1967 in sports
May 9 — Muhammad Ali was stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion titles and was banned from boxing by the various commissions for his refusal to be inducted into the United States Army
March 11 — In an international women's field-hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. England beat Ireland 7-1.
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Alpine Skiing The first World Cup tour in Alpine skiing is organized for the three ski events, "Downhill," "Slalom," and "Giant Slalom."
Records
Awards
Births
January
January 2 — Helen Morgan , British field-hockey goalkeeperJanuary 3 — Magnus Gustafsson , Swedish tennis playerJanuary 5 — Eva Hagenbäumer , German field-hockey player January 9 — Claudio Caniggia , Argentinian footballerJanuary 16 — Grzegorz Gajdus , Polish long-distance runnerJanuary 18 — Pieter Huistra , Dutch footballerJanuary 18 — Esteban de Palma , Argentine volleyball player January 21 — Kathryn Johnson , British field-hockey playerJanuary 21 — Ulf Stenlund , Swedish tennis playerJanuary 22 — Nick Gillingham , British swimmerJanuary 23 — Naim Suleymanoglu , Bulgarian-born Turkish weightlifterJanuary 24 — Viktor Reneysky , Belarusian canoerJanuary 25 — Robert Havekotte , Dutch water polo playerJanuary 28 — Angel Stoyanov , Bulgarian boxerJanuary 29 — Sean Burke , Canadian ice-hockey goalieJanuary 29 — Khalid Skah , Moroccan long-distance runner
February
February 2 — Janet Cobbs , American volleyball player February 3 — Aurelio Vidmar , Australian footballerFebruary 11 — Uwe Dassler , East German freestyle swimmerFebruary 18 — Roberto Baggio , Italian footballerFebruary 18 — Harry Van Barneveld , Belgian judokaFebruary 20 — Lilia Izquierdo , Cuban volleyball player February 24 — Jean-Charles Gicquel , French high jumperFebruary 25 — Natalia Dorado , Spanish field-hockey playerFebruary 25 — Mireya Luis , Cuban volleyball playerFebruary 26 — Kazuyoshi Miura , Japanese football (soccer) striker
March
March 1 — Aron Winter , Dutch footballerMarch 3 — Alexander Volkov , Russian tennis playerMarch 4 — Michael Andersson , Swedish road bicycle racerMarch 4 — Jonas Edman , Swedish rifle shooterMarch 5 — Olga Turchak , Kazakhstani high jumperMarch 8 — Gerard Kemkers , Dutch ice speed skater and coachMarch 8 — Candy Thomson , Canadian field-hockey player March 10 — Petri Keskitalo , Finnish decathleteMarch 10 — Daichi Suzuki , Japanese backstroke swimmerMarch 12 — Jorge Dely Valdes , Panamanian footballerMarch 13 — Colleen Rosensteel , American judokaMarch 16 — Kevin Draxinger , Canadian backstroke swimmer March 20 — Nikolay Bukhalov , Bulgarian flatwater canoerMarch 20 — Igor Polyansky , Soviet backstroke swimmerMarch 24 — Roberto Ferrari , Italian high jumperMarch 24 — Kathy Rinaldi , American tennis playerMarch 27 — Anthony Thornton , New Zealand field-hockey player March 31 — Agustin Moreno , Mexican tennis player
April
April 5 — Gary and Paul Gait , Canadian lacrosse playersApril 6 — Mika Koivuniemi , Finnish ten-pin bowler April 6 — Veniamin Tayanovich , Russian freestyle swimmerApril 7 — Scott Hobson , New Zealand field-hockey player April 7 — Bodo Illgner , German football goalkeeperApril 7 — Rob Mulders , Dutch road cyclist (d. 1998 )April 7 — Jim Paek , Canadian-Korean ice-hockey playerApril 8 — Luigi Castiglione , Italian boxerApril 11 — Lachlan Dreher , Australian field-hockey goalkeeper April 15 — Dara Torres , American swimmer April 22 — Sandra Douglas , British sprinter and Olympic medallistApril 24 — Pam Bustin , American field-hockey defender April 24 — Conrado Cabrera , Cuban track cyclistApril 25 — Angel Martino , American swimmerApril 26 — Glen "Kane" Jacobs , American wrestler
