Sports year 1973
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badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1973 were the Thomas Cup 1973 as well as the All England , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open and the French Open .
International events
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athletics
- April 10th - Faina Melnik , Soviet Union , reached 67.58 meters in the women's discus throw.
- May 5 - Al Feuerbach , USA , hit 21.82 meters in the men's shot put.
- May 5th - Klaus Wolfermann , Germany , threw 94.08 meters in the men's javelin.
- May 22 - Margareta Simu , Sweden , completed the women's 20,000 meter walk in 1: 47.1 hours.
- June 5 - Al Feuerbach , USA , reached 21.82 meters in the men's shot put.
- June 5th - Klaus Wolfermann , Germany , reached 94.08 meters in the men's javelin throw.
- June 7th - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the 100 meters for women in 10.9 seconds.
- June 19 - Ben Jipcho , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 19.8 minutes.
- June 27th - Marcello Fiasconaro , Italy , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.7 minutes.
- June 27 - Ben Jipcho , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 14.0 minutes.
- June 27th - Rick Wohlhuter , USA , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 44.0 minutes.
- July 6 - Rod Milburn , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.1 seconds.
- July 7th - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the women's 100 m in 10.9 seconds.
- July 13 - David Bedford , Great Britain , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 30.8 minutes.
- July 20 - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the women's 100 meters in 10.8 seconds.
- July 21st - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the women’s 200 meters in 22.1 seconds.
- July 22nd - Annelie Ehrhardt , GDR , ran the 100 meter hurdles for women in 12.3 seconds.
- July 27 - Marcello Fiasconaro , Italy , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.7 minutes.
- August 15th - Ben Jipcho , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 20.8 minutes.
- August 20 - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the 100 meters of the women in 10.8 seconds.
- August 21 - Renate Stecher , GDR , ran the women’s 200 meters in 22.1 seconds.
- August 24 - Svetla Slatewa , Bulgaria , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 57.5 minutes.
- September 7th - Ruth Fuchs , GDR reached 66.10 meters in the women's javelin throw.
- September 23 - Svetla Slatewa , Bulgaria , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 57.5 minutes.
- October 27th - Faina Melnik , Soviet Union , reached 69.48 meters in the women's discus throw.
- December 2nd - Miki Gorman , USA , ran the women's marathon in 2:46:36 hours.
- December 11 - Dwight Stones , USA , reached 2.30 meters in the men's high jump.
Motorcycling
Formula 750
- The title in the Formula 750 , which was held for the first time as the FIM Prize, was secured by 23-year-old Briton Barry Sheene in a Suzuki ahead of the two Australians John Dodds and Jack Findlay (both Yamaha ).
Details: 1973 Formula 750 season
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1973 April 5th to 15th in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- March: Osnabrück: D.- Japan 1: 5 (men)
- March: Osnabrück: D.- Japan 0: 3 (women)
- April 18: Munich: D. - China 1: 5 (men)
- April 18: Munich: D. - China 0-3 (women)
- Beijing: D. - China 0: 5 (men)
- Beijing: D. 0-3 China (women)
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European League
- January 25: Prague: D. - ČSSR 2: 5 (women + men)
- February 15: Hattersheim: D. - Hungary 1: 6 (women + men)
- March 4th: Leningrad: D. - USSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- October 10: Borlänge: D. - Sweden 0: 7 (women + men)
