Sports year 1977
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badminton
The highlight of the badminton year 1977 was the Badminton World Championship , which was held for the first time, 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
- April 14th - Rosemarie Ackermann , GDR , reached 1.97 meters in the women's high jump.
- April 21 - Alejandro Casañas , Cuba , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 13.21 seconds.
- April 21 - Alberto Juantorena , Cuba , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.4 minutes.
- May 1st - Chantal Langlace , France , ran the women's marathon in 2:35:16 hours.
- May 25th - Rosemarie Ackermann , GDR , reached 2.00 meters in the women's high jump.
- June 9 - Peg Neppel , USA , ran the women's 10,000 meters in 33: 15.1 minutes.
- June 11th - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.45 seconds.
- July 1st - Marlies Göhr , GDR , ran the women's 100 meters in 10.88 seconds.
- July 3 - Vladimir Yashchenko , Soviet Union , jumped 2.33 m in the men's high jump.
- July 5 - Dick Quax , New Zealand , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 12.9 minutes.
- July 6 - Jan Merrill , USA , ran the women's 5000 meters in 15: 37.0 minutes.
- July 11th - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.45 seconds.
- July 12 - Vladimir Yashchenko , Soviet Union , reached 2.33 meters in the men's high jump.
- July 26th - Tatjana Storoschewa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 55.74 seconds.
- July 30th - Samson Kimobwa , Kenya , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 30.5 minutes.
- August 5 - Dick Quax , New Zealand , ran the men's 5000 meters in 13: 12.9 minutes.
- August 13 - Karin Roßley , GDR , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 55.63 seconds.
- August 20 - Helena Fibingerová , Czechoslovakia , hit 22.32 meters in the women's shot put.
- August 21 - Alberto Juantorena , Cuba , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.4 minutes.
- September 10 - Christa Vahlensieck , Germany , ran the women's marathon in 2:34:48 hours.
- September 11th - Kate Schmidt , USA reached 69.32 meters in the women's javelin.
- September 12 - Karin Roßley , GDR , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 55.63 seconds.
- December 16 - Lilian Harpur , Australia , walked 1: 43.4 hours in the women's 20,000 meter walk.
Motorcycling
Formula 750
- The title in the Formula 750 , which is being held for the first time as a world championship by the FIM, was secured by the 25-year-old American Steve Baker on a Yamaha ahead of the French Christian Sarron and the Italian Giacomo Agostini (both also Yamaha).
Details: 1977 Formula 750 season
Formula TT
- The Formula TT was launched in 1977 by the government of the Isle of Man and the Auto-Cycle Union to compensate for the withdrawal of the World Championship status of the Isle of Man TT by the FIM and at the same time to make races with near-production machines more popular. This year the TT winner also became world champion in the respective class.
Details: Formula TT 1977
TT-F1 class
- The 38-year-old Briton Phil Read secured the title in the TT-F1 class on a Honda ahead of his compatriots Roger Nicholls ( Ducati ) and Ian Richards (also Honda).
TT-F2 class
- In the TT-F2 class, the Briton Alan Jackson jr. on Honda World Champion. His compatriots Neil Tuxworth and Denis Casement , both also on Honda, take second and third place.
TT-F3 class
- There is also a British triple victory in the TT-F3 class . John Kidson wins on a Honda ahead of Brian Peters ( Suzuki ) and Abe Walsh (also Honda).
