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Athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....

Marathon

International Races

• August 23 — European Championships Marathon
  1950 European Championships in Athletics
  
  The 4th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 23 to August 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgium capital Brussels....
  , Brussels, Belgium
• Men's Winner: Jack Holden (ENG) 2:32:14

• December 10 — Fukuoka Marathon
  Fukuoka Marathon
  
  The , held in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, is a prominent international Marathon race established in 1947. It is usually held on first Sunday in December....
  , Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  
• Men's Winner: Shunji Koyanagi (JPN) 2:30:47

National Champions

• May 21 — United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Men's Winner: — 2:45:55

• July 22 — Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  
• Men's Winner: Adri Moons — 2:58:12

• July 22 — England
  England
  
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• Men's Winner: Jack Holden
  Jack Holden (athlete)
  
  John Thomas Holden was a long-distance Running from England, who won four consecutive national titles in the men's marathon . He represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished the men's marathon in 36th place....
   — 2:31:03

• July 23 — Finland
  Finland
  
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
  
• Men's Winner: Vilho Partanen — 2:39:59

• August 5 — Germany
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  
• Men's Winner: Wilfried Hogrefe — 2:46:48

• August 28 — Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  
• Men's Winner: Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (athlete)
  
  Paul Collins was a long-distance Running from Canada, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland....
   — 2:45:11

• October 8 — Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  
• Men's Winner: Yoshikazu Noda — 2:47:17

• September 24 — Hungary
  Hungary
  
  Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
  
• Men's Winner: Mihály Esztergomi — 2:37:25

Auto Racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....

• NASCAR Championship - Bill Rexford
  Bill Rexford
  
  Bill Rexford was a stock car driver in the early 1950s.Born in Conewango Valley, New York, he made his name driving stock cars in the region....
  
• AAA Racing
  Cart
  
  A cart is a vehicle or device designed for transport, using two or four wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people....
  :
• Henry Banks
  Henry Banks
  
  Henry Banks was an American midget car racing and "big car" driver....
   won the series championship
• Johnnie Parsons
  Johnnie Parsons
  
  Johnnie Parsons was an American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1950.Parsons had the dubious distinction of being the only Indianapolis 500 winner to have his name misspelled on the Borg-Warner Trophy....
   won the Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
  
• Formula One Champion
  Formula One
  
  Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and currently officially referred as the FIA Formula One World Championship is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
  : The first World Championship for drivers under the jurisdiction of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
  Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
  
  The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus on June 20, 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users....
   (FIA) is contested. The first race of the World Championship series is the British Grand Prix won by Giuseppe Farina
  Giuseppe Farina
  
  Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was an Italy racing driver. He stands out in the history of Grand Prix motor racing for his much copied 'straight-arm' driving style and his status as the first ever Formula One World Champion....
  , driving an Alfa Romeo. Farina would go on to become the first FIA World Champion.
• 24 hours of Le Mans
  24 Hours of Le Mans
  
  The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a sports car racing endurance racing held annually since near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance, it is organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and runs on a Circuit de la Sarthe containing closed public roads that are meant not only to test a car and dr...
   - Louis Rosier
  Louis Rosier
  
  Louis Rosier was a racing driver from France....
  /Jean-Louis Rosier
  Jean-Louis Rosier
  
  Jean-Louis Rosier is the son of Louis Rosier. Together they won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950. The Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrand is also named after them....
   driving a Talbot-Lago
  Talbot-Lago
  
  Talbot-Lago was a French automobile manufacturer at Suresnes, Seine....
  
• Rally racing:
• M. Becquart/H. Secret won the Monte Carlo Rally
  Monte Carlo Rally
  
  The Monte Carlo Rally is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organizes the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique....
   driving a Hotchkiss
  Hotchkiss et Cie
  
  Soci?t? Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and car company established by United States engineer Benjamin B....
  
• Drag racing
  Drag racing
  
  Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a dead stop, and in a straight line....
   - June 19: The first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport
  John Wayne Airport
  
  John Wayne Airport is an airport in an unincorporated area in Orange County, California, with its mailing address in Santa Ana, California, hence the International Air Transport Association airport code....
  ) in Santa Ana
  Santa Ana, California
  
  Founded in 1869, Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, California, USA and is the county seat, with an estimated 353,184 people....
  , in Southern California
  California
  
  California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  . Admission is 50 cents -- or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...

• World Series
  World Series
  
  The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
  : New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
   win 4 games to 0 over the Philadelphia Phillies
  Philadelphia Phillies
  
  The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and are the reigning 2008 World Series champions....
  .

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....

• First FIBA World Championship. Argentina
  Argentina
  
  Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
   World Champion

Boxing

Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....

• January in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  , Joey Maxim
  Joey Maxim
  
  Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli, , was an USA Boxing. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs....
   won the light-heavyweight world title, stopping champion Freddie Mills
  Freddie Mills
  
  Freddie Mills, was an England boxer, who was the world light heavyweight boxing champion from 1948 to 1950. He was born in Poole, England....
   in 10 rounds.

• September 27 - Ezzard Charles
  Ezzard Charles
  
  Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former List of Heavyweight Champions of the world.He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Georgia , but is commonly thought of as a Cincinnati, Ohio....
   retains his World Heavyweight Championship with a 15 round unanimous decision over Joe Louis
  Joe Louis
  
  Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was a List of Heavyweight Champions.Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, he is considered to be one of the greatest in boxing history....
    in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .

Cycling

Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....

• Giro d'Italia
  Giro d'Italia
  
  The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy....
   - Hugo Koblet
  Hugo Koblet
  
  Hugo Koblet was a Switzerland champion cyclist.Born in Z?rich, his professional cycling career began in 1946. He made his name on the track as a Individual pursuit, winning the Swiss championship every year from 1947 to 1954....
   of Switzerland
  Switzerland
  
  Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  
• Tour de France
  Tour de France
  
  The Tour de France is a bicycle racing over more than . It is held every year. It is held in France and visits a bordering country every year. It usually lasts 23 days....
   - Ferdinand Kubler of Switzerland
  Switzerland
  
  Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  
• Vuelta a España
  Vuelta a España
  
  The Vuelta a Espa?a is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tour " of Europe and part of the UCI ProTour circuit....
   – Emilio Rodriguez
  Emilio Rodriguez
  
  Emilio Rodr?guez Barros was a Spain professional road bicycle racer from Ponteareas who won the King of the Mountains classification at Vuelta a Espa?a three times and captured the General classification at the 1950 Vuelta a Espa?a....
   of Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  
• World Cycling Championship
  World Cycling Championship
  
  The UCI Road World Championships, often referred to as the World Cycling Championships, is the annual world championship for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale ....
   - Briek Schotte of Belgium
  Belgium
  
  * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  

Figure skating

Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform figure skating spins, figure skating jumps, moves in the field and other intricate and challenging moves on ice....

• World Figure Skating Championships
  World Figure Skating Championships
  
  The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skating compete for the title of World Champion....
  :
• Men's champion: Dick Button
  Dick Button
  
  Richard Totten "Dick" Button is an United States former figure skating and a well-known long-time skating television analyst.Button was a two-time Olympic champion and is credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the axel jump jump in competition in 1948, as well as the first triple jump of any kind -- a triple loop ju...
  , United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Ladies' champion: Aja Zanova
  Aja Zanova
  
  Alena '?ja' Vrz?nov? , is a Czech former figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition. Vrz?nov? is the 1949 & 1950 World Figure Skating Championships and 1950 European Champion....
  , Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia
  
  Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
  
• Pair skating champions: Karol Kennedy
  Karol Kennedy
  
  Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher was an American figure skater. With her brother, Peter Kennedy , she won five United States Figure Skating Championships titles from 1948-1952....
   & Michael Kennedy
  Michael Kennedy (skater)
  
  Michael Edward "Peter" Kennedy III is an United States pair skater. Although named Michael, he was nicknamed Peter as a child, and has been credited in competition by both names....
  , United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (American

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
)

• NFL Championship: Cleveland Browns
  Cleveland Browns
  
  The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   win 30-28 over the Los Angeles Rams
• Oklahoma Sooners
  Oklahoma Sooners
  
  The University of Oklahoma features 17 varsity sports teams. Both men's and women's teams are called the Sooners, a nickname given to the early participants in the land runes which initially opened the Oklahoma Indian Territory to non-native settlement....
   - college football
  College football
  
  College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
   champions.

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian football, or simply known as football, footy, Aussie rules or as AFL, is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a football in the shape of a prolate spheroid....
)

• Victorian Football League
  Victorian Football League
  
  The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria. It is also known as the VFA/VFL, is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, formed in 1877, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the Australian Rules Football - Early...
  
• Essendon
  Essendon Football Club
  
  Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is Headquarters at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill, Essendon in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Victoria, but match day home...
   wins the 54th VFL Premiership (Essendon 13.14 (92) d North Melbourne 7.12 (54))
• Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy ? better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating umpires after each game....
   awarded to Allan Ruthven
  Allan Ruthven
  
  Allan Ruthven was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He played his entire 222 game career with Fitzroy Football Club....
   (Fitzroy
  Fitzroy Football Club
  
  Fitzroy Football Club, most recently nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Australian Football League on its inception in 1897 in sports....
  )

Football

Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (Canadian

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League is a professional sports league located entirely in Canada.Its eight teams, which are located in eight cities, are divided into two division of four teams each ....
)

• Grey Cup
  Grey Cup
  
  The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team....
  : Toronto Argonauts
  Toronto Argonauts
  
  The Toronto Argonauts are a Canadian Football League team based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1873, they are one of the oldest extant professional sports teams in North America....
   win 13-0 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian Football League team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers have won the league's Grey Cup championship ten times, most recently in 1990 Grey Cup....
  

Football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....

FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the List of men's national association football teams of the members of F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global govern...

• 1950 World Cup held in Brazil
  Brazil
  
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  . Uruguay
  Uruguay national football team
  
  The Uruguay national football team is controlled by the Asociaci?n Uruguaya de F?tbol.Uruguay is one of the most successful national football teams in the world....
   are the winners after beating Brazil
  Brazil national football team
  
  The Brazil national football team is the national team of Brazil and is managed by the Brazilian Football Confederation that represents Brazil in international football competitions....
   in the final group decider.
• United States defeats England
  England v United States (1950)
  
  On 29 June 1950, at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the United States men's national soccer team defeated the England national football team 1?0 in a group match....
   1-0 in one of the great upsets in sports history

England

• First Division
  Football League First Division
  
  The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004, and the highest division of Football in England overall between 1892 and 1992....
   - Portsmouth
  Portsmouth F.C.
  
  Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the south coast city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey , sometimes called 'The Blues', with their fans known as 'The Blue Army'....
   win the 1949-50
  1949-50 in English football
  
  The 1949-50 season was the 70th season of competitive football in England....
   title.
• FA Cup
  FA Cup
  
  The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
  : Arsenal
  Arsenal F.C.
  
  Arsenal Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London, North London. They play in the Premier League and are one of the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in Football in England, having won thirteen Football League First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cup...
   beat Liverpool
  Liverpool F.C.
  
  Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club plays in the Premier League, and it is the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in the history of Football in England; the club has won List of football clubs in England by major honours won than any other English cl...
   2-0.

Golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 

• April 6-9 - Masters Tournament - Jimmy Demaret
  Jimmy Demaret
  
  James Newton Demaret was an United States professional golfer. He won 31 PGA Tour events in a long career between 1935 and 1957 and was the first three-time winner of the The Masters Tournament....
  
• June 8-11 - U.S. Open
  U.S. Open (golf)
  
  The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual Open Golf Tournaments of the United States. It is the second of the four men's major golf championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour....
   - Ben Hogan
  Ben Hogan
  
  William Ben Hogan was an United States professional golfer, and is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the history of the game....
  
• June 27 - PGA Championship
  PGA Championship
  
  The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August ....
   - Chandler Harper
  Chandler Harper
  
  John Chandler Harper was an United States professional golfer best known for winning the 1950 PGA Championship. He won seven times on the PGA Tour and played on the 1955 Ryder Cup team....
  
• July 4-7 - British Open
  The Open Championship
  
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
   - Bobby Locke
  Bobby Locke
  
  For the baseball player, see: Bobby Locke Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was one of the first internationally successful South African golfers....
  
• PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  
  The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
   money leader - Sam Snead
  Sam Snead
  
  Samuel Jackson Snead was an American golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of 4 decades. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within six months of each other in 1912....
   - $35,759

• British Amateur
  The Amateur Championship
  
  The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held in the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, it is often known as the "British Amateur" or the "British Amateur Championship"....
   - Frank Stranahan
  Frank Stranahan
  
  Frank Richard Stranahan was one of the world's most successful amateur golf champions. Stranahan was also the number one power lifter in his weight class from 1945 to 1954 and he became known on the golf course and off as the "Toledo strongman" long before the modern game of golf and fitness....
  
• U.S. Amateur - Sam Urzetta

• Thirteen women golfers found the Ladies Professional Golf Association
  LPGA
  
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters are in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that runs from Feb...
   (LPGA).
• Women's Western Open
  Western Open (women's golf)
  
  The women's Western Open was a professional golf tournament which was first played in 1930. The LPGA was established in 1950, and it recognized the Western Open as one of its women's majors until 1967....
   - Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
  
• U.S. Women's Open
  United States Women's Open Championship (golf)
  
  The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association , is one of the LPGA's women's major golf championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Women's British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship....
   - Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
  
• Titleholders Championship
  Titleholders Championship
  
  There have been two professional golf tournaments for women named the Titleholders Championship. The first was of the original women's majors. The 1990s tournament was a standard event on the LPGA Tour....
   - Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
  
• Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
   named Woman Athlete of the Half-Century by the Associated Press.
• LPGA Tour
  LPGA
  
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters are in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that runs from Feb...
   money leader - Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
    - $14,800

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies....

• The United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
  National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
  
  The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of United States thoroughbred horse racings, jockeys, and trainer#Trainer ....
   was founded in Saratoga Springs, New York
  Saratoga Springs, New York
  
  Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 26,186 at the United States Census 2000. The name reflects the presence of spring in the area....
  .

• Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   - Melbourne Cup
  Melbourne Cup
  
  The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is a race for three-year-olds and over, over a distance of 3,200 metres....
   - Comic Court
• Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   - Queen's Plate
  Queen's Plate
  
  The Queen's Plate is North America oldest thoroughbred horse race. It is run at a distance of 1? miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses foaled in Canada....
   - McGill
• France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
   - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
  Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
  
  The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older....
   - Tantieme
  Tantieme
  
  Tanti?me was a France Thoroughbred horse racing champion and prominent Father who twice won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, France's most prestigious horse race....
  
• Ireland
  Ireland
  
  Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
   - Irish Derby Stakes
  Irish Derby Stakes
  
  The Irish Derby is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the Republic of Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred Colt and Filly. It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs at the Curragh Racecourse, County Kildare, and it takes place annually in late June or early July....
   - Dark Warrior

• English Triple Crown Races
  Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
  
  The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
  :
  1. 2,000 Guineas Stakes - Palestine
     Palestine (horse)
     
     Palestine was a Great Britain thoroughbred Horse racing. Owned and bred by HH Aga Khan III he was out of the mare Una and sired by Fair Trial....
     
