Sports year 1980
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Major events
- February 13th to February 24th: 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, USA
- July 19 to August 3: 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, USSR
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1980 were the Badminton World Championships 1980 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Denmark Open , the French Open and the European Championship .
International events
Soccer
athletics
- March 26 - Domingo Colin , Mexico , walked 1:19:35 in the men's 20,000-meter walk.
- April 23 - Ferenc Paragi , Hungary , threw 96.72 meters in the men's javelin throw.
- April 27 - Steve Ovett , Great Britain , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 31.4 minutes.
- April 29th - Ruth Fuchs , GDR , reached 69.96 meters in the women's javelin.
- May 2 - Ilona Slupianek , GDR , hit 22.36 meters in the women's shot put.
- May 10 - Ilona Slupianek , GDR , hit 22.45 meters in the women's shot put.
- May 10 - Evelin Jahl , GDR , threw 71.5 meters in the women's discus throw.
- May 11 - Sue Orr , Australia completed the women's 10,000m walk in 46:28 minutes.
- May 18 - Daley Thompson , Great Britain , scored 8,648 points in the men's decathlon.
- May 18th - Karin Roßley , GDR , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 54.28 seconds.
- May 24 - Sergei Litvinov , Soviet Union , threw 81.66 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- May 25 - Jacek Wszoła , Poland , jumped 2.35 meters in the men's high jump.
- May 26th - Grete Waitz , Norway , ran the women's marathon in 2:25:41 hours.
- May 30 - Daniel Bautista , Mexico , walked 1:21:00 hours in the men's 20,000 meter walk.
- June 10th - Evelin Jahl , GDR , reached 71.50 meters in the women's discus throw.
- June 11 - Władysław Kozakiewicz , Poland , reached 5.72 meters in the men's pole vault.
- June 13 - Grażyna Rabsztyn , Poland , ran the women's 100 meter hurdles in 12.36 seconds.
- June 15 - Guido Kratschmer , Germany , scored 8,667 points in the men's decathlon.
- June 16 - Jüri Tamm , Soviet Union , reached 80.46 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- June 16 - Jurij Sedych , Soviet Union , reached 80.64 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- June 17 - Karin Roßley , GDR , ran the women's 400 meter hurdles in 54.28 seconds.
- June 24 - Sergei Litvinov , Soviet Union , reached 81.66 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- June 25 - Jacek Wszoła , Poland , reached 2.35 meters in the men's high jump.
- June 26th - Dietmar Mögenburg , Germany , reached 2.35 meters in the men's high jump.
- June 29th - Thierry Vigneron , France , reached 5.75 meters in the men's pole vault.
- July 1st - Thierry Vigneron , France , reached 5.75 meters in the men's pole vault.
- July 1st - Sebastian Coe , Great Britain , ran the men's 1000 meters in 2: 13.4 minutes.
- July 3 - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.13 seconds.
- July 6th - Tatjana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 1500 meters in 3: 55.0 minutes.
- July 12th - Tatjana Birjulina , Soviet Union , reached 70.08 meters in the women's javelin.
- July 12 - Grażyna Rabsztyn , Poland , ran the 100 meter hurdles in 12.36 seconds.
- July 12 - Nadija Olisarenko , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 54.8 minutes.
- July 13 - Marija Petkowa , Bulgaria , threw 71.80 meters in the women's discus throw.
- July 14th - Guido Kratschmer , Germany , scored 8,649 points in the men's decathlon.
- July 30th - Władysław Kozakiewicz , Poland , reached 5.78 meters in the men's pole vault.
- July 31 - Jurij Sedych , Soviet Union , threw 81.8 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- August 1st - Gerd Wessig , GDR , jumped 2.36 meters in the men's high jump.
- August 3 - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.13 seconds.
- August 13 - Marija Petkowa , Bulgaria , reached 71.8 meters in the women's discus throw.
- August 13 - Tatiana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the 1500 meters. the women 3: 52.5 minutes.
- August 27 - Steve Ovett , Great Britain , ran the men's 1500 meters in 3: 31.4 minutes.
- August 27 - Nadija Olisarenko , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 53.4 minutes.
- August 31 - Liselotte Hansen , Denmark , reached 32.94 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- August 31 - Jurij Sedych , Soviet Union , reached 81.80 meters in the men's hammer throw.
- September 12 - Tatjana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 1500 meters in 3: 52.5 minutes.
- September 22nd - Ferenc Paragi , Hungary , reached 96.72 meters in the men's javelin throw.
- September 29 - Susan Cook , Australia , walked 1: 41.4 hours in the women's 20,000-meter walk.
- October 26th - Grete Waitz , Norway , ran the women's marathon in 2:25:42 hours.
