1967 in sports

 

Years in sports:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

Athletics

Marathon

• August 5 — Pan American Games Marathon, Winnipeg, Canada
  • Men's Winner: Andy Boychuk (CAN) 2:23:03

• August 26 — Enschede Marathon, Netherlands
  • Men's Winner: Yoshiro Mifune (JPN) 2:20:53

• September 16 — Mediterranean Games Marathon, Tunis, Tunisia
  • Men's Winner: Antonio Ambu (ITA) 2:21:33

• December 3 — Fukuoka Marathon, Japan
  • Men's Winner: Derek Clayton (AUS) 2:09:37

Auto Racing

• Stock car racing:
  • Mario Andretti wins the Daytona 500
  • NASCAR Championship — Richard Petty
• May 31-Indianapolis 500 — A.J. Foyt
• USAC Racing — A.J. Foyt won the season championship
• Formula One Champion — Denny Hulme of New Zealand
• 24 hours of Le Mans: Dan Gurney / A.J. Foyt won, driving a Ford GT-40 Mk. IV
• Rally racing — Rauno Aaltonen / Henry Liddon won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini Cooper S
• Drag racing — Bennie Osborn won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals

Baseball

• World Series: St. Louis Cardinals win 4 games to 3 over the Boston Red Sox. The series MVP is pitcher Bob Gibson of St. Louis.

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship:
  • UCLA wins 79-64 over Dayton. This would be the first of an unprecedented seven consecutive titles for the Bruins.

• NBA Finals|NBA Finals:
  • Philadelphia 76ers won 4 games to 2 over the San Francisco Warriors

• FIBA World Championship
  • USSR World Champion

Boxing

• 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

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Felice Gimondi of Italy
• Tour de France — Roger Pingeon of France
• World Cycling Championship: Eddy Merckx of Belgium

Field Hockey

• Pan American Games (Men's Competition) in Winnipeg, Canada
  • Gold Medal: Argentina
  • Silver Medal: Trinidad & Tobago
  • Bronze Medal: United States

• March 11 — In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. England beat Ireland 7-1.

Figure skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
  • Men's champion: Emmerich Dänzer, Austria
  • Ladies' champion: Peggy Fleming, United States
  • Pair skating champions: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov, Soviet Union
  • Ice dancing champions: Diane Towler & Bernard Ford, Great Britain

Football (American)

• The first Super Bowl is played on January 15: The NFL champion Green Bay Packers win 35-10 over the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs. This was following the 1966 season.

• On December 31, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 for the 1967 NFL Championship in a now-legendary game at Lambeau Field known as the Ice Bowl.

• Oakland Raiders defeat the Houston Oilers 40-7 for the 1967 American Football League Championship.

Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League
  • Richmond wins the 71st VFL Premiership (Richmond 16.18 (114) d Geelong 15.15 (105))
  • Brownlow Medal awarded to Ross Smith (St Kilda)

Football (Canadian)

• Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats won 24-1 over the Saskatchewan Roughriders
• Vanier Cup: Alberta Golden Bears win 10-9 over the McMaster Marauders

Football (Soccer)

For an extensive coverage see 1967 in football (soccer)

• England — FA Cup: Tottenham Hotspur won 2-1 over Chelsea
• Celtic win the European Cup Final 2-1 against Internazionale in Lisbon, earning the team the nickname of the Lisbon Lions. The team also won the Scottish league and Scottish Cup, thus becoming the first team to complete the domestic and European Treble.

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. April — The Masters — Gay Brewer
  2. June — US Open — Jack Nicklaus
  3. July — British Open — Roberto De Vicenzo
  4. August — PGA Championship — Don January

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Jack Nicklaus — $188,998

• Ryder Cup: United States wins 23½ to 8½ over Britain in world team golf.

