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1971 in sports
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For an extensive coverage see 1971 in athletics (track and field)
For an extensive coverage see 1971 in football (soccer)
Arsenal are the English First Division champions
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
[edit ] Records
Sixteen year old Chris Evert makes her US Open debut reaching the semifinals where she is defeated by eventual champion Billie Jean King.
First time in 16 years that Americans won both the men's and women's title at the US Open.
[edit ] Awards
[edit ] Births
[edit ] January
January 2 — Markus Baur , German handball player
January 4 — Melanie Cremer, German field hockey player
January 7 — Vladislav Kulikov , Russian butterfly swimmer
January 11 — Gregg Clark , South African field hockey player
January 14 — Bert Konterman , Dutch football player
January 16 — Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player
January 16 — Ulrich van Gobbel , Dutch football player
January 16 — Scott Williams , US field hockey defender
January 18 — Josep Guardiola , Spanish football player
January 19 — Begoña Larzabal , Spanish field hockey midfielder
January 20 — Henry "Donald" Martinez , Salvadoran bantamweight boxer
January 22 — Ellen Elzerman , Dutch swimmer
January 22 — Joaquín Fernández , Spanish swimmer
January 26 — Karin Kienhuis, Dutch judoka
January 26 — Lee Naylor , Australian track and field athlete
January 28 — Orhan Delibas , Dutch-Turkish boxer
January 28 — Lucrécia Jardim , Portuguese sprinter
January 28 — Yelena Motalova , Russian long-distance runner
January 29 — Sonja Pfeilschifter , German shooter
January 30 — Hong Qian , Chinese butterfly swimmer
[edit ] February
February 1 — Zlatko Zahovič , Slovenian football player
February 6 — Antti Haapakoski , Finnish hurdler
February 7 — Andrew Currey , Australian javelin thrower
February 13 — Emese Antal , Romania-born ice speed skater from Austria
February 13 — Lency Montelier , Cuban track and field athlete
February 19 — Martin van der Spoel , Dutch swimmer
February 20 — Jari Litmanen , Finnish football player
February 20 — Margaret "Peggy" Storrar , American field hockey goalkeeper
February 23 — Cornelia Pfohl , German archer
February 24 — Pedro de la Rosa , Spanish Formula 1-driver
February 24 — Ricardo Sánchez , Spanish water polo player
February 25 — Nelson Dieppa , Puerto Rican boxer
February 25 — Nova Peris-Kneebone , Australian athlete and field hockey player
February 28 — Koos Issard , Dutch waterpolo player
March 1 — Atif Bashir , Pakistani field hockey player
March 1 — Tyler Hamilton , American road bicycle racer
March 1 — Dick Norman , Belgian tennis player
March 2 — Vincenzo Modica , Italian long-distance runner
March 4 — Adriana Fernández , Mexican long-distance runner
March 5 — Karina Masotta , Argentine field hockey player
March 5 — Filip Meirhaeghe , Belgian cyclist
March 6 — Servais Knaven , Dutch cyclist
March 15 — Ralf Bißdorf, German fencer
March 18 — Jerzy Brzęczek , Polish football (soccer) player
March 18 — Mariaan de Swardt , South African tennis player
March 19 — Sébastien Godefroid , Belgian sailor
March 19 — Whitney Hedgepeth , American backstroke swimmer
March 19 — Zé Marco de Melo , Brazilian beach volleyball player
March 20 — Dmitriy Gaag , Kazakhstani triathlete
March 20 — Janis Kelly , Canadian volleyball player
March 27 — David Coulthard , Scottish Formula 1-driver
March 29 — Arjen Teeuwissen , Dutch equestrian
March 29 — Milton Wynants , Uruguayan cyclist
March 30 — Carlton Myers , Italian basketball player
March 31 — Pavel Bure , Russian ice hockey player
March 31 — Ramón Garbey , Cuban boxer