- October 30: Miskolc: D. - Hungary 2: 5 (women + men)
- November 21: Jülich: D. - England 3: 4 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Mohamad Ahansal , Moroccan long distance runner
- January 1st : Malik Arrendell , German basketball player
- January 1 : Aslan Kərimov , Azerbaijani football player
- January 2nd : Julia Lewina , Russian rower
- January 5th : Ian Marko Fog , Danish handball player
- January 8 : Henning Solberg , Norwegian racing car driver
- January 9 : Olexander Vyuchin , Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey goalkeeper († 2011 )
- January 10 : Tanya Streeter , American freediver
- January 12 : Ibrahim Ba , French football player
- January 13 : Nikolai Chabibulin , Russian ice hockey player
- January 14th : Artur Ajwasjan , Ukrainian marksman
- January 14th : Giancarlo Fisichella , Italian racing car driver
- January 14th : Christian Gläsel , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- January 19 : Ann Kristin Aarønes , Norwegian soccer player
- January 19 : Wang Junxia , Chinese athlete and Olympic champion
- January 19 : Silvio Meißner , German soccer player
- January 19 : Yevgeny Sadowy , Russian swimmer
- January 24th : Richard Aimonetto , French ice hockey player
- January 25 : Irina Laschko , Russian water diver
- January 27th : José Luis Rubiera , Spanish cyclist
- January 28th : Tatiana Malinina , Uzbek figure skater of Russian origin
- January 28 : Tomislav Marić , Croatian football player
- January 29th : Fabien Foret , French motorcycle racer
February
- February 1st : Jelena Makarowa , Russian tennis player
- February 1st : René Schneider , German soccer player
- February 2nd : Anna Jakubczak , Polish athlete
- February 4th : Óscar de la Hoya , American boxer of Mexican origin
- February 5 : Igor Alexandrov , German-Russian ice hockey player
- February 9 : Swetlana Boginskaja , Soviet-Belarusian gymnast and three-time Olympic champion
- February 12th : Stefan Adam , German handball player and managing director
- February 12 : Magnus Arvidsson , Swedish football player
- February 12th : Gianni Romme , Dutch speed skater
- February 13 : Ronald Maul , German soccer player
- February 14 : Deena Kastor , American athlete
- February 14 : Sergey Tiviakov , Dutch chess player of Russian origin
- February 15 : Anna Dogonadze , German trampoline gymnast of Georgian origin
- February 15 : Kateřina Neumannová , Czech cross-country skier
- February 16 : Cathy Freeman , Australian athlete
- February 17th : Stefan Kretzschmar , German handball player
- February 18 : Irina Lobachova , Russian ice dancer
- February 18 : Claude Makélélé , French football player
- February 21 : Paulo Rink , German-Brazilian soccer player
- February 22 : Artschil Arweladze , Georgian football player
- February 22 : Shota Arveladze , Georgian football player and coach
- February 22nd : Plamen Kralev , Bulgarian racing driver
- February 22nd : Anthony Pons , French racing car driver
- February 24 : Likit Andersson , Thai-Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- February 24 : Alexej Kowaljow , Russian ice hockey player
- February 24th : Sonja Oberem , German triathlete and long-distance runner
- February 25 : Normann Stadler , German triathlete
- February 25 : Alena Subrylawa , Belarusian biathlete of Ukrainian origin
- February 26th : Jenny Thompson , American swimmer
- February 27 : Alexei Lesin , Russian boxer
- February 27th : Trajče Nedev , Macedonian chess grandmaster
- February 28 : Eric Lindros , Canadian ice hockey player
March
- March 1st : Ryō Michigami , Japanese racing car driver
- March 1 : Chris Webber , American basketball player
- March 2nd : Max van Heeswijk , Dutch cyclist
- March 2nd : Dejan Bodiroga , Serbian basketball player
- March 3rd : Rustam Aji , Ukrainian wrestler
- March 5 : Juan Esnáider , Argentinian soccer player
