Sporting Birthdays - July 29

Updated: 17:46 EST, 28 July 2008

Sally Gunnell (athletics) - 400 metres hurdler who won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, born 1966.

Graham Poll (soccer) - one of Britain's leading referees, born 1963. Poll gained notoriety at the 2006 World Cup where he failed to send off Croatia defender Josep Simunic in a match against Australia despite the player picking up two bookings. Poll eventually dismissed Simunic after his third booking.

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Happy Birthday: Sally Gunnell

Jim Beglin (soccer) - former Liverpool defender turned commentator, born 1963.

Corrado Grabbi (soccer) - Italian striker who flopped at Blackburn after signing for them for £6.75 million, born 1975.

Fernando Alonso (motor racing) - two-time Formula One champion born in Oviedo, Spain in 1981.