Sports year 1989
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American football
- January 31: In Super Bowl XXIII , the San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals at 20:16 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami .
- July 22nd: The Legnano Frogs beat the Amsterdam Crusaders in Eurobowl III with 27:23.
- August 27: Great Britain beats Finland 26-0 in the European Championship in the final in Bielefeld .
- October 31: In German Bowl XI , the Berlin Adler beat the Red Barons Cologne with 30:23 in front of 10,500 spectators in Nuremberg .
badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1989 were the World Championship and the Sudirman Cup .
World Badminton Grand Prix
Soccer
athletics
- March 19 - Ingrid Kristiansen , Norway , ran the women's half marathon in 1:08:32 hours.
- April 30 - Aya Suzuki , Japan , reached 61.20 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- May 9 - Zhang Chunzhen , China , reached 3.80 meters in the women's pole vault.
- May 15 - Roger Kingdom , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 12.92 seconds.
- May 30th - Jelena Pitschugina , Soviet Union , reached 61.50 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- July 3rd - Peter Koech , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 05.4 minutes.
- July 12 - Galina Tschistjakowa , Soviet Union , reached 14.52 meters in the women's triple jump.
- July 29th - Javier Sotomayor , Cuba , jumped 2.44 meters in the men's high jump.
- August 5 - Andrei Perlow , Soviet Union , walked in the men's 50,000 meter walk in 3:37:41 hours.
- August 16 - Roger Kingdom , USA , ran the men's 110 meter hurdles in 12.92 seconds.
- August 18 - Arturo Barrios , Mexico , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 08.2 minutes.
- August 20 - Saïd Aouita , Morocco , ran the men's 3000 meters in 7: 29.5 minutes.
- August 29 - Javier Sotomayor , Cuba , reached 2.44 meters in the men's high jump.
- September 3 - Aya Suzuki , Japan , reached 61.20 meters in the women's hammer throw.
- September 17 - Arturo Barrios , Mexico , ran the men's 10,000 meters in 27: 08.2 minutes.
- October 21 - Zhou Minxin , China , reached 3.76 meters in the women's pole vault.
- December 3rd - Peter Koech , Kenya , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 05.4 minutes.
Motorcycling
Formula TT
- The 1989 Formula TT consists of six races. In the TT-F1 class, the 24-year-old Briton Carl Fogarty wins the title on a Honda . Second is his compatriot Steve Hislop , third is Northern Irishman Robert Dunlop (both also Honda).
Details: Formula TT 1989
Superbike World Championship
- The 27-year-old American Fred Merkel won the drivers' championship on a Honda ahead of the Belgian Stéphane Mertens (also Honda) and the French Raymond Roche ( Ducati ) and thus defended the title he won last year. In the constructors' championship, Honda prevailed ahead of Yamaha and Ducati.
Details: 1989 World Superbike Championship
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1989 March 29th to April 9th in Dortmund
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- April 1: Urbach: D. - China 3: 2 (men)
- June 16: Laudenbach: D. - China 1: 4 (men)
- June 17th: Gladbeck: D. - China 1: 4 (men)
- June 24th: Bad Mergentheim: D. - China 1: 4 (men)
- October 3: Wolverhampton: D. 2-4 England (women)
- 4th October: Brentwood: D. 3-3 England (women)
- October 5: Cirencester: D. - England 6-0 (women)
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European League
- 25 January: Willstätt: D. - France 4: 3 (women + men)
- February 15: Elsenfeld: D. - Sweden 3: 4 (women + men)
- February 28: Leskovac: D. - Yugoslavia 4: 3 (women + men)
- March 8: Lubin: D. - Poland 1: 6 (women + men)
- September 12: Kirchhain: D. - Yugoslavia 7: 0 (women + men)
- October 10: St. Avold: D. - France 2: 5 (women + men)
- November 7th: Havirov: D. - ČSSR 3: 4 (women + men)
- December 12: Göttingen: D. - Netherlands 4: 3 (women + men)
Wrestling
- World Wrestling Championships 1989 in Martigny, Switzerland
- African Wrestling Championships 1989 in Cairo, Egypt
- Asian Wrestling Championships 1989 in Oarai Ibaraki, Japan
