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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
  1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  
  The 25th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989.The scoring rule New Life was introduced for the first time ever....
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• Men's all-around champion: Igor Korobchinsky
  Igor Korobchinsky
  
  Igor Korobchinsky is a former artistic gymnast that represented the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Ukraine....
  , USSR
• Women's all-around champion: Svetlana Boginskaya
  Svetlana Boginskaya
  
  Svetlana Leonidovna Boginskaya is a Soviet Union/Belarusian gymnast. She was called the "Belarusian Swan" and the "Goddess of Gymnastics" due to her height, balletic grace, and long lines....
  , USSR
• Men's team competition champion: USSR
• Women's team competition champion: USSR

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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1989 in athletics (track and field)

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Marathon

International Races

• January 29 — 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) 2:30:21

• March 5 — 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) 2:13:01
• Women's Winner: Zoya Ivanova
  Zoya Ivanova
  
  Zoya Ivanova is a retired long-distance Running from Kazakhstan, who represented the Soviet Union in the women's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
   (URS) 2:34:42

• March 19 — 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) 2:09:34

• April 16 — 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) 2:08:39
• Women's Winner: Elena Murgoci
  Elena Murgoci
  
  Elena Murgoci-Florea was a female long-distance runner from Romania, who specialized in the marathon race.Murgoci represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in 32nd place in the women's marathon race....
   (ROM) 2:32:03

• April 17 — 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: 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) 2:09:06
• 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) 2:24:33

• April 23 — 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: 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) 2:09:03
• Women's Winner: Veronique Marot
  Véronique Marot
  
  V?ronique Marot is a former elite long distance Running from England, and a past List_of_winners_of_the_London_Marathon of the London Marathon....
   (GBR) 2:25:56

• April 30 — 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: Steve Brace
  Steve Brace
  
  Steve Brace is a former long-distance Running from Wales, who represented the United Kingdom in the men's marathon at the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon and Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
   (GBR) 2:13:03
• Women's Winner: Kazue Kojima
  Kazue Kojima
  
  Kazue Kojima is a Japanese Freestyle swimming Swimming who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1932 she was a member of the Japanese relay team which finished fifth in the Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay....
   (JPN) 2:29:23

• May 1 — 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: Guido Genicco (ITA) 2:20:43
• Women's Winner: Pascaline Wangui (KEN) 2:46:28

• May 8 — 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: Gerard Nijboer
  Gerard Nijboer
  
  Gerard Nijboer was a Netherlands athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon.He competed for the Netherlands in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 Summer Olympics , when he won the silver medal in the Men's Marathon....
   (NED) 2:13:52
• Women's Winner: Gabriela Gorzynska (POL) 2:47:16

• May 21 — 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: Nivaldo Filho (BRA) 2:13:21
• Women's Winner: Jolanda Homminga (NED) 2:40:28

• August 26 — 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) 2:10:57
• Women's Winner: Alena Peterkova (CZE) 2:40:28

• October 1 — 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: Gidamis Shahanga
  Gidamis Shahanga
  
  Gidamis Shahanga is a retired Tanzanian long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and the marathon race. He is not te bo confused with his countryman Alfredo Shahanga....
   (TAN) 2:10:11
• Women's Winner: Paivi Tikkanen (FIN) 2:28:45

• October 15 — 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: Peter Dall (DEN) 2:12:47

• October 29 — Chicago Marathon
  Chicago Marathon
  
  The Bank of America's Chicago Marathon is a major marathon held yearly in Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. Alongside the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, London Marathon and Berlin Marathons, it is one of the five World Marathon Majors....
  , 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: Paul Davies-Hale (GBR) 2:11:25
• Women's Winner: Lisa Weidenbach (USA) 2:28:15

• November 5 — 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: 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....
   (KEN) 2:08:01
• 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) 2:25:30

• November 6 — 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: Joaquim Silva
  Joaquim Silva
  
  Joaquim Silva is a retired long-distance Running from Portugal, who won the 1994 edition of the Vienna Marathon. He represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in 27th place ....
   (POR) 2:16:56
• Women's Winner: Evany Souza (BRA) 2:47:27

• November 19 — 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: Lyubov Klochko (URS) 2:31:33

• December 3 — 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: Manuel Matias
  Manuel Matias
  
  Manuel Fernando Gonilho Matias is a retired long-distance Running from Portugal, who won the 1989 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:12:54 on December 3, 1989....
   (POR) 2:12:54

• December 10 — 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: Simon Robert Naali
  Simon Robert Naali
  
  Simon Robert Naali was a Tanzanian marathon race.He finished eleventh at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in 2:19:30 hours. In addition he won the bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games....
   (TAN) 2:11:47
• 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) 2:31:50

National Champions

• September 24 — Montreal, 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....
   — 2:20:07
• Women's Winner: Ellen Rochefort — 2:39:46

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....
  :
• Darrell Waltrip
  Darrell Waltrip
  
  Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
   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 - Rusty Wallace
  Rusty Wallace
  
  Russell William "Rusty" Wallace is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Nationwide Series car owner, and television broadcaster with NASCAR on ESPN and ESPN on ABC and co-host of NASCAR Angels....
  
• CART Racing
  Cart
  
  A cart is a vehicle or device designed for transport, using two or four wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people....
   - season championship won by Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi
  
  Emerson Fittipaldi is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver, winning championships in both Formula One and Champcars, and the Indianapolis 500 twice....
  
• 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....
   - Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi
  
  Emerson Fittipaldi is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver, winning championships in both Formula One and Champcars, and the Indianapolis 500 twice....
  