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1977 March 26th to April 5th in Birmingham (England)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February 22: Menninghüffen: D. - Australia 5: 2 (men)
- February 22: Menninghüffen: D. - Australia 5-1 (women)
- April 9: Calw: D. - Japan 5-3 (men)
- April 9: Calw: D. - Japan 3-2 (women)
- April 14: Hagen: D. - China 1: 5 (men)
- April 14: Hagen: D. - China 0-3 (women)
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European League
- January 19: Győr: D. - Hungary 0: 7 (women + men)
- February 10th: Pilsen: D. - CSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- March 3: Münster: D. - England 3: 4 (women + men)
- September 20: Eupen: D. - Belgium 7-0 (women + men)
- October 13th: Jump: D. - Austria 7-0 (women + men)
- November 3: Luxembourg: D. - Luxembourg 6: 1 (women + men)
- December 15: Craigavon: D. - Ireland 7-0 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 1 : Abdihakem Abdirahman , American long-distance runner
- January 1st : Hasan Salihamidžić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- January 4th : Jonathan Cochet , French racing car driver
- January 4th : David Millar , Scottish cyclist
- January 8th : Andrea Ardito , Italian soccer player
- January 9 : Maik Machulla , German handball player and trainer
- January 9 : Christian Rose , German handball player
- January 10th : Axel Kromer , German handball player and coach
- January 10 : Björn Rupprecht , German handball player and trainer
- January 11th : Anni Friesinger , German speed skater
- January 13 : Frank Berblinger , German handball player
- January 13th : Alex Hofer , Swiss paraglider pilot
- January 13 : Agusti Pol Pérez , Andorran football player
- January 14th : Uwe Hardter , German racing cyclist
- January 14th : Narain Karthikeyan , Indian racing car driver
- January 16 : Athirson , Brazilian soccer player
- January 16 : Marco Laaser , German soccer player
- January 16 : Darius Kampa , German soccer player
- January 17th : Luca Paolini , Italian cyclist
- January 17 : Hicham Zerouali , Moroccan football player († 2004 )
- January 18 : Didier Dinart , French handball player
- January 18th : Jean-Patrick Nazon , French cyclist
- January 18 : Alina Schidkowa , Russian tennis player
- January 19 : Henrik Andersson , Swedish badminton player
- January 20 : Cindy Arthur , Canadian badminton player
- January 21st : Ben Birchall , British motorcycle racer
- January 21 : Bradley Carnell , South African soccer player
- January 21 : Scott King , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 21 : Kirsten Klose , German hammer thrower
- January 21 : Phil Neville , English football player
- January 23 : Nebojša Golić , Bosnian handball player
- January 24th : Xiao Hailiang , Chinese water diver
- January 25th : Tom Aage Aarnes , Norwegian ski jumper
- January 25 : Lidia Chojecka , Polish athlete
- January 25 : Luke Roberts , Australian cyclist
- January 26 : Vince Carter , American basketball player
- January 28 : Daunte Culpepper , American football player
- January 28th : Takuma Satō , Japanese racing car driver
- January 31 : Torri Edwards , American athlete
- January 31 : Olessya Kulakova , German volleyball player
February
- February 1 : Libor Sionko , Czech football player
- February 2 : Martin Andresen , Norwegian football player and coach
- February 2nd : Martin Boquist , Swedish handball player
- February 2nd : Marc Bernaus , Andorran football player
- February 3rd : Tammy Crow , American synchronized swimmer
- February 3 : Carlos Parra , American soccer player
- February 5th : Ben Ainslie , English sailor
- February 5 : Dane Šijan , Serbian handball player
- February 8th : Shigeru Aburaya , Japanese long-distance runner
- February 8 : Sverre Andreas Jakobsson , Icelandic handball player
- February 8 : Roman Kostomarov , Russian figure skater
- February 9 : Björn Weikl , German soccer player
- February 10 : Tanja Vreden , German soccer player