- European Wrestling Championships 1989 in Ankara (free style) and Oulu (Greco-Roman style)
- 1989 Pan American Wrestling Championships in Colorado Springs, United States
- Espoirs World Wrestling Championships 1989 in Ulaan-Baatar, Mongolia (free style) and Budapest, Hungary (Greco-Roman style)
- Espoirs Arabian Wrestling Championships 1989 in Casablanca, Morocco
- European Junior Wrestling Championships 1989 in Bursa, Turkey (free style) and Witten, FRG (Greco-Roman style)
- World Cadet Wrestling Championships 1989 in Warrensburg, United States
- 1989 Asian Cadet Wrestling Championships in New Delhi, India
Born
January
- January 1 : Tameem al-Kubati , Yemeni Taekwondoin
- January 1st : Sachi Amma , Japanese sport climber
- January 3 : Stefano Agostini , Italian road cyclist
- January 3rd : Kōhei Uchimura , Japanese gymnast
- January 4th : Graham Rahal , American racing driver
- January 6th : Dawid Sigachev , Russian racing driver
- January 7th : Emiliano Adrián Insúa , Argentinian football player
- January 7th : Shōhei Matsunaga , Japanese football player
- January 8 : Oliver Bozanic , Australian soccer player
- January 9th : Michaëlla Krajicek , Dutch tennis player
- January 9th : Keisuke Kunimoto , Japanese racing car driver
- January 9 : Anton Månsson , Swedish handball player
- January 11th : Emili García , Andorran football player
- January 11th : Marcus Haber , Canadian-Austrian soccer player
- January 12th : Axel Witsel , Belgian football player
- January 13 : Walter Grubmüller , Austrian racing driver
- January 13 : Tim Matavž , Slovenian football player
- January 14th : Lærke Møller , Danish handball player
- January 14th : Xenia Stolz , German athlete
- January 18 : Katharina Baunach , German soccer player
- January 19 : He Wenna , Chinese trampoline gymnast and Olympic champion
- January 21 : Sergei Fessikow , Russian swimmer
- January 21 : Henrich Mchitarjan , Armenian football player
- January 24th : Dean Harrison , British motorcycle racer
- January 25 : Allysha Chapman , Canadian soccer player
- January 25th : Mihai Marinescu , Romanian racing driver
- January 26th : Mattia Pozzo , Italian cyclist
- January 28 : Jason Hoffman , Australian soccer player
- January 29th : Daisuke Nakajima , Japanese racing driver
- January 31 : Rafael Akhmetov , Russian ice hockey player
February
- February 1st : Nadine Enoch , German soccer player
- February 1st : Jessica Kreuzer , German soccer player
- February 3 : Franziska Hagemann , German soccer player
- February 3 : David Manga , Central African national soccer player
- February 4th : Valentina Gunina , Russian chess master
- February 5 : Joakim Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- February 5th : Robin Himmelmann , German football goalkeeper
- February 6 : Manuel Schäffler , German soccer player
- February 7th : Mohamed Amsif , German-Moroccan football goalkeeper
- February 7th : Ángel Pulgar , Venezuelan cyclist
- February 9 : Annie Au , Hong Kong squash player
- February 9 : Pablo Aguilar Bermúdez , Spanish basketball player
- February 11th : Bec Hyatt , Australian MMA fighter
- February 11 : Timo Perthel , German soccer player
- February 11 : Sally Potocki , Australian handball and basketball player
- February 12 : Patrick Wolf , German soccer player
- February 13 : Rafael Eduardo Acosta Cammarota , Venezuelan football player
- February 13 : Olga Glazkich , Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
- February 13 : Tahj Minniecon , Australian soccer player
- February 13 : Evgeni Pevnov , German handball player
- February 14 : Jurij Tepeš , Slovenian ski jumper
- February 16 : Phillipa Gray , New Zealand cyclist
- February 17th : Rebecca Adlington , British freestyle swimmer
- February 17 : Gökhan Gümüşsu , Turkish-German soccer player
- February 17th : Marina Sudakowa , Russian handball player and 2016 Olympic champion
- February 17th : David Maneiro , Andorran soccer player
- February 17th : Miguel Molina , Spanish racing driver
- February 23 : Ahmed Akaïchi , Tunisian football player
- February 23 : Ian McAndrew , Australian soccer player
- February 24 : Matthew Mullen , Australian soccer player
