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Artistic Gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics. Competitive gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting ....

• World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  
  The 24th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1987....
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• Men's all-around champion: Dmitry Bilozerchev
  Dmitry Bilozerchev
  
  Dmitry Vladimirovich Bilozerchev is a Soviet Union/Russian gymnast. One of the most accomplished gymnasts in history, he is a two-time World All-Around Champion and three-time Olympic Champion....
  , USSR
• Women's all-around champion: Aurelia Dobre
  Aurelia Dobre
  
  Aurelia Dobre is a former artistic gymnast from Romania, who was the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She is still held in high esteem by many gymnastics fans today for her clean technique as well as balletic and artistic flair....
  , Romania
  Romania
  
  Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  
• Men's team competition champion: USSR
• Women's team competition champion: Romania
  Romania
  
  Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  

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....

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1987 in athletics (track and field)

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Marathon

International Races

• January 25 — Osaka Marathon
  Osaka Marathon
  
  The Osaka International Ladies Marathon is an annual marathon race for women over the classic distance of 42km and 195 metres held in the city of Osaka, Japan, and hosted by , , , , and ....
  , 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....
  
• Women's Winner: Lorraine Moller
  Lorraine Moller
  
  Lorraine Mary Moller is a former athlete from New Zealand, who competed in track athletics and later specialised in the marathon. Moller's international career lasted over 20 years and included 3 Commonwealth Games and 4 Olympic Games....
   (NZL) 2:30:40

• February 8 — Tokyo Marathon
  Tokyo Marathon
  
  The Tokyo International Marathon is held in Tokyo, Japan. It was first held in November 1979, and this race was the first women's marathon officially sanctioned by the International Association of Athletics Federations ....
  , 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: Hiromi Taniguchi
  Hiromi Taniguchi
  
  is a former Japanese long-distance runner best known for winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo....
   (JPN) 2:10:06

• March 1 — Los Angeles Marathon
  Los Angeles Marathon
  
  The Los Angeles Marathon is an annual marathon held in Los Angeles, California since 1986. It was inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles....
  , 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: Art Boileau
  Art Boileau
  
  Arthur Boileau is a former long-distance Running, who represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics in the men's marathon. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California he ended up in 44th place, four years later in Seoul, South Korea he finished in 28th position....
   (CAN) 2:13:08
• Women's Winner: Nancy Ditz (USA) 2:35:24

• March 15 — Seoul Marathon, South Korea
  South Korea
  
  South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
  
• Men's Winner: Lee Jong-Hee (KOR) 2:12:21
• Women's Winner: Ahn Young-Ok (KOR) 2:41:50

• April 18 — Rotterdam Marathon
  Rotterdam Marathon
  
  The Rotterdam Marathon is an annual marathon that has been held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands since 1981. It has been held in April of every year since the third edition in 1984, and attracts many top athletes....
  , 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: Belayneh Densamo
  Belayneh Densamo
  
  Belayneh Densamo is a long distance track and road running athlete from Ethiopia. He held the world record in the marathon for 10 years . This was the third longest span without the record being broken since the event was first organized at the 1896 Olympics....
   (ETH) 2:12:58
• Women's Winner: Nelly Aerts (BEL) 2:41:24

• April 20 — Boston Marathon
  Boston Marathon
  
  The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the city of Boston, Massachusetts, on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April....
  , 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: Toshihiko Seko
  Toshihiko Seko
  
  Toshihiko Seko is a Japanese long-distance runner, a world-class marathon competitor in the 1980s. He represented his native country at the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea....
   (JPN) 2:11:50
• Women's Winner: Rosa Mota
  Rosa Mota
  
  Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of Merit , Pronunciation , is a Portugal former Marathon , one of her country's foremost athletes....
   (POR) 2:25:21

• April 26 — Hamburg Marathon
  Hamburg Marathon
  
  The Hamburg Marathon is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42km and 195 metres held in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The first edition took place in 1986....
  , 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: Karel Lismont
  Karel Lismont
  
  Karel Lismont was a Belgian Athletics , who competed mostly in the marathon . He won two Olympic medals: a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and a bronze one at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal at the same event....
   (BEL) 2:13:46
• Women's Winner: Charlotte Teske
  Charlotte Teske
  
  Charlotte Teske is a former female long-distance runner from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She won the 1982 edition of the Boston Marathon, and the 1986 edition of the Berlin Marathon....
   (FRG) 2:31:49

• May 3 — Rome Marathon, Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  
• Men's Winner: Gelindo Bordin
  Gelindo Bordin
  
  Gelindo Bordin is an Italy former Athletics , winner of the Marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics where he won a gold medal....
   (ITA) 2:16:03
• Women's Winner: Maria Araneo (ITA) 2:56:00

• May 10 — Amsterdam Marathon
  Amsterdam Marathon
  
  The Amsterdam Marathon is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1975. It has taken place in October since the 24th edition in 1999, and has attracted many top athletes from around the world since the late 1990s, when the organizers chose a new, flatter course....
  , 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: John Burra
  John Burra
  
  John Burra is a retired long-distance Running from Tanzania, who won the 1987 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:12:40 on May 10, 1987. He twice represented his native country in the men's marathon, in 1988 and 1992....
   (TAN) 2:12:40
• Women's Winner: Adriana Barbu
  Adriana Barbu
  
  Adriana Barbu is a retired female long-distance runner from Romania, who specialized in the marathon race.Barbu is best known for winning the bronze medal in the classic distance at the 1994 European Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, clocking 2:30.55....
   (ROM) 2:36:21

• May 10 — London Marathon
  London Marathon
  
  The London Marathon is a popular road running marathon that has been held each year in London since 1981, usually in April. The race is currently sponsored by Flora , as the Flora London Marathon....
  , United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  
• Men's Winner: Hiromi Taniguchi
  Hiromi Taniguchi
  
  is a former Japanese long-distance runner best known for winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo....
   (JPN) 2:09:50
• Women's Winner: Ingrid Kristiansen
  Ingrid Kristiansen
  
  Ingrid Kristiansen n?e Christensen , was one of the best female Long-distance track event in the second half of the 1980s. She finished in fourth place in Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's Marathon, at the 1984 Summer Olympics....
   (NOR) 2:22:48

• May 17 — Paris Marathon
  Paris Marathon
  
  The Paris Marathon is an annual marathon which takes place from the Champs-?lys?es heading towards the Place de la Concorde and continuing through the city to finish at Foch Avenue....
  , 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....
  