- February 11 : Angelo Barletta , German soccer player
- February 14th : Michael Adams , South African badminton player
- February 14th : Cadel Evans , Australian cyclist
- February 14th : Diana Romagnoli , Swiss fencer
- February 14 : Elmer Symons , South African motorcycle racer († 2007 )
- February 15 : Milenko Ačimovič , Slovenian football player
- February 15 : Margus Ader , Estonian biathlete
- February 17th : Wong Choong Hann , Malay badminton player
- February 18 : Hugo Cunha , Portuguese football player († 2005 )
- February 19 : Daniel Giménez , Argentine soccer player
- February 19 : Gianluca Zambrotta , Italian football player
- February 22 : Julio Hernán Rossi , Italian-Argentine soccer player
- February 22nd : Hakan Yakin , Swiss football player of Turkish origin
- February 23 : Ayhan Akman , Turkish soccer player
- February 23 : Kristina Šmigun-Vähi , Estonian cross-country skier
- February 24 : Floyd Mayweather Jr. , American boxer
- February 24th : Jean-Pierre Vidal , French ski racer
- February 25th : Francisco José Lara , Spanish cyclist
- February 28 : Mirza Džomba , Croatian handball player
March
- March 1st : Rens Blom , Dutch athlete
- March 3 : Gabriel Arroyo , Argentine volleyball player
- March 3 : Stéphane Robidas , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 4th : Ana Guevara , Mexican athlete
- March 4th : Daniel Klewer , German soccer player
- March 6th : Giorgos Karagounis , Greek football player
- March 7th : Jérôme Fernandez , French handball player
- March 7th : Mia Hundvin , Norwegian handball player
- March 8 : Fernando Vicente , Spanish tennis player
- March 8th : Johann Vogel , Swiss football player
- March 9 : Vincent Defrasne , French biathlete
- March 10th : Stefan Blank , German soccer player
- March 11 : Becky Hammon , American-Russian basketball player
- March 12 : Amdy Faye , Senegalese soccer player
- March 12th : Rita König , German foil fencer
- March 14th : Zé António , Portuguese football player
- March 14th : Andrés Silvera , Argentinian soccer player
- March 16 : Mike Hairston , German handball player
- March 17th : Xabier Zandio , Spanish cyclist
- March 18 : Willy Sagnol , French football player
- March 18 : Zdeno Chára , Slovak ice hockey player
- March 19 : Michael Hegemann , German handball player
- March 20 : Tor Hogne Aarøy , Norwegian football player
- March 20 : Bryan Adams , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 22nd : Ambrosi Hoffmann , Swiss ski racer
- March 23 : Maxim Marinin , Russian figure skater and 2006 Olympic champion
- March 24th : Ivan Artejew , Russian cross-country skier
- March 24th : Varvara Barysheva , Russian speed skater
- March 25th : Axel Keller , German football goalkeeper
- March 27 : Kheïreddine Madoui , Algerian football player and coach
- March 27 : Vítor Meira , Brazilian racing car driver
- March 27 : Nils Winter , German athlete (long jump)
- March 29th : Anja Schache , German fencer
- March 30th : Marc Gicquel , French tennis player
- March 30th : Gianluca Grava , Italian football player
- March 30th : Antonio Langella , Italian football player
April
- April 1st : Haimar Zubeldia , Spanish cyclist
- April 2nd : Nicki Pedersen , Danish track athlete
- April 5 : Erhan Albayrak , German soccer player
- April 5 : Martin Plüss , Swiss ice hockey player
- April 6th : Ulrike Urbansky , German athlete
- April 10 : Mladen Bartolović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- April 11th : Georgi Nikolov , Bulgarian handball player
- April 12th : Tobias Angerer , German cross-country skier
- April 13th : Ángel Vicioso , Spanish cyclist
- April 14 : Erjon Bogdani , Albanian football player
- April 14 : Ben Williams , Australian football referee
- April 14th : Cristiano Zanetti , Italian football player
- April 16 : Freddie Ljungberg , Swedish football player
- April 16 : Stefanie Melbeck , German handball player
- April 16 : Thomas Rasmussen , Danish football player
