Sports year 1988
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Olympic games
- February 13. bis 28. February : 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada
- September 17 to October 2 : 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea
- September 27th : Olaf Ludwig , GDR, is the first and only German cyclist to win the gold medal in an Olympic road individual race in Seoul. The German success is completed by the German drivers Bernd Groene (silver) and Christian Henn (bronze).
American football
- January 31 : In Super Bowl XXII , the Washington Redskins beat the Denver Broncos 42:10 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego .
- August 7th : The Helsinki Roosters beat the Amsterdam Crusaders in Eurobowl II by 35:14.
- October 15 : In German Bowl X, the Red Barons Cologne beat the Düsseldorf Panthers 25:20 in front of 11,000 spectators in Berlin .
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1988 were the Olympic badminton tournament , the Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup .
World Badminton Grand Prix
billiards
fencing
Soccer
athletics
Records
sprint
- July 16 : Florence Griffith-Joyner , USA, runs the women's 100 meters in 10.49 seconds.
- September 24th : Carl Lewis , USA, runs the men's 100 meters in 9.92 seconds.
- September 29 : Florence Griffith-Joyner , USA, runs the women's 200 meters in 21.34 seconds.
- August 17th : Harry Reynolds , USA, runs the men's 400 meters in 43.29 seconds.
Long distance running
- April 17th : Belayneh Dinsamo , Ethiopia, wins the men's marathon in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 2:06:50 hours.
Hurdles
- August 20 : Jordanka Donkowa , Bulgaria, runs the women's 100 meter hurdles in 12.21 seconds.
Go
- August 27 : Kerry Saxby , Australia completed the women's 10,000m walk in 41:30 minutes.
- August 30th : Mikhail Schchennikow , Soviet Union, walks in the men's 20,000 meter walk in 1:19:08 hours.
Throwing disciplines
- April 10 : Carol Cady , USA, reaches 58.94 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- April 28 : Ljubow Wassiljewa , Soviet Union, reaches 58.98 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- June 22nd : Ulf Timmermann , GDR, reached 23.06 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 9 : Gabriele Reinsch , GDR, throws 76.80 meters in the women's discus throw.
- September 9th : Petra Felke , GDR, reaches 80 meters in the women's javelin.
Jump disciplines
- June 4th : Shao Jingwen , People's Republic of China, reaches 3.73 meters in the women's pole vault.
- June 9 : Serhiy Bubka , Soviet Union, jumps 6.05 meters in the men's pole vault.
- June 10 : Zhang Chunzen , People's Republic of China, jumps 3.75 meters in the women's pole vault.
- June 11 : Galina Tschistjakowa , Soviet Union, reaches 7.52 meters in the women's long jump.
- July 10 : Serhiy Bubka , Soviet Union, reaches 6.06 meters in the men's pole vault.
- November 8th : Javier Sotomayor , Cuba, reaches 2.43 meters in the men's high jump.
All-around
- July 16 : Jackie Joyner-Kersee , USA, scores 7215 points in the women's heptathlon.
- September 24th : Jackie Joyner-Kersee , USA, scores 7291 points in the women's heptathlon.
Motorsport
formula 1
Superbike World Championship
- The 26-year-old American Fred Merkel wins on a Honda ahead of the Italians Fabrizio Pirovano ( Yamaha ) and Davide Tardozzi ( Bimota ) and the drivers' championship of the first-ever Superbike World Championship. In the constructors' championship, Honda prevailed ahead of Bimota and Yamaha.
Details: 1988 World Superbike Championship
Formula TT
- The 1988 Formula TT consists of eight races.
- In the TT-F1 class, 23-year-old Briton Carl Fogarty wins the title on a Honda . Joey Dunlop from Northern Ireland came in second, his compatriot Roger Burnett (both also Honda) third .
