1967 in sports

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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)did the cincinnati bengals come in that year tooo play

=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)

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*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 professional
*April 6-9 - Masters Tournament - Gay Brewer
*June 15-18 - U.S. Open - Jack Nicklaus
*July 12-15 - British Open - Roberto DeVicenzo
*July 20-23 - PGA Championship - Don January
*PGA Tour money leader - Jack Nicklaus - $188,998
*Ryder Cup - United States wins 23½ to 8½ over Britain in team golf.Men's amateur
*British Amateur - Bob Dickson
*U.S. Amateur - Bob DicksonWomen's professional
*Women's Western Open - Kathy Whitworth
*July 13-16 - LPGA Championship - Kathy Whitworth
*U.S. Women's Open - Catherine Lacoste
*Titleholders Championship - not played
*LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth - $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:
*#2,000 Guineas Stakes — Royal Palace
*#Epsom Derby — Royal Palace
*#St. Leger Stakes — Ribocco

*United States Triple Crown Races:
*#May 6 - Kentucky Derby — Proud Clarion
*#Preakness Stakes — Damascus
*#Belmont Stakes — Damascus (Held at Aqueduct)

=Harness Racing=

*United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
*#Cane Pace — Meadow Paige
*#Little Brown Jug — Best Of All
*#Messenger Stakes — Romulus Hanover

*United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
*#Hambletonian — Speedy Streak
*#Yonkers Trot
*#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 Black Hawks

*Hart Memorial Trophy: for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Stan Mikita, Chicago Black Hawks

*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:
*#Australian Open — Roy Emerson
*#French Open — Roy Emerson
*#Wimbledon championships — John Newcombe
*#US Open — John Newcombe

*Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
*#Australian Open — Nancy Richey
*#French Open — Francoise Durr
*#Wimbledon championships — Billie Jean King
*#US Open — Billie Jean King

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

Volleyball

*European Championship in Istanbul, Turkey
**Men's Tournament
***Gold Medal: vb|URS
***Silver Medal: vb|TCH
***Bronze Medal: vb|POL
**Women's Tournament
***Gold Medal: vbw|URS
***Silver Medal: vbw|POL
***Bronze Medal: vbw|TCH
*Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada
**Men's Tournament
***Gold Medal: vb|USA
***Silver Medal: vb|BRA
***Bronze Medal: vb|CUB
**Women's Tournament
***Gold Medal: vbw|USA
***Silver Medal: vbw|PER
***Bronze Medal: vbw|CUB

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

Multi-sport 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 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 28 — Angel Stoyanov, Bulgarian boxer
* January 29 — Sean Burke, Canadian ice hockey goalie

February

* February 2 — Janet Cobbs, American volleyball player
* 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 24 — Jean-Charles Gicquel, French high jumper
* February 25 — Natalia Dorado, Spanish field hockey player
* February 25 — Mireya Luis, Cuban volleyball 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 5 — Olga Turchak, Kazakhstani high jumper
* March 8 — Gerard Kemkers, Dutch ice speed skater and coach
* March 8 — Candy Thomson, Canadian field hockey player
* March 10 — Petri Keskitalo, Finnish decathlete
* March 10 — Daichi Suzuki, Japanese backstroke swimmer
* March 12 — Jorge Dely Valdes, Panamanian football (soccer) player
* March 13 — Colleen Rosensteel, American judoka
* March 16 — Kevin Draxinger, Canadian backstroke swimmer
* March 20 — Nikolay Bukhalov, Bulgarian flatwater canoer
* March 20 — Igor Polyansky, Soviet backstroke swimmer
* March 24 — Roberto Ferrari, Italian high jumper
* 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 6 — Veniamin Tayanovich, Russian freestyle swimmer
* 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 24 — Conrado Cabrera, Cuban track cyclist
* April 25 — Angel Martino, American swimmer
* April 26 — Glen "Kane" Jacobs, American wrestler

May

* May 1 — Marie Moore, Canadian butterfly swimmer
* 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 14 — Shaun Creighton, Australian long-distance runner
* 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 — Juan Cuminetti, Argentine volleyball 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 5 — Belsy Laza, Cuban shot putter
* June 6 — Ron Zwerver, Dutch volleyball player
* June 7 — Sabine Tröger, Austrian sprinter
* June 9 — Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner
* June 14 — Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player
* June 15 — Paul Kingsman, New Zealand backstroke swimmer
* June 18 — Marino Drake, Cuban high jumper
* June 19 — Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian cross-country skier
* 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 — Katarzyna Majchrzak, Polish high jumper
* 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 16 — Hideyuki Otake, Japanese volleyball 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
* July 28 — Attila Horváth, Hungarian discus thrower

August

* August 4 — Ilaria Tocchini, Italian butterfly swimmer
* 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 9 — André Cordeiro, Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
* August 9 — Lars Kleppich, Australian sailor
* August 10 — Philippe Albert, Belgian football (soccer) player
* August 12 — Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
* August 15 — Tony Hand, Scottish ice hockey player
* August 15 — Edgardo Pailos, Argentine field hockey player
* August 18 — Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro, Argentine boxer
* August 22 — Paul Ereng, Kenyan athlete
* August 26 — Aleksandar Đorđević, Serbian basketball player

eptember

* 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 — Kevin Boyles, Canadian volleyball player
* September 17 — Michael Carbajal, American boxer
* September 19 — Jim Abbott, US one-handed baseball player
* September 19 — Alexander Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
* September 20 — Monica Rodrigues, Brazilian volleyball player
* September 22 — Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
* September 27 — Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian football (soccer) defender

October

* October 3 — Lynda Tolbert-Goode, American hurdler
* October 3 — Maura Viceconte, Italian long-distance runner
* October 4 — Sofiya Bozhanova, Bulgarian long and triple jumper
* October 4 — Nick Green, Australian rower
* 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 — Wolfgang Kuck, German volleyball player
* October 12 — Anke Wild, German field hockey player
* October 13 — Mark Dean, American swimmer
* October 13 — Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper
* 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 23 — Jaime Yzaga, Peruvian tennis player
* October 25 — Maik Landsmann, East German track cyclist
* October 25 — Martin Marinov, Bulgarian flatwater canoer
* October 30 — Elio Ibarra, Argentine boxer

November

* November 2 — Yuichi Nakagaichi, Japanese volleyball player
* 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 17 — Javier Careaga, Mexican breaststroke swimmer
* November 22 — Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
* November 24 — Stefan Tewes, German field hockey player
* November 25 — Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
* November 27 — João Cunha Silva, Portuguese tennis player
* November 29 — Sean Carlin, Australian hammer thrower
* November 29 — Pat Manson, American pole vaulter

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
* December 29 — Juan Carlos Robles, Spanish volleyball player

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)
*July 30 — Valentín Uriona (26), Spanish road racing cyclist (b. 1940)
* September 2 — Vilho Tuulos (72), Finnish triple jumper and long jumper (b. 1895)
* October 27 — Robert Carmody, American boxer (b. 1938)
*November 16 — Native Dancer (16), thoroughbred horse racing champion (b. 1950)
*November 16 — Ash Walter (19), an Australian basketballer (b. 1950)