- April 17th : Chad Hedrick , American speed skater and speed skater
- April 18 : Joakim Andersson , Swedish badminton player
- April 20th : Grażyna Prokopek , Polish athlete
- April 22nd : Alexei Bassow , Russian racing car driver
- April 22nd : Mark van Bommel , Dutch football player
- April 22nd : Sabine Egger , Austrian ski racer
- April 22nd : Robert Hunter , South African racing cyclist
- April 22nd : Anthony Lurling , Dutch soccer player
- April 23 : John Cena , American wrestler
- April 23 : Kirsten Lee Clark , American ski racer
- April 24th : Diego Placente , Argentinian soccer player
- April 25 : Christian Dubé , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 26 : Craig Adams , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 26 : Christian Lenze , German soccer player
- April 26 : Raphael Wicky , Swiss football player
- April 27 : Daryl Andrews , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 27 : Jeff Ulmer , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 28 : Ronald Schmidt , German soccer player
- April 29th : Marcel Hacker , German rower
- April 29th : Timo Pritzel , German cyclist
- April 29th : Attila Zsivoczky , Hungarian athlete
May
- May 2nd : Jan Fitschen , German athlete
- May 2nd : Kalle Palander , Finnish ski racer
- May 4th : Mariano Pernía , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player
- May 6 : Jon Conway , American soccer player
- May 6 : René Münnich , German racing car driver, racing team owner and entrepreneur
- May 6th : Daniela Rath , German high jumper
- May 6 : André Sá , Brazilian tennis player
- May 7th : Roman Týce , Czech football player
- May 8 : Aníbal Samuel Matellán , Argentinian soccer player
- May 9 : Iñigo Landaluze , Spanish cyclist
- May 10 : Nick Heidfeld , German Formula 1 racing driver
- May 10th : Jiří Štoček , Czech chess grandmaster
- May 11th : Janne Ahonen , Finnish ski jumper
- May 11 : Nikolai Bolshakow , Russian cross-country skier
- May 11 : Pablo García , Uruguayan soccer player
- May 11 : Victor Matfield , South African rugby player
- May 12th : Graeme Dott , Scottish snooker player
- May 15 : Fazlur Rahman Abdul Aziz , Sri Lankan football player
- May 16 : Ronny Ackermann , German Nordic combined athlete
- May 16 : Jean-Sébastien Giguère , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 16 : Fernando Silva , Andorran football player
- May 19 : Ronny Amm , German rally racing driver
- May 19 : Katarina Breznik , Slovenian ski racer
- May 20 : Olivier Brassart , French football player
- May 22 : Víctor Hugo Lorenzón , Argentinian football player
- May 23 : Ilya Kulik , Russian figure skater and 1998 Olympic champion
- May 25 : Andre Anis , Estonian football player
- May 26 : Luca Toni , Italian soccer player
- May 28th : Anja Monke , German golfer
- May 29 : Massimo Ambrosini , Italian football player
- May 29th : Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez , Spanish tennis player
- May 29 : Marco Cassetti , Italian football player
- May 29 : Lebo Lebo , Angolan football player
- May 30th : Akwá , Angolan football player
June
- June 2 : Allen Lloyd Jones , American wrestler
- June 3rd : Patrik Klüft , Swedish pole vaulter
- June 3 : Claudia von Lanken , German soccer player
- June 4th : Albert Thurton , Belizean football player
- June 4th : Steve Zampieri , Swiss cyclist
- June 6th : David Connolly , Irish football player
- June 6th : Meike Evers , German rower and Olympic champion
- June 7th : Johan Brolenius , Swedish ski racer
- June 8th : Gregor Werum , German handball player
- June 9th : Carlos Gómez Benítez , Andorran football player
- June 9 : Olin Kreutz , American football player
- June 9 : Peja Stojaković , Serbian basketball player
- June 12 : Burak Akdiş , Turkish football player
- June 12 : Andreas Renz , German ice hockey player
- June 13 : Rainer Schönfelder , Austrian ski racer
- June 14 : Chris McAlister , American football player
- June 14th : Joe Worsley , English rugby player