• Men's Winner: Abebe Mekonnen
  Abebe Mekonnen
  
  Abebe Mekonnen is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.He was the winner of the 93rd Boston Marathon in 1989. Mekonnen also competed for Ethiopia in the Ethiopia at the 1992 Summer Olympics and Ethiopia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the marathon....
   (ETH) 2:11:09
• Women's Winner: Elena Cobos (ESP) 2:45:57

• June 17 — Enschede Marathon
  Enschede Marathon
  
  The Enschede Marathon is an annual marathon race held in the city of Enschede, Netherlands. The race is the distance of a typical marathon . It has been held annually since 1991, after being bi-annual for the previous 44 years....
  , 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: Marti ten Kate
  Marti ten Kate
  
  Martin ten Kate is a retired long-distance Running from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea....
   (NED) 2:13:52
• Women's Winner: Helen Comsa (SUI) 2:39:29

• August 9 — Pan American Games Marathon
  Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games
  
  The Athletics competition in the 1987 Pan American Games were held in Indianapolis, United States. The events were competed at the IU Michael A....
  , Indianapolis, USA
• Men's Winner: Ivo Rodrígues
  Ivo Rodrígues
  
  Ivo Machado Rodr?gues is a former marathon runner from Brazil. He won the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games and competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 56th place....
   (BRA) 2:20:13
• Women's Winner: Maricarmen Cardenas (MEX) 2:52:06

• August 29 — IAAF World Championships Marathon
  1987 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Marathon
  
  The official results of the Women's Marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome, Italy, held on Saturday August 29, 1987....
  , Rome, Italy
• Women's Winner: Rosa Mota
  Rosa Mota
  
  Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of Merit , Pronunciation , is a Portugal former Marathon , one of her country's foremost athletes....
   (POR) 2:25:17

• September 6 — IAAF World Championships Marathon
  1987 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Marathon
  
  The official results of the Men's Marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome, Italy, held on Sunday September 6, 1987....
  , Rome, Italy
• Men's Winner: Douglas Wakiihuri
  Douglas Wakiihuri
  
  Douglas Wakiihuri is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome....
   (KEN) 2:11:48

• September 24 — Mediterranean Games Marathon
  Mediterranean Games
  
  The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years, mainly for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa and Asia meet....
  , Latakia
  Latakia
  
  Latakia or Latakiyah is the principal port city of Syria, capital of the Latakia Governorate. Its population is 554,000....
  , Syria
  Syria
  
  Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
  
• Men's Winner: Enrico Badessi (ITA) 2:24:13

• September 27 — Montreal Marathon, 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: Peter Maher
  Peter Maher
  
  Peter Kevin Maher was a Canada marathon runner who competed mainly in the 1990s. He was a resident of Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto....
   (CAN) 2:15:05
• Women's Winner: Jacqueline Gareau
  Jacqueline Gareau
  
  Jacqueline Gareau is a Canadian runner who won the Boston Marathon on April 21, 1980. Gareau led the women's field for most of the race, only to find another runner, Rosie Ruiz, wearing the traditional victor's laurels when she crossed the finish line....
   (CAN) 2:32:52

• October 4 — Berlin Marathon
  Berlin Marathon
  
  The Berlin Marathon is a major running and sporting event held annually in Berlin, Germany. The official marathon distance of 42.195 kilometers is set up as a city-wide Road running where professional athletes and amateur sportsmen jointly participate....
  , West Germany
  West Germany
  
  West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
  
• Men's Winner: Suleiman Nyambui
  Suleiman Nyambui
  
  Suleiman Nyambui is a former athlete from Tanzania who won the silver medal in 5000 metres at the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics.He also won a bronze medal at the Athletics at the 1978 All-Africa Games, and twice triumphed at the Berlin Marathon....
   (TAN) 2:11:11
• Women's Winner: Kerstin Preßler
  Kerstin Preßler
  
  Kerstin Marie-Luise Pre?ler is a former female long-distance runner from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the 1987 edition of the Berlin Marathon....
   (FRG) 2:31:22

• October 18 — Beijing Marathon
  Beijing Marathon
  
  The Beijing International Marathon is an annual race held in October in Beijing, China. The race was first held in 1981 and has been held every year since....
  , China PR
• Men's Winner: Juma Ikangaa
  Juma Ikangaa
  
  Juma Ikangaa is a world-class marathon runner from Tanzania, a sentimental favorite in Boston after finishing second three years in a row atthe Boston Marathon from 1988-1990....
   (TAN) 2:12:19

• November 1 — New York City Marathon
  New York City Marathon
  
  The New York City Marathon is a major annual Marathon whose course runs through all five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon in the world, with 37,850 finishers in 2006....
  , 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: Ibrahim Hussein
  Ibrahim Hussein
  
  Ibrahim Hussein is a retired long-distance Running from Kenya, who was a three time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1988, 1991, and 1992. He was also the winner of the New York City Marathon in 1987....
   (KEN) 2:11:01
• Women's Winner: Priscilla Welch
  Priscilla Welch
  
  Priscilla Welch was a British marathon runner. She had a most unlikely career in international athletics, having been a smoker of a pack a day until she began running competitively at age 35....
   (GBR) 2:30:17

• November 8 — Lisbon Marathon, Portugal
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  
• Men's Winner: Gualdino Viegas (POR) 2:13:59
• Women's Winner: Umbelina Nunes (POR) 3:00:56

• November 15 — Tokyo Marathon
  Tokyo Marathon
  
  The Tokyo International Marathon is held in Tokyo, Japan. It was first held in November 1979, and this race was the first women's marathon officially sanctioned by the International Association of Athletics Federations ....
  , 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....
  