Details: Formula TT 1988
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1988 March 19-27 in Paris (France)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February 18: Remscheid: D. - France 5-0 (men)
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European League
- January 6th: Toulouse: D. - France 2: 5 (women + men)
- February 24th: Plovdiv: D. - Bulgaria 7-0 (women + men)
- March 1st: Münster / Wf .: D. - Hungary 6: 1 (women + men)
- October 12: Hagen / Wf .: D. - Bulgaria 5: 2 (women + men)
- November 9th: Stadtallendorf: D. - ČSSR 5: 2 (women + men)
- 4th December: Huizen: D. - Netherlands 5-2 (women + men)
Winter sports
- Alpine Ski Junior World Championship 1988
- 1988 Biathlon World Championships
- Men's Curling World Championship 1988
- Junior ice hockey world championship 1988
- World Figure Skating Championships 1988
- 1988 World Speed Skating Sprint Championship
- 1988 Winter Olympics / Freestyle Skiing
Born
January
- January 3 : JR Hildebrand , American racing car driver
- January 4th : Sergej Evljuskin , German-Kyrgyz football player
- January 5th : Arna Sif Pálsdóttir , Icelandic handball player
- January 11th : Daniela Löwenberg , German soccer player
- January 12 : Douglas , Dutch-Brazilian soccer player
- January 13 : Leigh Broxham , Australian soccer player
- January 13th : Petr Frydrych , Czech javelin thrower
- January 16 : Nicklas Bendtner , Danish soccer player
- January 16 : Mehmet Boztepe , Turkish football player
- January 16 : Jorge Torres Nilo , Mexican soccer player
- January 17th : Andrea Antonelli , Italian motorcycle racer († 2013 )
- January 17th : Louise Lyksborg , Danish handball player
- January 17th : Mike Di Meglio , French motorcycle racer
- January 18 : Angelique Kerber , German tennis player
- January 20 : Pasquale Di Sabatino , Italian racing car driver
- January 20 : Elderson Echiéjilé , Nigerian soccer player
- January 20th : Callum MacLeod , British racing car driver
- January 22nd : Isabel Kerschowski , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Monique Kerschowski , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Łukasz Rutkowski , Polish ski jumper
- January 22nd : Marcel Schmelzer , German soccer player
- January 23 : Marc Sand , Austrian soccer player
- January 25th : Tatiana Golovin , French tennis player
- January 27 : Romina Holz , German soccer player
- January 27th : Raphaela Piehler , German swimmer
- January 29th : Tatiana Chernova , Russian heptathlete
- January 30th : Florian Bissinger , German cyclist
February
- February 2nd : Susanne Hartel , German soccer player
- February 4th : Carly Patterson , American gymnast
- February 5th : Natalie Geisenberger , German luge athlete
- February 5 : José Leonardo Ribeiro da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- February 6 : Farid Ahmadi , Afghan soccer player
- February 8th : Arik Braun , German chess player
- February 8 : Maxi Hayn , German handball player
- February 9 : Olesja Byk , Russian rhythmic gymnast
- February 12th : Scott Durant , British rower
- February 13 : Maximilian Brandl , German ice hockey player
- February 13 : Yevgeny Garanichev , Russian biathlete
- February 13 : Takuto Iguchi , Japanese racing car driver
- February 13 : Dmitri Sajustov , Russian ice hockey player
- February 13th : Daniel Wisgott , German lightweight rower
- February 14 : Ángel Di María , Argentinian football player
- February 14th : Flávio Reblin , Brazilian cyclist
- February 15 : Stephanie Goddard , German soccer player
- February 18 : Andreas Wank , German ski jumper
- February 18 : Ermin Zec , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- February 20 : Ki Bo-bae , South Korean archer
- February 21 : Julija Schokschujewa , Russian bobsleigh athlete
- February 22nd : Alexander Sukhorukov , Russian swimmer
- February 22nd : Sebastian Tyrała , German footballer
- February 23 : Inga Stöckel , German field hockey player