April 1 — Vladimir Selkov , Russian swimmer
April 1 — Daniel Vacek , Czech tennis player
April 2 — Conrad Leinemann , Canadian beach volleyball player
April 2 — Todd Woodbridge , Australian tennis player
April 3 — Picabo Street , American alpine skier
April 6 — Tom Sorensen , American volleyball player
April 8 — Ellen Kuipers , Dutch field hockey player
April 9 — Rafał Szukała , Polish butterfly swimmer
April 9 — Jacques Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1-driver
April 10 — Marcus Baur, German sailor
April 10 — Helen Clarke , New Zealand field hockey goalkeeper
April 12 — Fernando Meligeni , Brazilian tennis player
April 12 — Christophe Moreau , French cyclist
April 12 — Gregory Russ , New Zealand field hockey player
April 13 — Franck Esposito , French swimmer
April 14 — Danja Müsch, German beachvolleyball player
April 15 — Finidi George , Nigerian football player
April 15 — Guivi Sissaouri , Georgia-born Canadian freestyle wrestler
April 20 — Carla Geurts , Dutch swimmer
April 21 — Rachel Petrie , New Zealand field hockey defender
April 21 — Indrek Pertelson , Estonian judoka
April 22 — Nicklas Kulti , Swedish tennis player
April 24 — Mike Fenner , German athlete
April 24 — Phil Rogers , Australian swimmer
April 28 — Markus Beyer , German boxer
May 1 — Damon Diletti , Australian field hockey player
May 8 — James Elmer , Australian field hockey player
May 10 — Ådne Søndrål , Norwegian speed skater
May 12 — Ingrid van Lubek , Dutch triathlete
May 14 — Martin Reim , Estonian football (soccer) player
May 15 — Phil Pfister , American strength athlete
May 18 — Janel Jorgensen , American butterfly swimmer
May 19 — Lori Ann Mundt , Canadian volleyball player
May 21 — Tom Nanne, Dutch baseball player
May 25 — Stefano Baldini , Italian track and field athlete
May 25 — Georg Totschnig , Austrian cyclist
May 27 — Grant Stafford , South African tennis player
May 28 — Manuel Beltrán , Spanish cyclist
May 30 — Kyle Vander Kuyp , Australian indigenous athlete
May 31 — Irene Dalby , Norwegian swimmer
May 31 — Nicole Struse , German table tennis player
June 2 — Dion Gosling, New Zealand field hockey defender
June 2 — Irina Tolkunova , Russian/Kazakhstani water polo player
June 9 — Jean Galfione , French athlete
June 11 — Marek Kolbowicz , Polish rower
June 12 — Florencia Labat , Argentine tennis player
June 12 — Adam Vella , Australian target shooter
June 13 — Stefano Pescosolido , Italian tennis player
June 16 — Christian Mayerhöfer, German field hockey player
June 17 — Tripp Schwenk , American backstroke swimmer
June 21 — Irene Van Dyk , New Zealand netball player
June 22 – Kurt Warner , American football player
June 24 — Thomas Helveg , Danish football (soccer) player
June 24 — Nicole Livingstone , Australian swimmer and television sports commentator
June 26 — Max Biaggi , Italian motorcyclist
June 26 — Edward Parenti , Canadian swimmer
June 28 — Fabien Barthez , French football (soccer) goalkeeper
June 29 — Iván Pérez , Cuba-born water polo player from Spain
July 6 — Jessica Gal, Dutch judoka
July 9 — Hilary Rose , British field hockey goalkeeper
July 12 — Joel Casamayor , Cuban boxer
July 13 — Richard Groenendaal , Dutch cyclist
July 14 — Bernardo Mota , Portuguese tennis player
July 17 — Wilma van Hofwegen , Dutch swimmer
July 17 — Nico Mattan , Belgian cyclist
July 19 — Erik Jazet , Dutch field hockey player
July 19 — Vitali Klitschko , Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion
July 23 — Kristin Wagner, German sailor
July 26 — Mladen Rudonja , Slovenian footballer
July 30 — Mzukisi Sikali , South African boxer (d. 2005 )
[edit ] August
August 1 — Lisa Flood , Canadian breaststroke swimmer
