1970 in sports
For an extensive coverage see 1970 in athletics (track and field) For an extensive coverage see 1970 in football (soccer) Men's professional
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STX is founded by Richard B.C. Tucker Sr.The New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup .
The Whitby Transporters win the Castrol Cup .
The Lakeshore Maple Leafs win the Minto Cup .
First ISU Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men and Ladies held in West Allis , U.S.A.
Records
Awards
Births
January
January 2 — Andreas Wecker , German gymnast January 5 — Chris Wilkinson , British tennis playerJanuary 5 — Yury Kovtun , Russian football (soccer) defenderJanuary 8 — Masaji Ogino , Japanese volleyball player January 9 — Jan Quast , German boxer January 10 — Marek Bajor , Polish football (soccer) playerJanuary 12 — Brett Leaver , New Zealand field hockey player January 13 — Alicja P?czak , Polish breaststroke swimmerJanuary 13 — Daphne Touw , Dutch field hockey goalkeeper January 15 — Dan Landry , American volleyball playerJanuary 18 — Ma Miaolan , Chinese heptathleteJanuary 19 — Zeeshan Ali , Indian tennis playerJanuary 19 — Tim Foster , British rower and coachJanuary 19 — Donald Haddow , Canadian freestyle swimmerJanuary 19 — Hĺkan Karlsson , Swedish freestyle swimmerJanuary 25 — Brigita Bukovec , Slovenian hurdler January 25 — Rafael Lozano , Spanish boxerJanuary 25 — Cheikh Touré , Senegalese-born French athleteJanuary 28 — Diego Chiodo , Argentine field hockey player January 29 — Jörg Hoffmann , German freestyle swimmerJanuary 29 — Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore , Indian sport shooter
February
February 4 ]] — Tomoko Yoshihara , Japanese volleyball player February 6 ]] — Jeff Rouse , American swimmerFebruary 11 ]] — Alistair Brown , English cricket playerFebruary 11 ]] — Bernardo Segura , Mexican race walkerFebruary 12 ]] — Lee Bodimeade , Australian field hockey player and coachFebruary 12 ]] — Mojca Cater , Canadian butterfly swimmerFebruary 12 ]] — Tino Weber , German backstroke swimmerFebruary 14 ]] — Guillaume Raoux , French tennis playerFebruary 14 ]] — Agapito Sanchez , Dominican Republic boxer (d. 2005)February 14 ]] — Eleucadia Vargas , Dominican Republic judokaFebruary 15 ]] — Mark Warnecke , German breaststroke swimmerFebruary 22 ]] — Manuela Stellmach , East German freestyle swimmerFebruary 23 ]] — Turbo Tumo , Ethiopian long-distance runnerFebruary 23 ]] — Marc Wauters , Belgian cyclistFebruary 26 ]] — Ben Maruquin , American field hockey sweeperFebruary 27 ]] — Delroy Leslie , Jamaican boxerFebruary 28 ]] — Jacqueline Goormachtigh , Dutch discus thrower
March
March 1 — Jaime Amat , Spanish field hockey playerMarch 3 — Simon Biwott , Kenyan long-distance runnerMarch 5 — Li Gwang-Sik , North Korean boxerMarch 6 — Stefano Battistelli , Italian backstroke and medley swimmerMarch 8 — Caren Jungjohann , German field hockey player March 9 — Erika Hansen , American swimmerMarch 10 — Hélia Souza , Brazilian volleyball player March 12 — Aki Takayama , Japanese synchronized swimmerMarch 13 — Lula Barbosa , Brazilian beach volleyball player March 14 — Julie McDonald , Australian swimmer March 15 — Diego Nargiso , Italian tennis playerMarch 15 — Derek Parra , Mexican-American speed skaterMarch 16 — Kelli James , US field hockey striker March 16 — Rafael Pascual , Spanish volleyball playerMarch 18 — Ian Bird , Canadian field hockey playerMarch 20 — Kristin Klein , American volleyball player March 20 — Wietske de Ruiter , Dutch field hockey strikerMarch 23 — Vitaliy Sidorov , Ukrainian/Russian discus throwerMarch 24 — Judith Draxler , Austrian freestyle swimmerMarch 24 — Konstantin Ushakov , Russian volleyball player March 25 — Magnus Larsson , Swedish tennis player March 28 — José Loiola , Brazilian beach volleyball playerMarch 30 — Secretariat , two-time Horse of the Year, 1973 Triple Crown winner (d. 1989)March 31 — Stuart Carruthers , Australian field hockey player