- June 16 : Kenneth Zeigbo , Nigerian soccer player
- June 19 : Maria Cioncan , Romanian athlete († 2007 )
- June 21 : Aðalsteinn Eyjólfsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- June 21 : Jochen Hecht , German ice hockey player
- June 21 : Angelo Furlan , Italian cyclist
- June 22nd : Yevgeny Najer , Russian chess player
- June 23 : Miguel Ángel Angulo , Spanish football player
- June 25th : Layla El , British model, dancer and wrestler
- June 26 : Florian Kehrmann , German handball player
- June 27th : Raúl , Spanish soccer player
- June 27th : Danijel Šarić , Bosnian handball player
- June 27th : Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza , Brazilian handball player
- June 28th : Ella Grødem , Greenlandic handball player
- June 29th : Jens Matthies , German soccer player
- June 30th : Tathiana Garbin , Italian tennis player
July
- July 1st : Jarome Iginla , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 3 : Sandra Smisek , German soccer player
- July 5th : Nicolas Kiefer , German tennis player
- July 6th : Max Mirny , Belarusian tennis player
- July 6 : Olga Shtyrenko , Russian rhythmic gymnast
- July 7th : Benjamin Huggel , Swiss football player
- July 8th : Christian Abbiati , Italian football goalkeeper
- July 8th : Liu Xianying , Chinese biathlete
- July 10 : Mauricio Martín Astudillo , Argentine soccer player
- July 10 : João Pereira Jamba , Angolan football player
- July 10 : Levan Kobiashvili , Georgian football player
- July 11th : Tobias Welz , German soccer referee
- July 11 : Robert Wulnikowski , German soccer player
- July 12 : Brock Lesnar , American wrestler and MMA fighter
- July 12 : Clayton Zane , Australian soccer player
- July 13th : Kathleen Friedrich , German athlete
- July 14th : Peter Abelsson , Swedish football player
- July 18 : Alexander Morozevich , Russian chess player
- July 20 : Alpaslan Agüzüm , German boxer
- July 20 : Alessandro Santos , Japanese soccer player
- July 21 : Danny Ecker , German pole vaulter
- July 21 : Jamie Harnwell , Australian soccer player
- July 22nd : Ingo Hertzsch , German soccer player
- July 23 : Gail Emms , British badminton player
- July 24th : Arnold Bruggink , Dutch soccer player
- July 24 : Mehdi Mahdavikia , Iranian soccer player
- July 26th : Frank Ettwein , German handball player
- July 26th : Tanja Szewczenko , German figure skater
- July 28 : Mark Boswell , Canadian athlete
- July 28 : Emanuel Ginóbili , Argentine basketball player
- July 29th : Luiz Amorim , Brazilian road cyclist
- July 29th : Maximilian Ramota , German handball player
August
- August 1st : Metin Aktaş , Turkish football goalkeeper
- August 3rd : Óscar Pereiro , Spanish cyclist
- August 3 : Rui Silva , Portuguese athlete
- August 8 : Kunle Adejuyigbe , Nigerian sprinter
- August 8th : Bianca Kappler , German athlete
- August 9 : Hunter Smith , American football player
- August 10 : Sergiu Radu , Romanian football player
- August 12th : Iva Majoli , Croatian tennis player
- August 13 : Michael Klim , Australian swimmer
- August 14 : Justin Anlezark , Australian shot putter
- August 17th : William Gallas , French football player
- August 17th : Thierry Henry , French soccer player
- August 18 : Lukáš Bauer , Czech cross-country skier
- August 19 : Iban Mayo , Basque cyclist
- August 23 : Francisco Gabriel Guerrero , Argentine soccer player
- August 23 : Cristian Roig , Andorran football player
- August 24 : Robert Enke , German football player († 2009 )
- August 24 : Jürgen Macho , Austrian soccer player
- August 24 : Massimo Colomba , Swiss football goalkeeper
- August 26th : Therese Alshammar , Swedish swimmer
- August 27 : Deco , Portuguese football player
- August 27 : Wes Newton , English darts player
- August 28 : Daniel Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 28 : Juanín García , Spanish handball player and coach
- August 30 : Shaun Alexander , American football player