Motorcycling
Formula TT
- In 1980, Formula TT consists of several races for the second time, namely the Isle of Man TT and the Ulster Grand Prix . The driver who collects the most points in both races wins the world title.
Details: Formula TT 1980
TT-F1 class
- In the TT-F1 class, New Zealander Graeme Crosby wins in a Suzuki ahead of Mick Grant ( Honda ) from Britain and Joey Dunlop (also Suzuki) from Northern Ireland .
TT-F2 class
- In the TT-F2 class, 30-year-old Brit Charlie Williams becomes world champion on a Yamaha . His compatriots Mal Lucas and Phil Odlin (both Honda ) are second and third.
TT-F3 class
- In the TT-F3 class, 23-year-old Briton Ron Haslam wins his second world championship title on a Honda . He prevails against his compatriots Chris Griffiths ( Aermacchi ) and Denis Casement ( Yamaha ).
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1980 March 5th to 13th, 1980 in Bern (Switzerland)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February 26: Reutlingen: D. - China 1: 5 (men)
- February 26: Reutlingen: D. - China 1: 3 (women)
- February 29: Berlin: D. - China 0: 5 (men)
- February 29: Berlin: D. - China 0: 3 (women)
- March 2: Hanover: D. - China 3: 5 (men)
- March 2: Hanover: D. - China 0: 3 (women)
- March 3: Hamm: D. - China 0: 5 (men)
- March 3: Hamm: D. - China 0: 3 (women)
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European League
- February 14: Poznan: D. - Poland 4: 3 (women + men)
- March 13th: Haßloch: D. - ČSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- September 18: Bristol: D. - England 2: 5 (women + men)
- October 9: Duisburg: D. - Sweden 2: 5 (women + men)
- November 13: Pécs: D. - Hungary 1: 6 (women + men)
- December 11th: Croix: D. - France 3: 4 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 2nd : Jérôme Pineau , French cyclist
- January 3 : Bryan Clay , American track and field athlete
- January 3rd : Sam Hancock , British racing car driver
- January 3 : Federico Insúa , Argentine soccer player
- January 4th : Yaroslav Popovych , Ukrainian cyclist
- January 5 : Srđan Andrić , Croatian football player
- January 5th : Kamber Arslan , Turkish soccer player
- January 5th : Sebastian Deisler , German soccer player
- January 5th : Chema Rodríguez , Spanish handball player and coach
- January 5th : Li Ting , Chinese tennis player
- January 6th : Travis Dodd , Australian soccer player
- January 6th : Mihael Mikić , Croatian football player
- January 7th : David Arroyo , Spanish cyclist
- January 8th : Annett Böhm , German judoka
- January 8 : Lucia Recchia , Italian ski racer
- January 9th : Sergio García , golfer
- January 9 : Uroš Zorman , Slovenian handball player
- January 11th : Eric Agyemang , Ghanaian soccer player
- January 11 : Christian Wetklo , German soccer player
- January 12th : Juan José Abril , Spanish track and road cyclist
- January 12th : Akiko Morigami , Japanese tennis player
- January 12th : Shane Stefanutto , Australian soccer player
- January 13th : Wolfgang Loitzl , Austrian ski jumper
- January 13 : María de Villota , Spanish racing car driver († 2013 )
- January 15 : Tommy Adams , American basketball player
- January 16 : Seydou Keita , Malian football player
- January 18 : Nia Künzer , German soccer player
- January 19th : Jenson Button , British racing driver
- January 19 : Cai Yun , Chinese badminton player
- January 19 : Leonard Scott , American athlete
- January 21 : Fernando de Moraes , Brazilian-Australian soccer and futsal player
- January 22nd : Daniel Sdunek , German handball goalkeeper
- January 22nd : Jonathan Woodgate , English soccer player
- January 24th : Yordanis Arencibia , Cuban judoka
- January 24th : Andrei Markow , Russian archery biathlete
- January 25th : Xavi , Spanish soccer player
- January 26 : Ertuğrul Arslan , Turkish football player
- January 26th : Maximiliano Pellegrino , Argentinian football player
- January 27th : Marat Safin , Russian tennis player of Tatar descent
- January 29 : Ivan Klasnić , Croatian football player
- January 30th : Mihail Gribușencov , Moldovan biathlete of Russian descent
- January 30th : Yvonne Leuthold , Swiss-British handball player
- January 30th : Christoph Teinert , German soccer player
- January 30 : Jurica Vranješ , Croatian football player
- January 30th : Angela Williams , American sprinter
- January 31 : Joel Brown , American athlete
- January 31 : Sergei Fedorovzew , Russian rower
- January 31 : Jakow Ratschinski , Russian ice hockey player
February
- February 1 : Otilino Tenorio , Ecuadorian football player († 2005 )
- February 3rd : Markus Esser , German athlete
- February 3 : Davide Moscardelli , Italian soccer player