April
April 1 — Alan Gregov , Croatian basketball player April 4 — László Markovits , Hungarian tennis playerApril 4 — Jason Stoltenberg , Australian tennis player and coachApril 4 — Simone Thomaschinski , German field hockey defender April 5 — Boris Alterman , Israeli chess playerApril 5 — Willemijn Duyster , Dutch field hockey defenderApril 6 — Xiaomin Huang , Chinese breaststroke swimmerApril 7 — Jordi Arnau , Spanish field hockey player April 7 — Piet Norval , South African tennis playerApril 9 — Nicole Colaco , Kenya-born field hockey player from CanadaApril 10 — Leonard Doroftei , Romanian boxerApril 10 — Doug Flach , American tennis playerApril 10 — Diederik Simon , Dutch rowerApril 11 — KC Boutiette , American speed skater April 13 — Rintje Ritsma , Dutch speed skaterApril 15 — Miguel Ángel Oca , Spanish water polo player April 15 — Luc Marquet , French volleyball playerApril 16 — Mukesh Kumar , Indian field hockey midfielder April 17 — Anders Szalkai , Swedish long-distance runnerApril 18 — Heike Friedrich , East German freestyle swimmerApril 18 — Ramón Jufresa , Spanish field hockey goalkeeperApril 19 — Kelly Holmes , English athleteApril 20 — Adriano Moraes , Brazilian rodeo performerApril 21 — Vadim Alexeev , Kazakhstan-born Israeli swimmer April 29 — Andre Agassi , American tennis player
May
May 2 — Dan Kutler , US-born Israeli butterfly swimmerMay 6 — Joăo Brenha , Portuguese beach volleyball player May 8 — Christine Stark , Canadian volleyball playerMay 11 — Rubén Michavila , Spanish water polo player May 12 — Mike Weir , Canadian golferMay 14 — Nicola Fairbrother , British judokaMay 14 — Benson Masya , Kenyan long-distance runner (d. 2003)May 16 — Dwight Ferguson , Bahamian sprint athleteMay 16 — Gabriela Sabatini , Argentinian tennis playerMay 16 — Franck Schott , French swimmerMay 17 — Renzo Furlan , Italian tennis playerMay 19 — K.J. Choi , South Korean golferMay 21 — Jason Lee , English field hockey player and coachMay 22 — Marco Rudolph , German boxerMay 22 — Eric Wunderlich , American breaststroke swimmerMay 24 — Cristiano Caratti , Italian tennis playerMay 24 — Jeff Zgonina , US American football playerMay 25 — Danni Roche , Australian field hockey playerMay 26 — Ralph Bergmann , German volleyball player May 27 — Michael Blackburn , Australian sailor May 29 — Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu , Norwegian long-distance runnerMay 29 — Luís Novo , Portuegese long-distance runnerMay 31 — Claus Thomsen , Danish football (soccer) player
June
June 2 — Natasha Aguilar , Costa Rican freestyle swimmerJune 2 — Patricia Noall , Canadian freestyle swimmerJune 5 — Eran Groumi , Israeli swimmerJune 10 — Miklos Molnar , Danish football (soccer) playerJune 11 — Arkhom Chenglai , Thai boxerJune 12 — David Defiagbon , Nigerian boxerJune 12 — Jo Yoshimi , Japanese medley swimmerJune 13 — Mikael Ljungberg , Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)June 15 — Pepijn Aardewijn , Dutch rowerJune 16 — Jaime Oncins , Brazilian tennis player June 20 — Russell Garcia , British field hockey playerJune 20 — Maia Lewis , New Zealand cricketerJune 20 — Mikhail Yurchenko , Kazakhstani boxerJune 22 — Carmela Allucci , Italian water polo playerJune 22 — Tadahiro Sasaki , Japanese boxerJune 23 — Kerri Buchberger , Canadian volleyball playerJune 25 — Chiyori Tateno , Japanese judokaJune 25 — Erki Nool , Estonian decathleteJune 26 — Paul Bitok , Kenyan long-distance runnerJune 26 — Marina Lobatch , Soviet rhythmic gymnastJune 26 — Pawel Nastula , Polish judoka and heavyweight fighter June 26 — Mark Pinger , German freestyle swimmerJune 27 — John Eales , Australian rugby union footballerJune 27 — Lars Jonsson , Swedish tennis playerJune 27 — Fernando Moresi , Argentine field hockey playerJune 29 — Franziska Hentschel , German field hockey forward