• Women's Winner: Katrin Dörre
  Katrin Dörre
  
  Katrin D?rre-Heinig is a former athlete from Germany, who competed mainly in the marathon.She competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, where she won the bronze medal in the classic race over 42,195 km....
   (GDR) 2:25:24

• December 6 — 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: Takeyuki Nakayama
  Takeyuki Nakayama
  
  Takeyuki Nakayama was a Japanese world-class marathon runner. He represented his native country at the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon in Seoul, South Korea and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, South Korea....
   (JPN) 2:08:18

• December 13 — Honolulu Marathon
  Honolulu Marathon
  
  The Honolulu Marathon is the world's sixth largest marathon . It takes place annually in Honolulu, Hawaii on the second Sunday in December....
  , 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: Ibrahim Hussein
  Ibrahim Hussein
  
  Ibrahim Hussein is a retired long-distance Running from Kenya, who was a three time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1988, 1991, and 1992. He was also the winner of the New York City Marathon in 1987....
   (KEN) 2:18:26
• Women's Winner: Carla Beurskens
  Carla Beurskens
  
  Carolina Alwina Hubertina Beurskens was one of the Netherlands's most prominent female long distance runners from the second half of the seventies until far into the nineties of last century, including all distances from 3000 metres until the marathon....
   (NED) 2:35:11

National Champions

• October 4 — Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  , 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: Michael Dyon — 2:17:41
• Women's Winner: Marjorie Stewart — 2:46:02

Auto Racing

Auto racing

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

• Stock car racing
  Stock car racing
  
  Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and Brazil. Traditionally, races are run on oval track racing measuring approximately ? mile to 2.66 miles length, but are also raced on road courses....
  :
• Bill Elliott
  Bill Elliott
  
  William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007....
   won the Daytona 500
  Daytona 500
  
  The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
  
• NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt
  Dale Earnhardt
  
  Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's Winston Cup. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry Earnhardt, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt....
  
• CART Racing - Bobby Rahal
  Bobby Rahal
  
  Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal is an United States auto racing team owner and former driver, spending most of his driving career in the Champ Car open-wheel series, winning three championships there....
   won the season championship
• 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....
   - Al Unser Sr.
• Formula One Championship
  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 ....
   - Nelson Piquet
  Nelson Piquet
  
  Nelson Piquet Souto Maior , more commonly known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver who was Formula One world champion in 1981 Formula One season, 1983 Formula One season, and 1987 Formula One season....
   of 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....
  
• 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...
  : won by the team of Derek Bell
  Derek Bell (auto racer)
  
  Derek Reginald Bell MBE is a former racing driver from England who was extremely successful in sportscar racing, winning 5 times at 24 Hours of Le Mans....
   / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert
  Al Holbert
  
  Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert was an United States automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the International Motor Sports Association IMSA GT Championship series....
   driving a Porsche 962C
  Porsche
  
  Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
  
• Rally racing - Juha Kankkunen
  Juha Kankkunen
  
  Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen , born in Laukaa, Finland on April 2, 1959, made his name principally as a rally car driver. Aided partly by his record of 23 career victories on individual world rallies, he went on to drive Peugeot , Lancia and Toyota cars to four World Rally Championship driver's titles....
   in a Lancia
  Lancia
  
  Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italy automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage....
   won the World Rally Championship
  World Rally Championship
  
  The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer....
  
• the team of Miki Biasion / Tiziano Siviero 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 Lancia Delta HF 4x4
  Lancia
  
  Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italy automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage....
  
• 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....
  :
• Dick LaHaie won the NHRA "Top Fuel
  Top Fuel
  
  Top-Fuel Racing is a class of drag racing in which the cars are run on a maximum of 90% nitromethane and about 10% methanol , instead of gasoline....
  " championship.
• Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
• Touring car racing
  Touring car racing
  
  Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, and Australia....
  :
• Steve Soper
  Steve Soper
  
  Steve Soper is a retired racing driver from Surrey, England, born in 1952. He raced in sports car racing and touring car racing at the top level for over 20 years....
   and Pierre Dieudonné won the Bathurst 1000
  1987 James Hardie 1000
  
  |The 1987 James Hardie 1000 was the eighth round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship, the first round to be held in the southern hemisphere....
   endurance race in Australia, only to have their Ford Sierra
  Ford Sierra
  
  The Ford Sierra is a large family car built by Ford Europe from 1982 until 1993. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Qu?ment....
   (as well that of second-place team-mates Klaus Ludwig
  Klaus Ludwig
  
  File:KlausLudwig1975.jpgKlaus Ludwig is a German race driver. Unlike Hans-Joachim Stuck, Rolf Stommelen, Harald Ertl, Hans Heyer and Jochen Mass, he has never raced in single seaters ....
   and Klaus Niedzwiedz
  Klaus Niedzwiedz
  
  Klaus Niedzwiedz is a former professional race driver and motoring journalist....
  ) disqualified for illegal wheel arches. Peter Brock
  Peter Brock
  
  Peter Geoffrey Brock Order of Australia otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brockie" or "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers....
  , David Parsons
  David 'Skippy' Parsons
  
  David John 'Skippy' Parsons , was an Australian racing driver, who while never a full time racing driver, drove for the biggest racing teams in Australia....
   and Peter McLeod
  Peter McLeod
  