- February 3rd : Martin Künzle , Swiss ski jumping trainer
- February 4th : Yared Asmerom , Eritrean marathon runner
- February 4th : Kabelo Mmono , Botswana high jumper
- February 5 : Sayed Tahir Shah , Afghan soccer player
- February 6 : Frank Løke , Norwegian handball player
- February 7th : Emma Ania , British sprinter
- February 7th : Saša Papac , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- February 8 : Nico Kibat , German handball player
- February 9 : Angelos Charisteas , Greek football player
- February 10 : Marko Baacke , German Nordic combined athlete
- February 10 : Riki Flutey , English rugby player
- February 10 : Enzo Maresca , Italian football player
- February 11 : Titi Buengo , Angolan soccer player
- February 11 : Mark Bresciano , Australian soccer player
- February 11th : Jukka Erätuli , Finnish snowboarder
- February 12th : Juan Carlos Ferrero , Spanish tennis player
- February 12 : Antonia Schmale , German soccer player
- February 13 : Sebastian Kehl , German soccer player
- February 15 : Jelena Sokolowa , Russian figure skater
- February 18 : Aivar Anniste , Estonian football player
- February 18 : Nikolai Antropov , Kazakh ice hockey player
- February 18 : Bernd Friede , Austrian handball player
- February 19 : Kevin Arnould , French skier
- February 20 : Arthur Abraham , German boxer of Armenian origin
- February 20 : Thomas Andergassen , German gymnast
- February 20 : Imanol Harinordoquy , French rugby union player
- February 20th : Anne Poleska , German swimmer
- February 20 : Guillermo Ariel Pereyra , Italian-Argentinian soccer player
- February 21 : Parthiva Sureshwaren , Indian racing car driver
- February 22nd : Philippe Alméras , French racing car driver
- February 22nd : Milen Dobrew , Bulgarian weightlifter († 2015 )
- February 22nd : Femke Maes , Belgian soccer player
- February 23 : Hannes Jón Jónsson , Icelandic handball player
- February 23 : Kim Kyung-roul , South Korean carom player († 2015 )
- February 24th : Roman Sludnow , Russian swimmer
- February 26th : Aree Wiratthaworn , Thai weightlifter
- February 26 : Necat Aygün , German-Turkish soccer player
- February 26 : Steve Blake , American basketball player
- February 28 : Christian Poulsen , Danish football player
- February 28 : Omar Pouso , Uruguayan soccer player
- February 28 : Sigurd Pettersen , Norwegian ski jumper
- February 28 : Tayshaun Prince , American basketball player
- February 29 : Kristin Fraser , American figure skater
- February 29 : Simon Gagné , Canadian ice hockey player
March
- March 1st : Anna Semenowitsch , Russian ice dancer
- March 2nd : Édson de Jesus Nobre , Angolan football player
- March 3 : Christoph Semmler , German soccer player
- March 6 : Patrik Anttonen , Swedish football player
- March 7 : Dwayne Archbold , American basketball player
- March 8 : Fabián Canobbio , Uruguayan soccer player
- March 8 : Mohamadou Idrissou , Cameroonian football player
- March 9 : Damián Macaluso , Uruguayan-Italian soccer player
- March 10 : Per-Gunnar Andersson , Swedish rally driver
- March 11 : Chris Lee , Canadian-American ice hockey coach († 2019 )
- March 12 : Cristian Fiél , Spanish-German soccer player
- March 12th : California Molefe , Botswana athlete
- March 13 : Gabriel Melkam , Nigerian soccer player
- March 15th : Ola Afolabi , British boxer
- March 15 : Alexander Ryazantsev , Russian ice hockey player
- March 15 : Alexei Volkov , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- March 16 : Julia Schlecht , German volleyball player
- March 17th : Nora Angehrn , Swiss golfer
- March 17th : Torsten Hiekmann , German racing cyclist
- March 17th : Oksana Pal , Russian handball player
- March 18 : Sébastien Frey , French football player
- March 18 : Alexei Yagudin , Russian figure skater
- March 19 : Harald Ambros , Austrian eventing rider
- March 19 : Johan Olsson , Swedish cross-country skier
- March 20 : Philipp Bönig , German soccer player
- March 20 : Tatyana Burina , Russian ice hockey player
- March 21 : Eric Baumann , German racing cyclist
- March 21 : Marit Bjørgen , Norwegian cross-country skier
- March 21 : Andrei Kashechkin , Kazakh cyclist
- March 21 : Ronaldinho , Brazilian soccer player
- March 21 : Bamuza Sono , South African soccer player
- March 22nd : Sebastian Schoof , German soccer player
- March 23rd : Ryan Day , Welsh snooker player
- March 23 : Roberto Rolfo , Italian motorcycle racer
- March 23 : Edrissa Sonko , Gambian football player
- March 24 : Ramzi Abid , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 24th : Gianluca Bollini , San Marino soccer player
- March 26 : Khalid Ali Al Thani , Arab road cyclist
- March 26th : Marianne Andersen , Norwegian orienteer