- February 24 : Brittany Bowe , American speed skater
- February 26 : David Williams , Australian soccer player
- February 29 : Tom Buschke , German soccer player
- February 29 : Benedikt Höwedes , German football player
March
- March 1st : Jack Clarke , British racing car driver
- March 1st : Jasmin Jannermann , German soccer player
- March 2nd : Matthew Mitcham , Australian art and high diver
- March 2nd : Dean Smith , British racing car driver
- March 4th : Steven Burke , English track cyclist and Olympic champion
- March 5 : Romas Kirveliavičius , Lithuanian handball player
- March 5th : Karl Schulze , German rower
- March 6th : Angultimmarik Kreutzmann , Greenlandic handball player
- March 8 : Jahmir Hyka , Albanian football player
- March 8 : Christián Mpaka , Congolese football player
- March 9 : Fabio Onidi , Italian racing car driver
- March 10 : Rostyn Griffiths , Australian soccer player
- March 11th : Julian Leist , German soccer player
- March 11 : Halgurd Mulla Mohammed , Iraqi soccer player
- March 11 : Vincenzo Sarno , Italian football player
- March 14th : Lautaro Acosta , Argentinian soccer player
- March 15 : Alexander Sims , British racing car driver
- March 17th : Charlotte Mordal , Norwegian handball player
- March 18 : Hovhannes Goharjan , Armenian football player
- March 19 : Maxim Mikhailov , Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion
- March 19 : Josephine Schlanke , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Olga Wiluchina , Russian biathlete
- March 23 : Sergei Afanassjew , Russian racing car driver
- March 24th : Iveta Putalová , Slovak athlete
- March 29th : Esther Cremer , German athlete
- March 31 : Ante Brkić , Croatian chess player
April
- April 1st : Fatmire "Lira" Alushi , German soccer player
- April 1st : Kristýna Kolocová , Czech beach volleyball player
- April 4th : Kelley Hurley , American sword fencer
- April 4th : Nadine Keßler , German soccer player
- April 5 : Alexei Volkov , Russian biathlete and Olympic champion
- April 7th : Pere Riba , Spanish tennis player
- April 8th : William Accambray , French handball player
- April 8 : Jenni Asserholt , Swedish ice hockey player
- April 10 : Kim Falkenberg , German soccer player
- April 11th : Stefan Hickl , German soccer player
- April 11 : Mait Patrail , Estonian handball player
- April 12th : Miquel Julià Perello , Spanish racing car driver
- April 12th : Michaël Rossi , French racing car driver
- April 13 : Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player
- April 13 : Will Bratt , British racing car driver
- April 13th : Máximo Cortés , Spanish racing car driver
- April 13 : Hélder Maurílio da Silva Ferreira , Brazilian soccer player
- April 13th : Diana Jakowlewa , Russian foil fencer
- April 14th : Marija Orlowa , Russian skeleton athlete
- April 14th : Ratthapark Wilairot , Thai motorcycle racer
- April 15th : Steven Defour , Belgian football player
- April 15th : Beate Schrott , Austrian hurdler
- April 16 : Stanislaw Gorobchuk , German handball goalkeeper
- April 16 : Peter Liebers , German figure skater
- April 19 : Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende , Argentinian soccer player
- April 19 : Luka Karabatić , French handball player
- April 20 : Heleen Jaques , Belgian soccer player
- April 21 : Jonathan Summerton , American racing car driver
- April 22nd : Nedim Hasanbegović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- April 26 : Rauf Məmmədov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
- April 26 : Oscar Guido Trejo , Argentine soccer player
- April 29 : Eric Schildge , American cyclist
May
- May 3 : Fanuel Kenosi , Botswana sprinter
- May 7 : Nathan Joel Burns , Australian soccer player
- May 9 : Nemanja Bjelica , Serbian basketball player
- May 10 : Joel Miller , American racing car driver
- May 11 : Oscar Carlén , Swedish handball player and coach