- February 26 : Sefa Aksoy , Turkish soccer player
March
- March 1st : Carlos Vela , Mexican soccer player
- March 2nd : Toby Alderweireld , Belgian football player
- March 3rd : Robin Carpet , German handball player
- March 6th : Jana Burmeister , German soccer player
- March 6 : Wiktorija Schilinskaite , Russian handball player and 2016 Olympic champion
- March 7 : Yekaterina Gaiduk , Russian handball player
- March 11 : Mate Maleš , Croatian football player
- March 12th : Jennifer Werth , German soccer player
- March 13th : Holger Badstuber , German soccer player
- March 13 : Marko Marin , German soccer player
- March 13 : Sanne van Olphen , Dutch handball player
- March 13 : Robert Wickens , Canadian racing driver
- March 14th : Elisabeth Garcia-Almendaris , German handball player
- March 16 : Tobias Jänicke , German soccer player
- March 16 : Alexander Panschinski , Russian cross-country skier
- March 16 : Jasna Tošković , Montenegrin handball player
- March 17th : Luca Castiglia , Italian football player
- March 17 : Shinji Kagawa , Japanese soccer player
- March 19 : Hannes Aigner , German canoeist
- March 21 : Jordi Alba , Spanish soccer player
- March 22nd : Jimmy Durmaz , Swedish football player
- March 22nd : Jelle Vossen , Belgian football player
- March 22nd : Patrick Wiencek , German handball player
- March 23rd : Jim Aernouts , Belgian cyclocross and mountain bike rider
- March 24th : Maike Timmermann , German soccer player
- March 24th : Kevin Wahr , German motorcycle racer
- March 27 : Ólafur Gústafsson , Icelandic handball player
- March 28th : Jon Aberasturi , Spanish road cyclist
- March 31 : Pablo Daniel Piatti , Argentine soccer player
April
- April 1 : Matías Aguirregaray , Uruguayan soccer player
- April 1st : Jan Gardavský , Czech grass skier
- April 1st : Linus Hallenius , Swedish football player
- April 1st : Jan Hošek , Czech football player
- April 1 : David N'Gog , French football player
- April 1st : Christian Vietoris , German racing car driver
- April 3rd : Zsuzsanna Jakabos , Hungarian swimmer
- April 3 : Iveta Korešová , Czech handball player
- April 4th : Vurnon Anita , Dutch soccer player
- April 4th : Christopher "Chris" Herd , Australian soccer player
- April 4th : Luiz Razia , Brazilian racing driver
- April 4th : Marvin Weinberger , Austrian soccer player
- April 5 : Team Amadou Dodo , Nigerien national soccer player
- April 6th : Stefano Coletti , Monaco racing driver
- April 6th : Tom Dillmann , French racing driver
- April 7th : Franco Matías Di Santo , Argentine soccer player
- April 9 : Isaka Aongor Cernak-Okanya , Australian soccer player
- April 10 : Jenny Alm , Swedish handball player
- April 10th : Michael Dunlop , British motorcycle racer
- April 10 : Gabor Langhans , German handball player
- April 10 : Welinton , Brazilian soccer player
- April 11th : Marvin Angarita , Colombian cyclist
- April 12th : Cédric Ramothe , French cyclist
- April 12th : Valentin Stocker , Swiss soccer player
- April 14th : Jake Rosenzweig , American racing driver
- April 14 : Živko Živković , Serbian football goalkeeper
- April 17th : Olga Fomina , Russian handball player
- April 17th : Fabio Leimer , Swiss racing driver
- April 19 : Genoveva Añonma , Equatorial Guinean soccer player
- April 19 : Marko Arnautović , Austrian football player
- April 19 : Dominik Mader , German soccer player
- April 20 : Pierre Thiriet , French racing car driver
- April 23 : Jarosław Kowalczyk , Polish cyclist
- April 23 : Nicole Vaidišová , Czech tennis player
- April 27 : Christopher Adcock , English badminton player
- April 27th : Lars Bender , German soccer player
- April 27 : Sven Bender , German soccer player
- April 30th : Tunay Acar , Turkish soccer player
May
- May 1st : Armindo Fonseca , French cyclist
- May 1st : Alexander Grünwald , Austrian soccer player
- May 1st : May Mahlangu , South African soccer player
- May 1 : Mitchell "Mitch" Nichols , Australian soccer player
- May 2nd : Shaban Ismaili , Albanian football player
- May 3 : Isabelle Abran , Canadian biathlete
- May 4th : Dániel Gyurta , Hungarian swimmer
- May 4th : Julija Koltunowa , Russian water diver
