Sports year 2018
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Other events Olympic Winter Games
Major events
- 9-25 February: XXIII. Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
- 2nd - 12th August: European Championships in Glasgow and Berlin
biathlon
Soccer
Football World Cup
The 21st Soccer World Cup will be held in Russia from June 14th to July 15th .
Highlights in European club football
- May 16: 2017/18 UEFA Europa League final in Décines-Charpieu ( France )
- May 24: 2017/18 UEFA Women's Champions League final in Kiev ( Ukraine )
- May 26: 2017/18 UEFA Champions League final in Kiev ( Ukraine )
Handball
European Championship (men)
From 12 to 28 January was held in Croatia , the European Handball Championship men instead. Spain was the winner .
European Championship (women)
The 13th European Women's Handball Championship was held in France from November 29 to December 16, 2018 . In the final, the reigning world champion France secured the title of European champion for the first time with a contested 24:21 victory over Olympic champion Russia.
Highlights in European club handball
- May 13: Final of the EHF Women's Champions League 2017/18 in Budapest ( Hungary )
- May 20: Final EHF Cup 2017/18 in Magdeburg ( Germany )
- May 27: Final of the EHF Champions League 2017/18 in Cologne ( Germany )
Motorsport
formula 1
The 69th Formula 1 World Championship began on March 25 in Melbourne, Australia and ended on November 25 in Abu Dhabi . Lewis Hamilton became world champion.
DTM
The 32nd season of the German Touring Car Masters began on May 4th at the Hockenheimring .
Motorcycle world championship
The 70th season of the Motorcycle World Championship, with the three classes MotoGP , Moto2 and Moto3 , began on March 18 in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit . After the planned 19 races, the season finale will take place in Valencia on November 18th .
Superbike World Championship
The 31st season of the Superbike World Championship in Australia began on February 24th at the Phillip Island Circuit . 13 events with two races each are planned. The season finale will take place on October 27th in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit.
Cycling
Giro d'Italia
The 101st Giro d'Italia took place from May 4th to 27th and consisted of a total of 21 stages over 3,562.9 kilometers. The road bike race started with an individual time trial in Jerusalem ( Israel ) and ended in Rome .
Tour de France
The 105th Tour de France will take place from July 7th to 29th mainly in France , but also through Spain . The tour consisted of 21 stages over a total of 3,329 kilometers.
Ski jumping
World cup
Four Hills Tournament
The 66th Four Hills Tournament took place from December 29, 2017 to January 6, 2018 . Defending champion Kamil Stoch won the tour again after he was victorious in all four competitions and thus repeated the success of Sven Hannawald , who was the first jumper to win all four competitions in 2001/02 .
Ski flying world championship
It took place from January 18-21, 2018. In the individual, Daniel-André Tande became world ski flying champion, in the team competition the Norwegian quartet won gold.
tennis
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open
The 106th Australian Open took place from January 15th to 28th in Melbourne , Australia . The singles were won by Swiss Roger Federer (20th Grand Slam title) for men and Dane Caroline Wozniacki (1st Grand Slam title) for women. In the men's doubles won Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić , in women's doubles Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic and Mixed Gabriela Dabrowski and Mate Pavić.
French Open
The 117th French Open will take place from May 27th to June 10th in the French capital Paris .