- March 26 : Krystofer Barch , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 26th : Pascal Hens , German handball player
- March 26 : Darryl O'Young , Chinese racing car driver
- March 27th : Stefan Feth , German table tennis player
- March 27 : Denis Kochetkov , Russian ice hockey player
- March 28th : Albert Streit , German soccer player
- March 29 : Robert Archibald , British basketball player († 2020 )
- March 30th : Katrine Lunde Haraldsen , Norwegian handball player
- March 30th : Kristine Lunde , Norwegian handball player
- March 30th : Santiago Urdiales , Spanish handball player
- March 31 : Martin Albrechtsen , Danish football player
- March 31 : Pa Dembo Touray , Gambian football player
April
- April 1st : Danny Anclais , German handball player
- April 1 : Randy Orton , American wrestler
- April 2nd : Michael Mörz , Austrian soccer player
- April 4 : Eric Steinbach , American football player
- April 6th : Tommi Evilä , Finnish long jumper
- April 8 : Josep Ayala , Andorran football player
- April 8th : Simone Oberer , Swiss athlete
- April 9 : Luciano Galletti , Argentinian soccer player
- April 10 : Gro Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player
- April 10 : Alexander Yeryomenko , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- April 10 : Shao Jiayi , Chinese soccer player
- April 10 : Andy Ram , Israeli tennis player
- April 11th : Alexandre Anselmet , French ski racer
- April 12th : Krešimir Ivanković , Croatian handball player
- April 13 : Quentin Richardson , American basketball player
- April 15 : Ljubomir Pavlović , Serbian handball player
- April 15th : Fanny Cihlar , German field hockey player
- April 15th : Fränk Schleck , Luxembourg cyclist
- April 18 : Rabiu Afolabi , Nigerian soccer player
- April 18 : Martina Müller , German soccer player
- April 19 : Jordi Escura , Andorran football player
- April 20 : Vibeke Skofterud , Norwegian cross-country skier († 2018 )
- April 20 : Lee Wilkie , Scottish soccer player
- April 22nd : Alexander Dück , German ice hockey player
- April 22nd : Nicolas Leblanc , French football player
- April 23 : Nils Döring , German soccer player
- April 23 : Jürgen Schweikardt , German handball player, trainer and manager
- April 23 : Steve Wyatt , Australian racing car driver
- April 24 : Fernando Arce , Mexican soccer player
- April 24 : Karen Asrjan , Armenian chess player († 2008 )
- April 24th : Şener Aşkaroğlu , Turkish soccer player
- April 24th : Jaime Melo , Brazilian racing car driver
- April 25 : Alejandro Valverde , Spanish cyclist
- April 27 : Michele La Rosa , Italian racing car driver
- April 27th : Ananda Mikola , Indonesian racing car driver
- April 27th : Terese Pedersen , Norwegian handball player
- April 27 : Marco Sullivan , American ski racer
- April 29 : Mohammad Amin , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- April 29th : Patrick Staudacher , South Tyrolean ski racer
May
- May 1st : Julia Tabakowa , Russian sprinter
- May 2nd : Tim Borowski , German soccer player
- May 5th : Silvan Aegerter , Swiss football player
- May 5 : Yossi Benayoun , Israeli soccer player
- May 6 : Ricardo Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player
- May 6th : Torsten Knabel , Austrian soccer player
- May 8 : David Loosli , Swiss cyclist
- May 9 : Gerrie Eijlers , Dutch handball player
- May 9 : Grant Hackett , Australian swimmer
- May 9 : Alexei Wojewoda , Russian bobsledder
- May 10 : Karoline Dyhre Breivang , Norwegian handball player
- May 12 : Dmitrij Afanassenkow , Russian ice hockey player
- May 13 : Preston Callander , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- May 13th : Tatjana Rjabkina , Russian orienteer
- May 14 : Morten Ask , Norwegian ice hockey player
- May 14th : Zdeněk Grygera , Czech football player
- May 16 : Simon Gerrans , Australian cyclist
- May 17th : Ilion Lika , Albanian football player
- May 18 : Ivan Jolić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 18th : Michaël Llodra , French tennis player
- May 18 : Diego Pérez , Uruguayan soccer player
- May 19 : Frida Andreasson , Swedish badminton player
- May 19 : Dean Heffernan , Australian soccer player
- May 19 : Moeneeb Josephs , South African soccer player
- May 21 : Lasse Kopitz , German ice hockey player
- May 21 : Benoît Peschier , French canoeist
- May 22nd : Róbert Gunnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- May 25 : Alex Hofmann , German motorcycle racer
- May 25 : Anna Nowakowska , Polish volleyball player
- May 27th : Andreas Blank , German handball player
- May 27 : Adam Hauser , American ice hockey player
- May 27th : Maryan Hary , French cyclist
- May 27th : Stephen Miller , British disabled athlete