- March 5 : Davide Nicola , Italian football player and coach
- March 5th : Špela Pretnar , Slovenian ski racer
- March 6 : Michael Finley , American basketball player
- March 6 : Arnar Gunnlaugsson , Icelandic football player and coach
- March 9th : Jakob Piil , Danish cyclist
- March 11th : Thomas Christiansen , Spanish-Danish soccer player
- March 11th : Martin Hiden , Austrian soccer player
- March 11th : Vedin Musić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- March 13 : Edgar Davids , Dutch football player
- March 14th : Helmut Oblinger , Austrian white water paddler
- March 15th : Lyubov Galkina , Russian marksman and Olympic champion
- March 15 : Heiko Kleibrink , German dance athlete
- March 19 : Sergei Makarov , Russian javelin thrower
- March 19 : Edith Rozsa , Canadian ski racer
- March 21 : Christian Nerlinger , German soccer player
- March 23 : Jerzy Dudek , Polish football player
- March 23 : Jason Kidd , American basketball player
- March 24th : Steve Corica , Australian soccer player
- March 25th : Michaela Dorfmeister , Austrian ski racer
- March 26th : Sébastien Charpentier , French motorcycle racer
- March 27 : Rui Jorge , Portuguese soccer player
- March 29 : Johan Petersson , Swedish handball player
- March 30th : Jan Koller , Czech football player
- March 30th : Michaela Schanze , German handball player
April
- April 1st : Anna Carin Olofsson , Swedish biathlete
- April 3 : Dagur Sigurðsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- April 3 : Igor Simutenkov , Russian football player and coach
- April 4th : Samassi Abou , Franco-Ivorian football player
- April 4th : Loris Capirossi , Italian motorcycle racer
- April 7th : Marco Delvecchio , Italian football player
- April 7th : Carole Montillet-Carles , French ski racer
- April 7th : Sandra Minnert , German soccer player
- April 10 : Roberto Carlos , Brazilian soccer player
- April 10 : Rico Glaubitz , German soccer player
- April 11 : Blake Brockermeyer , American football player
- April 12th : Joël Lautier , French chess master
- April 12 : Christian Panucci , Italian football player
- April 13th : Kilian Albrecht , Austrian alpine ski racer
- April 13 : Gustavo López , Argentinian football player
- April 14th : Roberto Ayala , Argentinian soccer player
- April 14th : Johannes van Overbeek , American racing car driver
- April 14 : Christian Ramota , German handball goalkeeper
- April 15 : Karsten Bindrich , German marksman
- April 16 : Oxana Yermakowa , Russian sword fencer and Olympic champion
- April 17 : Doug Ast , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 18 : Ady , Tunisian-Brazilian soccer player
- April 18th : Haile Gebrselassie , Ethiopian middle and long distance runner
- April 18 : Natalja Gorelowa , Russian middle-distance runner
- April 18 : Luca Pirri , Italian racing car driver
- April 19 : Andrei Krõlov , Estonian football player
- April 20 : Marc Seemann , German football referee
- April 23 : Derek Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player and official
- April 25 : Barbara Rittner , German tennis player
- April 26th : Stephanie Graf , Austrian athlete
- April 28th : Christiane Abenthung , Austrian ski racer
- April 28 : Pauleta , Portuguese soccer player
- April 29th : David Belle , French traceur and founder of the sport of parkour
May
- May 1st : Oliver Neuville , German soccer player
- May 2nd : Leon Nzama-Nawezhi , Zambian boxer
- May 3 : Gharib Amzine , Moroccan football player
- May 3 : Alexander Gulyavzew , Russian ice hockey player and coach
- May 4th : Malin Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
- May 4th : Katrin Apel , German biathlete
- May 5th : Björn Glasner , German racing cyclist
- May 5th : Volker Michel , German handball player
- May 6th : Zsuzsanna Szabó-Olgyai , Hungarian pole vaulter
- May 7th : Tomas Antonelius , Swedish football player
