1979 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1980 ,
1981 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- March 8 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium,England. England beat Scotland 2-0.
- August - In the first ever Olympic women's Field Hockey Final, Zimbabwe are the Olympic champions.
- ---All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Cork
- ---National Camogie League: Kilkenny
- ---All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Tipperary
- ---National Football League: Kerry
Men's Golf
- January - the Senior PGA Tour (''Champions Tour'') is founded.
Women's Golf
See 1980 In Ice Hockey
January 12 - Canada’s Ken Read , the leader of the " Crazy Canucks " ski team, wins the Hahnenkamm Downhill in Kitzbühel , Austria, becoming the first North American to ever win the classic race.
- January 3 — Angela Ruggiero , American ice hockey defenseman
- January 12 — Akiko Morigami , Japanese female tennis player
- January 14 — Taeke Taekema , Dutch field hockey player
- January 19 — Jenson Button , British Formula 1-driver
- January 19 — Matic Osovnikar , Slovenian track and field athlete
- January 25 — Xavi Hernández , Spanish football (soccer) player
- January 25 — Christian Olsson , Swedish athlete
- January 27 — Sherzod Husanov , Uzbek boxer
- January 27 — Marat Safin , Russian tennis player
- January 27 — Jiří Welsch , Czech basketball player
- February 2 — Kyle Pontifex , New Zealand field hockey goalkeeper
- February 3 — Craig Victory , Australian field hockey player
- February 9 — Angelos Charisteas , Greek football (soccer) player
- February 10 — Gordon D'Arcy , Irish rugby player
- February 11 — Karin Ruckstuhl , Dutch athlete
- February 12 — Juan Carlos Ferrero , Spanish tennis player
- February 16 — Miguel Espino , American professional boxer
- February 20 — Imanol Harinordoquy , French rugby player
- February 20 — Bram Som , Dutch athlete
- February 24 — Roman Sloudnov , Russian swimmer
- February 26 — Alex Fong , Hong Kong swimmer and actor
- February 28 — Pascal Bosschaart , Dutch football (soccer) player
- March 1 — Shahid Afridi , Pakistani cricketer
- March 6 — Emma Igelström , Swedish swimmer
- March 9 — Sofia Konoukh , Russian water polo player
- March 12 — California Molefe , Botswanan athlete
- March 15 — Deidra Graham , American gymnast
- March 15 — Josefin Lillhage , Swedish swimmer
- March 18 — Alexei Yagudin , Russian figure skater
- March 21 — Ronaldinho , Brazilian football (soccer) player
- March 27 — Toni Cronk , Australian field hockey goalkeeper
- March 30 — Liriel Higa , American rhythmic gymnast
- March 31 — Jenny Smith , Australian gymnast
- April 1 — Maartje Scheepstra , Dutch field hockey player
- April 2 — Suriya Prasathinphimai , Thai boxer
- April 4 — Bekzat Sattarkhanov , Kazakhstani boxer
- April 4 — Mark Tuitert , Dutch speed skater
- April 6 — Tanja Poutiainen , Finnish alpine skier
- April 9 — Kristin Lee , American rhythmic gymnast
- April 10 — Andy Ram , Israeli tennis player
- April 12 — Terence Parkin , South African swimmer
- April 18 — Michael Lee , Canadian field hockey player
- April 22 — Monica Flammer , American gymnast
- April 25 — Phillip Burrows , New Zealand field hockey player
- May 6 — Brooke Bennett , American swimmer
- May 6 — Kasumi Takahashi , Australian rhythmic gymnast
- May 7 — Johan Kenkhuis , Dutch swimmer
- May 8 — Steven Ferguson , New Zealand swimmer and canoer
- May 9 — Grant Hackett , Australian swimmer
- May 9 — Angela Nikodinov , American figure skater
- May 10 — Kate Walsh , English field hockey player
- May 14 — Joe Van Niekerk , South African rugby player
- May 14 — Eugene Martineau , Dutch athlete
- May 15 — Yvonne Hijgenaar , Dutch cyclist
- May 16 — Nuria Llagostera Vives , Spanish female tennis player
- May 18 — Michael Llodra , French tennis player
- May 18 — Sam Rukundo , Ugandan boxer
- May 23 — Sarah Catherwood , New Zealand swimmer
- May 27 — Jessica Deglau , Canadian swimmer
- May 31 — Edith Bosch , Dutch judoka
- June 1 — Aghasi Mammadov , Azerbaijani boxer
- June 2 — Shingo Suetsugu , Japanese track and field athlete
