1966 in sports
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For an extensive coverage see 1966 in football (soccer) Men's professional
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Awards
Births
January
January 1 — Nikolay Gulyayev , Soviet speedskaterJanuary 2 — Aileen Claxon , British field hockey goalkeeperJanuary 3 — Andrea Jaeger , American tennis playerJanuary 5 — Rodrigo Gavela , Spanish long-distance athleteJanuary 6 — Lucketz Swartbooi , Namibian long-distance runnerJanuary 6 — Carlos Weber , Argentine volleyball player January 7 — Corrie Sanders , South African boxerJanuary 10 — Kennedy McKinney , American boxerJanuary 17 — Rudi Dollmayer , Swedish swimmerJanuary 17 — Agnes Hijman , Dutch long-distance runnerJanuary 23 — Bernadette Bowyer , Canadian field hockey playerJanuary 23 — Scott Fortune , American volleyball playerJanuary 24 — Michael Forgeron , Canadian rowerJanuary 28 — Wendy Brown , American heptathleteJanuary 28 — Yoko Tanabe , Japanese judokaJanuary 29 — Karen LaFace , American diverJanuary 30 — Doug Wood , Canadian pole vaulter
February
February 1 — Michelle Akers , American football playerFebruary 2 — Andrei Chesnokov , Russian tennis playerFebruary 2 — Sean Wade , New Zealand long-distance runnerFebruary 6 — Armando Barcellos , Brazilian triathleteFebruary 7 — Kristin Otto , East German swimmerFebruary 8 — Alex Antonitsch , Austrian tennis playerFebruary 8 — Hristo Stoichkov , Bulgarian football playerFebruary 9 — Laurie Pace , Maltese judokaFebruary 9 — Ellen van Langen , Dutch athleteFebruary 11 — Patrik Kühnen , West German tennis playerFebruary 11 — Anthony Parker , American football playerFebruary 12 — Jörg Ahmann , German beach volleyball player February 14 — Taco van den Honert , Dutch field hockey player February 19 — Paul Haarhuis , Dutch tennis playerFebruary 20 — Perica Buki? , Croatian water polo playerFebruary 22 — Patricia Libregts , Dutch water polo playerFebruary 25 — Samson Kitur , Kenyan middle-distance runner (d. 2003 )
March
March 1 — Susan Auch , Canadian speed skaterMarch 2 — Bruno Gutzeit , French butterfly swimmerMarch 2 — Judith Wiesner , Austrian tennis playerMarch 15 — Marvyn King , English darts playerMarch 15 — Hiroshi Nagashima , Japanese boxerMarch 20 — Chris Gifford , Canadian field hockey striker March 21 — Hauke Fuhlbrügge , German middle distance runner March 21 — Emiel Mellaard , Dutch long jumperMarch 21 — Brad Pearce , American tennis playerMarch 23 — Lorenzo Daniel , American track and field sprinterMarch 23 — Martin Ndongo-Ebanga , Cameroonian boxerMarch 24 — Floyd Heard , American track and field sprinterMarch 26 — Benny Nielsen , Danish butterfly swimmerMarch 29 — Krassimir Balakov , Bulgarian football (soccer) playerMarch 29 — Sigrid Kirchmann , Austrian high jumperMarch 29 — Pamela Rai , Canadian freestyle swimmerMarch 30 — Dmitry Volkov , Soviet breaststroke swimmerMarch 31 — Nathalie Gosselin , Canadian judokaMarch 31 — Tommy Werner , Swedish freestyle swimmer
April
April 2 — Teddy Sheringham , English football (soccer) playerApril 2 — Vadim Yaroshchuk , Soviet swimmerApril 3 — Tadanori Koshino , Japanese judokaApril 12 — Adriana Samuel , Brazilian volleyball playerApril 15 — Andrei Olhovskiy , Russian tennis playerApril 16 — Asif Dar , Pakistani-Canadian boxerApril 18 — Trine Hattestad , Norwegian javelin throwerApril 24 — Alessandro Costacurta , Italian football (soccer) playerApril 24 — Teresa Rivera , Mexican swimmerApril 26 — Andrea Temesvari , Hungarian tennis playerApril 28 — Sándor Hódosi , Hungarian canoer
May
May 4 — Karen Phillips , Australian butterfly swimmerMay 5 — Eric Sato , American volleyball playerMay 5 — Lyubov Yegorova , Russian cross-country skierMay 7 — Jes Høgh , Danish football (soccer) playerMay 8 — Claudio Taffarel , Brazilian soccer goalkeeperMay 9 — Antonio Silio , Argentine long-distance runnerMay 10 — Jonathan Edwards , British triple jumperMay 10 — Anne Elvebakk , Norwegian biathleteMay 11 — Michelle MacPherson , Canadian backstroke and butterfly swimmer May 12 — Anne Ottenbrite , Canadian breaststroke swimmer May 17 — Xavier Escudé , Spanish field hockey player May 17 — Henrik Larsen , Danish football (soccer) playerMay 18 — Renata Nielsen , Danish long jumperMay 24 — Peter Meinert Nielsen , Danish road bicycle racerMay 31 — Roshan Mahanama , Sri Lankan cricketer
