Athletes and Sports Stars Born in August 1981

Roger Federer (42 years old)

Aug 8 Swiss tennis player (20 x Grand Slam singles titles; Olympic gold doubles 2008; Davis Cup 2014; 6 x Tour Finals), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland

Aug 9 Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
Aug 10 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
Aug 12 Djibril Cissé, French footballer
Aug 12 Tony Capaldi, Northern Ireland footballer, born in Porsgrunn, Norway
Aug 14 Julius Jones, American football player, born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Aug 14 Matthew Etherington, English footballer, born in Truro, United Kingdom
Aug 15 Brendan Hansen, American swimmer (Olympic gold, 4x100m medley relay 2004, 08, 12; 6 x World C'ship gold), born in Havertown, Pennsylvania
Aug 15 Oliver Perez, American baseball player
Aug 16 Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer, born in Asunción, Paraguay
Aug 18 César Delgado, Argentine footballer, born in Rosario, Argentina
Aug 18 Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer, born in Thessaloniki, Greece
Aug 20 Bernard Mendy, French footballer (Paris Saint-Germain), born in Évreux, France
Aug 21 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player, born in Chania, Greece
Aug 22 Alex Holmes, American football player, born in San Diego, California
Aug 23 Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer, born in Madrid, Spain
Aug 23 Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer, born in Pforzheim, Germany
Aug 26 Birdie Kim, South Korean golfer (US Open 2005), born in Iksan, South Korea
Aug 26 Jesse Martin, German- Australian yachtsman (youngest person to solo circumnavigate the globe at 18), born in Dachau, Germany
Aug 28 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter, born in Żywiec, Poland
Aug 28 Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer, born in Zürich, Switzerland
Aug 28 Martin Erat, Czech hockey player, born in Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
Aug 28 Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Aug 28 Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer, born in Larissa, Greece
Aug 29 Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist, born in Montreal, Quebec
Aug 31 Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union halfback (76 Tests, British & Irish Lions 3, Barbarians 1; Llanelli Scarlets RFC, Sale Sharks RFC), born in Carmarthen, Wales