- May 7th : Paolo Savoldelli , Italian cyclist
- May 8 : Natalja Anissimowa , Russian sprinter
- May 8 : José de Jesús Arellano Alcocer , Mexican football player
- May 10 : Rüştü Reçber , Turkish football player
- May 11th : Sabine Völker , German speed skater
- May 11th : Britta Becker , German hockey player
- May 14th : Guendalina Buffon , Italian volleyball player
- May 14th : Jonny Kane , British racing car driver
- May 18 : Tōru Ukawa , Japanese motorcycle racer
- May 19 : Dario Franchitti , British racing driver
- May 20th : Dion Åkerstrøm , Danish track cyclist and trainer
- May 20 : Tatiana Lebedewa , Russian ski racer
- May 22nd : Emilio Alzamora , Spanish motorcycle racer
- May 22nd : Daniele Amadeo "Danny" Tiatto , Australian soccer player
- May 22nd : Witold Wawrzyczek , Polish football player
- May 22 : Joey Woody , American athlete
- May 24th : Karim Alami , Moroccan tennis player
- May 24th : Bartolo Colón , Dominican baseball player
- May 24 : Vladimír Šmicer , Czech football player
- May 25 : As-Saadi al-Gaddafi , Libyan soccer player, soccer official and film producer
- May 28 : Paolo Amodio , Luxembourg football player and coach
- May 29 : Alpay Özalan , Turkish soccer player
June
- June 4th : André Korff , German cyclist
- June 5th : Jelena Azarova , Russian synchronized swimmer and Olympic champion
- June 10th : Damian Kallabis , German athlete
- June 10 : Beno Lapajne , Slovenian handball player
- June 11 : José Manuel Abundis , Mexican soccer player
- June 11 : Gilberto da Costa Arilson , Brazilian soccer player
- June 12 : Daron Rahlves , American ski racer
- June 14th : Jan Filip , Czech handball player
- June 14 : Sami Kapanen , Finnish ice hockey player
- June 16 : Sandra Pires , Brazilian beach volleyball player
- June 18 : Alexandra Meissnitzer , Austrian ski racer
- June 21 : Alyson Annan , Australian hockey player
- June 21 : Ilja Kaenzig , Swiss football official
- June 22nd : Craig Alexander , Australian triathlete
- June 24th : Jere Lehtinen , Finnish ice hockey player
- June 27 : Simon David Archer , British badminton player
- June 28th : André Lange , German bobsleigh athlete
- June 28th : Adrián Annus , Hungarian athlete
- June 28th : Alberto Berasategui , Spanish tennis player
- June 29th : George Hincapie , American cyclist
- June 30th : Frank Rost , German soccer player
July
- July 3 : Ólafur Stefánsson , Icelandic handball player
- July 4th : Anselika Krylova , Russian figure skater
- July 4th : Jan Magnussen , Danish racing car driver
- July 4th : Tony Popovic , Australian soccer player
- July 5th : Marcus Allbäck , Swedish football player
- July 5th : Camilla Andersen , Danish handball player
- July 5th : Alexei Kostygow , Russian handball player
- July 7th : Yann de Fabrique , French swimmer
- July 7th : Yoon Kyung-shin , Korean handball player
- July 11 : Konstantinos Kenteris , Greek athlete and Olympic champion
- July 11 : Mohsen Torky , Iranian football referee
- July 12 : Christian Vieri , Italian soccer player
- July 13 : Danny Williams , British boxer
- July 14th : Halil Mutlu , Turkish weightlifter and Olympic champion
- July 15 : Swetlana Timoschinina , Russian water diver
- July 16 : Stefano Garzelli , Italian cyclist
- July 18 : René Rydlewicz , German soccer player
- July 19 : Aílton , Brazilian soccer player
- July 19 : Christian Berge , Norwegian handball player and coach
- July 19 : Elke Schall , German table tennis player
- July 20 : Peter Forsberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- July 20 : Claudio Reyna , American football player
- July 21 : Nelson Abeijón , Uruguayan soccer player
- July 21 : Berhane Adere , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- July 21 : Roberto Bisconti , Belgian football player
- July 21 : Mandy Wötzel , German figure skater
- July 23 : Gunn Margit Andreassen , Norwegian biathlete