  2. Epsom Derby
     Epsom Derby
     
     The Derby Stakes, known colloquially as The Derby or internationally as the Epsom Derby, is considered one of the most prestigious flat thoroughbred horse races in the world....
      - Galcador
  3. St. Leger Stakes
     St. Leger Stakes
     
     The St. Leger Stakes is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the United Kingdom open to three-year-old thoroughbred Colt and Filly. It is run over a distance of 1 mile 6 furlongs and 132 yards at Doncaster Racecourse, and it takes place annually in September....
       - Talma

• United States Triple Crown Races
  Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
  
  The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
  :
  1. May 6 - Kentucky Derby
     Kentucky Derby
     
     The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
      - Middleground
     Middleground
     
     Middleground was an United States Thoroughbred horse racing.Ridden by 16-year-old jockey William Boland, and trained by Max Hirsch, both future National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductees, Middleground won the 1950 Kentucky Derby, finished second to Hill Prince after a rough trip in the Preakness Stakes, and won the Belmont Stake...
     
  2. Preakness Stakes
     Preakness Stakes
     
     The Preakness Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race 1-3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland....
      - Hill Prince
     Hill Prince
     
     Hill Prince was an United States Thoroughbred horse racing who earned Champion honors in his first three years of racing. Trained by J. Homer Hayes for owner Christopher Chenery, at age two Hill Prince won six of the first seven races he entered and was voted U.S....
     
  3. Belmont Stakes
     Belmont Stakes
     
     The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious United States Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes....
      - Middleground
     Middleground
     
     Middleground was an United States Thoroughbred horse racing.Ridden by 16-year-old jockey William Boland, and trained by Max Hirsch, both future National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductees, Middleground won the 1950 Kentucky Derby, finished second to Hill Prince after a rough trip in the Preakness Stakes, and won the Belmont Stake...
     

Harness Racing

Harness racing

Harness racing is a form of horse-racing in which the horses race in a specified gait. They usually pull two-wheeled carts called sulky, although races to saddle are still occasionally conducted, especially in Europe....

• Little Brown Jug
  Little Brown Jug
  
  Little Brown Jug can refer to:*Little Brown Jug , an 1869 song by Joseph Winner. Most or all other uses of this phrase are named after this famous song....
   for pacers - Dudley Hanover
• Hambletonian
  Hambletonian
  
  Hambletonian A great grandson of the imported English Thoroughbred Messenger profoundly influenced the sport of harness racing. On May 5, 1849, Hambletonian was born in...
   for trotters - Lusty Song

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
• Pacers: Captain Sandy

PP LP

Ice Hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
  's leading scorer during the regular season: Ted Lindsay
  Ted Lindsay
  
  Robert Blake Theodore "Ted" Lindsay is a former professional ice hockey forward who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. During his playing career, he helped to organize the NHL Players Association....
  , Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan, who are the current Stanley Cup champions.They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• Hart Memorial Trophy
  Hart Memorial Trophy
  
  The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, the "oldest and most prestigious individual award in hockey", is awarded annually to the Most Valuable Player in the National Hockey League....
  : for the NHL
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
  's Most Valuable Player: Charlie Rayner, New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• Stanley Cup
  Stanley Cup
  
  The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club championship trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League Season structure of the NHL#Stanley Cup playoffs champion....
  : Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan, who are the current Stanley Cup champions.They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   win 4 games to 3 over the New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• World Hockey Championship
• Men's champion: Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  's Edmonton Mercurys
  Edmonton Mercurys
  
  File:Jersey of the Edmonton Mercurys.jpgThe Edmonton Mercurys were an intermediate senior ice hockey-A ice hockey team that played in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1940s and 50s....
  

• NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
  NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
  
  The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and Division III....
   - Colorado College
  Colorado College
  
  The Colorado College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was founded in 1874 by General William Palmer....
   Tigers defeat Boston University
  Boston University
  
  Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
   Terriers 13-4 in Colorado Springs, CO

Snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....

• World Snooker Championship
  World Snooker Championship
  
  The World Snooker Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre in the English city of Sheffield, is the climax of snooker's annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and Snooker world rankings....
  : Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson (snooker player)
  
  Walter Donaldson was a Scotland professional snooker player.He turned professional aged just 16, in 1923. He contested many world championships, finally achieving victory in 1947 after Joe Davis had retired from the tournament, and again in 1950....
   beats Fred Davis 51-46.

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open
     Australian Open
     
     The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
      - Frank Sedgman
     Frank Sedgman
     
     Frank Arthur Sedgman, born 29 October 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the world No.1 in 1952....
     
  2. French Open - Budge Patty
     Budge Patty
     
     John "Budge" Edward Patty was an United States male tennis player. He was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States. He is one of only three American male tennis player who have achieved a French Open-Wimbledon double....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Budge Patty
     Budge Patty
     
     John "Budge" Edward Patty was an United States male tennis player. He was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States. He is one of only three American male tennis player who have achieved a French Open-Wimbledon double....
     
  4. US Open - Arthur Larsen

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open
     Australian Open
     
     The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
      - Louise Brough
     Louise Brough
     
     Althea Louise Brough Clapp was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but moved to Beverly Hills, California when she was four years old....
     
  2. French Open - Doris Hart
     Doris Hart
     
     Doris Hart is a former World No. 1 American female tennis player.As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Louise Brough
     Louise Brough
     
     Althea Louise Brough Clapp was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but moved to Beverly Hills, California when she was four years old....
     
  4. US Open - Margaret Osborne duPont
     Margaret Osborne duPont
     
     Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont is a former World No. 1 American female tennis player.DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Open....
     

• Davis Cup
  Davis Cup
  
  The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
   in world tennis: Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   won 4 to 1 over the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  

Multi-sport event

Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, and featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states....
s

• British Empire Games
  Commonwealth Games
  
  The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations....
   held in Auckland
  Auckland
  
  The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....
  