- June 7 — Ed Moses , American swimmer
- June 9 — Udonis Haslem , American basketball player
- June 16 — Thijs Al , Dutch mountainbiker
- June 17 — Brittney McConn , American figure skater
- June 17 — Andee Pickens , American gymnast
- June 17 — Venus Williams , American tennis player
- June 19 — Sanjay Ayre , Jamaican athlete
- June 23 — Manus Boonjumnong , Thai boxer
- June 23 — Ramnaresh Sarwan , Guyanese cricketer
- June 30 — Nourdin Boukhari , Moroccan-born footballe player
- July 1 — Matthijs Brouwer , Dutch field hockey player
- July 3 — Roland Mark Schoeman , South African swimmer
- July 6 — Pau Gasol , Catalan NBA player
- July 7 — Michelle Kwan , American figure skater
- July 8 — Robbie Keane , Irish football player
- July 10 — Adam Petty , fourth-generation NASCAR driver (d. 2000 )
- July 16 — Travis Brooks , Australian field hockey player
- July 17 — Rashid Ramzi , Moroccan-born athlete
- July 19 — Xavier Malisse , Belgian tennisplayer
- July 21 — Tom Soetaers , Belgian football player
- July 22 — Dirk Kuijt , Dutch football player
- July 29 — Fernando González , Chilean tennis player
- September 1 — Ryan Archibald , New Zealand field hockey player
- September 1 — Dawn Holden , English cricketer
- September 6 — Samuel Peter , Nigerian heavyweight boxer
- September 8 — Mbulaeni Mulaudzi , South African middle distance runner
- September 10 — Timothy Goebel , American figure skater
- September 10 — Tahar Tamsamani , Moroccan boxer
- September 12 — Yao Ming , Chinese NBA player
- September 13 — Daisuke Matsuzaka , Japanese baseball player
- September 13 — Viren Rasquinha , Indian field hockey player
- September 14 — Luis Horna , Peruvian tennis player
- September 18 — Wendy Alcorn , Australian field hockey player
- September 19 — Dimitri Yachvili , French rugby union player
- September 20 — Vladimir Karpets , Russian cyclist
- September 30 — Martina Hingis , Swiss tennis player
- September 30 — Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz , Cuban boxer
- October 2 — Amy Tran , American field hockey goalkeeper
- October 3 — Sarah Collyer , English cricketer
- October 7 — Andrei Kapralov , Russian swimmer
- October 8 — Kasper Bøgelund , Danish football (soccer) player
- October 10 — Megan Rivers , Australian field hockey player
- October 13 — Scott Parker , English football player
- October 15 — Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist
- October 19 — Anna-Karin Kammerling , Swedish swimmer
- October 20 — Denise Durajski , Australian field hockey player
- October 21 — Mike Danton , Canadian ice hockey player, accused of murder
- October 26 — Christian Chivu , Romanian football (soccer) player
- October 28 — Alfonso Gomez , Mexican boxer
- October 31 — Geert-Jan Derikx , Dutch field hockey player
- January 1 — Frank Wykoff (70), American track and field athlete sprinter
- January 12 — Hans Ebeling , Australian cricketer
- January 25 — Peter Haughton , harness racing driver - auto accident
- February 28 — Ian Peebles , English cricketer
- March 18 — Herman Griffith , West Indian cricketer
- March 21 — Marcel Boussac , French horse racing tycoon
- March 31 — Jesse Owens , American athlete
- April 2 — Dick Howorth , English cricketer
- May 2 — Clarrie Grimmett , Australian cricketer
- June 1 — Richard Marquard (90), US baseball pitcher
- June 10 — Denys Morkel , South African cricketer
- July 18 — Naoomal Jeoomal , Indian cricketer
- August 2 — Verdun Scott , New Zealand cricketer
- August 6 — Charles Urbanus (66), Dutch baseball player
- August 21 — Jack Cheetham , South African cricketer
- September 8 — Bruce Dooland , English cricketer
- October 10 — Walter Keeton , English cricketer
- October 25 — Victor Galindez , light heavyweight world champion boxing, in car race accident
- December 4 — Stanisława Walasiewicz or Stella Walsh (69), Polish-American athlete (b. 1911 )
- December 5 — Don Taylor , New Zealand cricketer
- December 28 — Amir Elahi , Pakistani cricketer
- December 31 — Arthur Wellard , English cricketer
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