July
July 1 — Laura Walker , American swimmerJuly 3 — Yona Kosashvili , Georgian-Israeli chess player July 3 — Marco Formentini , Italian long-distance swimmerJuly 5 — Valentí Massana , Spanish race walkerJuly 6 — Andreas Seelig , East German discus throwerJuly 8 — Lisa Powell , Australian field hockey forwardJuly 11 — Frederik Fetterlein , Danish tennis playerJuly 12 — Vladimir Timoshinin , Russian diverJuly 13 — Tomohiro Miyoshi , Japanese butterfly swimmerJuly 13 — Sandon Stolle , Australian tennis playerJuly 14 — Natalia Mishkutenok , Russian pairs figure skaterJuly 14 — Michelle Sawatzky , Canadian volleyball playerJuly 15 — María del Carmen Díaz , Mexican long-distance runnerJuly 16 — Regla Bell , Cuban volleyball player July 20 — Dahlia Duhaney , Jamaican track and field sprinterJuly 21 — Takahiro Fujimoto , Japanese medley swimmerJuly 24 — Phil Sykes , US field hockey defender July 27 — Stephan Veen , Dutch field hockey playerJuly 29 — Willis García , Venezuelan judokaJuly 30 — Kris Kuehl , American discus thrower
August
August 1 — Mark Petchey , British tennis playerAugust 2 — Vladimir Ovchinnikov , Russian javelin throwerAugust 3 — Elena Carrión , Spanish field hockey goalkeeper August 6 — Alla Hasanova , Azerbaijani volleyball playerAugust 6 — Michael Strange , Canadian boxerAugust 7 — Eric Namesnik , American swimmer (d. 2006)August 8 — Johann Mühlegg , German-born Spanish cross-country skierAugust 12 — Roland Brunner , Austrian ice speed skaterAugust 13 — Emanuel Nascimento , Brazilian freestyle swimmerAugust 13 — Alan Shearer , English football (soccer) playerAugust 14 — Sláva Dosed?l , Czech tennis playerAugust 14 — Birgit Kähler , German high jumperAugust 14 — Masashi Kato , Japanese freestyle swimmerAugust 15 — Chris Byrd , American boxerAugust 15 — Bai Chongguang , Chinese boxerAugust 16 — Tina Connelly , Canadian track and field athleteAugust 17 — István Kovács , Hungarian boxerAugust 20 — Loďc De Kergret , French volleyball playerAugust 21 — Paolo Vidoz , Italian boxerAugust 26 — Olga Vigil , Cuban basketball player
September
September 1 — Barbara Paulus , Austrian tennis player September 4 — Andrea Ávila , Argentine long and triple jumperSeptember 5 — Lee Lai Shan , Hong Kong windsurferSeptember 7 — Guy Callaghan , New Zealand butterfly swimmerSeptember 7 — Keltie Duggan , Canadian breaststroke swimmerSeptember 10 — Belinda Clark , Australian cricketerSeptember 11 — Hiroko Tsukumo , Japanese volleyball player September 12 — Dube Jillo , Ethiopian long-distance runnerSeptember 12 — Ricarda Lima , Brazilian volleyball player September 14 — Mayra Huerta , Mexican beach volleyball player September 15 — Juan-Carlos Bianchi , Venezuelan tennis playerSeptember 15 — Svetlana Vasilyeva , Russian long-distance runnerSeptember 22 — Marc-Kevin Goellner , Brazil-born German tennis playerSeptember 23 — Sne?ana Pajki? , Serbian middle-distance runnerSeptember 24 — Silvia Poll , Costa Rican freestyle swimmerSeptember 28 — Isabelle Brasseur , Canadian figure skating world championSeptember 28 — Kimiko Date , Japanese tennis playerSeptember 29 — Nicolas Pereira , Venezuelan tennis playerSeptember 30 — Katsuyuki Minami , Japanese volleyball player
October