- May 28 : Olivier Thomert , French football player
- May 29 : Ernesto Antonio Farías , Argentinian soccer player
- May 30th : Steven Gerrard , English soccer player
- May 30th : Joachim Standfest , Austrian soccer player
- May 30th : Eduard Trojanowski , Russian light welterweight boxer
- May 31 : Dirk Caspers , German soccer player
June
- June 3 : To Kum-ae , North Korean judoka
- June 3 : Mette Melgaard , Danish handball player
- June 3rd : Amauri , Brazilian soccer player
- June 5th : Rik De Voest , South African tennis player
- June 5th : Antonio García , Spanish racing car driver
- June 6 : Alexander Nikolayenko , Russian badminton player
- June 7th : Mika Anjō , Japanese badminton player
- June 7th : Ed Moses , American breaststroke swimmer
- June 7th : Igor Shchadilov , Russian ice hockey player
- June 10 : Nicole Söder , German soccer player
- June 12th : Néstor Martín Aquino , Uruguayan road cyclist
- June 12 : Rogério , Brazilian soccer player
- June 13 : Florent Malouda , French football player
- June 13 : Markus Winkelhock , German automobile racing driver
- June 14 : Jelena Karpova , Russian basketball player
- June 15 : Silke Meier , German handball player
- June 15th : Iker Romero , Spanish handball player
- June 16 : Thijs Al , Dutch cyclist
- June 16 : Brad Gushue , Canadian curler
- June 16 : Martin Stranzl , Austrian soccer player
- June 17th : Venus Williams , American tennis player
- June 20 : Nina Aigner , Austrian soccer player
- June 20 : Franco Semioli , Italian football player
- June 20th : Vignir Svavarsson , Icelandic handball player
- June 20th : Fabian Wegmann , German cyclist
- June 22nd : Davy Arnaud , American soccer player
- June 23 : David Andersen , Australian basketball player
- June 23 : Peter Arnesson , Swedish orienteer ski runner
- June 23 : Michele Bartyan , Italian racing car driver
- June 23 : Massimilian Porcello , German-Italian soccer player
- June 23 : Francesca Schiavone , Italian tennis player
- June 25 : Robert Müller , German ice hockey player († 2009 )
- June 26th : Dustin Dollin , Australian skateboarder
- June 26 : Michael Vick , American football player
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- June 27 : Hugo Campagnaro , Argentine football player
- June 27 : Sergei Khoroschun , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- June 28 : Maurizio Domizzi , Italian football player
- June 29 : James Courtney , Australian racing car driver
- June 29 : Konstantin Panov , Russian ice hockey player
- June 30th : Adil Annani , Moroccan marathon runner
- June 30th : Rade Prica , Swedish football player
July
- July 1st : Aslanbek Kushtov , Russian wrestler
- July 1st : Robert Lechleiter , German soccer player
- July 2nd : Alexander Petersson , Icelandic handball player
- July 2nd : Jiří Homola , Czech football player
- July 3 : Alejandro Acosta , Uruguayan soccer player
- July 3rd : Dawn Askin , Canadian curler
- July 3 : Tatiana Logunova , Russian sword fencer
- July 3 : Birgit Thumm , German volleyball player
- July 3rd : Roland Schoeman , South African swimmer
- July 5th : Carsten Sträßer , German soccer player
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- July 6th : Pau Gasol , Spanish basketball player
- July 6th : Madleen Wilder , German soccer player
- July 6th : Tanja Wörle , German soccer player
- July 7th : Peter Abstreiter , German ice hockey player
- July 7th : Michelle Kwan , American figure skater
- July 8 : Robbie Keane , Irish football player
- July 9 : Selvin De León , Belizean football player
- July 10 : Ezequiel González , Argentine soccer player
- July 10 : Bruno Magalhães , Portuguese rally driver
- July 12th : Katherine Legge , British racing car driver
- July 14th : Christian Dingert , German soccer referee
- July 15 : Jordi Benet , Andorran football player
- July 16 : Svetlana Feofanova , Russian athlete
- July 17th : Emil Angelow , Bulgarian soccer player
- July 17th : Rashid Ramzi , Moroccan athlete
- July 17th : José Sand , Argentinian soccer player
- July 19th : Xavier Malisse , Belgian tennis player
- July 19 : Giorgio Mondini , Swiss racing driver
- July 20 : Morten Ågheim , Norwegian ski jumper († 2017 )
- July 20 : Eric Akoto , Togolese soccer player
- July 20th : Gary Johnson , British motorcycle racer
- July 21 : Andrei Muchachev , Russian ice hockey player
- July 22nd : Scott Dixon , New Zealand racing car driver
- July 22nd : Dmitri Kalinin , Russian ice hockey player
- July 22nd : Dirk Kuyt , Dutch soccer player
- July 22nd : Marco Marchionni , Italian soccer player
- July 23 : Mariana Kautz , German figure skater
- July 25th : Peter Riis Andersen , Danish cyclist
- July 25 : Cha Du-ri , Korean soccer player