• Coaches Poll
  Coaches Poll
  
  The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and Division I college basketball teams....
   established to rank top 20 American college football and basketball teams

Awards

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : Jim Konstanty
  Jim Konstanty
  
  Casimir James Konstanty was an United States relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds , Atlanta Braves , Philadelphia Phillies , New York Yankees and St....
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
  
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  
  Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
  , LPGA golf
  LPGA
  
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters are in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that runs from Feb...
  

Births

January

• January 1 — Chris Black
  Chris Black (athlete)
  
  Christopher Francis Black is a retired hammer thrower from Scotland, who represented the United Kingdom at two consecutive Athletics at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976 ....
  , Scottish hammer thrower
• January 2 — Yevgeny Yevsyukov
  Yevgeny Yevsyukov
  
  Yevgeny Yevsyukov is a retired race walking from Russia, who represented the Soviet Union at the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR....
  , Soviet race walker
• January 3 — Robert Oliver
  Robert Oliver
  
  Robert Gordon Oliver is a former road cycling and track cyclist from New Zealand, who represented his native country in two disciplines at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany: the men's individual road race and the men's team pursuit ....
  , New Zealand road and track cyclist
• January 11 — Bohdan Bulakowski
  Bohdan Bulakowski
  
  Bohdan Adam Bulakowski is a retired race walking from Poland, who represented his native country at the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR....
  , Polish race walker
• January 15 — Marius Trésor
  Marius Trésor
  
  Marius Tr?sor is a retired football Defender from France, who was named by Pel? as one of the FIFA 100 in March 2004.Tr?sor's career began with the French club AC Ajaccio....
  , French football player
• January 16 — Magda Ilands
  Magda Ilands
  
  Magda Ilands is a former female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the 1985 edition of the Berlin Marathon....
  , Belgian long-distance runner
• January 18 — Gilles Villeneuve
  Gilles Villeneuve
  
  Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve was a Canada racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in snowmobile racing in his native province of Quebec....
  , Canadian F1 race driver (d. 1982)
• January 19 — Eshetu Tura
  Eshetu Tura
  
  Eshetu Tura is a retired long-distance track event from Ethiopia who won the bronze medal in steeplechase at the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics....
  , Ethiopian long-distance runner

February

• February 7 — Mauro Bellugi
  Mauro Bellugi
  
  Mauro Bellugi is a former Italy football .During his career he played for Inter Milan , Bologna F.C. , S.S.C. Napoli and A.C. Pistoiese . He also played 34 matches for the Italy national football team from 1972 to 1979....
  , Italian football player
• February 10 — Mark Spitz
  Mark Spitz
  
  Mark Andrew Spitz is a retired American swimmer, best known for winning Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement surpassed only when Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the 2008 Summer Olympics....
  , American swimmimg Olympic champion
• February 13 — Rita Marchisio, Italian long-distance runner
• February 14 — Phil Dent
  Phil Dent
  
  Phil Dent is a former professional tennis player from Australia.He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at the Australian Open in 1974, where he lost to Jimmy Connors 7?6, 6?4, 4?6, 6?3....
  , Australian tennis player
• February 22 — Julius Erving
  Julius Erving
  
  Julius Winfield Erving II , commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a retired United States basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim....
  , American basketball Hall of Famer
• February 25 — Francisco Fernández-Ochoa
  Francisco Fernández-Ochoa
  
  Francisco "Paquito" Fern?ndez Ochoa was an Alpine skiing from Spain. Born in Madrid, he specialized in the Slalom skiing.He won an Olympic gold medal in the slalom at the Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan....
  , Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)

March

• March 2 — José Fiolo
  José Fiolo
  
  Jos? Sylvio Fiolo is a former international breaststroke swimming from Brazil, who participated for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968....
  , Brazilian breaststroke swimmer
• March 6 — Bruce Simpson
  Bruce Simpson (athlete)
  
  Bruce Simpson is a retired male pole vaulter from Canada. He set her personal best in the men's pole vault on 1976-02-13 at a meet in Toronto....
  , Canadian pole vaulter
• March 9 — Danny Sullivan
  Danny Sullivan
  
  Daniel John "Danny" Sullivan III is a former racing driver from United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500....
  , American automobile racer
• March 13 — Joe Bugner
  Joe Bugner
  
  J?zsef Kreul "Joe" Bugner is a United Kingdom/Australian former heavyweight Boxing.Born in Szoreg, Hungary, Bugner and his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in England....
  , British and Australian heavyweight boxer
• March 21 — Anders Linderoth
  Anders Linderoth
  
  Anders Linderoth is a Sweden soccer coach and former player.He debuted in the allsvenskan for Helsingborgs IF, and during his spell with ?sters IF he made his national team debut and received Guldbollen....
  , Swedish football player
• March 28 — Roland Andersson
  Roland Andersson
  
  Roland Andersson is a former Sweden football player, and currently the assistant coach for the Sweden national football team since 2004, appointed by Lars Lagerb?ck....
  , Swedish football player

April

• April 1 — Paolo Conti
  Paolo Conti
  
  Paolo Conti is a former Italy football goalkeeper .During his club career he played for Modena F.C., A.C. Arezzo, A.S. Roma, Hellas Verona F.C., U.C....
  , Italian football player
• April 8 — Grzegorz Lato
  Grzegorz Lato
  