- May 5th : Eric Hoffmann , German handball player
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- May 6th : Dominika Cibulková , Slovak tennis player
- May 8th : Colja Löffler , German handball player
- May 14th : Arthur Pauli , Austrian ski jumper
- May 14 : Julia Simic , German soccer player
- May 14th : Alina Talaj , Belarusian hurdler
- May 15th : Kenneth Gangnes , Norwegian ski jumper
- May 15 : James Holland , Australian soccer player
- May 15 : Stephan Palla , Austrian football player of Hungarian-Filipino descent
- May 17th : Armaan Ebrahim , Indian racing driver
- May 17th : Sarah Hargreaves , Danish-British handball player
- May 17th : Tessa Virtue , Canadian figure skater
- May 22nd : Verena Faißt , German soccer player
- May 22 : Alexei Obmochayev , Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion
- May 23 : Mario Vrančić , German football player
- May 25 : Esteve Rabat , Spanish motorcycle racer
- May 25 : Karel Tammjärv , Estonian cross-country skier
- May 26 : Justin Williams , American track and road cyclist
- May 27th : Aljona Zavarsina , Russian snowboarder
- May 29 : Alon Abelski , German soccer player
- May 31 : Marco Reus , football player at Borussia Dortmund
June
- June 1 : Nicholas Keough , American cyclocross rider
- June 2 : Freddy Adu , American football player
- June 3rd : Katie Hoff , American swimmer
- June 4th : Christian Schwerin , German handball player
- June 7th : Nana Opoku Agyemang-Prempeh , Ghanaian soccer player
- June 8 : Dawit Dschodschua , Georgian chess player
- June 8th : Simon Trummer , Swiss racing driver
- June 9 : Benjamin Hinz , German handball player
- June 11 : Lorenzo Ariaudo , Italian football player
- June 12 : Shane Lowry , Irish-Australian soccer player
- June 13 : Javad Akbari , Iranian grass skier
- June 13 : James Calado , British racing driver
- June 13th : Jung Ba-ra , South Korean short tracker
- June 13 : Florian von Gruchalla , German handball player
- June 13 : Ryan McDonagh , American ice hockey player
- June 13 : Andreas Sander , German ski racer
- June 13 : Dino Wieser , Swiss ice hockey player
- June 15 : Bryan Clauson , American racing driver († 2016 )
- June 16 : Jelena Glebova , Estonian figure skater
- June 18 : Jonas Acquistapace , German soccer player
- June 18 : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang , Gabonese football player
- June 18th : Anna Veith , Austrian ski racer
- June 19th : Thomas Thurnbichler , Austrian ski jumper
- June 20 : Javier Matías Pastore , Argentinian soccer player
- June 21 : Christopher Lamb , American ski jumper
- June 22nd : Andreas Mikkelsen , Norwegian rally driver
- June 23 : Maximilian Holst , German handball player
- June 24 : Juan Barros , Peruvian-Colombian soccer player
- June 24th : Fabian Böhm , German handball player
- June 29th : Isabelle Gulldén , Swedish handball player
- June 29 : Maciej Sadlok , Polish football player
- June 30th : Damián Lizio , Argentine soccer player
July
- July 1st : Kerem Can Akyüz , Turkish soccer player
- July 1 : Kent Bazemore , American basketball player
- July 1st : Nathanaël Berthon , French racing driver
- July 1st : Mehdi Carcela-González , Belgian football player
- July 1st : Daniel Ricciardo , Australian racing driver
- July 1st : Tom Slagter , Dutch road cyclist
- July 2nd : Daniel Fontaine , German handball player
- July 2 : Nadezhda Grischajewa , Russian basketball player
- July 3rd : Jasper Adams , Dutch handball player
- July 3 : Kourosh Khani , Iranian racing car driver
- July 4th : Patrick Groetzki , German handball player
- July 4th : Lars Gudat , German handball player
- July 5th : Stéphane Agbré Dasse , Ivorian-Burkinabe soccer player
- July 6 : Nicholas Fairall , American ski jumper
- July 9 : Roman Koudelka , Czech ski jumper
- July 9 : Deniz Naki , German soccer player
- July 9th : Dani Schahin , German soccer player
- July 10 : Kai Häfner , German handball player
- July 11th : Jan-Lars Gaubatz , German handball player
- July 13 : Kristina Kristiansen , Danish handball player
- July 18 : Dmitri Solovyov , Russian figure skater and 2014 Olympic champion
- July 19 : Jason Naidovski , Australian soccer player