Women's Golf

• US Women's Open — Catherine Lacoste
• LPGA Championship — Kathy Whitworth
• Kathy Whitworth: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $32,937.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia — Melbourne Cup — Red Handed
• Canada — Queen's Plate — Jammed Lovely
• France — Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe — Topyo
• Ireland — Irish Derby Stakes — Ribocco

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes — Royal Palace
  2. Epsom Derby — Royal Palace
  3. St. Leger Stakes — Ribocco

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby — Proud Clarion
  2. Preakness Stakes — Damascus
  3. Belmont Stakes — Damascus (Held at Aqueduct)

Harness Racing

• United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
  1. Cane Pace — Meadow Paige
  2. Little Brown Jug — Best Of All
  3. Messenger Stakes — Romulus Hanover

• United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
  1. Hambletonian — Speedy Streak
  2. Yonkers Trot
  3. Kentucky Futurity

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Binshaw

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Stan Mikita, Chicago Blackhawks

• Hart Memorial Trophy: for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Stan Mikita, Chicago Blackhawks

• Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs won 4 games to 2 over the Montreal Canadiens

• World Hockey Championship
  • Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Sweden

• NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship - Cornell University Big Red defeat Boston University Terriers 4-1 in Syracuse, NY

Lacrosse

• The inaugural World Lacrosse Championship is held in Toronto, Ontario. The United States win, and Australia is the runner-up.
• The Vancouver­ Carlings win the Mann Cup.
• The Elora Mohawks win the Castrol Cup.
• The Oshawa Green Gaels win the Minto Cup

Radiosport

• Fifth Amateur Radio Direction Finding European Championship held in Cervena, Czechoslovakia.

Skiing

• Alpine Skiing
• The first World Cup tour in Alpine skiing is organized for the three ski events, "Downhill," "Slalom," and "Giant Slalom."
  • The men's overall season champion: Jean-Claude Killy, France
  • The women's overall season champion: Nancy Greene, Canada

Snooker

• No World Snooker Championship challenge matches. John Pulman remains world champion

Swimming

Records

• July 26 — US swimmer Mark Spitz breaks Kevin Berry's nearly three-year old world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a time of 2:06.4.

• August 30 — John Ferris captures the world record from fellow-American Mark Spitz in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) by swimming 2:06.0 at a meet in Tokyo, Japan.

• October 8 — Mark Spitz regains his world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) at a meet in West Berlin, West Germany, clocking 2:05.7.

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open — Roy Emerson
  2. French Open — Roy Emerson
  3. Wimbledon championships — John Newcombe
  4. US Open — John Newcombe

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open — Nancy Richey
  2. French Open — Francoise Durr
  3. Wimbledon championships — Billie Jean King
  4. US Open — Billie Jean King

• Davis Cup: Australia wins 4-1 over Spain in world tennis.

Yacht racing

• The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Intrepid defeats Australian challenger Dame Pattie, of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, 4 races to 1

General sporting events

• Fifth Pan American Games held in Winnipeg, Canada

• Fifth Mediterranean Games held in Tunis, Tunisia

• Fifth Summer Universiade held in Tokyo, Japan

Awards

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year: Carl Yastrzemski, Major League Baseball
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year: Billie Jean King, Tennis

Births

January

• January 2 — Helen Morgan, British field hockey goalkeeper
• January 3 — Magnus Gustafsson, Swedish tennis player
• January 5 — Eva Hagenbäumer, German field hockey player
• January 7 — Corrie Sanders, South African boxer
• January 9 — Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian football (soccer) player
• January 16 — Grzegorz Gajdus, Polish long-distance runner
• January 18 — Pieter Huistra, Dutch football (soccer) player
• January 18 — Esteban de Palma, Argentine volleyball player
• January 21 — Kathryn Johnson, British field hockey player
• January 21 — Ulf Stenlund, Swedish tennis player
• January 22 — Nick Gillingham, British swimmer
• January 23 — Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born Turkish weightlifter
• January 24 — Viktor Reneysky, Belarusian canoer
• January 25 — Robert Havekotte, Dutch water polo player
• January 29 — Sean Burke, Canadian ice hockey goalie