- August 30th : Félix Sánchez , athlete from the Dominican Republic
- August 30 : Kamil Kosowski , Polish football player
- August 31 : Jeff Hardy , American wrestler
September
- September 1st : Francisco Aguirre , Argentinian soccer striker
- September 1st : David Albelda , Spanish soccer player
- September 1st : Armindo Araújo , Portuguese rally driver
- September 1 : Jerry Azumah , American football player
- September 1st : Linda Jap Tjoen San , Dutch chess player
- September 2nd : Marek Mintál , Slovak football player
- September 3 : Rui Manuel Marques , Angolan football player
- September 3 : Olof Mellberg , Swedish football player and coach
- September 5 : Teresa Marinova , Bulgarian athlete and Olympic champion
- September 7th : Ariel Jakubowski , Polish football player
- September 8 : Jason Collier , American basketball player († 2005 )
- September 10 : Bernardo Daniel Romeo , Argentine soccer player
- September 11th : Matthew Stevens , Welsh snooker player
- September 12 : Julija Pachalina , Russian water diver
- September 14 : Alexsandro de Souza , Brazilian soccer player
- September 17th : Juan Antonio Flecha , Spanish cyclist
- September 17th : Simone Perrotta , Italian football player
- September 19 : Emil Sutovsky , Israeli chess master
- September 21 : Marcin Lijewski , Polish handball player
- September 22nd : Gabriel Héctor Fernández , Argentine soccer player
- September 23 : Magomed Aripgadiev , Belarusian boxer
- September 24th : Frank Fahrenhorst , German soccer player
- September 25 : Rinaldo Nocentini , Italian cyclist
- September 26 : Karin Mortensen , Danish handball player
- September 27 : Lucas Bernardi , Argentine soccer player
- September 27 : Jovo Stanojević , Serbian basketball player
- September 27th : Andrus Värnik , Estonian athlete
- September 29th : Kerstin Stegemann , German soccer player
- September 30th : Roy Carroll , Northern Irish football goalkeeper
- September 30th : David García , Spanish cyclist
October
- October 1 : Dwight Phillips , American athlete
- October 2nd : Patricia Arribas Pérez , Spanish long distance runner
- October 2nd : Didier Défago , Swiss ski racer
- October 3rd : Marco Fritz , German soccer referee
- October 4th : Bartłomiej Macieja , Polish chess player
- October 5th : Anja Richter , Austrian water diver
- October 6 : Daniel Brière , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 7th : Dan Beutler , Swedish handball goalkeeper
- October 7th : Marwa El-Sherbini , Egyptian handball player and pharmacist († 2009 )
- October 9 : Emanuele Belardi , Italian football player
- October 9 : Mehmet Dragusha , Albanian football player
- October 10 : Sanel Kuljić , Austrian football player
- October 10 : Shin'ya Nakano , Japanese motorcycle racer
- October 10 : Tina Wunderlich , German soccer player
- October 10 : Roger Yasukawa , American racing car driver
- October 11 : Jelena Berezhnaya , Russian figure skater and 2002 Olympic champion
- October 11th : Kōji Yamanishi , Japanese racing car driver
- October 12 : Kenyon Jones , American basketball player († 2005 )
- October 12 : Bode Miller , American ski racer
- October 13 : Katrin Wagner-Augustin , German canoeist
- October 13 : Judith Sylvester , German volleyball player
- October 13 : Antonio Di Natale , Italian football player
- October 14th : Aaron Armstrong , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- October 14 : Joey Didulica , Australian-Croatian soccer player
- October 14th : Violetta Oblinger-Peters , Austrian white water paddler
- October 14 : Oleg Velyky , German handball player († 2010 )
- October 15 : David Trezeguet , French football player
- October 17 : Dudu Aouate , Israeli soccer player
- October 18 : Paul Stalteri , Canadian soccer player
- October 22nd : Gabriele Gardel , Swiss racing driver
- October 22 : Grit Jurack , German handball player
- October 25 : Rodolfo Bodipo , Spanish-Equatorial Guinean soccer player
- October 25 : Birgit Prinz , German soccer player