- May 11th : Severin Freund , German ski jumper
- May 12th : Babett Peter , German soccer player
- May 13 : Said Husejinović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 14 : Niccolò Canepa , Italian motorcycle racer
- May 21 : Aída Román , Mexican archer
- May 21 : Kevin Schindler , German soccer player
- May 23 : Angelo Ogbonna , Italian football player
- May 26 : Juan Cuadrado , Colombian soccer player
- May 27 : Nadezhda Evstjuchina , Russian weightlifter
- May 27th : Tobias Reichmann , German handball player
- May 28 : Carmen Jordá , Spanish racing car driver
June
- June 1st : Domagoj Duvnjak , Croatian handball player
- June 2nd : Sergio Agüero , Argentinian football player
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- June 7th : Ekaterina Makarova , Russian tennis player and Olympic champion
- June 11 : Marcos Antonio , Brazilian soccer player
- June 16 : Thierry Neuville , Belgian rally driver
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- June 17th : Stephanie Rice , Australian swimmer
- June 19th : Marcella Deen , Dutch handball player
- June 19 : Jacob deGrom , American baseball player
- June 22nd : Davíd Garza Pérez , Mexican racing car driver
- June 25th : Therese Johaug , Norwegian cross-country skier
- June 27th : Célia Okoyino da Mbabi , German soccer player
- June 27 : Matthew "Matt" Spiranovic , Australian soccer player
- June 27 : Moritz Barkow , German handball player
- June 29 : Éver Maximiliano David Banega , Argentine football player
- June 29th : Olga Kochneva , Russian sword fencer and Olympic medalist
- June 30th : Mitja Mežnar , Slovenian ski jumper
July
- July 3 : Anssi Koivuranta , Finnish Nordic combined athlete
- July 3 : James Troisi , Australian soccer player
- July 11th : Naoki Yamamoto , Japanese racing car driver
- July 14th : Olli Muotka , Finnish ski jumper
- July 14th : James Vaughan , English footballer
- July 14th : Rhys Anthony Williams , Australian-Welsh soccer player
- July 15 : Riki Christodoulou , British racing car driver
- July 15 : Shkelzen Gashi , Albanian-Swiss football player
- July 15 : Luis Ezequiel Ibáñez , Argentine soccer player
- July 19 : Kevin Großkreutz , German soccer player
- July 20 : Anton Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- July 23 : Daniel Mancinelli , Italian racing car driver
- July 25 : Yonny Hernández , Colombian motorcycle racer
- July 26 : Diego Perotti , Argentinian soccer player
- July 27 : Adam Biddle , Australian soccer player
- July 27th : Panagiotis "Panny" Nikas , Australian soccer player
- July 28 : Emanuel Biancucchi , Argentinian soccer player
- July 29th : Levent Tuncat , Taekwondo athlete of Turkish origin
- July 30th : Andreas Stjernen , Norwegian ski jumper
August
- August 1st : Andreas Strolz , Austrian ski jumper
- August 2nd : Robert Hrgota , Slovenian ski jumper
- August 4th : Michael Herck , Romanian-Belgian racing driver
- August 5th : Federica Pellegrini , Italian swimmer
- August 8th : Mandy Islacker , German soccer player
- August 13 : Atle Pedersen Rønsen , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 15th : Antje Peveling , German handball player
- August 16 : James Cole , British racing car driver
- August 19 : Katarina Bralo , Croatian handball player
- August 20 : Thomas Hylkema , Dutch racing car driver
- August 20 : Dominik Stahl , German soccer player
- August 21 : Robert Lewandowski , Polish football player
- August 22 : Artyom Djuba , Russian football player
- August 22 : Mitchell Langerak , Australian football goalkeeper
- August 22nd : Pedro Nunes , Brazilian racing car driver
- August 24th : Nicholas Alexander , American ski jumper
- August 24 : Rupert Grint , British actor
- August 25 : Mustafa Hadid , Afghan soccer player
- August 26th : Cristina Neagu , Romanian handball player
- August 27 : Alexa Vega , American actress
- August 30th : Andrea Morassi , Italian ski jumper