February

• February 3 — Aurelio Vidmar, Australian football (soccer) player
• February 11 — Uwe Dassler, East German freestyle swimmer
• February 18 — Roberto Baggio, Italian football (soccer) player
• February 18 — Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka
• February 20 — Lilia Izquierdo, Cuban volleyball player
• February 25 — Natalia Dorado, Spanish field hockey player
• February 26 — Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese football (soccer) striker

March

• March 1 — Aron Winter, Dutch football (soccer) player
• March 3 — Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player
• March 4 — Michael Andersson, Swedish road bicycle racer
• March 4 — Jonas Edman, Swedish rifle shooter
• March 8 — Gerard Kemkers, Dutch ice speed skater and coach
• March 8 — Candy Thomson, Canadian field hockey player
• March 10 — Daichi Suzuki, Japanese backstroke swimmer
• March 12 — Jorge Dely Valdes, Panamanian football (soccer) player
• March 16 — Kevin Draxinger, Canadian backstroke swimmer
• March 20 — Nikolay Bukhalov, Bulgarian flatwater canoer
• March 20 — Igor Polyansky, Soviet backstroke swimmer
• March 24 — Kathy Rinaldi, American tennis player
• March 27 — Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
• March 31 — Agustin Moreno, Mexican tennis player

April

• April 5 — Gary and Paul Gait, Canadian lacrosse players
• April 6 — Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
• April 7 — Scott Hobson, New Zealand field hockey player
• April 7 — Bodo Illgner, German football goalkeeper
• April 7 — Rob Mulders, Dutch road cyclist (d. 1998)
• April 7 — Jim Paek, Canadian-Korean ice hockey player
• April 8 — Luigi Castiglione, Italian boxer
• April 11 — Lachlan Dreher, Australian field hockey goalkeeper
• April 15 — Dara Torres, American swimmer
• April 22 — Sandra Douglas, British sprinter and Olympic medallist
• April 24 — Pam Bustin, American field hockey defender
• April 25 — Angel Martino, American swimmer
• April 26 — Glen "Kane" Jacobs, American wrestler

May

• May 4 — John Child, Canadian athlete
• May 5 — Danny Kah, Australian ice speed skater
• May 5 — Susie Wollschläger, German field hockey goalkeeper
• May 11 — Gijs van der Leden, Dutch water polo player
• May 13 — Gerrit de Vries, Dutch road cyclist
• May 19 — Michiel Bartman, Dutch rower
• May 22 — Anita Smits, Dutch archer
• May 23 — Carlos Mercenario, Mexican race walker
• May 23 — Xu Demei, Chinese javelin thrower
• May 25 — Luc Nilis, Belgian football (soccer) player
• May 25 — Andrew Sznajder, Canadian tennis player
• May 27 — Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
• May 29 — Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 30 — Rechelle Hawkes, Australian field hockey player
• May 31 — Per Bengtsson, Swedish ice speed skater

June

• June 1 — Murray Baron, Canadian ice hockey player
• June 1 — Olivier Delaitre, French tennis player
• June 3 — Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer
• June 5 — Joe DeLoach, American sprinter
• June 6 — Ron Zwerver, Dutch volleyball player
• June 14 — Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player
• June 15 — Paul Kingsman, New Zealand backstroke swimmer
• June 21 — Tammy Miller, English field hockey player
• June 21 — Zoltán Szilágyi, Hungarian freestyle swimmer
• June 24 — Tracey Belbin, Australian field hockey player and coach
• June 24 — Antonio Caballero, Spanish boxer
• June 25 — Niels van der Zwan, Dutch rower
• June 27 – Sylvie Frechette, Canadian synchronized swimmer
• June 28 — Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
• June 30 — Tina Bell-Kake, New Zealand field hockey midfielder
• June 30 — Gareth Rees, Canadian rugby player