- July 23 : Nomar Garciaparra , American baseball player of Mexican descent
- July 23 : Enrico Ney , German handball goalkeeper
- July 24th : Johan Micoud , French football player
- July 25 : Christian Hjermind , Danish handball player
- July 25 : Kenny Roberts Jr. , American motorcycle racer
- July 25 : Igli Tare , Albanian football player
- July 26th : Christina Fellner , German ice hockey player
- July 27 : Paul Amey , British duathlete
- July 27 : Jesper Larsson , Swedish handball goalkeeper
- July 29 : Marijan Christow , Bulgarian soccer player
- July 30th : Ümit Davala , Turkish soccer player
- July 30th : Andrea Gaudenzi , Italian tennis player
- July 30th : Markus Näslund , Swedish ice hockey player
- July 31 : Jacob Aagaard , Danish-Scottish chess master and writer
August
- August 1st : Jirka Arndt , German athlete
- August 2nd : Éric Deflandre , Belgian football player
- August 3 : Kurt Grote , American swimmer
- August 3rd : Kevin McGarrity , Northern Irish racing driver
- August 3 : Daniel Stephan , German handball player
- August 3 : Arūnas Vaškevičius , Lithuanian handball player
- August 4th : Yoelbi Quesada , Cuban triple jumper
- August 5th : Maren Meinert , German soccer player
- August 5th : Laurent Redon , French racing car driver
- August 6 : Stuart O'Grady , Australian cyclist
- August 7 : Gabriele Ambrosetti , Italian football player
- August 7 : Kevin Muscat , Australian soccer player
- August 9 : Filippo Inzaghi , Italian football player
- August 10 : Javier Zanetti , Argentine soccer player
- August 11th : Frédéric Adam , French football player
- August 11 : Kristin Armstrong , American cyclist and triathlete
- August 12 : Mark Iuliano , Italian football player and coach
- August 12th : Mark Zabel , German canoeist
- August 12 : Joseba Beloki , Spanish cyclist
- August 14 : Jared Borgetti , Mexican soccer player
- August 14 : Jay-Jay Okocha , Nigerian soccer player
- August 14th : Boris Tortunow , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- August 15 : Nebojša Krupniković , Serbian football player
- August 16 : Mirko Puglioli , Italian cyclist
- August 16 : Ana Galindo Santolaria , Spanish ski racer
- August 18 : Volodymyr Wirtschis , Ukrainian boxer
- August 19 : Marco Materazzi , Italian football player
- August 20 : Alban Ali Bushi , Albanian football player
- August 21 : Nikolai Valuev , Russian boxer
- August 24th : Inge de Bruijn , Dutch swimmer
- August 26th : Natalja Barbaschina , Russian soccer player
- August 27 : Dietmar Hamann , German football player
- August 28 : Eric Gull , Argentine-Swiss handball player
- August 29th : Olivier Jacque , French motorcycle racer
- August 29th : Thomas Tuchel , German soccer player
- August 30th : Claudia Bokel , German sword fencer
- August 31 : Régisgenaux , Belgian football player († 2008 )
- August 31 : Scott Niedermayer , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- August 31 : Markus Schmidt , German football referee
September
- September 1st : Simon Shaw , English rugby player
- September 2 : Savo Milošević , Serbian football player
- September 3 : Fred Rodriguez , American cyclist
- September 4th : Lidia Șimon , Romanian long distance runner
- September 5th : Heidi Tjugum , Norwegian handball player
- September 6 : Carlo Cudicini , Italian football player
- September 7th : Denis Kljujew , Russian football player and coach
- September 8 : Lorraine Fenton , Jamaican sprinter
- September 9th : Frode Andresen , Norwegian biathlete
- September 9th : Aitor Osa , Spanish cyclist
- September 10th : Mark Huizinga , Dutch judoka
- September 12th : Darren Campbell , British athlete
- September 12th : Zhao Hongbo , Chinese figure skater
- September 12th : Martina Ertl-Renz , German ski racer
- September 13th : Christine Arron , French athlete
- September 13 : Fabio Cannavaro , Italian football player
- September 14 : Dominique Arnold , American athlete