- August 31 : Yuri Postrigai , Russian canoeist and Olympic champion
September
- September 1st : Sergio Ariel Escudero , Japanese football player
- September 1st : Simona de Silvestro , Swiss racing driver
- September 3rd : Nicole Banecki , German soccer player
- September 4th : Michael Tieber , Austrian soccer player
- September 5 : Stephen Ahorlu , Ghanaian soccer player
- September 5th : Felipe Caicedo , Ecuadorian soccer player
- September 5 : Nuri Şahin , German-Turkish soccer player
- September 7 : Kevin Love , American basketball player
- September 7th : Ivan Alexejewitsch Samarin , Russian automobile racing driver
- September 7th : David Schartner , Austrian football goalkeeper
- September 8th : Lone Fischer , German handball player
- September 9 : Danilo D'Ambrosio , Italian football player
- September 11 : Michael Zullo , Australian soccer player
- September 13 : Eva-Maria Brem , Austrian ski racer
- September 22nd : Colin Braun , American racing car driver
- September 22nd : Nadja Månsson , German handball player
- September 23 : David Unterberger , Austrian ski jumper
- September 26th : Kiira Korpi , Finnish figure skater
- September 26th : Nelson Panciatici , French racing car driver
- September 27 : David Baramidze , German chess grandmaster
- September 27th : Alex Jones , British racing car driver
- September 27 : Nicolás Terol , Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 28th : Irena Pavlovic , French tennis player
- September 30th : Rodrigo Barbosa , Brazilian racing car driver
October
- October 5th : Adrián Campos jr. , Spanish racing car driver
- October 10 : Brown Ideye , Nigerian soccer player
- October 10 : Jason Moore , British racing car driver
- October 10 : Natalja Sujewa , Russian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic champion
- October 11 : Séamus Coleman , Irish football player
- October 12 : Jules Cluzel , French motorcycle racer
- October 13 : Scott Jamieson , Australian soccer player
- October 13th : Susan Thorsgaard , Danish handball player
- October 15 : Pia Marxkord , German soccer player
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- October 15 : Mesut Özil , German soccer player
- October 16 : Zoltán Stieber , Hungarian football player
- October 17th : Belal Mansoor Ali , Bahraini middle distance runner
- October 18 : Aušrinė Trebaitė , Lithuanian cyclist
- October 20 : Agustín Torassa , Argentine soccer player
- October 21 : Nathalie Bock , German soccer player
- October 22 : Alisa Vetterlein , German soccer player
- October 23 : Dani Clos , Spanish racing car driver
- October 23 : Carolin Schiewe , German soccer player
- October 24th : Daniel McKenzie , British racing car driver
- October 24th : Hideki Yamauchi , Japanese racing car driver
- October 28th : Kévin Estre , French racing driver
- October 29 : Dmitri Musersky , Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion
- October 30th : Tandara Caixeta , Brazilian volleyball player and Olympic champion
- October 31 : Sébastien Buemi , Swiss racing driver
November
- November 1st : Mohammed Ali Khan , Lebanese-Swedish football player
- November 3rd : Stefan Kutschke , German soccer player
- November 4th : Robert Cregan , Irish racing driver
- November 4th : Alexandra Pazkewitsch , Russian synchronized swimmer and Olympic champion
- November 17 : Eric Lichaj , American soccer player
- November 18 : Larissa Iltschenko , Russian long-distance swimmer and 2008 Olympic champion
- November 18 : Andreas Niederquell , German soccer player
- November 20 : Roberto Rosales , Venezuelan football player
- November 20 : Dušan Tadić , Serbian football player
- November 22nd : René Lange , German soccer player
- November 25 : Nodar Kumaritashvili , Georgian toboggan runner († 2010 )
- November 28 : Ritchie De Laet , Belgian football player
- November 28 : Florian Leitner , Austrian soccer player