May
May 1 — Marie Moore , Canadian butterfly swimmerMay 4 — John Child , Canadian athleteMay 5 — Danny Kah , Australian ice speed skaterMay 5 — Susie Wollschläger , German field-hockey goalkeeperMay 11 — Gijs van der Leden , Dutch water polo player May 13 — Gerrit de Vries , Dutch road cyclistMay 14 — Shaun Creighton , Australian long-distance runnerMay 19 — Michiel Bartman , Dutch rowerMay 22 — Anita Smits , Dutch archer May 23 — Carlos Mercenario , Mexican race walkerMay 23 — Xu Demei , Chinese javelin throwerMay 25 — Luc Nilis , Belgian footballerMay 25 — Andrew Sznajder , Canadian tennis playerMay 27 — Juan Cuminetti , Argentine volleyball player May 27 — Paul Gascoigne , English footballerMay 29 — Mike Keane , Canadian ice-hockey playerMay 30 — Rechelle Hawkes , Australian field-hockey playerMay 31 — Per Bengtsson , Swedish ice speed skater
June
June 1 — Murray Baron , Canadian ice-hockey playerJune 1 — Olivier Delaitre , French tennis playerJune 3 — Tamás Darnyi , Hungarian swimmerJune 5 — Joe DeLoach , American sprinterJune 5 — Belsy Laza , Cuban shot putterJune 6 — Júlio Lópes , Brazilian freestyle swimmerJune 6 — Ron Zwerver , Dutch volleyball playerJune 7 — Sabine Tröger , Austrian sprinterJune 9 — Rubén Maza , Venezuelan long-distance runnerJune 14 — Pramote Teerawiwatana , Thai badminton player June 15 — Paul Kingsman , New Zealand backstroke swimmerJune 17 — Wladimir Ribeiro , Brazilian swimmerJune 18 — Marino Drake , Cuban high jumperJune 19 — Bjorn Daehlie , Norwegian cross-country skierJune 21 — Tammy Miller , English field-hockey playerJune 21 — Zoltán Szilágyi , Hungarian freestyle swimmerJune 24 — Tracey Belbin , Australian field-hockey player and coachJune 24 — Antonio Caballero , Spanish boxerJune 25 — Niels van der Zwan , Dutch rowerJune 27 — Sylvie Frechette , Canadian synchronized swimmerJune 28 — Lars Riedel , German discus throwerJune 30 — Tina Bell-Kake , New Zealand field-hockey midfielderJune 30 — Gareth Rees , Canadian rugby player
July
July 3 — Vladan Alanovi? , Croatian basketball player July 3 — Michael McKenzie , Australian long distance freestyle swimmer July 5 — Christian Miniussi , Argentine tennis player from July 9 — Marcelino Novaes , Brazilian boxerJuly 11 — Bent-Ove Pedersen , Norwegian tennis playerJuly 12 — Anthony Beks , New Zealand breaststroke swimmerJuly 12 — Noor Holsboer , Dutch field-hockey defenderJuly 12 — Kevin Painter , English darts playerJuly 12 — Bruny Surin , Haiti-born Canadian athleteJuly 14 — Thomas Flemming , East German freestyle swimmerJuly 14 — Leonardo Lavalle , Mexican tennis playerJuly 16 — Hideyuki Otake , Japanese volleyball player July 17 — Björn and Bengt Zikarsky , West German freestyle swimmers and twinsJuly 19 — Christian Bergström , Swedish tennis playerJuly 22 — Monique Javer , English tennis playerJuly 23 — Nicole Muns-Jagerman , Dutch tennis playerJuly 25 — Magdalena Forsberg , Swedish cross country skier and biathleteJuly 28 — Mike Bernardo , South African professional kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artistJuly 28 — Attila Horváth , Hungarian discus thrower
August
August 4 — Ilaria Tocchini , Italian butterfly swimmerAugust 4 — Kate Trolove , New Zealand field-hockey playerAugust 7 — Jocelyn Angloma , French footballerAugust 7 — Aaron Krickstein , Jewish-American tennis playerAugust 9 — André Cordeiro , Brazilian water polo goalkeeperAugust 9 — Lars Kleppich , Australian sailor August 10 — Philippe Albert , Belgian footballerAugust 12 — Regilio Tuur , Dutch boxerAugust 15 — Tony Hand , Scottish ice-hockey playerAugust 15 — Edgardo Pailos , Argentine field-hockey player August 15 — Brahim Boutayeb , Moroccan long-distance runnerAugust 18 — Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , Argentine boxerAugust 22 — Paul Ereng , Kenyan athleteAugust 26 — Aleksandar ?or?evi? , Serbian basketball player
