1958 in sports
Events
December 10 - Light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore is knocked down three times in the first round and once more in the fifth round by Yvon Durelle but Moore held on to come back to knock out Durelle in the 11th round.
Europe
England
Men's professional
Men's amateur
Women's professional
Awards
Births
January
January 1 — Türgüt Aykaç , Turkish boxerJanuary 2 — Colomán Trabado , Spanish middle distance runner January 7 — Massimo Biason , Italian rally driverJanuary 10 — Garry Cook , British athleteJanuary 10 — Anatoly Pisarenko , Soviet weightlifterJanuary 11 — Sylvia Brunner , Swiss ice speed skaterJanuary 11 — Antonio Prieto , Spanish long-distance runnerJanuary 13 — Ricardo Acuńa , Chilean tennis playerJanuary 18 — Brenda Phillips , Zimbabwean field hockey player January 22 — Jorge Ruiz , Argentine field hockey player and coachJanuary 23 — Vasiliy Grishchenkov , Soviet triple jumper January 24 — Frank Ullrich , German biathlete
February
February 2 — Sandy Lyle , Scottish golf playerFebruary 11 — Regina Mar?íková , Czechoslovakian tennis player.February 12 — George Carnoutsos , New Zealand field hockey playerFebruary 13 — Niculina Vasile , Romanian high jumperFebruary 14 — Heinz Steinberger , Austrian ice speed skaterFebruary 16 — Oscar Schmidt , Brazilian basketball playerFebruary 17 — Sergei Baltacha , Ukrainian football (soccer) player February 20 — Det de Beus , Dutch field hockey goalkeeperFebruary 21 — Vladimir Kotov , Belarusian long-distance runnerFebruary 25 — Peter Drost , Dutch freestyle swimmerFebruary 25 — Kurt Rambis , American basketball playerFebruary 28 — Dean Crawford , Canadian rower
March
March 2 — Kevin Curren , South African tennis playerMarch 2 — Ian Woosnam , Welsh golf playerMarch 4 — Wouly de Bie , Dutch water polo player March 8 — Andreas Maurer , German tennis playerMarch 10 — Domingo Ramón , Spanish long-distance runnerMarch 17 — José Manuel Abascal , Spanish athleteMarch 18 — Aleksandr Kharlov , Soviet hurdlerMarch 20 — Detlef Kästner , East German boxerMarch 21 — Marlies Göhr , German athleteMarch 24 — Fernando Luna , Spanish tennis playerMarch 25 — Harriet Metcalf , American rowerMarch 26 — Elio de Angelis , Italian racecar driverMarch 28 — Bart Conner , American gymnastMarch 28 — Jos Lammertink , Dutch cyclist
April
April 1 — Tom van 't Hek , Dutch field hockey player and coachApril 1 — Hwang Jung-Oh , South Korean judokaApril 3 — Annemarie Sanders , Dutch equestrianApril 4 — Greg Foster , US athleteApril 5 — Johan Kriek , South Africa-born tennis player from the United StatesApril 9 — Gregg Tafralis , American shot putterApril 11 — Lyudmila Kondratyeva , Russian athleteApril 12 — Glenn Patching , Australian swimmerApril 13 — Irene Hendriks , Dutch field hockey playerApril 28 — Husmukh Bhikha , New Zealand field hockey playerApril 29 — Carlos Roca , Spanish field hockey player
May
June
June 6 — Rudi Fink , East German boxerJune 11 — Ellen Bontje , Dutch equestrianJune 12 — Jillian Smith , New Zealand field hockey playerJune 14 — Eric Heiden , US speed skaterJune 14 — Tony Mmoh , Nigerian tennis playerJune 14 — Masami Yoshida , Japanese javelin thrower June 15 — Wade Boggs , American baseball playerJune 16 — Pierre Berbizier , French rugby union playerJune 16 — Ulrike Tauber , East German medley and butterfly swimmerJune 27 — Eric Fromm , American tennis playerJune 29 — Rosa Mota , Portuguese marathon runner
July
July 1 — Bo?o Vuleti? , Montenegrin water polo playerJuly 6 — Mark Benson , English cricket umpireJuly 14 — Jan Wohlschlag , American high jumperJuly 18 — Joan Hansen , American long-distance runnerJuly 25 — Karl-Heinz Förster , German football playerJuly 26 — Ramona Neubert , East German heptathleteJuly 28 — Terry Fox , Canadian athleteJuly 29 — Diane Moyer , US field hockey playerJuly 29 — Yuko Mitsuya , Japanese volleyball player July 30 — Aleksey Demyanyuk , Soviet high jumperJuly 30 — Orlando Pizzolato , Italian long-distance runnerJuly 30 — Daley Thompson , British decathlete
August
September
September 6 — Soraya Telles , Brazilian middle distance runnerSeptember 14 — Alain Fabiani , French volleyball playerSeptember 16 — Orel Hershiser , US baseball playerSeptember 18 — Henk Elzerman , Dutch freestyle swimmerSeptember 19 — Azumah Nelson , Ghanaian boxerSeptember 21 — Jay Triano , Canadian basketball player and coachSeptember 24 — Barbara Clark , Canadian freestyle swimmerSeptember 27 — Neil Adams , British judokaSeptember 27 — Kevin Forster , English long-distance runnerSeptember 29 — Ron Jans , Dutch football (soccer) player and coach
October
October 4 — Francesco Damiani , Italian boxerOctober 9 — Mike Singletary , US American football playerOctober 10 — Pietro Generali , Italian basketball player October 18 — Thomas Hearns , American boxerOctober 19 — José Angel Molina , Puerto Rican boxerOctober 20 — Aletta van Manen , Dutch field hockey defenderOctober 24 — Chip Hooper , American tennis playerOctober 25 — Kornelia Ender , German swimmerOctober 28 — Arnaldo Pérez , Puerto Rican swimmerOctober 30 — Paulino Monsalve , Spanish field hockey player October 31 — Jeannie Longo , French cyclist
November
December
December 1 — Alberto Cova , Italian long-distance runnerDecember 2 — Ezio Gamba , Italian judokaDecember 4 — Renata Kokowska , Polish long-distance runnerDecember 9 — Jean-Noël Fagot , French ice speed skaterDecember 15 — Eddy Annys , Belgian high jumperDecember 15 — Rabah Madjer , Algerian football playerDecember 16 — Marti ten Kate , Dutch long-distance runnerDecember 24 — Sophie von Weiler , Dutch field hockey forwardDecember 25 — Rickey Henderson , US baseball playerDecember 27 — Morten Stig Christensen , Danish handball player
Deaths
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