 26th : Armando Picchi , Italian football player and coach (* 1935 )
- June 25 : Mario Magnozzi , Italian football player and coach (* 1902 )
- July 9 : Günter Bartusch , German motorcycle racer (* 1943 )
- September 1 : Peter Uhlig , German enduro athlete (* 1940 )
- September 15 : Umberto Malvano , Italian football player, referee and official as well as engineer (* 1884 )
- December 23 : Alessandro Cagno , Italian racing car driver (* 1883 )
See also
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