  Grzegorz Lato is a former Polish football striker, the all-time cap leader for the Poland national football team and the World Cup Golden Boot at the Football World Cup 1974....
  , Polish football player
• April 14 — Joseph Nzau
  Joseph Nzau
  
  Joseph Nzau is a former long-distance Running from Kenya, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....
  , Kenyan long-distance runner
• April 15 — Patricia Johnson
  Patricia Johnson (athlete)
  
  Patricia Jean van Wolvelaere-Johnson is a retired female hurdler from the United States, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968....
  , American hurdler
• April 24 — Henryk Maculewicz
  Henryk Maculewicz
  
  Henryk Maculewicz is a retired Poland football . During his club career he played for Wisla Krak?w and RC Lens. He earned 23 caps for the Poland national football team, and participated in the 1978 FIFA World Cup....
  , Polish football player
• April 26 — Elizabeth Chase
  Elizabeth Chase
  
  Elizabeth Chase is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow....
  , Zimbabwean field hockey player
• April 27 — Paolino Pulici, Italian football player

May

• May 9 — James Butts
  James Butts
  
  James Butts was an United States athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump.He competed as part of the United States team in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the triple jump where he won the Silver medal....
  , American triple jumper
• May 9 — Louk Sanders
  Louk Sanders
  
  Louk Sanders is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who was Holland's second best in the 1970s after Tom Okker. The righthander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on 31 December 1977, when he became the number 98 of the world....
  , Dutch tennis player
• May 15 — Renate Stecher
  Renate Stecher
  
  Renate Stecher is a Germany Athletics and a triple Olympic Games champion.Born as Renate Mei?ner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and women's pentathlon....
  , East German athlete
• May 18 — Rodney Milburn
  Rodney Milburn
  
  Rodney Milburn, Jr. was an United States Athletics who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the 110m hurdling....
  , American hurdler

June

• June 3 — Marlene Elejarde
  Marlene Elejarde
  
  Marlene Elejalde D?az was a retired Sprint from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women....
  , Cuban 4x100m runner (d. 1980)
• June 3 — Douglas Rodríguez
  Douglas Rodríguez (boxer)
  
  Douglas Rodr?guez is an retired amateur boxing from Cuba, who represented his native country in the Men's Flyweight category at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany....
  , Cuban boxer
• June 5 — Bonifacio Avila
  Bonifacio Ávila
  
  Bonifacio ?vila is a retired Boxing from Colombia, who represented his native country at the Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. There he was eliminated in the second round of the men's light middleweight division by eventual gold medalist Dieter Kottysch from West Germany....
  , Colombian boxer
• June 5 — Adrian Cosma
  Adrian Cosma
  
  Adrian Cosma is a former Romanian Team handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics....
  , Romanian handball player
• June 11 — Pokey Watson, American backstroke swimmer
• June 13 — Chris Taylor
  Chris Taylor (wrestler)
  
  Chris Taylor was an United States freestyle wrestling who competed at 1972 Summer Olympics. At 412 pounds he was the heaviest Olympian ever. ...
  , American freestyle wrestler (d. 1979)
• June 15 — István Szabó
  István Szabó (canoer)
  
  Istv?n Szab? is a Hungary canoe racing who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 Summer Olympics and a bronze in 1976 Summer Olympics....
  , Hungarian canoer
• June 18 — Annelie Ehrhardt
  Annelie Ehrhardt
  
  Annelie Ehrhardt, is a East Germany Athletics who competed in the hurdling.She was born in H?tensleben.Ehrhardt competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the inaugural women?s 100 metre hurdles where she won the gold medal....
  , Germann 100m hurdler
• June 25 — Tatyana Averina
  Tatyana Averina
  
  Tatyana Borisovna Averina was a Soviet Union Russians Speed skating. After getting married, her name would also appear as Tatyana Barabash ....
  , Soviet speed skater
• July 12 — Gilles Meloche
  Gilles Meloche
  
  Gilles Meloche , was a goaltender who played in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks, California Golden Seals, Cleveland Barons , Minnesota North Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins....
  , Canadian hockey player
• June 27 — Benjamin Peterson
  Benjamin Peterson
  
  Ben Peterson is the co-founder and executive director of Journalists for Human Rights , Canada?s largest international media development non-governmental organization....
  , American heavyweight boxer
• June 30 — Olly Flynn
  Olly Flynn
  
  Oliver Thomas Flynn is a retired male race walking from England, who represented Great Britain at the 1976 Olympic Games....
  , English race walker

July

• July 6 — Sultan Rakhmanov
  Sultan Rakhmanov
  
  Sultan Saburovich Rakhmanov was an Olympic Games weightlifting for the Soviet Union.He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour after the 1980 Summer Olympics....
  , Soviet weightlifter
• July 9 — Adriano Panatta
  Adriano Panatta
  
  Adriano Panatta is a former professional tennis player from Italy. He is best remembered for winning the French Open in 1976....
  , Italian tennis player
• July 13 — Rod Dixon
  Rod Dixon
  
  Rodney Phillip Dixon is a former New Zealand middle distance runner. He won the bronze medal over 1500 metres at the New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and in 1983 won the prestigious New York City Marathon....
  , New Zealand middle distance runner
• July 16 — Dennis Priestley
  Dennis Priestley
  