August 4 — Jeff Gordon , American NASCAR driver
August 4 — Christophe Mendy , Senegal-born French boxer
August 5 — Darren Lange , Australian freestyle swimmer
August 5 — Jude Menezes , Indian field hockey goalkeeper
August 6 — Stéphane Lecat , French long-distance swimmer
August 6 — Angela Postma , Dutch freestyle swimmer
August 7 — Stephan Volkert, German rower
August 8 — Johnny Balentina , Dutch baseball player
August 8 — Ramón Sala , Spanish field hockey player
August 8 — Ramandeep Singh , Indian field hockey midfielder
August 9 — Davide Rebellin , Italian cyclist
August 10 — Roy Keane , Irish footballer
August 10 — Mario César Kindelán Mesa , Cuban amateur boxer
August 12 — Svetlana Bondarenko , Ukrainian swimmer
August 12 — Diana van der Plaats , Dutch swimmer
August 12 — Pete Sampras , American tennis player
August 14 — Andrea Peron , Italian cyclist
August 15 — Umesh Parag , New Zealand field hockey player
August 16 — Rulon Gardner , American wrestler
August 18 — Jonathan Winter , New Zealand backstroke swimmer
August 19 — Mary Joe Fernandez , American-Dominican tennis player
August 21 — Jan Hempel , German diver
August 23 — Demetrio Albertini , Italian footballer
August 24 — Antoaneta Frenkeva , Bulgarian breaststroke swimmer
August 25 — Andrew Baildon , Australian freestyle swimmer
August 25 — Gilberto Simoni , Italian cyclist
August 26 — Jeroen van Dijk, Dutch badminton player
August 26 — Charles Friedek , German athlete
August 26 — Lisa Keightley , Australian cricketer
August 27 — Ernest Faber , Dutch footballer
August 28 — Janet Evans , American Olympic swimming champion
August 29 — Marco Sandy , Bolivian football (soccer) defender
August 30 — Marianne Kriel , South African swimmer
August 31 — Virna Dias , Brazilian volleyball player
August 31 — Pádraig Harrington , Irish golfer
[edit ] September
September 1 — Hakan Şükür , Turkish footballer
September 2 — Kjetil André Aamodt , Norwegian alpine skier
September 2 — Gregory Corbitt , Australian field hockey striker
September 2 — Tom Steels , Belgian cyclist
September 3 — Paolo Montero , Uruguay football player
September 4 — Bas van de Goor , Dutch volleyball player
September 4 — Mark Knowles , Bahamian tennis player
September 7 — Shane Mosley , American boxer
September 8 — Daniel Petrov , Bulgarian boxer
September 9 — Glen Housman , Australian long-distance swimmer
September 9 — Serge Kats, Dutch sailor
September 9 — Magali Messmer , Swiss triathlete
September 10 — Carlo Silipo , Italian water polo player
September 12 — Julian Golley , British triple jumper
September 12 — Chandra Sturrup , Bahamian sprint athlete
September 12 — Perry Ubeda, Dutch martial artist
September 13 — Goran Ivanišević , Croatian tennis player
September 13 — Katrin Kauschke , German field hockey player
September 15 — Annamarie Thomas , Dutch speed skater
September 16 — Karsten Kobs , German athlete
September 17 — Jens Voigt , German cyclist
September 18 — Lance Armstrong , American cyclist
September 18 — Kate Starre , Australian field hockey midfielder
September 19 — Mirnawan Nawawi, Malaysian field hockey player
September 20 — Henrik Larsson , Swedish footballer
September 22 — Trinko Keen , Dutch table tennis player
September 24 — Linda Moes , Dutch swimmer
September 26 — Anke Feller , German athlete
September 27 — Cédric Penicaud , French breaststroke swimmer
September 27 — Clarisse Rasoarizay , Malagasy long-distance runner
September 28 — Sven Meinhardt , German field hockey player
[edit ] October
October 5 — Evelyn Carrera , Dominican Republic volleyball player
October 5 — Carlos Espínola , Argentine sailor
October 6 — Jorgelina Rimoldi , Argentine field hockey player