  Peter McLeod , was an Australian racing driver, best known as co-winner of the 1987 Bathurst 1000.McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and second fastest Ma...
   in a Holden Commodore
  Holden Commodore
  
  The Holden Commodore is an automobile manufactured by the Holden division of General Motors in Australia, and, formerly, in New Zealand. In the mid-1970s, Holden established proposals to replace the long-serving Holden Kingswood nameplate with an all-new smaller model....
  , who finished third, were awarded the victory. It was Brock's 9th and final Bathurst win.
• That disqualification changed the result of the one-off Group A
  Group A
  
  In relation to motorsport governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile, Group A referred to a set of regulations providing production-derived vehicles for outright competition....
   World Touring Car Championship, taking it from Ludwig and Niedzwiedz and giving it to Roberto Ravaglia
  Roberto Ravaglia
  
  Roberto Ravaglia currently runs BMW's Team Italy-Spain in the World Touring Car Championship , who took Alessandro Zanardi to a famous race victory at Oschersleben....
   who drove a BMW M3
  BMW E30
  
  The E30 automobile platform was the basis for the 1984 through 1991 BMW 3 Series entry-level luxury car / compact car. It was the successor of the BMW E21 in 1982 and was replaced by the BMW E36 in 1992....
   for Schnitzer Motorsport
  Schnitzer Motorsport
  
  Schnitzer Motorsport is a successful Motorsport Team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. In the last years, they mainly competed as BMW Team Germany in the World Touring Car Championship with drivers J?rg M?ller and Augusto Farfus who moved from Alfa Romeo during the winter leading up to the 2007 season....
  .

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...

• January 14: Catfish Hunter
  Catfish Hunter
  
  James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter , was a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher between 1965 and 1979. He is one of only 17 players to pitch a perfect game in an official Major League Baseball game....
   and Billy Williams
  Billy Williams (baseball player)
  
  Billy Leo Williams is a former outfielder in professional baseball. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. A highly competitive player on talented Chicago Cubs teams that never reached the post-season, he finally realized his dream of playing in the post-season late in his career with the Oakland Athletics....
   are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Hunter made his name as the ace of the Oakland A
  Oakland Athletics
  
  The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
  's staff in their championship years and made his fortune as one of the first free agents. Williams set an National League
  National League
  
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest existent professional team sports league....
   record by playing in 1,117 consecutive games and accumulating 426 home run
  Home run
  
  In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batting is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring run for himself and each baserunning who was already on base, with no error by the defensive team on the play....
  s and a batting title
  Batting average
  
  Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of batsman and hitter, respectively. The two statistics are related, in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages....
  .

• August 3: Minnesota Twins
  Minnesota Twins
  
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Twins are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
   pitcher Joe Niekro
  Joe Niekro
  
  Joseph Franklin Niekro was an United States starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, the younger brother of National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum pitcher Phil Niekro, and the father of first baseman Lance Niekro....
   is suspended for 10 days for possessing a nail file on the pitcher's mound. Niekro claimed he had been filing his nails in the dugout and put the file in his back pocket when the inning started.

• 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...
  : Minnesota Twins
  Minnesota Twins
  
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Twins are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
   won 4 games to 3 over the St. Louis Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
  . The Series MVP was Frank Viola
  Frank Viola
  
  Frank John Viola, Jr. is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins , New York Mets , Boston Red Sox , Cincinnati Reds and Toronto Blue Jays ....
  , Minnesota
• Lowest regular-season record of any World Series champion (85-77, .525)until 2006 (Cardinals 83-79)
• First World Series game played indoors (Game 1 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
  Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
  
  The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, often simply called The Metrodome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus....
  )
• First World Series where the home team won every game

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....

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
• Indiana won 74-73 over Syracuse
• NBA Finals
  National Basketball Association
  
  The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
  :
• Los Angeles Lakers
  Los Angeles Lakers
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
   won 4 games to 2 over the Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
  
  The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
• National Basketball League (Australia)
  National Basketball League (Australia)
  
  The National Basketball League is Australia's top-level professional basketball competition.The league commenced in 1979 NBL Season, playing a winter season and did so until the completion of the 20th season in 1998 NBL Season....
   Finals:
• Brisbane Bullets
  Brisbane Bullets
  
  The Brisbane Bullets were, until 2008, a professional basketball team competing in Australia's National Basketball League . The Bullets were one of only two teams that survived since the NBL's inception in 1979; the only surviving team is now the Wollongong Hawks....
   defeated the Perth Wildcats
  Perth Wildcats
  
  The Perth Wildcats are an Australia basketball team competing in the National Basketball League . The Wildcats are the only team in the league representing the state of Western Australia and are based in the state capital, Perth, Western Australia....
   2-0 in the best-of-three final series.

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....

• March 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  
  Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
  , Mike Tyson
  Mike Tyson
  
  Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
   adds the WBA
  World Boxing Association
  
  The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
   heavyweight title to his WBC belt when he beats James Smith
  James Smith (boxer)
  
  James "Bonecrusher" Smith is a former United States boxing who was briefly World Boxing Association heavyweight champion in the late 1980s. He is the first heavyweight champion with a college degree....
   in a 12 round decision.

• April 6 - Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard
  
  Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
   beats Marvin Hagler
  Marvin Hagler
  
  Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
   for boxing's world Middleweight championship.

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....

• 1987 Cricket World Cup
  1987 Cricket World Cup
  
  The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the fourth edition of the tournament. It was held from October 8 to November 8, 1987 in India and Pakistan - the first held outside England....
   - Final: 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....
   beat England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   by 7 runs

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....
   won by Stephen Roche
  Stephen Roche
  
  Stephen Roche is a retired professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus the world cycling championship....
   of 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....
  