- September 14th : Andreas Schmidt , German soccer player
- September 14th : Oliver Schmidt , German soccer player
- September 15th : Radek Blahut , Czech cyclist
- September 15th : Giandomenico Basso , Italian rally driver
- September 16 : Alexander Vinokurov , Kazakh cyclist
- September 18 : Dario Frigo , Italian cyclist
- September 19 : José Azevedo , Portuguese cyclist
- September 20 : Olaf Pollack , German cyclist
- September 21 : Manuel Gräfe , German football referee
- September 21 : Günter Heberle , German soccer player and coach
- September 21 : Andrei Kiwiljow , Kazakh cyclist († 2003 )
- September 22 : Julia Matijass , German judoka of Russian origin
- September 23 : Valentino Fois , Italian cyclist († 2008 )
- September 23 : René Lohse , German figure skater
- September 25 : Johnny Rodríguez , Andorran football player
- September 26th : Chris Small , Scottish snooker player
- September 27 : Vratislav Lokvenc , Czech football player
- September 27th : Stanislaw Posdnyakov , Russian saber fencer and Olympic champion
- September 29th : Eddy Mazzoleni , Italian cyclist
October
- October 3 : Uğur Dağdelen , Turkish football player († 2015 )
- October 3 : Antti Laaksonen , Finnish ice hockey player
- October 3rd : Ricardo Mayorga , Nicaraguan boxer
- October 3rd : Bernard Schuiteman , Dutch football player
- October 3 : Sean Tallaire , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 3rd : Ljubomir Vranjes , Swedish handball player and coach
- October 4 : Christopher J. Parks , American wrestler and American football player
- October 5th : Daniel Eschbach , German soccer player
- October 6th : Wilson Boit Kipketer , Kenyan middle and long distance runner
- October 7th : Sami Hyypiä , Finnish football player
- October 7th : Elie Chevieux , Swiss sport climber
- October 8 : Arsen Avetisyan , Armenian football player
- October 8th : Torben Wosik , German table tennis player
- October 9 : Axel Lawarée , Belgian football player
- October 9 : Yevgeny Pechonkin , Russian bobsledder and hurdler
- October 11 : Tomáš Konečný , Czech cyclist
- October 11th : Steven Pressley , Scottish football player and coach
- October 12 : Martin Corry , English rugby player
- October 13 : Niki Marty , Swiss marksman
- October 14th : Steven Bradbury , Australian short track athlete
- October 14 : Erik Göthel , German handball player
- October 14 : Fabián O'Neill , Uruguayan soccer player
- October 15 : Alex Nyarko , Ghanaian soccer player
- October 18 : John Baldwin , American figure skater
- October 18 : Michalis Kapsis , Greek football player
- October 19 : Hicham Arazi , Moroccan tennis player
- October 19 : Joaquin Gage , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 22nd : Andrés Palop , Spanish soccer player
- October 22nd : Ichirō Suzuki , Japanese baseball player
- October 23 : Christian Dailly , Scottish soccer player
- October 23 : Olesja Fedosejewa , Russian biathlete
- October 23 : Andrei Razin , Russian ice hockey player
- October 23 : Natalja Sokolova , Russian biathlete
- October 24 : Levi Leipheimer , American cyclist
- October 28 : Montel Vontavious Porter , American wrestler
- October 29 : Robert Pires , French football player
- October 30 : Richie Alagich , Australian soccer player
- October 30th : Adam Copeland , Canadian wrestler
- October 30th : Johan Eriksson , Swedish chess player
- October 30th : Ariel Panzer , Argentinian handball player
November
- November 1st : Igor González de Galdeano , Spanish cyclist
- November 1st : Dimo Wache , German soccer player
- November 1st : Li Xiaoshuang , Chinese gymnast and two-time Olympic champion
- November 2nd : Lyudmila Arlouskaja , Belarusian biathlete
- November 5 : Alexei Yashin , Russian ice hockey player
- November 7th : Martín Palermo , Argentinian football player
- November 7th : Martin Reichel , German ice hockey player