- July 19 : Neto , Brazilian soccer player
- July 20 : Julija Gavrilowa , Russian saber fencer, Olympic champion and three-time world champion
- July 20 : Cristian Pasquato , Italian football player
- July 21 : Rory Culkin , American child star
- July 21 : Marco Fabián , Mexican soccer player
- July 24th : Stanley Gbagbeke , Nigerian long jumper
- July 24th : Felix Loch , German luge rider
- July 25 : Andrei Adistia , Indonesian badminton player
- July 25 : Melda Akcan , German Taekwondoin
- July 25 : César Ramos , Brazilian racing driver
- July 26th : Tomáš Zmoray , Slovak ski jumper
- July 28 : Albin Ekdal , Swedish football player
- July 30th : Aleix Espargaró , Spanish motorcycle racer
- July 30th : Cristian Codrin Gherhard , German handball player and model
- July 31 : Vassilis Adamou , Cypriot mountain biker and road cyclist
- July 31 : Viktoria Azaranka , Belarusian tennis player
August
- August 1st : Nicolò Brighenti , Italian football player
- August 3 : Jules Bianchi , French racing driver († 2015 )
- August 3 : Tobias Hegewald , German racing driver
- August 3rd : Melanie Herrmann , German handball player
- August 3 : Mike Sserumagga , Ugandan soccer player
- August 5th : Kelsi Fairbrother , British handball player
- August 6 : Aymen Abdennour , Tunisian football player
- August 6th : Elisabeth Anderson , American ski jumper
- August 8th : Pedro Gutiérrez , Venezuelan cyclist
- August 8 : Dominique Wassi , Cameroonian football player
- August 9th : Andrea Iannone , Italian motorcycle racer
- August 9 : Dener Jaanimaa , Estonian handball player
- August 10 : Tim Völzke , German handball player
- August 11 : Eke Uzoma , Nigerian soccer player
- August 12 : Geoffrey Mujangi Bia , Belgian football player
- August 14 : Florian Abel , German soccer player
- August 15 : Mario Kirew , Bulgarian football player
- August 15 : Ryan McGowan , Australian soccer player
- August 16 : Roeland Pruijssers , Dutch chess player
- August 17 : David Abdul , Aruban soccer player
- August 19 : Uschi Freitag , German tower and water diver
- August 20 : Judd Trump , British snooker player
- August 21 : Giuseppe Bellusci , Italian football player
- August 21 : Ognjen Matic , Australian handball player
- August 22nd : Tristan Vautier , French racing car driver
- August 23 : Heiko Schwarz , German soccer player
- August 25 : Bahadir Incilli , German football player
- August 26th : Myriam Krüger , German soccer player
- August 28th : Valtteri Bottas , Finnish racing driver
- August 30th : Jesper Nielsen , Swedish handball player
September
- September 1st : Rachel Wallader , British shot putter
- September 4th : Gregory Baxter , Canadian ski jumper
- September 6th : Lyudmila Jurjewna Aksenenko , Russian natural track tobogganist
- September 6th : Mikael Appelgren , Swedish handball player
- September 6th : Audrey Deroin , French handball player
- September 7th : Dominik Schmid , Austrian handball player
- September 8 : Salvijus Berčys , Lithuanian chess player
- September 8th : Tim-Philip Jurgeleit , German handball player
- September 9 : Johnny Cecotto Jr. , Venezuelan racing driver
- September 13th : Thomas Müller , German soccer player
- September 13 : Marie Pollmann , German soccer player
- September 17th : Danny Queck , German ski jumper
- September 20th : Stefan Wilson , British racing driver
- September 21 : Sabri Loan Boumelaha , Algerian-French soccer player
- September 21 : Sandro Kaiser , German soccer player
- September 21 : Swetlana Romaschina , Russian synchronized swimmer and Olympic champion
- September 22nd : Felix Brodauf , German ski jumper
- September 22nd : Dario Quenstedt , German handball goalkeeper
- September 24th : Kevin Horlacher , German ski jumper
- September 26th : Vanessa Martini , German soccer player
October
- October 2nd : Frederik Andersen , Danish ice hockey goalkeeper
- October 3rd : Chase Austin , American racing driver
- October 5th : Kimiya Satō , Japanese racing driver
- October 7th : Erik Akkersdijk , Dutch Speedcuber
- October 7th : Daniel Drescher , Austrian soccer player
- October 8 : Kushtrim Lushtaku , Kosovar soccer player
- October 8 : Armand Traoré , French football player