- July 27 : Allan Davis , Australian cyclist
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- July 29 : Fernando González , Chilean tennis player
- July 30th : Wojtek Czyz , German athlete (Paralympic winner)
- July 30th : Sasa Todosijevic , Swedish handball player
- July 31 : Vinicius Bergantin , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
- July 31 : Maciej Dmytruszyński , Polish handball player
- July 31 : Jiří Fischer , Czech ice hockey player
- July 31 : Mikko Hirvonen , Finnish rally driver
August
- August 1st : Sylvain Armand , French football player
- August 1st : Romain Barras , French decathlete
- August 1st : Takashi Kogure , Japanese racing car driver
- August 2nd : Charlotte and Julie Bonaventura , French handball referees
- August 4th : Benjamin Köhler , German soccer player
- August 5th : Jason Culina , Australian soccer player
- August 5th : Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos , Brazilian soccer player
- August 5th : Wayne Bridge , English soccer player
- August 5th : Aleksandar Mitreski , Macedonian football player
- August 6 : Sergey Antonyuk , Israeli badminton player
- August 6 : Gabriele Bosisio , Italian cyclist
- August 6 : Roman Weidenfeller , German football player
- August 7th : Chetan Anand Buradagunta , Indian badminton player
- August 7th : Shane Moody-Orio , Belizean football player
- August 8 : Luca Agamennoni , Italian rower
- August 8 : Matthew Kemp , Australian soccer player
- August 9 : Aleksandr Tadevosyan , Armenian football player
- August 11 : Monika Pyrek , Polish athlete
- August 14 : Leonardo Bruno dos Santos Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- August 15 : Ilya Klimkin , Russian figure skater
- August 16 : Julien Absalon , French mountain biker
- August 16 : Georgy Arsumanjan , Armenian chess player
- August 16 : Denise Karbon , Italian ski racer
- August 16 : Rob Nguyen , Australian racing car driver
- August 17th : Jorge Anchén , Uruguayan soccer player
- August 17th : Jan Kromkamp , Dutch football player
- August 18 : Esteban Cambiasso , Argentine soccer player
- August 18 : Jeremy Shockey , American football player
- August 18 : Emir Spahić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- August 18 : Marcel Šterbák , Slovak ice hockey player
- August 20 : Samuel Dumoulin , French cyclist
- August 21 : Emir Kurtagic , German handball player and coach
- August 22nd : Roland Benschneider , German soccer player
- August 28th : Gemma Arró Ribot , Spanish ski mountaineer
- August 29 : Perdita Felicien , Canadian athlete
- August 30th : Safet Nadarević , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- August 30 : Krisztián Szollár , Hungarian football player
- August 31 : Nikola Prce , Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball player
September
- September 1st : Sammy Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
- September 1st : Chris Riggott , English soccer player
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- September 2nd : Simone Kuhn , Swiss beach volleyball player
- September 2 : Danny Shittu , Nigerian soccer player
- September 2 : Hiroki Yoshimoto , Japanese racing car driver and rock singer
- September 3 : Carsten Rothenbach , German soccer player
- September 3 : Stefan Buck , German soccer player
- September 4th : Cem İslamoğlu , German-Turkish soccer player
- September 5 : Igor Syssoyev , Russian triathlete
- September 6th : Clemens Doppler , Austrian volleyball player
- September 6 : Kristian Kjelling , Norwegian handball player
- September 7th : Sara Carrigan , Australian cyclist
- September 7th : Emre Belözoğlu , Turkish football player
- September 7 : Gabriel Milito , Argentinian soccer player
- September 7th : Rikke Skov , Danish handball player
- September 8th : Daniel Steiner , Swiss ice hockey player
- September 9 : Ragnhild Aamodt , Norwegian handball player
- September 9 : Steffen Hofmann , German soccer player
- September 9 : Juan Péndola , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 10 : Roger Mason , American basketball player
- September 11th : Antonio Pizzonia , Brazilian racing car driver
- September 12 : Roda Antar , Lebanese soccer player
- September 12 : Yao Ming , Chinese basketball player
- September 12 : Christina Zerbe , German soccer player
- September 13 : Keith Andrews , Irish football player
- September 13 : Nicky Salapu , American-Samoan soccer goalkeeper
- September 14 : Ivan Radeljić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- September 15 : David Diehl , American football player
- September 17th : Pavel Košťál , Czech football player
- September 18 : Ilan Araújo , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