• 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....
   - Stephen Roche
  Stephen Roche
  
  Stephen Roche is a retired professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus the world cycling championship....
   of 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....
  
• 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 ....
  : Stephen Roche
  Stephen Roche
  
  Stephen Roche is a retired professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus the world cycling championship....
   of 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....
  

Dogsled racing

Dogsled racing

Dogsled racing, more accurately referred to as sled dog racing, is a winter List of dog sports involving the timed competition of teams of sleddogs that pull a dog sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners....

• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
• Susan Butcher
  Susan Butcher
  
  Susan Howlet Butcher was an United States dog mushing, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years....
   won with lead dogs: Granite & Mattie

Field Hockey

Field hockey

Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....

World Competitions

• Men's Champions Trophy in Amstelveen
  Amstelveen
  
  is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Until 1964, the municipality of Amstelveen was called 'Nieuwer-Amstel'....
  , The Netherlands
• Gold Medal: West Germany
• Silver Medal: The Netherlands
• Bronze Medal: Australia

• Women's Champions Trophy in Amstelveen
  Amstelveen
  
  is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Until 1964, the municipality of Amstelveen was called 'Nieuwer-Amstel'....
  , The Netherlands
• Gold Medal: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: Australia
• Bronze Medal: South Korea

• Women's Olympic Qualifier
  1987 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
  
  The first Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in April 1987 . Six nations took part, and they played a round robin....
   in Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  
  Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
  , Scotland
  Scotland
  
  conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
  
• Gold Medal: United States
• Silver Medal: Canada
• Bronze Medal: Great Britain

Continental Competitions

• Men's European Nations Cup in Moscow
  Moscow
  
  Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
  , Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  
  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  
• Gold Medal: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: England
• Bronze Medal: West Germany

• Pan American Games (Men's Competition)
  1987 Pan American Games
  
  The 1987 Pan American Games, officilly known as the X Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, from 7 August to 23 August 1987....
   in Indianapolis, 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...
  
• Gold Medal: Canada
• Silver Medal: Argentina
• Bronze Medal: United States

• Women's European Nations Cup
  1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
  
  The 1987 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the second edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship for women. It was held at the Picketts Lock Centre in London, United Kingdom from September 3 to September 13, 1987....
   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....
  , England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  
• Gold Medal: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: England
• Bronze Medal: Soviet Union

• Pan American Games (Women's Competition)
  1987 Pan American Games
  
  The 1987 Pan American Games, officilly known as the X Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, from 7 August to 23 August 1987....
   in Indianapolis, 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...
  
• Gold Medal: Argentina
• Silver Medal: United States
• Bronze Medal: Canada

• March 21 – In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, London, where England beat the United States of America 3-1.

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: Brian Orser
  Brian Orser
  
  Brian Orser Order of Canada is a Canadian retired professional figure skater. He is one of the most accomplished skaters in Canada's history, with eight national titles, two Olympic medals, and a world title to his credit....
  , 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....
  
• Ladies' champion: Katarina Witt
  Katarina Witt
  
  Katarina Witt is a Germany Figure skating. In Germany she was commonly affectionately called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often....
  , 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....
  
• Pair skating champions: Ekaterina Gordeeva
  Ekaterina Gordeeva
  
  Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva is a Russian pair skater. Together with her late partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympics Champion....
   / Sergei Grinkov
  Sergei Grinkov
  
  Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov was an Olympic Games and World Figure Skating Championships figure skating champion....
  , Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  
  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  
• Ice dancing champions: Natalia Bestemianova
  Natalia Bestemianova
  
  Natalia Filimonovna Bestemianova is a former Soviet Union figure skating. With partner Andrei Bukin, she is the 1988 Winter Olympics....
   / Andrei Bukin
  Andrei Bukin
  
  Andrei Anatolievich Bukin was a Soviet Union figure skating....
  , Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  
  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  

Football

Football

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 (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....
)

• Super Bowl XXI
  Super Bowl XXI
  
  Super Bowl XXI was an American football game played on January 25, 1987 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League champion following the 1986 NFL season....
  : New York Giants
  New York Giants
  
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex....
   won 39-20 over the Denver Broncos
  Denver Broncos
  
  The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  
• Establishment of the University of East Anglia
  University of East Anglia
  
  The University of East Anglia is a public university research university located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963. The university is a member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities....
   American Football team, the UEA Pirates
  UEA Pirates
  
  The UEA Pirates used to be a member of the British Collegiate American Football League , however in 2007 moved to the British Universities American Football League ....
  

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...
  
• The West Coast Eagles
  West Coast Eagles
  
  The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. The club is based at Subiaco Oval in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia and was formed in August 1986 when the then Australian Football League expanded to include teams from Perth and Brisbane for the 1987 season....
   and the Brisbane Bears
  Brisbane Bears
  
  Brisbane Bears were an Australian rules football Club and was the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League. It played its first match in 1987, but struggled on and off the field until it made the finals for the first time in 1995....
   join the league.
• Carlton
  Carlton Football Club
  
  Carlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the third oldest club in the Australian Football League and List of Australian rules football clubs by date of establishment Australian rules football clubs....
   wins the 91st VFL Premiership (Carlton 15.14 (104) d Hawthorn
  Hawthorn Football Club
  
  Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League . The club is the youngest of the Victorian based teams as they were founded in 1902 yet is the most successful club of the past 50 years having won 10 Premierships, including the 2008 Premiership....
   9.17 (71))
• 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 Tony Lockett
  Tony Lockett
  
  Anthony Howard "Plugger" Lockett is a former Australian rules football player. Lockett is the highest goal scorer in the history of the Australian Football League with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games, that commenced in 1983 with the St Kilda Football Club, and finished in 2002 with the Sydney Swans....
   (St Kilda) and John Platten
  John Platten
  
  John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week....
   (Hawthorn)

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....
  : Edmonton Eskimos
  Edmonton Eskimos
  
  The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian Football League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They have won the league's Grey Cup championship thirteen times, including an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in 2005 Grey Cup....
   won 38-36 over the 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....
  