- November 29th : Hermann Gassner junior , German rally driver
- November 30th : Julie Zangenberg , Danish actress
December
- December 8 : Viktorija Kalinina , Russian handball player and 2016 Olympic champion
- December 8 : Philip Major , Canadian racing car driver
- December 10th : Jon Lancaster , British racing car driver
- December 10 : Neven Subotić , Serbian-American soccer player
- December 10 : Imke Wübbenhorst , German soccer player
- December 16 : Mats Hummels , German soccer player
- December 17th : David Lekuta Rudisha , Kenyan middle distance runner
- December 18 : Markus Pazurek , German soccer player
- December 20th : Denise Herrmann , German cross-country skier
- December 22nd : Kaja Schmäschke , German handball player
- December 25th : Michael Blum , German soccer player
- December 28 : Islambek Said-Zilimowitsch Albijew , Russian wrestler
- December 31 : Francisc Joel Martinez , Andorran football player
Died
First half of the year
- January 3 : Joie Chitwood , American racing driver (* 1912 )
- January 4 : Walter Glöckler , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer (* 1908 )
- January 5 : Pete Maravich , American basketball player (born 1947 )
- January 10 : Hilde Bussmann , German table tennis player (* 1914 )
- January 12th : Piero Taruffi , Italian car and motorcycle racing driver (* 1906 )
- January 20 : Philippe de Rothschild , French entrepreneur, automobile racing driver and pioneer of French viticulture (* 1902 )
- February 8 : Pietro Arcari , Italian football player (* 1909 )
- February 14 : Cal Niday , American racing car driver (* 1914 )
- March 14 : Rudolf Gramlich , German football player (* 1908 )
- March 24th : Roger Loyer , French motorcycle and car racing driver (* 1907 )
- April 3 : Dieter Mauritz , German table tennis player (* 1918 )
- April 4 : Herbert Heinicke , German chess player (* 1905 )
- April 16 : José Dolhem , French racing car driver (* 1944 )
- May 2nd : Berthold Koch , German chess player (* 1899 )
- May 7th : Conny Freundorfer , German table tennis player (* 1936 )
- May 10 : Joey Sternaman , American football player and coach (* 1900 )
- May 24th : Freddie Frith , British motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- June 13 : Bill Rooney , American football player (* 1896 )
- June 24th : Csaba Kesjár , Hungarian racing car driver (* 1962 )
Second half of the year
- July 3 : Fritz Wiessner , German-American mountaineer (* 1900 )
- July 7th : Paula Mollenhauer , German athlete (* 1908 )
- July 8 : Ray Barbuti , American sprinter and Olympic champion (* 1905 )
- July 24th : Helmut Schubert , German national soccer player (* 1916 )
- August 8 : Alan Ameche , American football player (born 1933 )
- August 11 : Alfred Kelbassa , German football player (* 1925 )
- August 14 : Hans-Werner von Massow , German chess official (* 1912 )
- August 14 : Enzo Ferrari , Italian racing driver and founder of Ferrari (* 1898 )
- August 22nd : Karl Ebb , Finnish entrepreneur, athlete and racing car driver (* 1896 )
- September 13 : Gerd Hornberger , German athlete (* 1910 )
- September 26 : Branko Zebec , Yugoslav football player (* 1929 )
- September 30th : Al Holbert , American racing driver (* 1946 )
- October 14 : René Vietto , French cyclist (* 1914 )
- November 6th : Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz , British fighter pilot, entrepreneur, racing car driver and designer (* 1897 )
- November 9 : Clarke Hinkle , American football player (born 1909 )
- November 27 : Johannes Hendrikus Donner , Dutch chess grandmaster (* 1927 )
- December 4th : Alberto Uria , Uruguayan racing car driver (* 1924 )
- December 5 : August Lenz , German football player (* 1910 )
- December 18 : Milt Gantenbein , American football player (born 1909 )
- December 29th : Mike Beuttler , British racing driver (* 1942 )
See also
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