July

• July 3 — Vladan Alanović, 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 boxer
• July 11 — Bent-Ove Pedersen, Norwegian tennis player
• July 12 — Anthony Beks, New Zealand breaststroke swimmer
• July 12 — Noor Holsboer, Dutch field hockey defender
• July 12 — Kevin Painter, English darts player
• July 12 — Bruny Surin, Haiti-born Canadian athlete
• July 14 — Thomas Flemming, East German freestyle swimmer
• July 14 — Leonardo Lavalle, Mexican tennis player
• July 17 — Björn and Bengt Zikarsky, West German freestyle swimmers and twins
• July 19 — Christian Bergström, Swedish tennis player
• July 22 — Monique Javer, English tennis player
• July 23 — Nicole Muns-Jagerman, Dutch tennis player
• July 25 — Magdalena Forsberg, Swedish cross country skier and biathlete
• July 28 — Mike Bernardo, South African professional kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist

August

• August 4 — Kate Trolove, New Zealand field hockey player
• August 7 — Jocelyn Angloma, French football (soccer) player
• August 7 — Aaron Krickstein, Jewish-American tennis player
• August 10 — Philippe Albert, Belgian football (soccer) player
• August 12 — Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• 15 August — Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player
• August 18 — Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro, Argentine boxer
• August 22 — Paul Ereng, Kenyan athlete
• August 26 — Aleksandar Đorđević, Serbian basketball player

September

• September 2 — Andreas Möller, German football (soccer) player
• September 3 — Anna Maiques, Spanish field hockey player
• September 3 — Robert Wangila, Kenyan boxer (d. 1994)
• September 5 — Jane Sixsmith, British field hockey player
• September 5 — Matthias Sammer, German football (soccer) player
• September 8 — Brett Winslow, American volleyball player
• September 9 — Steffen Zesner, German freestyle swimmer
• September 10 — Guylaine Dumont, Canadian athlete
• September 17 — Michael Carbajal, American boxer
• September 19 — Jim Abbott, US one-handed baseball player
• September 20 — Monica Rodrigues, Brazilian volleyball player
• September 22 — Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
• September 27 — Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian football (soccer) defender

October

• October 4 — Victor Pujol, Spanish field hockey midfielder
• October 9 — Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
• October 10 — Wojtek Kowalski, Polish tennis player
• October 12 — Anke Wild, German field hockey player
• October 16 — María Isabel Martínez, Spanish field hockey player
• October 16 — Michael York, Australian field hockey defender
• October 21 — Georgi Dakov, Bulgarian high jumper
• October 21 — Paul Ince, English football (soccer) player
• October 21 — Gavin Lovegrove, New Zealand javelin thrower
• October 23 — Gerald McClellan, American boxer
• October 25 — Maik Landsmann, East German track cyclist
• October 25 — Martin Marinov, Bulgarian flatwater canoer

November

• November 2 — Derek Porter, Belfast-born Canadian rower
• November 3 — Pyotr Bochkaryov, Russian pole vaulter
• November 4 — Annemieke Fokke, Dutch field hockey player
• November 5 — Steve Wagner, US field hockey goalkeeper
• November 6 — Shuzo Matsuoka, Japanese tennis player
• November 8 — Christopher Chalmers, Canadian freestyle swimmer
• November 11 — Florentine Steenberghe, Dutch field hockey midfielder
• November 12 — Henk-Jan Held, Dutch volleyball player
• November 13 — Michael Fietz, German long-distance runner
• November 14 — Imre Pulai, Hungarian canoer
• November 14 — Timofey Skryabin, Soviet boxer
• November 15 — Laura Garrone, Italian tennis player
• November 22 — Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
• November 24 — Stefan Tewes, German field hockey player
• November 25 — Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer

December

• December 2 — Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer
• December 6 — Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer
• December 16 — Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter
• December 20 — Japhet Kosgei, Kenyan long-distance runner

Deaths

• January 4 — Donald Campbell (45), British land and water speed record holder (b. 1921)
• May 19 — Dušan Milošević (72), Serbian athlete and footballer (b. 1894)
• June 29 — Primo Carnera (60), Italian heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1906)
• July 21 — Jimmie Foxx (59), American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1907)
• September 2 — Vilho Tuulos (72), Finnish triple jumper and long jumper (b. 1895)
• November 16 — Native Dancer (16), thoroughbred horse racing champion (b. 1950)

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