- September 18 : Carolin Hingst , German pole vaulter
- September 20 : Vladimir Karpez , Russian cyclist
- September 20th : Igor Vori , Croatian handball player and coach
- September 21 : Ralf Bader , German handball player
- September 21 : Henriette Mikkelsen , Danish handball player
- September 21 : Tomas Scheckter , South African racing car driver
- September 22nd : Timo Antila , Finnish biathlete
- September 23 : Silvio Adzic , German soccer player
- September 24th : Daniele Bennati , Italian cyclist
- September 24th : Diederik Boer , Dutch football player
- September 24 : Petri Pasanen , Finnish soccer player
- September 24th : Victoria Pendleton , British cyclist and Olympic champion
- September 24th : Sebastian Pelzer , German soccer player
- September 26th : Patrick Friesacher , Austrian automobile racing driver
- September 26 : Lars-Uwe Lang , German handball player
- September 27th : Asashōryū Akinori , Mongolian sumo fighter
- September 27 : Elvin Beqiri , Albanian football player
- September 27 : Olivier Kapo , French football player
- September 30th : Dante Guimarães Amaral , Brazilian volleyball player
- September 30th : Stefan Lindemann , German figure skater
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- September 30th : Martina Hingis , Swiss tennis player
October
- October 4th : Giovanni Federico , Italian football player
- October 4th : Sarah Fisher , American racing car driver
- October 4th : Ahmed Madouni , Algerian soccer player
- October 4th : Tomáš Rosický , Czech football player
- October 5th : Damir Doborac , Bosnian handball player
- October 5th : James Toseland , British motorcycle racer
- October 7th : Jean-Marc Gaillard , French cross-country skier
- October 7th : Olesja Sykina , Russian sprinter
- October 8th : Kasper Bøgelund , Danish football player
- October 8 : Mike Scifres , American football player
- October 9 : Fabio dos Santos Barbosa , Brazilian soccer player
- October 9 : Henrik Zetterberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- October 12 : Ledley King , English football player
- October 14th : Niels Lodberg , Danish football player and coach
- October 14 : Jens Bürkle , German handball player
- October 15th : Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist
- October 15 : Alex Rodríguez , Andorran football player
- October 15th : Heikki Kallio , Finnish chess grandmaster
- October 15 : André Wiwerink , German soccer player
- October 16 : Sérgio da Silva Pinto , German-Portuguese soccer player
- October 16 : Trine Nielsen , Danish handball player
- October 17th : Ekaterina Gamowa , Russian volleyball player
- October 17th : Peter Schyrba , German soccer player
- October 20 : Darko Maletić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- October 20th : Patrik Sinkewitz , German racing cyclist
- October 23 : Jesper Nøddesbo , Danish handball player
- October 23 : Vasily Rotschew , Russian cross-country skier
- October 24 : Matthew Amoah , Ghanaian soccer player
- October 24 : Christian Vander , German soccer player
- October 25 : Jessica Kessler , German figure skater and musical artist
- October 25 : Nikolai Weber , German handball player
- October 27th : Ünsal Arik , Turkish boxer
- October 27th : Ondřej Bank , Czech ski racer
- October 30 : Alexei Zavaruchin , Russian ice hockey player
- October 31 : Massimo Gobbi , Italian football player
November
- November 1st : Fərhad Vəliyev , Azerbaijani goalkeeper
- November 2 : Vladimir Tsvetkov , Russian-German figure skater
- November 3rd : Kjell Landsberg , German handball player
- November 4th : Alexander Archipenko , Russian skeleton driver
- November 4th : Carsten Lichtlein , German handball goalkeeper
- November 5 : Ranisav Jovanović , Serbian-Montenegrin soccer player
- November 5th : Christoph Metzelder , German soccer player
- November 5th : Geneviève Simard , Canadian ski racer
- November 6th : Simon Cziommer , German soccer player
- November 7th : Irina Abyssowa , Russian marathon swimmer and triathlete
- November 7 : Sergio Bernardo Almirón , Argentinian football player
- November 9 : Martín Ligüera , Uruguayan football player
- November 10th : Ajssel Akhmedova , Bulgarian soccer player
- November 10 : Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen , Faroese soccer player
- November 10th : Eddy Lembo , French-Algerian cyclist
- November 10th : Ina Menzer , German boxer
- November 11 : Yevgeny Fyodorov , Russian ice hockey player
- November 12th : Isabellah Andersson , Swedish long distance runner
- November 12th : Charlie Hodgson , English rugby player
- November 12 : Rémo Meyer , Swiss football player
- November 12 : Benoît Pedretti , French football player