Wimbledon
US Open
Died
January
- January 6 : Horace Ashenfelter , American athlete (* 1923 )
- January 10 : Étienne Bally , French athlete, (* 1923 )
- January 14th : Dan Gurney , American racing driver and designer (* 1931 )
- January 16 : Jo Jo White , American basketball player (born 1946 )
- January 22nd : Jimmy Armfield , British football player and coach (* 1935 )
- January 30th : Azeglio Vicini , Italian football player and coach (* 1933 )
February
- February 1 : Cliff Bourland , American athlete (* 1921 )
- February 3 : Károly Palotai , Hungarian football player (* 1935 )
- February 7th : Waltraud Kretzschmar , German handball player (* 1948 )
- February 9 : István Hevesi , Hungarian water polo player (* 1931 )
- February 16 : Osvaldo Suárez , Argentine athlete (* 1934 )
- February 19 : Yuri Tjukalow , Soviet rower (* 1930 )
- February 19 : Sergei Litvinow , Russian athlete (* 1958 )
- February 27 : Quini , Spanish football player (* 1949 )
March
- March 1 : Luigi Taveri , Swiss motorcycle racer (* 1929 )
- March 3 : Roger Bannister , British athlete (* 1929 )
- March 4th : Davide Astori , Italian football player (* 1987 )
- March 9 : Jung Jae-sung , South Korean badminton player (* 1982 )
- March 14 : Rubén Galván , Argentinian football player (* 1952 )
- March 16 : Huang Wenpan , Chinese swimmer (* 1995 )
- March 20 : William Smith , American wrestler (* 1928 )
- March 20 : Yuri Schatalow , Soviet ice hockey player (* 1945 )
- March 22nd : René Houseman , Argentinian football player (* 1953 )
- March 30th : Aureliano Bolognesi , Italian boxer (* 1930 )
April
- April 2 : Claus Heß , German rower (* 1933 )
- April 5 : Branislav Pokrajac , Yugoslav handball player (* 1947 )
- April 5 : Dieter Freise , German hockey player (* 1945 )
- April 5th : Eric Bristow , British darts player (* 1957 )
- April 6 : Aljaksandr Kurlowitsch , Soviet-Belarusian weightlifter (* 1961 )
- April 18 : Grigori Gamarnik , Soviet wrestler (* 1929 )
- April 18 : Bruno Sammartino , Italian wrestler (* 1935 )
- April 24th : Henri Michel , French football player and coach (* 1947 )
- Brigitte Ahrenholz , rower from the GDR (* 1952 )
May
- May 2 : Bernd Kruse , German rower (* 1940 )
- May 15 : Ray Wilson , British football player (born 1934 )
- May 11 : Viktor Schamburkin , Soviet marksman (* 1931 )
- May 11 : Bengt Nilsson , Swedish athlete (* 1934 )
- May 15 : Ray Wilson , English soccer player (born 1934 )
- May 17 : Mait Riisman , Soviet-Estonian water polo player (* 1956 )
- May 18 : Olaf von Schilling , German swimmer (* 1943 )
- May 20 : Jaroslav Brabec , Czechoslovak athlete (* 1949 )
- May 21 : Max Cohen-Olivar , Moroccan racing car driver (* 1945 )
- May 22nd : Daniela Samulski , German swimmer (* 1984 )
- May 23 : László Tábori , American-Hungarian athlete (* 1931 )
- May 23 : Daniel Robin , French wrestler (* 1943 )
- May 24th : Albrecht Müller , German rower (* 1939 )
- May 28 : Dick Quax , New Zealand athlete (* 1948 )
- May 28 : Stevan Horvat , Yugoslav wrestler (* 1932 )
June
- June 8 : John McKenzie , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1937 )
- June 8th : Maria Bueno , Brazilian tennis player (* 1939 )
- June 13 : Charles Vinci , American weightlifter (born 1933 )
- June 23 : Roland Baar , German rower (* 1965 )
- June 28 : Elisha Obed , Bahamian boxer (* 1952 )
- June 29 : Irena Szewińska , Polish athlete (* 1946 )
- June 29th : Jacques Madubost , French athlete (* 1944 )
July
- July 7th : William Dunlop , British motorcycle racer (* 1985 )
- July 8 : Frank Vernon Ramsey , American basketball player (born 1931 )
- July 9 : Hans Günter Winkler , German show jumper (* 1926 )
- July 10 : Kebede Balcha , Ethiopian athlete (* 1951 )
- July 10 : Karl Schmidt , German football player (* 1932 )
- July 11 : Lindy Remigino , American athlete (* 1931 )
- July 15 : Ray Emery , Canadian ice hockey player (* 1982 )
- July 15 : Dragutin Šurbek , Yugoslav-Croatian table tennis player (* 1946 )
- July 18 : Pedro Pérez , Cuban athlete (* 1952 )
- July 22nd : Frank Havens , American canoeist (* 1924 )
- July 25 : Vakhtang Balavadze , Soviet wrestler (* 1927 )
- July 29th : Vibeke Skofterud , Norwegian cross-country skier (* 1980 )
August
- August 2 : Viktor Tyumenew , Russian ice hockey player (* 1957 )
- August 7th : Gustavo Giagnoni , Italian football player and coach (* 1932 )
- August 8 : Nicholas Bett , Kenyan athlete (* 1990 )
- August 10 : László Fábián , Hungarian canoeist (* 1936 )
- August 16 : Jelena Schuschunowa , Russian gymnast (* 1969 )