September
September 2 — Andreas Möller , German footballerSeptember 3 — Anna Maiques , Spanish field-hockey player September 3 — Robert Wangila , Kenyan boxer (d. 1994 )September 5 — Koichi Morishita , Japanese long-distance runnerSeptember 5 — Jane Sixsmith , British field-hockey playerSeptember 5 — Matthias Sammer , German footballerSeptember 8 — Brett Winslow , American volleyball playerSeptember 9 — Steffen Zesner , German freestyle swimmerSeptember 10 — Guylaine Dumont , Canadian athleteSeptember 17 — Kevin Boyles , Canadian volleyball playerSeptember 17 — Michael Carbajal , American boxerSeptember 18 — Mohamed Marmouri , Tunisian boxerSeptember 19 — Jim Abbott , American one-handed baseball playerSeptember 19 — Alexander Karelin , Russian Greco-Roman wrestlerSeptember 20 — Monica Rodrigues , Brazilian volleyball playerSeptember 22 — Félix Savón , Cuban boxerSeptember 27 — Uche Okechukwu , Nigerian football defender
October
October 3 — Lynda Tolbert-Goode , American hurdlerOctober 3 — Maura Viceconte , Italian long-distance runner October 4 — Sofiya Bozhanova , Bulgarian long and triple jumperOctober 4 — Nick Green , Australian rowerOctober 4 — Victor Pujol , Spanish field-hockey midfielder October 9 — Carling Bassett-Seguso , Canadian tennis player October 10 — Wojtek Kowalski , Polish tennis playerOctober 12 — Wolfgang Kuck , German volleyball player October 12 — Anke Wild , German field-hockey playerOctober 13 — Mark Dean , American swimmerOctober 13 — Javier Sotomayor , Cuban high jumper October 16 — María Isabel Martínez , Spanish field-hockey playerOctober 16 — Michael York , Australian field-hockey defenderOctober 21 — Georgi Dakov , Bulgarian high jumperOctober 21 — Paul Ince , English footballerOctober 21 — Gavin Lovegrove , New Zealand javelin throwerOctober 22 — Ulrike Maier , Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994 )October 23 — Gerald McClellan , American boxerOctober 23 — Jaime Yzaga , Peruvian tennis player October 25 — Maik Landsmann , East German track cyclist October 25 — Martin Marinov , Bulgarian flatwater canoerOctober 30 — Elio Ibarra , Argentine boxer
November
November 2 — Yuichi Nakagaichi , Japanese volleyball player November 2 — Derek Porter , Belfast-born Canadian rowerNovember 3 — Pyotr Bochkaryov , Russian pole vaulterNovember 4 — Annemieke Fokke , Dutch field-hockey playerNovember 5 — Steve Wagner , American field-hockey goalkeeper November 6 — Shuzo Matsuoka , Japanese tennis player November 8 — Christopher Chalmers , Canadian freestyle swimmerNovember 11 — Florentine Steenberghe , Dutch field-hockey midfielderNovember 12 — Henk-Jan Held , Dutch volleyball playerNovember 13 — Michael Fietz , German long-distance runnerNovember 14 — Imre Pulai , Hungarian canoerNovember 14 — Timofey Skryabin , Soviet boxerNovember 15 — Laura Garrone , Italian tennis player November 17 — Javier Careaga , Mexican breaststroke swimmerNovember 22 — Bart Veldkamp , Dutch-born Belgian speed skaterNovember 24 — Stefan Tewes , German field-hockey player November 25 — Anthony Nesty , Surinamese swimmerNovember 27 — Joăo Cunha Silva , Portuguese tennis player November 29 — Sean Carlin , Australian hammer throwerNovember 29 — Pat Manson , American pole vaulter
December
Deaths
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