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- For an extensive coverage see 1981 in athletics (track and field)
- For a Venezuelans baseball player's strike the Caribbean World Series of this year is cancelled.
- January 15 - In his first year of eligibility, former Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson is the only player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Gibson won 20 games five times, struck out 3,117 batters, and captured the Cy Young Award and MVP in 1968 with a 1.12 ERA. Players falling short of the 301 votes needed for election include Don Drysdale (243), Gil Hodges (241), Harmon Killebrew (239), Hoyt Wilhelm (238), and Juan Marichal (233). All except Hodges would subsequently gain election.
- April 18 - An International League game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the visiting Rochester Red Wings set the record for the most innings ever played in a single professional baseball game, at 33 innings (24 extra innings). The game was suspended after 32 innings on the morning of April 19, and was concluded on June 23 with a 3-2 Pawtucket victory.
- June 12 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
- World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers win 4 games to 2 over the New York Yankees. The Series MVP is a tie between Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager, Los Angeles
- March 21 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. England beat Wales 2-1.
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- For an extensive coverage see 1981 in football (soccer)
Men's professional
Men's amateur
Women's professional
[edit] Records
[edit] Men's Competition
[edit] Women's Competition
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] January
- January 2 — Maximiliano Rodriguez, Argentinian football player
- January 3 — Sanggai Chanu, Indian female field hockey player
- January 3 — Eli Manning, American football player
- January 4 — Davor Mizerit, Slovenian rower
- January 5 — Vugar Alakparov, Azerbaijani boxer
- January 6 — Eduardo Tubau, Spanish field hockey striker
- January 9 — Erik Vendt, US swimmer
- January 11 — Jonathan Mandick, Canadian rower
- January 15 — El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese football player
- January 15 — Graham Moodie, Scottish field hockey player
- January 18 — Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
- January 24 — Andrea Berg, German volleyball player
- January 27 — Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
- January 27 — Yaniv Katan, Israely football player
[edit] February
- February 1 — Angie Skirving, Australian field hockey player
- February 2 — Dmitry Lobkov, Russian speed skater
- February 6 — Niall Stott, Scottish field hockey player
- February 7 — LeJuan Simon, Trinidad and Tobago triple jumper
- February 8 — Semen Poltavskiy, Russian volleyball player
- February 10 — Fränzi Aufdenblatten, Swiss alpine skier
- February 13 — Flávia Fernandes, Brazilian water polo player
- February 15 — Nicolas Rostoucher, French freestyle and medley swimmer
- February 17 — Bernhard Eisel, Austrian road bicycling racer
- February 18 — Andrei Kirilenko, Russian NBA player
- February 19 — Thomas Buffel, Belgian football player
- February 19 — Tina Pisnik, Slovenian tennis player
- February 19 — Andreas Vinciguerra, Swedish tennis player
- February 22 — Assan Bazayev, Khazakstan cyclist
- February 24 — Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
- February 24 — Mauro Rosales, Argentinian football player
- February 25 — Ulrich Bubolz, German field hockey goalkeeper
- February 25 — Marek Plawgo, Polish athlete
- February 26 — Daniel Geale, Australian boxer
- March 10 — Samuel Eto'o, Cameroon football player
- March 10 — Akira Ito, Japanese field hockey player
- March 12 — Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
- March 14 — Isabelle Pearson, Canadian judoka
- March 15 — Brice Guyart, French foil fencer
- March 16 — Andrew Bree, Irish breaststroke swimmer
- March 20 — Tibor Weißenborn, German field hockey player
- March 28 — Yuniel Hernández, Cuban hurdling athlete
- March 30 — Tulashboy Doniyorov, Uzbek boxer
- March 31 — Eileen Coparropa, Panamanian swimmer
- March 31 — Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spanish tennis player
- March 31 — Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch long distance swimmer
- April 2 — Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer
- April 3 — Heath Ramsay, Australian butterfly swimmer
- April 4 — Lucas Cammareri, Argentine field hockey forward
- April 5 — Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
- April 6 — Ceferino Labarda, Argentine bantamweight boxer
- April 7 — Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
- April 7 — Kenya Moreta, Dominican volleyball player
- April 8 — Frédérick Bousquet, French freestyle swimmer
- April 21 — Kim Lammers, Dutch field hockey forward
- April 23 — Jenny McDonough, Irish field hockey forward
- April 24 — Taylor Dent, US tennis player
- May 1 — Niklas Meinert, German field hockey midfielder
- May 6 — Robert Hammond, Australian field hockey midfielder
- May 8 — Yasuko Tajima, Japanese medley swimmer
- May 10 — Lloyd Stephenson, New Zealand field hockey player
- May 10 — Ignace Tirkey, Indian field hockey player
- May 11 — Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
- May 12 — Rob Bontje, Dutch volleyball player
- May 13 — Jean-Philippe Brulé, Belgian field hockey player
- May 14 — Ramón Alegre, Spanish field hockey player
- May 19 — Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
- May 20 — Morgan Knabe, Canadian breaststroke swimmer
- May 20 — Daniel McPherson, Australian field hockey goalkeeper
- May 21 — Beth Botsford, American backstroke swimmer
- May 21 — Rob Moore, English field hockey midfielder and forward
- May 21 — Anna Rogowska, Polish track and field athlete
- May 22 — Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
- May 26 — Anthony Ervin, American swimmer
- May 28 — Gábor Talmácsi, Hungarian motorcycle racer
- June 2 — Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
- June 7 — Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