  Dennis Priestley is a two-time World Darts Champion and the first player to win both British Darts Organisation and WDC World Championship Crowns, in 1991 and 1994 respectively....
  , British darts player
• July 18 — Sandor Pinter, Hungarian football player
• July 21 — Ubaldo Fillol
  Ubaldo Fillol
  
  Ubaldo Matildo Fillol , nicknamed El Pato , is an Argentina football coach and former goalkeeper. He took part of 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982 FIFA World Cup World Cups representing his Argentina national football team....
  , Argentinian football goalkeeper
• July 23 — Ramon Quiroga
  Ramón Quiroga
  
  Ram?n Quiroga Arancibia was an Argentina-born Peru Peru national football team soccer goalkeeper , who was nicknamed "El Loco" in Peru and "Chupete" in Argentina....
  , Peruvian football goalkeeper
• July 29 — Maricica Puica
  Maricica Puica
  
  Maricica Puica is a former Romanian former Middle distance track event athletics , who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, in a race remembered primarily for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd....
  , Romanian middle distance athlete

August

• August 3 — Waldemar Cierpinski
  Waldemar Cierpinski
  
  Waldemar Cierpinski is a former East Germany Athletics and two time Olympic Champion in the Marathon ....
  , German marathon runner
• August 5 — John Smith
  John Smith (athlete)
  
  John Walton Smith is a former United States Athletics , who competed in the sprints events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games....
  , American sprint athlete
• August 5 — Rosi Mittermaier
  Rosi Mittermaier
  
  Rosemarie "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther is a former Alpine skiing. She won two gold medals and one silver at the Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within Germany ....
  , German alpine skier
• August 6 — Viktor Zhurba
  Viktor Zhurba
  
  Viktor Zhurba is a retired male discus thrower. He represented the Soviet Union during his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Zhurba is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's discus event at the 1973 Summer Universiade in Moscow....
  , Soviet discus thrower
• August 7 — David Wottle, American track and field athlete
• August 8 — Mart Bras
  Mart Bras
  
  Martinus Rokes Bras is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in seventh position with the Dutch Men's Water Polo Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  , Dutch water polo player and referee
• August 12 — Shirley Haig
  Shirley Haig
  
  Shirley Ethel Haig is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was born in East Gore....
  , New Zealand field hockey player
• August 17 — Vasudevan Baskaran
  Vasudevan Baskaran
  
  Vasudevan Baskaran is a former field hockey player from India. He captained the India national field hockey team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union....
  , Indian field hockey player and coach
• August 22 — Celia Breckenridge, British lacrosse player
• August 28 — Ágnes Herczegh
  Ágnes Herczegh
  
  ?gnes Herczegh is a retired female discus thrower, who competed for Hungary at the 1980 Summer Olympics. A member of Csorna, Gyor-Moson-Sopron she set her personal best in 1982....
  , Hungarian discus thrower
• August 28 — Robert Kasting
  Robert Kasting
  
  Robert Kasting is a former Butterfly stroke and Freestyle swimming swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  , Canadian butterfly and freestyle swimmer

September

• September 12 — Juan Francisco Rodríguez
  Juan Francisco Rodríguez
  
  Juan Francisco Rodr?guez M?rquez is a retired boxing from Spain, who twice represented his native country during the 1970s at the Summer Olympics....
  , Spanish boxer
• September 16 — Raisa Smekhnova
  Raisa Smekhnova
  
  Raisa Katyukova-Smekhnova is a retired long-distance Running from the Soviet Union, who won the bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland, behind Norway's Grete Waitz and USA's Marianne Dickerson....
  , Soviet long-distance runner
• September 18 — Phil Bayton
  Phil Bayton
  
  Philip Bayton is a former road cycling from Great Britain, who was a professional rider from 1973 to 1989. He represented the United Kingdom at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he finished in 5th place in the men's individual road race, just before teammate Phil Edwards ....
  , British road cyclist
• September 23 — David Torosyan
  David Torosyan
  
  David Torosyan is a retired boxing of Armenian descent, who represented the Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics at the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada....
  , Soviet-Armenian boxer
• September 24 — Duane Bobick
  Duane Bobick
  
  Duane Bobick was a Boxing from the United States, who became world amateur heavyweight champion in 1971, and also won the gold medal at the Boxing at the 1971 Pan American Games....
  , American boxer

October

• October 3 — Andrzej Szarmach
  Andrzej Szarmach
  
  Andrzej Szarmach is a former Poland football player.He played in the Polish national team during its "golden age" in the 1970s. With Grzegorz Lato at his right, Robert Gadocha at his left, and Kazimierz Deyna in support, Szarmach profitted from the absence of Wlodzimierz Lubanski to lead the Poland national football team attack, the best...
  , Polish football player
• October 5 — Hugo Hovenkamp
  Hugo Hovenkamp
  
  Hugo Hovenkamp is a former Netherlands football Defender , who played for the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar in the late 1970s, early 1980s. He started his professional career for FC Groningen....
  , Dutch football player
• October 12 — Miguel Oviedo
  Miguel Oviedo
  
  Miguel ?ngel Oviedo is an Argentina football midfielder. He was born on October 12 1950, in the city of C?rdoba, Argentina in Argentina. He was part of the Argentina national football team squad that won the 1978 FIFA World Cup....
  , Argentinian football player
• October 13 — Annegret Richter
  Annegret Richter
  