June
June 1 — Sven Rothenberger , German-born equestrian from the NetherlandsJune 1 — Greg Schiano , American football coachJune 2 — Petra van Staveren , Dutch breaststroke swimmerJune 6 — Viktor Zaitsev , Uzbekistani javelin throwerJune 10 — David Platt , English football playerJune 12 — Ignacio Cobos , Spanish field hockey player June 16 — Jan ?elezný , Czech javelin throwerJune 18 — Bob Kempainen , American long-distance runnerJune 18 — Sharon Rendle , British judokaJune 19 — Elijah Lagat , Kenyan long-distance runnerJune 22 — Howard Grant , Jamaican-Canadian boxerJune 22 — Christine Toonstra , Dutch long-distance runnerJune 23 — Joe Falcon , American middle-distance runner June 24 — Debbie Fuller , Canadian diverJune 25 — Michael Tauson , Danish tennis playerJune 27 — Mercedes Paz , Argentine tennis playerJune 29 — John Part , Canadian darts playerJune 30 — Ron Dekker , Dutch swimmerJune 30 — Mike Tyson , American boxer
July
July 1 — Simon Arkell , Australian pole vaulterJuly 1 — Stéphan Caron , French freestyle swimmerJuly 1 — Frank De Bleeckere , Belgian football (soccer) refereeJuly 3 — Daniel Plaza , Spanish race walkerJuly 4 — Csaba Almási , Hungarian long jumperJuly 5 — Gianfranco Zola , Italian football (soccer) strikerJuly 7 — Henk Fräser , Dutch football (soccer) defender July 7 — Manuel Pancorbo , Spanish middle-distance runnerJuly 8 — Leszek Beb?o , Polish long-distance runnerJuly 8 — Jean-Philippe Jodard , French beach volleyball player July 9 — Marco Antonio González , Spanish water polo player July 10 — Andrés Charadia , Argentine hammer throwerJuly 14 — Andrea Magi , Italian boxerJuly 15 — Susan Fraser , Scottish field hockey player July 21 — Larisa Neiland , Ukrainian-born tennis player from LatviaJuly 18 — Kathrin Neimke , German track and field athleteJuly 20 — Tracey McFarlane , American breaststroke swimmerJuly 25 — Paul Burke , English boxerJuly 27 — Tamás Deutsch , Hungarian backstroke swimmerJuly 27 — Stanislav Tarasenko , Russian long jumperJuly 28 — Miguel Angel Nadal , Spanish soccer player (footballer)July 30 — Shigueto Yamasaki , Brazilian judoka
August
August 3 — Simon Shirley , Australian decathleteAugust 6 — Michael Hilgers , German field hockey forward August 6 — Martha Tenorio , Ecuadorian long-distance runnerAugust 7 — Zlatko Yankov , Bulgarian football (soccer) playerAugust 10 — Jerry Nijman , Dutch boxerAugust 14 — Freddy Rincón , Colombian football (soccer) playerAugust 16 — Rosey Edeh , Canadian athlete and tv-personalityAugust 19 — Sarah Jane Cook , English cricketerAugust 22 — Ismo Falck , Finnish archerAugust 22 — Rob Witschge , Dutch football (soccer) playerAugust 23 — Justin Lemberg , Australian middle-long distance freestyle swimmer August 23 — Rik Smits , Dutch basketball player August 24 — Ramón González , Cuban javelin throwerAugust 24 — Jon Sieben , Australian butterfly swimmer August 26 — Jacques Brinkman , Dutch field hockey playerAugust 26 — Laura Bruschini , Italian beach volleyball playerAugust 27 — Jeroen Duyster , Dutch rowing coxswainAugust 27 — Gianni Vignaduzzi , Canadian track cyclistAugust 30 — Willemien Aardenburg , Dutch field hockey playerAugust 31 — Thierry Champion , French tennis player August 31 — Luboslav Penev , Bulgarian football (soccer) player
September
September 4 — Gary Neiwand , Australian track cyclistSeptember 5 — Ronald Zoodsma , Dutch volleyball playerSeptember 7 — Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann , German ice speed skaterSeptember 9 — Georg Hackl , German lugerSeptember 9 — Alison Sydor , Canadian cross country mountain cyclistSeptember 12 — Dulce Piña , Dominican Republic judoka September 13 — Megumi Sato , Japanese high jumperSeptember 17 — Søren Søndergaard , Danish boxerSeptember 25 — Liz Tchou , US field hockey defenderSeptember 29 — Laurent Chambertin , French volleyball player