- October 28 : Jana Arnošová , Czech handball player
- October 28 : Christoph Bieler , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- October 28 : Rolf-Christel Guié-Mien , Congolese soccer player
- October 28 : Sascha Rösler , German soccer player
- October 30th : Takanori Aoki , Japanese badminton player
- October 30th : Jesper Jensen , Danish handball player
- October 31 : Sylviane Félix , French athlete
- October 31 : Sylvio Ney , German handball player
November
- November 3rd : Kristoffer Arvhage , Swedish football player
- November 5th : Chassanbi Taow , Russian judoka
- November 8 : Yusup Abdussalomov , Tajik wrestler
- November 8th : Sascha Amstätter , German soccer player
- November 10 : Micheil Aschwetia , Georgian football player
- November 10 : Abdullah ad-Dusari , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- November 11th : Arianna Follis , Italian cross-country skier
- November 11 : Lo Ka Chun , Hong Kong racing car driver
- November 11th : Maniche , Portuguese soccer player
- November 15 : Noureddine Daham , Algerian football player
- November 16 : Maxim Stawiski , Bulgarian figure skater
- November 16 : Oksana Bajul , Ukrainian figure skater
- November 16 : Stuart Moseley , British racing car driver
- November 18 : Heiko Grimm , German handball player
- November 18 : Deiniol Jones , Welsh rugby player
- November 19 : Diego Perrone , Uruguayan soccer player
- November 20 : Mikhail Ivanov , Russian cross-country skier and 2002 Olympic champion
- November 22nd : Santiago Acasiete , Peruvian soccer player
- November 24th : Leila Aman , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- November 24 : Fernando Troyansky , Argentine soccer player
- November 25th : Guillermo Cañas , Argentine tennis player
- November 26th : Ivan Basso , Italian cyclist
- November 27 : Joseph Akongo , Cameroonian football player
- November 28th : Markus Ahlf , German soccer player
- November 28th : Inés Arrondo , Argentine hockey player
- November 28 : Fabio Grosso , Italian football player
- November 29th : Maria Petrowa , Russian figure skater
- November 30th : Rachel Howard , New Zealand soccer player
- November 30th : Timo Wenzel , German soccer player
December
- December 3rd : Dillon Battistini , British racing car driver
- December 3 : Adam Małysz , Polish ski jumper
- December 4th : Darvis Patton , American athlete
- December 6th : Finlay Mickel , British ski racer
- December 7th : Luke Donald , English golfer
- December 7th : Delron Buckley , South African soccer player
- December 8th : Sébastien Chabal , French rugby player
- December 8th : Anita Weyermann , Swiss athlete
- December 10th : Matthias Heidrich , German soccer player
- December 10th : Andrea Henkel , German biathlete
- December 10th : Thomas Klitgaard , Danish handball player
- December 11th : Andreas Geritzer , Austrian sailor
- December 11th : Mark Streit , Swiss ice hockey player
- December 15th : Gong Zhichao , Chinese badminton player and Olympic champion
- December 21 : Klodian Duro , Albanian football player
- December 24th : Carlos Meza , Colombian bantamweight boxer († 2004 )
- December 26 : Fatih Akyel , Turkish soccer player
- December 27th : Florence Ekpo-Umoh , German athlete
- December 28 : Kuami Agboh , Togolese soccer player
- December 28th : Thomas Kleine , German soccer player
- December 28 : Derrick Brew , American athlete
- December 30th : Marco Reich , German soccer player
- December 30th : Glory Alozie , Spanish athlete
Died
- February 6 : Hermann Felsner , Austrian football player and coach (* 1889 )
- June 8 : Erik Bohlin , Swedish cyclist and motorcycle racer (* 1897 )
- June 20 : Jules Moriceau , French racing car driver (* 1887 )
- June 29 : Giovanni Ziggiotto , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1954 )
- October 29 : Otto Ley , German motorcycle racer (* 1903 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1977 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files