  Annegret Richter is a Germany Athletics and the 1976 Olympic Games 100 m champion.Born Annegret Irrgang, she won her first international title at the 1971 European Championships, as a part of her country's 4 x 100 m relay team....
  , German athlete
• October 14 — Kurt Jara
  Kurt Jara
  
  Kurt Jara is a retired Austrian football ....
  , Austrian football player
• October 24 — Asa Hartford
  Asa Hartford
  
  Richard 'Asa' Hartford is a retired Scotland international midfielder and association football who became famous for failing a medical examination due to the discovery of a heart condition which put paid to a high profile transfer to Leeds United F.C....
  , Scottish football player
• October 25 — Steve Barry
  Steve Barry
  
  Steven John Barry is a retired male race walking from Wales, who represented Great Britain at the 1984 Olympic Games.Achievements...
  , Welsh race walker
• October 25 — Lyudmila Veselkova
  Lyudmila Veselkova
  
  Lyudmila Veselkova is a retired female middle distance runner, who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres on 1982-09-08 at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece....
  , Soviet middle distance runner

November

• November 1 — Jan Evert Veer
  Jan Evert Veer
  
  Jan Evert Veer is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 in Munich. After the seventh place in West Germany, four years later the Dutch won the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal....
  , Dutch water polo player
• November 4 — Benny Wendt
  Benny Wendt
  
  Benny Wendt is a former Sweden football player....
  , Swedish football player
• November 11 — Rex Sellers
  Rex Sellers
  
  Rex Samuel Sellers is one of New Zealand's most successful yachtsmen, having won an Olympic Tornado gold in 1984, a silver in 1988 and finished fourth in 1992....
  , New Zealand yachtsman
• November 16 — Héctor Baley
  Héctor Baley
  
  H?ctor Baley was an Argentina football Goalkeeper .Baley was a reserve goalkeeper in Argentina national football team's 1978 FIFA World Cup winning squad and also in the 1982 FIFA World Cup tournament....
  , Argentinian football player
• November 17 — Roland Matthes
  Roland Matthes
  
  Roland Matthes is a former backstroke swimmer, who won a total number of eight Olympic medals for East Germany. He is considered to be one of the best backstroke swimmers of all time....
  , East German backstroke swimmer
• November 22 — Lyman Bostock
  Lyman Bostock
  
  Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for four seasons, as an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ....
  , American Major League Baseball player
• November 22 — Domingo Tibaduiza
  Domingo Tibaduiza
  
  Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance Running from Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics; in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon ....
  , Colombian long-distance runner
• November 26 — Dieter Burdenski
  Dieter Burdenski
  
  Dieter Burdenski is a former Germany football player....
  , German football goalkeeper

December

• December 3 — Alberto Juantorena
  Alberto Juantorena
  
  Alberto Juantorena Danger is a Cuban former athletics . At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800  m Olympic titles....
  , Cuban athlete
• December 3 — Peter Trump
  Peter Trump
  
  Peter Trump is a former field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the West-German team that won the golden medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  , German field hockey player
• December 4 — Vladimir Bure
  Vladimir Bure
  
  Vladimir Valeryevich Bure is a retired Soviet Union Olympic swimmer and a fitness coach for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League....
  , Soviet swimmer
• December 27 — Roberto Bettega
  Roberto Bettega
  
  Roberto Bettega is an Italy former footballer. Bettega was regarded as a player of noteworthy intelligence and became one of the world's most feared striker ....
  , Italian football (soccer) player
• December 28 — Patrick Burris
  Patrick Burris
  
  Patrick Mitsugi Burris is a retired competitive judoka from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  , American judoka

Deaths

• April 16 - Arnaud Massy
  Arnaud Massy
  
  Arnaud Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers.Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques, France. The son of a sheep farmer, he worked on a sardine boat and supplemented his income by caddying at the new Biarritz golf course where a great many of the best professional golfers from United Kingdom came to practi...
  , champion golfer
• September 23 - Sam Barry
  Sam Barry
  
  Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry was an American collegiate sport coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports. He remains one of only three coaches to lead teams to both the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship#Final Four and the College World Series....
  , Hall of Fame
  Basketball Hall of Fame
  
  The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors exceptional basketball players, all-time great coaches, Referee#basketball, executives, and other major contributors to the game....
   basketball coach
• October 9 - George Hainsworth
  George Hainsworth
  
  George Hainsworth was a Canada professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League ....
  , NHL
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
   Hockey Hall of Fame
  Hockey Hall of Fame
  
  The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame....
  , goaltender
• November 4 - Grover Cleveland Alexander
  Grover Cleveland Alexander
  
  Grover Cleveland "Old Pete" Alexander was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals....
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
   pitcher (1911-1930)
• November 30 - Billy Burch
  Billy Burch
  
  William Burch was an United States professional ice hockey forward who played for the Hamilton Tigers, New York Americans, Chicago Blackhawks, and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League....
  , Hockey Hall of Fame
  Hockey Hall of Fame
  
  The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame....
   player
• December 5 - Bill Dahlen
  Bill Dahlen
  
  William Frederick Dahlen , nicknamed "Bad Bill" for his ferocious temperament, was an United States shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball who played for four National League teams from 1891 to 1911....
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
   player (1891-1911)