• Vanier Cup
  Vanier Cup
  
  The Vanier Cup is the name of the championship of Canadian Interuniversity Sport CIS football and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team....
  : McGill Redmen
  McGill Redmen
  
  The McGill Redmen are the men's athletic teams that represent McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The women's teams are known as the McGill Martlets....
   won 47-11 over the UBC Thunderbirds
  UBC Thunderbirds
  
  The UBC Thunderbirds are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment Lands just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
  

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 ....
 (Soccer)

Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation mainly focused on promoting Gaelic games: the traditional Ireland sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders....

• Camogie
  Camogie
  
  Camogie is a Modern Celts team sport. Played with a stick and ball, it is the women's variant of hurling, and is organised by the Camogie Association of Ireland....
  
• All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Kilkenny
  Kilkenny GAA
  
  The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny....
  
• National Camogie League: Kilkenny
  Kilkenny GAA
  
  The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny....
  

• Gaelic football
  Gaelic football
  
  Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football", "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. It is, together with hurling, one of the two most popular spectator sports in Ireland today....
  
• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  
  The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. The series of games are organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Football Final being played on the third or fourth Sunday in September in Crok...
  : Meath
  Meath GAA
  
  The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams....
   1-14 d. Cork
  Cork GAA
  
  The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Cork....
   0-11
• National Football League
  National Football League (Ireland)
  
  The National Football League is a Gaelic football tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
  : Dublin
  Dublin GAA
  
  The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the former County Dublin area....
   1-11 d. Kerry
  Kerry GAA
  
  The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....
   0-11

• Ladies' Gaelic football
  Ladies' Gaelic football
  
  Ladies' Gaelic Football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and coordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. It is the most prominent amateur team sport for women in Ireland....
  
• All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Kerry
  Kerry GAA
  
  The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....
  
• National Football League: Kerry
  Kerry GAA
  
  The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry....
  

• Hurling
  Hurling
  
  Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
  
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  
  The GAA All-Ireland Hurling Senior Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of hurling played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Hurling Final being played on the first or second Sunday in September in Croke Park, D...
  : Galway
  Galway GAA
  
  The Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Galway GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway....
   1-12 d. Kilkenny
  Kilkenny GAA
  
  The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny....
   0-9
• National Hurling League
  National Hurling League
  
  The National Hurling League is a hurling tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
  :

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 9-12 - Masters Tournament - Larry Mize
  Larry Mize
  
  Lawrence Hogan "Larry" Mize is an United States professional golfer. Despite a creditable career on the PGA Tour, he is mainly known for just one shot – the chip from off the green at the 11th hole at Augusta National Golf Club to win the playoff for the 1987 Masters Tournament, which remains his only Men's major golf championships tit...
  
• June 18-21 - 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....
   - Scott Simpson
  Scott Simpson (golfer)
  
  Scott William Simpson is an United States golfer.Simpson was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Southern California, where he was two-time medalist at the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships ....
  
• July 16-19 - 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....
   - Nick Faldo
  Nick Faldo
  
  Nicholas "Nick" Alexander Faldo Order of the British Empire is an England professional golfer on the European Tour, and is one of Europe's most successful players ever....
  
• August 6-9 - 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 ....
   - Larry Nelson
  Larry Nelson
  
  Larry Gene Nelson is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.Larry Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Acworth, Georgia, Georgia , northwest of Atlanta, Georgia....
  
• 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 - Curtis Strange
  Curtis Strange
  
  Curtis Northrup Strange is an American professional golfer. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between their debut in 1986 and 1990....
   - $925,941
• Senior PGA Tour
  Champions Tour
  
  The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older....
   money leader - Chi Chi Rodriguez - $509,145
• Ryder Cup
  Ryder Cup
  
  The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy, donated by Samuel Ryder, which is awarded biennially in an event called the "Ryder Cup Matches" between teams from Europe and the United States of America....
   - Europe
  Europe
  
  Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
   won 15-13 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...
   in team golf.

• 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"....
   - Paul Mayo
• U.S. Amateur - Billy Mayfair
• European Amateur
  European Amateur
  
  The European Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament. It is played at various locations throughout Europe. It was first played in 1986....
   - Anders Haglund

• Nabisco Dinah Shore
  Kraft Nabisco Championship
  
  The Kraft Nabisco Championship is one of the four Women's major golf championships golf tournaments for women on the LPGA Tour. It was founded in 1972 in sports by Dinah Shore and has been classified as a major since 1983 in sports....
   - Betsy King
  Betsy King
  
  Betsy King is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 6 women's major golf championships and thirty-four LPGA Tour victories in all....
  
• LPGA Championship
  LPGA Championship
  
  The LPGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U.S....
   - Jane Geddes
  Jane Geddes
  
  Jane Geddes is a retired United States professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1983 and won two major championships and 11 LPGA Tour victories overall....
  
• 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....
   - Laura Davies
  Laura Davies
  
  Laura Jane Davies Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an English professional golfer.She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times...
  
• Classique du Maurier Classic - Jody Rosenthal
• 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 - Ayako Okamoto
  Ayako Okamoto
  
  is a Japanese professional golfer. She won 62 tournaments internationally, including seventeen on the United States LPGA....
   - $466,034

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....

• 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....
   - Kensei
  Kensei
  
  In ancient Japan, a was an honorary title given to a warrior of legendary skill in swordsmanship. The literal translation of "kensei" is "sword saint"....
  
• 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....
   - Market Control
• 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....
   - Trempolino
  Trempolino
  
  Trempolino was an France Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the prestigious Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1987. He was bred by Marystead Farm, the American arm of French horseman Paul de Moussac, owner of the Haras du Mezeray stud farm at Ticheville in the Lower Normandy Regions of France....
  