October 13 — André Bergdølmo , Norwegian football player
October 13 — Pyrros Dimas , Greek weightlifter
October 20 — Kamiel Maase , Dutch long-distance runner
October 21 — Johanne Bégin , Canadian water polo player
October 22 — Amanda Coetzer , South African tennis player
October 23 — Oliver Kurtz , German field hockey player
October 23 — Suzanne Plesman , Dutch field hockey player
October 25 — Pedro Martínez , Major League Baseball player
October 25 — Geoffrey Prommayon, Dutch football player
October 26 — Didier Martel, French football player
October 30 — Suzan van der Wielen , Dutch field hockey player
[edit ] November
November 1 — Jorge Lombi , Argentinian field hockey player
November 4 — Marco Büchel , Liechtensteiner alpine skier
November 4 — Fred Mutuweta , Ugandan boxer
November 6 — Laura Flessel-Colovic , French épée fencer
November 11 — Ruslan Mashchenko , Russian hurdler
November 12 — Linley Frame , Australian swimmer
November 12 — Gert Thys , South African long-distance runner
November 16 — Tanja Damaske , German javelin thrower
November 16 — Alexander Popov , Russian swimming champion
November 18 — Danny Heister , Dutch table tennis player
November 18 — Bobby Julich , American cyclist
November 19 — Michelle Andrews , Australian field hockey midfielder
November 22 — Davidson and Osmond Ezinwa , Nigerian twins and sprinters
November 23 — Christoph Bechmann , German field hockey player
November 27 — Ingo Euler, German rower
November 27 — Sam Smith , British tennis player
November 30 — György Mizsei , Hungarian boxer
November 30 — Gerard van Velde , Dutch speed skater
[edit ] December
December 3 — Henk Timmer , Dutch football player
December 4 — Inge van den Broek, Dutch field hockey player
December 6 — Richard Krajicek , Dutch tennis player who won Wimbledon (1996 )
December 6 — Carole Thate , Dutch field hockey player
December 7 — Spira Grujic , Serbian football player
December 9 — Cosme Prenafeta , Spanish volleyball player
December 12 — Philip Boit , Kenyan cross-county skier
December 12 — Sammy Korir , Kenyan long-distance runner
December 12 — Khassaraporn Suta , Thai weightlifter
December 17 — Beth Barr , American backstroke swimmer
December 17 — Antoine Rigaudeau , French basketball player
December 18 — Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario , Spanish tennis player
December 19 — Karen Pickering , British swimmer
December 26 — Mika Nurmela , Finnish footbal player
December 27 — Jonah Birir , Kenyan middle distance runner
December 27 — Sabine Spitz, German mountainbiker
December 27 — Falko Zandstra , Dutch speed skater
December 28 — Sergi Barjuán , Spanish football player
December 29 — Jeroen Blijlevens , Dutch cyclist
December 30 — Kylie Foy , New Zealand field hockey striker
December 31 — Jody Murphy, Port Stephens Pythons Cricket player
[edit ] Deaths
March 15 — Jean-Pierre Monser (22), Flemish cyclist
April 4 — Carl Mays , Major League Baseball pitcher (1915-1929)
April 13 — Michel Briere (21), star rookie ice-hockey player, Pittsburgh Penguins
April 7 — Charles Pahud de Mortanges , Dutch two time Olympic equestrian gold medalist
May 12 — Heinie Manush , Major League Baseball player (1923-1939)
May 15 — Goose Goslin , Major League Baseball player (1921-1938)
June 5 — Clare Dennis (55), Australian breaststroke swimmer (b. 1916 )
June 17 — Christopher Morris , American cricketer
June 30 — Georgi Asparuhov (28), Bulgarian football (soccer) player, in a car crash
July 11 — Pedro Rodríguez , Mexican Race Car Driver in a racing accident.
October 24 — Chuck Hughes , Detroit Lions wide receiver, collapsed during a game
December 14 — Dick Tiger , Nigerian boxer (b. 1929 )
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