October 1 — Gaston Taument , Dutch football (soccer) player October 3 — Justine Sowry , Australian field hockey goalkeeperOctober 4 — Ana Mendoza , Mexican breaststroke swimmerOctober 8 — Heather Jones , Canadian field hockey player October 10 — Mohammed Mourhit , Morocco-born Belgian long-distance runner October 10 — Silke Kraushaar , German lugerOctober 10 — Matthew Pinsent , British rowerOctober 17 — Anil Kumble , Indian cricketerOctober 19 — Fabián Roncero , Spanish long-distance runnerOctober 22 — Winston Bogarde , Dutch football (soccer) player October 26 — Tom Vano , US field hockey goalkeeperOctober 28 — Anthony Bonsante , American boxerOctober 29 — Pär Lindström , Swedish freestyle swimmer
November
November 4 — Lauri Aus , Estonian cyclist (d. 2003)November 6 — Joyce Chepchumba , Kenyan long distance athleteNovember 6 — Andrei Kovalenko , Kiev-born Australian water polo player November 6 — Remigio Molina , Argentine boxer November 7 — Kris Fillat , American field hockey player November 7 — Mohammad Shafqat , Pakistani field hockey playerNovember 8 — Pablo Moreira , Argentinian field hockey goalkeeperNovember 9 — Nelson Diebel , American swimmerNovember 9 — Guido Görtzen , Dutch volleyball playerNovember 9 — Bill Guerin , US NHL hockey playerNovember 10 — Sue Reid , Canadian field hockey player November 12 — Tonya Harding , US figure skaterNovember 15 — Patrick Mboma , Cameroonian footballerNovember 15 — Uschi Disl , German biathleteNovember 15 — Jeffrey Adams , Canadian wheelchair athleteNovember 16 — Ernst Laraque , Haitian judokaNovember 18 — Albert Cristina , Dutch volleyball playerNovember 18 — Olena Ronzhyna , Ukrainian rower November 19 — Eleanor Race , American field hockey playerNovember 19 — Shigeyuki Dobashi , Japanese boxer November 20 — Tracey Robb , Scottish field hockey goalkeeperNovember 24 — Paul Laciga , Swiss beach volleyball player November 25 — Elisabeth Maragall , Spanish field hockey player November 27 — Thirumal Valavan , Indian field hockey midfielderNovember 30 — Yayuk Basuki , Indonesian tennis player
December
December 3 — Christian Karembeu , French football playerDecember 6 — Isabelle Arnould , Belgian freestyle swimmerDecember 14 — Vladimir Grbic , Serbian volleyball playerDecember 15 — Gilberto González , Venezuelan triathleteDecember 16 — Thompson García , Ecuadorian boxerDecember 17 — Pavel Padrnos , Czech cyclistDecember 18 — Emanuele Idini , Italian freestyle swimmerDecember 19 — Jonathan Cleveland , Canadian breaststroke swimmerDecember 19 — Ian Wilson , British freestyle swimmerDecember 21 — Tomislav Karlo , Croatian backstroke swimmerDecember 23 — Catriona LeMay Doan , Canadian speed skaterDecember 25 — Emmanuel Amuneke , Nigerian soccer player (footballer)December 26 — Misha Latuhihin , Dutch volleyball playerDecember 28 — Brenda Schultz-McCarthy , Dutch tennis player
Deaths
January 17 — Lindley Murray , American tennis player (b. 1892)February 6 — Abe Attell , World Champion and Hall of Fame boxerFebruary 15 — Carlos Cruz , Featherweight Champion boxer April 6 — Maurice Stokes , American basketball player (b. 1933) May 19 — Ray Schalk , Major League Baseball player (1912-1929)May 31 — Terry Sawchuk , Hockey Hall of Fame goaltenderJune 2 — Bruce McLaren , race car driverJune 12 — Percy Rees , British field hockey player (b. 1883)June 16 — Brian Piccolo , American football starJuly 4 — Harold Stirling Vanderbilt , 3-time America's Cup winnerSeptember 3 — Vince Lombardi , National Football League coach, Super Bowl trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award named for himSeptember 5 — Jochen Rindt , Austrian Formula One racing driverSeptember 19 — Greville Stevens , English cricketerNovember 5 — Charley Root , Major League Baseball pitcher (1923-1941)November 27 — Helene Madison , American swimmer (b. 1913)December 26 — Lillian Board (22), British athlete (b. 1948)December 30 — Sonny Liston , American boxer (b. 1932)
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