- October 11th : Anton Nikitowitsch Nebylizki , Russian racing driver
- October 11 : Michelle Wie , American golfer
- October 13 : Breno Vinícius Rodrigues Borges , Brazilian soccer player
- October 15th : Joeri Adams , Belgian cyclocross and road cyclist
- October 15 : Anthony Joshua , British boxer
- October 15 : Harrison Kennedy , Liberian soccer player
- October 15 : Dominic Storey , New Zealand racing driver
- October 16 : Dan Biggar , Welsh rugby player
- October 16 : Stefanie Draws , German soccer player
- October 16 : Cristian Martínez , Andorran football player
- October 18 : Matthew Centrowitz , American middle-distance runner
- October 18th : Sandra Toft , Danish handball player
- October 20 : Patrick Rigobert Amrhein , German soccer player
- October 20 : Kristina Liščević , Serbian handball player
- October 21 : Tobias Rivesjö , Swedish handball player
- October 21 : Christopher Zanella , Swiss racing driver
- October 26th : Yannick Mettler , Swiss racing driver
- October 26 : Daniel Mullen , Australian soccer player
- October 29 : Primož Roglič , Slovenian cyclist and ski jumper
- October 31 : Ryan Phinny , American racing driver
November
- November 4th : Saeid Mourad Abdvali , Iranian wrestler
- November 4th : Ju Hui , South Korean handball player
- November 5 : Sinan Akdağ , German ice hockey player
- November 5th : Luke DeVere , Australian soccer player
- November 7th : Tina Aeberli , Swiss footbag player
- November 8th : Stine Bodholt Nielsen , handball player
- November 8 : Leonardo Cordeiro , Brazilian racing driver
- November 8th : Sanni Leinonen , Finnish ski racer
- November 8 : Kevin Sommer , French soccer player
- November 10 : Daniel Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
- November 10th : Brendon Hartley , New Zealand racing driver
- November 11th : Martin Brandt , German handball player
- November 11th : Lewis Williamson , British racing driver
- November 13 : Akutaaneq Kreutzmann , Greenland handball player
- November 15 : Troy Castaneda , American racing car driver
- November 18 : Nathan Michael Elasi , Australian soccer player
- November 19 : Ole Rahmel , German handball player
- November 19 : Roman Trofimow , Russian ski jumper
- November 24th : Marco Wittmann , German racing driver
- November 27th : Andrei Sobolew , Russian snowboarder
- November 28th : Salma Amani , French-Moroccan soccer player
- November 29th : Dominic Adiyiah , Ghanaian soccer player
- November 29th : Stefan Bradl , German motorcycle racer
- November 29th : Dominik Kraihamer , Austrian racing driver
December
- December 1st : Markus Rühmkorf , Austrian soccer player
- December 8 : Matthew Jurman , Australian soccer player
- December 8th : Anna Monz , German handball player
- December 14th : Amini Fonua , Tongan swimmer
- December 16 : Wera Nebolsina , Russian chess player
- December 21 : Shōhei Tochimoto , Japanese ski jumper
- December 24th : Maxine Mittendorf , German soccer player
- December 27th : Anželika Ahmetšina , Estonian soccer player
- December 27th : Ekaterina Lagno , Ukrainian-Russian chess player
- December 30th : Bart Hylkema , Dutch racing driver
- December 30th : Ryan Sheckler , American skateboarder
- December 31 : Michael Haunschmid , Austrian football goalkeeper
- December 31 : Line Jørgensen , Danish handball player
- December 31st : Natalia Kowalska , Polish racing driver
Died
- March 8 : Jelisaveta Bykowa , Soviet world chess champion (* 1913 )
- May 28 : Iván Palazzese , Venezuelan motorcycle racer (* 1962 )
- August 2 : Marsilio Pasotti , Italian racing car driver (* 1939 )
- August 8 : Enrico Lorenzetti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
- August 20 : Syd van der Vyver , South African motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1920 )
- August 31 : Bruno Francisci , Italian motorcycle racer (* unknown)
- September 3 : Gaetano Scirea , Italian football player (* 1953 )
- November 30th : Gottfried Pohlan , German motorcycle racer (* 1927 )
- December 1 : Heinz Brendel , German automobile racing driver (* 1915 )
Date unknown
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1989 - collection of images, videos and audio files