• 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....
   - Sir Harry Lewis

• 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 - Don't Forget Me
  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....
      - Reference Point
     Reference Point (horse)
     
     Reference Point was a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing,who overcame sinus problems before winning York Racecourse's Dante Stakes, the Epsom Derby and St....
     
  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....
      - Reference Point
     Reference Point (horse)
     
     Reference Point was a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing,who overcame sinus problems before winning York Racecourse's Dante Stakes, the Epsom Derby and St....
     

• 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 2 - 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....
      - Alysheba
     Alysheba
     
     Alysheba is an United States thoroughbred race horse.A bay colt, Alysheba was sired by Alydar out of the mare Bel Sheba, by Lt. Stevens. Bred by Preston Madden at Hamburg Place Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Alysheba was sold as a yearling to Dorothy and Pam Scharbauer for $500,000....
     
  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....
      - Alysheba
     Alysheba
     
     Alysheba is an United States thoroughbred race horse.A bay colt, Alysheba was sired by Alydar out of the mare Bel Sheba, by Lt. Stevens. Bred by Preston Madden at Hamburg Place Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Alysheba was sold as a yearling to Dorothy and Pam Scharbauer for $500,000....
     
  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....
      - Bet Twice
     Bet Twice
     
     Bet Twice was an United States thoroughbred Stallion horse racing. Foaled in Kentucky, he was sired by Sportin' Life, who in turn was the son of the great stallion and Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United Kingdom champion, Nijinsky II, out of the mare, Golden Dust....
     

• Breeders' Cup
  Breeders' Cup
  
  The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Graded stakes race thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982....
  :
  1. Breeders' Cup Classic
     Breeders' Cup Classic
     
     The Breeders' Cup Classic is a graded stakes race Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 year olds and older run at a distance of 1? miles on dirt....
      - Ferdinand
     Ferdinand (horse)
     
     Ferdinand was a Thoroughbred racehorse racehorse who won the 1986 Kentucky Derby and 1987 Breeders' Cup Classic. He was voted the 1987 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year....
     
  2. Breeders' Cup Distaff
     Breeders' Cup Distaff
     
     The Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for Filly and mares, 3 years old and up. Known as the Breeders' Cup Distaff from its inception in 1984 through 2007, it is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      - Sacahuista
     Sacahuista
     
     Sacahuista is an United States Thoroughbred Eclipse Award filly horse racing. She is a descendant of Nearco through both her Leading sire in North America Bold Ruler and through her dam, Nalees Flying Flag....
     
  3. Breeders' Cup Juvenile
     Breeders' Cup Juvenile
     
     The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old Colt and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      - Success Express
     Success Express
     
     Success Express is an United States Thoroughbred horse racing. Bred by Tri Star Stable, he was raced by Eugene V. Klein.Trained by future National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee D....
     
  4. Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
     Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
     
     The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a 1 1/16-mile thoroughbred horse race on dirt for two-year-old filly run annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      - Epitome
  5. Breeders' Cup Mile
     Breeders' Cup Mile
     
     The Breeders' Cup Mile is a 1-mile conditions races Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up, run on a sod course....
      - Miesque
     Miesque
     
     Miesque is a champion thoroughbred filly race horse best known as the first horse to win two Breeders' Cup Championships back-to-back.Born from the mare Pasadoble, Miesque was sired by Nureyev , a son of Northern Dancer....
     
  6. Breeders' Cup Sprint
     Breeders' Cup Sprint
     
     The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an United States Weight for Age Graded stakes race Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs , the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      - Very Subtle
  7. Breeders' Cup Turf
     Breeders' Cup Turf
     
     The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on grass for three-year-olds and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      - Theatrical

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....

• The North America Cup
  North America Cup
  
  The North America Cup is an annual harness racing event for 3-year-old standardbred pacing horses which is held at Mohawk Raceway in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada....
   - Runnymede Lobell

• United States Pacing Triple Crown races
  Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers
  
  The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers consists of the following Harness racing:#Cane Pace, held at Freehold Raceway in Freehold, New Jersey...
  :
  1. Cane Pace
     Cane Pace
     
     The Cane Pace is a harness racing run annually since 1955 in sports. In 1956 in sports the race joined with the Little Brown Jug and the Messenger Stakes to become the first leg in the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers....
      - Righteous Bucks
  2. 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....
      - Jaguar Spur
  3. Messenger Stakes
     Messenger Stakes
     
     The Messenger Stakes is an United States harness racing event for 3-year-old pacing horses. It was organized in 1956 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York, New York to join with the Cane Pace and the Little Brown Jug to create the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers....
      - Redskin

• United States Trotting Triple Crown races
  Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters
  
  The Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters consists of the following Harness racing:# Hambletonian, held at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey...
  :
  1. 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...
      - Mack Lobell
     Mack Lobell
     
     Mack Lobell is a brown racing standardbred horse by Mystic Park out of Matina Hanover by Speedy Count.He won $3,917,594 during his career. He was elected Harness Horse of the Year in 1987 and 1988....
     
  2. Yonkers Trot
     Yonkers Trot
     
     The Yonkers Trot is a harness racing for three-year old trotting standardbreds held at Yonkers Raceway in New York. Starting in 2008, it is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters....
      - Mack Lobell
     Mack Lobell
     
     Mack Lobell is a brown racing standardbred horse by Mystic Park out of Matina Hanover by Speedy Count.He won $3,917,594 during his career. He was elected Harness Horse of the Year in 1987 and 1988....
     