October
October 1 — George Weah , Liberian football (soccer) playerOctober 5 — María Carmen Barea , Spanish field hockey defender October 5 — Edrick Floreal , Haitian-Canadian long and triple jumperOctober 5 — Peter Fonseca , Canadian long distance runnerOctober 6 — Roberto Lopes , Brazilian beach volleyball player October 10 — Tony Adams , English football (soccer) defenderOctober 10 — Elana Meyer , South African long distance runnerOctober 15 — Jorge Campos , Mexican soccer goalkeeper and coachOctober 17 — Peter Milkovich , Canadian field hockey midfielderOctober 18 — Thierry Lamberton , French ice speed skaterOctober 18 — Toshihisa Tsuchihashi , Japanese tennis playerOctober 19 — Meldrick Taylor , American boxerOctober 20 — Peter Odhiambo , Kenyan boxerOctober 21 — Jonas Svensson , Swedish tennis player October 22 — Oscar Barrena , Spanish field hockey playerOctober 23 — Cornelia Sirch , East German backstroke swimmerOctober 24 — Pedro da Silva , Brazilian decathleteOctober 26 — Lernik Papyan , Armenia boxer
November
November 1 — Ingo Steuer , German figure skaterNovember 2 — Dubravko ?imenc , Croatian water polo player November 3 — Tracey Fuchs , American field hockey defender November 9 — Lisa Faust , Canadian field hockey midfielderNovember 10 — Rob Compas , Dutch cyclistNovember 11 — Franco Neto , Brazilian beach volleyball player November 12 — Ade Mafe , English sprinterNovember 14 — Petra Roßner , German cyclistNovember 15 — Roberto Jalnaiz , Filipino boxerNovember 21 — Christopher Bowie , Canadian freestyle swimmerNovember 21 — Troy Aikman , American football playerNovember 22 — Jasmin Krohn , Swedish ice speed skaterNovember 25 — Lisa Bayliss , British field hockey playerNovember 25 — Hristo Furnigov , Bulgarian boxerNovember 26 — Jay Berger , American tennis playerNovember 28 — Karen Horning , Peruvian breaststroke swimmerNovember 30 — David Berkoff , American backstroke swimmer
December
December 1 — Larry Walker , Canadian baseball playerDecember 3 — Ana Richa , Brazilian volleyball player December 4 — Fabio de Gaspari , Italian javelin throwerDecember 5 — Deb Whitten , Canadian field hockey player December 13 — Mekhak Ghazaryan , Armenian boxerDecember 15 — Andrea Ghiurghi , Italian beach volleyball player December 15 — Juan Rios , Puerto Rican tennis playerDecember 16 — Irene Eijs , Dutch rowerDecember 18 — Edwin Jongejans , Dutch diverDecember 19 — Alberto Tomba , Italian alpine skierDecember 20 — George Cramne , Swedish boxerDecember 22 — Katrin Zimmermann , East German backstroke swimmerDecember 25 — Javier Frana , Argentine tennis playerDecember 25 — Sandra Schumacher , German track and road cyclistDecember 29 — Laurent Boudouani , French boxerDecember 31 — Pablo Usoz , Spanish field hockey player and coach
Deaths
January 4 — Inga Artamonova (29), Russian world speed-skating champion February 1 — Nicholas Piantanida , balloonist, died after suffering from a pressurization failure during an attempt at an altitude recordFebruary 9 — Bruno Ahlberg (54), Finnish boxer (b. 1911 )March 11 — "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons , Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainerMay 2 — Torsten Kumfeldt (80), Swedish water polo player (b. 1886 )May 4 — Bob Elliott (49), American Major League Baseball player (1939-1953)June 30 — Giuseppe Farina (59), Italian Formula 1 champion race car driver (b. 1906 )July 6 — Sad Sam Jones (73), American Major League Baseball pitcher (1914-1935)July 24 — Tony Lema (32), U.S. golf champion, died in a Munster, Indiana plane crashAugust 1 — Hank Gowdy , Major League Baseball player and manager and World War I and II veteranSeptember 5 — Dezs? Lauber (87), Hungarian all-round sportsman (b. 1879 October 10 — Charlotte Cooper (96), English tennis player (b. 1870 )December 27 — Frankie Genaro (65), American boxer (b. 1901 )
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