- November 13 : Karl Dodd , Australian soccer player
- November 14th : Nina Müller , German handball player
- November 17th : Santo Anzà , Italian cyclist
- November 17 : Seyi Olajengbesi , Nigerian soccer player
- November 17th : Mikhail Tschipurin , Russian handball player
- November 18 : François Duval , Belgian rally driver
- November 18 : Ivan Cheresov , Russian biathlete
- November 18 : Christian Zeitz , German handball player
- November 20 : Marek Krejčí , Slovak football player († 2007 )
- November 22nd : David John Artell , Anglo-Gibraltar football player
- November 22nd : Frédéric Makowiecki , French racing car driver
- November 22nd : Yaroslav Rybakov , Russian high jumper
- November 24th : Ronny Arendt , German ice hockey player
- November 24th : Thomas Ziegler , German cyclist
- November 25 : Aleen Bailey , Jamaican athlete
- November 25 : John-Michael Liles , American ice hockey player
- November 26th : Jan Větrovec , Czech handball player and coach
- November 26 : Robert Vujević , German football player
- November 27th : Evi Dingebacher , German cross-country skier
- November 28 : Adrián Fernández , Argentinian soccer player
- November 29 : Alexander Sazonov , Russian ice hockey player
- November 30th : Jamie Ashdown , English soccer goalkeeper
December
- December 1st : Olivier Andrey , Swiss badminton player
- December 2nd : Marco Engelhardt , German soccer player
- December 2nd : Patrick Neumann , German soccer player
- December 3rd : Iulian Apostol , Romanian football player
- December 3rd : Joyce Malebogo Arone , Botswana badminton player
- December 4th : Stefan Pfannmöller , German canoeist
- December 6th : Sabrina Mockenhaupt , German athlete
- December 7th : John Terry , British football player
- December 7th : Clemens Fritz , German soccer player
- December 8th : Francis Mourey , French cyclist
- December 8 : Salomon Olembé , Cameroonian football player
- December 10th : Roland Schwarzl , Austrian athlete
- December 13th : Alan Alborn , American ski jumper
- December 13 : Patrik Antonius , Finnish poker player and tennis player
- December 14th : Sam Aiken , American football player
- December 16 : Dexter Langen , German football player
- December 17th : Carmen Casanova , Swiss ski racer
- December 17th : Ryan Hunter-Reay , American racing car driver
- December 17th : Irina Kotichina , Russian table tennis player
- December 18 : Vyacheslav Chistyakov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 19 : Thomas Borenitsch , Austrian soccer player
- December 19 : Daniel Pankofer , German handball player
- December 19 : Diego Ruiz , Argentinian soccer player
- December 20 : Martín Demichelis , Argentinian football player
- December 20th : Ashley Cole , English soccer player
- December 20th : Sebastian Halgasch , German swimmer
- December 20th : Michael Albasini , Swiss cyclist
- December 22nd : Grzegorz Tkaczyk , Polish handball player
- December 24th : José Aguilar , Venezuelan cyclist
- December 24 : Stephen Appiah , Ghanaian soccer player and coach
- December 27th : Claudio Castagnoli , Swiss wrestler
- December 28 : Irina Belowa , Russian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic champion
- December 28th : Mircea Pârligras , Romanian chess player
- December 29th : Yvonne Bönisch , German judoka
- December 29th : Henrik Stehlik , German trampoline gymnast
- December 31 : Richie McCaw , New Zealand rugby union player
- December 31st : Jennifer Shahade , American chess and poker player
Died
- January 6th : Raymond Mays , British racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1899 )
- January 20 : André Dubonnet , French military pilot, sportsman, racing driver, entrepreneur and inventor (* 1897 )
- February 21 : Mario Lanzi , Italian athlete (* 1914 )
- March 1 : Eric Oliver , British motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
- May 20 : Francesco Severi , Italian racing car driver (* 1907 )
- May 25 : Josef Giggenbach , German motorcycle racer (* 1906 )
- July 16 : William Chalmers , Scottish football player and coach (* 1907 )
- July 26 : Federico Munerati , Italian football player and coach (* 1901 )
- August 12 : Patrick Pons , French motorcycle racer (* 1952 )
- October 8 : Roland Schnell , German motorcycle racer (* 1921 )
- November 26th : Peter DePaolo , American racing car driver (* 1898 )
- November 27 : René Dreux , French racing car driver (* 1891 )
Day unknown
- Franz Bieber , German motorcycle racer, motorsport official and entrepreneur (* 1892 )
Winter sports
- February 13th to February 24th: 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, USA
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1980 - collection of images, videos and audio files