  3. Kentucky Futurity
     Kentucky Futurity
     
     The Kentucky Futurity is a stakes race for three-year-old trotting horse, held annually at The Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky since 1893. It is part of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters....
      - Napoletano

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
• Pacers: Lightning Blue
• Trotters: Tussle

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: Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Gretzky
  
  Wayne Douglas Gretzky, Order of Canada is a retired Canada professional ice hockey player. He is the current part-owner, head of hockey operations, and coach of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League ....
  , Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in 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: Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Gretzky
  
  Wayne Douglas Gretzky, Order of Canada is a retired Canada professional ice hockey player. He is the current part-owner, head of hockey operations, and coach of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League ....
  , Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in the Western 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....
  : Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   won 4 games to 3 over the Philadelphia Flyers
  Philadelphia Flyers
  
  The Philadelphia Flyers are an ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• World Hockey Championship:
• Men's champion: Sweden
  Sweden
  
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
   defeated the Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  
  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  
• Junior Men's champion: 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....
   defeated 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....
   after a bench clearing brawl occurred between Canada and the Soviet Union

Lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....

• Inaugural season
  1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League season
  
  1987 was the inaugural season of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League. The season began on January 10, 1987 and concluded with the championship game on March 21....
   of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League (later the National Lacrosse League
  National Lacrosse League
  
  The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
  )
• Championship won by the Baltimore Thunder
  Baltimore Thunder
  
  The Baltimore Thunder were a member of the National Lacrosse League from 1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League season until 1999 NLL season. They were based in Baltimore, Maryland, and won the first Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League championship in 1987....
  

Rugby Union

Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....

• Rugby Union World Cup
• First World Cup held in 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....
   and New Zealand
  New Zealand
  
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  , won by New Zealand
  New Zealand
  
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  

Skiing

Skiing

Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....

• Alpine Skiing
  Alpine skiing
  
  Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
  
• The men's overall season champion: Pirmin Zurbriggen
  Pirmin Zurbriggen
  
  Pirmin Zurbriggen is a former champion Alpine skiing, one of the all-time best. He won the overall Alpine skiing World Cup title four times, an Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics gold medal in Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Downhill, and 9 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships medals ....
  , 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....
  
• The women's overall season champion: Maria Walliser
  Maria Walliser
  
  Maria Walliser is a Switzerland former alpine skiing.Together with her fellow Swiss Erika Hess, Michela Figini and Vreni Schneider she dominated the female alpine skiing during the 1980s....
  , 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....
  

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....
  : Steve Davis
  Steve Davis
  
  Steve Davis, Order of the British Empire, is an England professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Snooker Championship during the 1980s....
   beats Joe Johnson
  Joe Johnson (snooker player)
  
  Joe Johnson is an England former professional snooker player. He is most well known as the surprise winner of the World Snooker Championship 1986 World Snooker Championship....
   18-14
• World rankings
  Snooker world rankings
  
  The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments....
  : Steve Davis
  Steve Davis
  
  Steve Davis, Order of the British Empire, is an England professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Snooker Championship during the 1980s....
   remains world number one
  Snooker world number ones
  
  Below is a List of snooker players who have number 1 in the world rankings.Since the snooker world rankings began in 1976 only seven players have held the number one position - Ray Reardon, Cliff Thorburn, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins , Mark J....
   for 1987/88

Swimming

Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....

Events

• Tenth Pan American Games
  Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games
  
  The Swimming Tournament at the 1987 Pan American Games took place in Indianapolis, United States from August 9 to August 15, 1987. Events were held at the Indiana University Natatorium....
   held in Indianapolis, 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...
   (August 9 – August 15)
• Second Pan Pacific Championships
  1987 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  
  The second edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in 1987 in Brisbane, Australia, from August 13 until August 16....
   held in Brisbane, Australia (August 13 – August 16)

Records

• August 13 — Tom Jager
  Tom Jager
  
  Thomas Michael Jager is a former Freestyle swimming swimmer from Collinsville, Illinois, who earned four medals, including two golds, in three Summer Olympics....
   regains the world record from fellow American Matt Biondi
  Matt Biondi
  
  Matthew Nicholas Biondi is a three-time U.S. Olympic swimmer in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1988 Summer Olympics, and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a total of 11 medals....
   (22.33) in the 50m freestyle (long course) at the 1987 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  1987 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  
  The second edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in 1987 in Brisbane, Australia, from August 13 until August 16....
   in Brisbane, Australia, clocking 22.32.

Taekwondo

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. It is the world's most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners....

• World Championships
  1987 World Taekwondo Championships
  
  The 1987 World Taekwondo Championships were the 8th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Barcelona, Spain from October 7 to October 11, 1987....
   held in Barcelona, Spain

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....
      - Stefan Edberg
     Stefan Edberg
     
     Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam doubles titles during the course of his career....
     
  2. French Open - Ivan Lendl
     Ivan Lendl
     
     Ivan Lendl is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player of Czechs origin. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Pat Cash
     Pat Cash
     
     Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon championships in 1987....
     
  4. US Open - Ivan Lendl
     Ivan Lendl
     
     Ivan Lendl is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player of Czechs origin. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s....
     

• 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....
      - Hana Mandlikova
     Hana Mandlíková
     
     Hana Mandl?kov? is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles ? two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open ....
     
  2. French Open - Steffi Graf
     Steffi Graf
     
     Stefanie Maria Graf is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players ranked female tennis player from Germany. Billie Jean King is quoted as saying in 1999, "Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time." Martina Navratilova has included Graf on her list of great players....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Martina Navratilova
     Martina Navratilova
     
     Martina Navratilova is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players women's tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and Types of tennis match player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the...
     
  4. US Open - Martina Navratilova
     Martina Navratilova
     
     Martina Navratilova is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players women's tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and Types of tennis match player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the...
     

• Davis Cup
  1987 Davis Cup
  
  The 1987 Davis Cup was the 76th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 71 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the World Group, 32 in the European Zone , 13 in the Eastern Zone, and 11 in the American Zone....