- June 8 — Miguel Albarracin, Argentine judoka
- June 9 — Dean Couzins, New Zealand field hockey player
- June 9 — Irakli Labadze, Georgian tennis player
- June 9 — Bastiaan Tamminga, Dutch swimmer
- June 13 — Wieteke Cramer, Dutch speed skater
- June 14 — Hope Munro, Australian field hockey player
- June 19 — Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
- June 23 — Rachele Sangiuliano, Italian volleyball player
- June 25 — Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
- July 2 — Manuel Sevillano, Spanish volleyball player
- July 2 — Luis Villarroel, Venezuelan diver
- July 2 — Zurab Zviadauri, Georgian judoka
- July 7 — Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
- July 8 — Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
- July 9 — Rutger Smith, Dutch athlete
- July 12 — Fabiane Hukuda, Brazilian judoka
- July 14 — Matti Hautamäki, Finnish ski jumper
- July 15 — Albert Sala, Spanish field hockey player
- July 16 — Vicente Rodríguez, Spanish football player
- July 21 — Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish football player
- July 23 — Dmitriy Karpov, Kazakhstani athlete
- July 23 — Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
- July 25 — Cristian Bejarano, Mexican boxer
- July 27 — Juan Carlos Blanco, Venezuelan volleyball player
- July 29 — Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1-driver
- July 31 — Paula Baracho, Brazilian freestyle swimmer
- July 31 — Mireia García, Spanish butterfly swimmer
[edit] August
- August 5 — Jim Piper, Australian breaststroke swimmer
- August 8 — Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- August 9 — Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player
- August 10 — Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka
- August 12 — Djibril Cissé, French football player
- August 15 — Brendan Hansen, American breaststroke swimmer
- August 15 — Hong Moo-Won, South Korean boxer
- August 17 — Richard Mantell, English field hockey full back
- August 21 — David Guest, Australian field hockey player
- August 29 — Hugues Duboscq, French breaststroke swimmer
- August 29 — Rob Reckers, Dutch field hockey player
- August 31 — Örn Arnarson, Icelandic swimmer
[edit] September
- September 1 — Jaime Hipp, American water polo goalkeeper
- September 6 — Brandon Simpson, Jamaican athlete
- September 12 — Staciana Stitts, American breaststroke swimmer
- September 12 — Sabina Wojtala, Polish figure skater
- September 16 — Sebastian Biederlack, German field hockey midfielder
- September 17 — Marina Tumas, Belarusian volleyball player
- September 18 — Helen Richardson, British field hockey player
- September 18 — Rodrigo dos Santos, Brazilian water polo player
- September 19 — Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
- September 20 — Oreidis Despaigne, Cuban judoka
- September 20 — Feliciano Lopez, Spanish tennis player
- September 23 — Robert Doornbos, Dutch Formula 1-driver
- September 26 — Serena Williams, US tennis player
- September 26 — Klaas Veering, Dutch field hockey player
[edit] October
- October 3 — Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish football (soccer) player
- October 3 — Ronald Rauhe, German canoer
- October 5 — Enrico Fabris, Italian long track speed skater
- October 5 — Juan Camilo Novoa, Colombian boxer
- October 11 — Kate Hector, South African field hockey player
- October 12 — Sun Tiantian, Chinese tennis player
- October 15 — Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
- October 15 — Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
- October 19 — Sarah Taylor, Australian field hockey player
- October 20 — Elka Graham, Australian swimmer
- October 20 — Stefan Nystrand, Swedish swimmer
- October 22 — Clementine Stoney, Australian backstroke swimmer
- October 23 — Rodrigo Vila, Argentine field hockey striker
- October 25 — Carlos Valcarcel, Puerto Rican boxer
- October 28 — Milan Baroš, Czech football (soccer) player
- October 29 — Amanda Beard, American swimmer
[edit] November
- November 2 — Tatiana Totmianina, Russian figure skater
- November 6 — Sylwia Gruchała, Polish fencer
- November 7 — Nicole Arrold, Australian field hockey player
- November 7 — Ana Vasconcelos, Brazilian water polo player
- November 11 — Johan Röjler, Swedish ice speed skater
- November 13 — Charlee Minkin, American judoka
- November 15 — Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
- November 21 — Werknesh Kidane, Ethiopian long distance track and field athlete
- November 21 — Simona Păduraru, Romanian freestyle swimmer
- November 21 — Ainars Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower
- November 25 — Xabi Alonso, Spanish football (soccer) player
- November 27 — Vikram Pillay, Indian field hockey midfieler
- November 29 — Silvia Bonastre, Spanish field hockey player
- November 30 — Steffen Driesen, German backstroke swimmer
[edit] December
- December 7 — Frédérique Ankoné, Dutch ice speed skater
- December 9 — Mardy Fish, American tennis player
- December 10 — Liam de Young, Australian field hockey player
- December 10 — Anett Györe, Hungarian water polo player
- December 10 — Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer
- December 11 — Javier Saviola, Argentinian football (soccer) player
- December 12 — Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
- December 14 — Émilie Heymans, Belgium-born Canadian diver
- December 15 — Hossam Ghaly, Egyptian football player
- December 17 — Miek van Geenhuizen, Dutch field hockey player
- December 18 — Nick Brunelli, American freestyle swimmer
- December 18 — Bekzod Khidirov, Uzbek boxer
- December 19 — Najai Turpin, American boxer (d. 2005)
- December 21 — Justin Kane, Australian boxer
- December 22 — Nico Freriks, Dutch volleyball player
- December 22 — Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper
- December 26 — Robert Horstink, Dutch volleyball player
- December 28 — Ramón Fumadó, Venezuelan diver
- December 28 — Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch football (soccer) player
- December 28 — Mika Väyrynen, Finnish football (soccer) player
- December 29 — Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
[edit] Deaths
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