- November 9th : Vladislav Tkachiev , French chess player of Russian origin
- November 9 : Zisis Vryzas , Greek football player
- November 10 : Miroslav Baranek , Czech football player
- November 10 : Patrik Berger , Czech football player
- November 12th : Egil Gjelland , Norwegian biathlete
- November 13 : David Auradou , French rugby union player
- November 15 : Muhammadqodir Abdullayev , Uzbek boxer
- November 15th : Albert Portas , Spanish tennis player
- November 17th : Bernd Schneider , German soccer player
- November 17th : Alexei Urmanov , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- November 18 : Sammi Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
- November 18 : Darko Kovačević , Serbian football player
- November 20th : Neil Hodgson , British motorcycle racer
- November 20 : Silke Lichtenhagen , German athlete
- November 25 : Roman Arkayev , Russian beach volleyball player
- November 25th : Steven de Jongh , Dutch cyclist
- November 26th : Michel Frey , Swiss racing driver and entrepreneur
- November 27th : Guido Winkmann , German soccer referee
- November 29th : Dick van Burik , Dutch football player
- November 29th : Olivier Coqueux , French-Canadian ice hockey player
- November 29 : Ryan Giggs , Welsh soccer player
- November 29th : Birgit Rockmeier , German athlete
- November 29th : Gabi Rockmeier , German athlete
- November 30th : Michaël Goossens , Belgian football player
- November 30th : Janette Kliewe , German handball trainer and handball player
- November 30th : Jason Reso , Canadian wrestler
December
- December 1st : Andrea Bertolini , Italian racing driver
- December 2nd : Monica Seles , tennis player
- December 2nd : Jan Ullrich , German cyclist
- December 5th : Argo worker , Estonian football player
- December 7th : Fabien Pelous , French rugby union player
- December 9th : Sven Christ , Swiss football player
- December 9th : Vénuste Niyongabo , athlete from Burundi and Olympic champion
- December 12th : Babacar N'Diaye , Senegalese soccer player
- December 13 : Emre Aşık , Turkish football player and coach
- December 14th : Boris Henry , German athlete
- December 15 : Surya Bonaly , French figure skater
- December 15 : Mirko Lüdemann , German ice hockey player
- December 16 : Kristie Boogert , Dutch tennis player
- December 17th : Paula Radcliffe , British marathon runner
- December 17th : Regina Häusl , German ski racer
- December 18 : Ilya Awerbuch , Russian ice dancer
- December 18 : Larissa Kurkina , Russian cross-country skier and 2006 Olympic champion
- December 18 : Fatuma Roba , Ethiopian athlete and Olympic champion
- December 20th : Antti Kasvio , Finnish swimmer
- December 21 : Matías Almeyda , Argentinian soccer player
- December 21 : Igor Kravtsov , Russian rower and Olympic champion
- December 23 : Gala León García , Spanish tennis player
- December 26th : Sam Dominique Abouo , Ivorian football player
- December 28th : Ids Postma , Dutch speed skater and Olympic champion
- December 29th : Christophe Rinero , French cyclist
- December 30th : Ato Boldon , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
Died
- March 26th : Hans Kahrmann , German motorcycle racer (* 1908 )
- May 20 : Renzo Pasolini , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1938 )
- May 20 : Jarno Saarinen , Finnish motorcycle racer (* 1945 )
- July 23 : Edward Vernon Rickenbacker , American automobile racing driver, entrepreneur and fighter pilot in World War I (* 1890 )
- September 4 : Henri Jeannin , Franco-German racing driver and entrepreneur (* 1872 )
- September 24th : Werner Pfirter , Swiss motorcycle racer (* 1946 )
- October 6 : François Cevert , French racing car driver (* 1944 )
- December 17th : Josef Klein , German motorcycle racer (* 1904 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1973 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