• 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 ....
   - Alain Prost
  Alain Prost
  
  Alain Marie Pascal Prost, Order of the British Empire, Chevalier de la L?gion d'honneur is a French People racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, only Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher have won more titles than Prost....
   of 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....
  
• 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 Jochen Mass
  Jochen Mass
  
  Jochen Richard Mass is a former racing driver from Germany.He participated in 114 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 14, 1973....
   / Manuel Reuter
  Manuel Reuter
  
  Manuel Reuter is a former Germany race car driver.He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice:*in 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans for Sauber-Mercedes...
   / Stanley Dickens
  Stanley Dickens
  
  Stanley Dickens is a Sweden race car driver who won the Le Mans 24 hours in 1989 driving a Sauber C9-Mercedes-Benz....
   driving a Sauber-Mercedes
• Rally racing - Miki Biasion 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 Integrale
• 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....
   - Gary Ormsby 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.

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...

• April 8 - One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott
  Jim Abbott
  
  James Anthony Abbott is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the New York Yankees, the Chicago White Sox, and the Milwaukee Brewers, from to ....
   makes his major-league debut with the California Angels
  Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  
  The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball based in Anaheim, California. The Angels are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
  , without spending a single day in the minor leagues. He went on to a 12-12 record for the season.

• August 10 - Ten months after undergoing surgery for cancer in his pitching arm, San Francisco Giants
  San Francisco Giants
  
  The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
   pitcher Dave Dravecky
  Dave Dravecky
  
  David Francis Dravecky is a Christian motivational speaker, author, and former Major League Baseball player for the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants ....
   returns to the major leagues, winning his comeback 4-3.

• August 15 - Dave Dravecky
  Dave Dravecky
  
  David Francis Dravecky is a Christian motivational speaker, author, and former Major League Baseball player for the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants ....
  's comeback bid ends when his pitching arm breaks in the sixth inning of his second start. Two years later, the cancer-stricken arm would be amputated.

• August 24 - Following an investigation that he gambled on baseball, superstar player Pete Rose
  Pete Rose
  
  Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, Sr. , nicknamed Charlie Hustle, is a former player and Manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from to , best known for his many years with the Cincinnati Reds....
   is banned from baseball for life.

• 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...
  : Oakland Athletics
  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....
   won 4 games to 0 over the San Francisco Giants
  San Francisco Giants
  
  The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
  . The Series MVP was Dave Stewart
  Dave Stewart (baseball player)
  
  David Keith Stewart is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was known for the way he used to stare down batters when pitching to them....
  , Oakland.

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:
• Michigan
  University of Michigan
  
  The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
   wins 80-79 over Seton Hall
  Seton Hall University
  
  Seton Hall University is a Private university Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States....
   in overtime

• 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....
  |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....
  :
• Detroit Pistons
  Detroit Pistons
  
  The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills....
   win 4 games to 0 over the 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....
   to win the franchise's first championship.

• 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:
• North Melbourne Giants
  North Melbourne Giants
  
  The North Melbourne Giants were an Australian basketball team, that played in Melbourne, Victoria , in the National Basketball League ....
   defeated the Canberra Cannons
  Canberra Cannons
  
  The Canberra Cannons were a basketball team competing in the Australian National Basketball League . They went into financial administration in 2003 and were relocated to Newcastle, Australia, where they became the Hunter Pirates....
   2-1 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....

• February 11 – In Grenoble
  Grenoble
  
  Grenoble is a city in southeastern France situated at the foot of the Alps where the Drac River joins the Is?re River.Located in the Rh?ne-Alpes regions of France, Grenoble is the capital of the Departments of France of Is?re....
  , 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....
  , Rene Jacquot
  Rene Jacquot
  
  Rene Jacquot is a former professional boxer and world title holder....
   won a 12 round decision over Donald Curry
  Donald Curry
  
  Donald Curry is a retired Fort Worth boxer nicknamed the 'Lone Star Cobra'....
   to win the World Welterweight Championship

• May 29 to June 3 – 28th European Amateur Boxing Championships
  1989 European Amateur Boxing Championships
  
  The European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Athens, Greece from May 29 to June 3, with the participation of 160 fighters from 26 countries....
   held in Athens, Greece
• Light Flyweight (– 48 kg): Ivailo Marinov
  Ivailo Marinov
  
  Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxing, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics...
   (Bulgaria)
• Flyweight (– 51 kg): Yuri Arbaczakov (Soviet Union)
• Bantamweight (– 54 kg): Serafim Todorov
  Serafim Todorov
  
  Serafim Simeonov Todorov or Gogi Todoridze was a Bulgarian/Georgian people Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics who won a silver medal. He is the last boxer to ever defeat the highly regarded Floyd Mayweather Jr....
   (Bulgaria)
• Featherweight (– 57 kg): Kirkor Kirkorov
  Kirkor Kirkorov
  
  Kirkor Kirkorov is a retired boxing from Bulgaria, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was defeated in the first round of the Men's Featherweight Division by Germany's eventual bronze medalist Andreas Tews....
   (Bulgaria)
• Lightweight (– 60 kg): Konstantin Tszyu (Soviet Union)
• Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg): Igor Ruznikov (Soviet Union)
• Welterweight (– 67 kg): Siegfried Mehnert
  Siegfried Mehnert
  
  Siegfried Mehnert is a former amateur boxing from East Germany. He is best known for twice winning the European title in the Men's Welterweight division....
   (East Germany)
• Light Middleweight (– 71 kg): Israel Akopkochyan (Soviet Union)
• Middleweight (– 75 kg): Henry Maske
  Henry Maske
  
  Henry Maske is a Germany boxing, who was one of the most popular German sports figures and the most successfull german professional boxer of alltime....
   (East Germany)
• Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg): Sven Lange (East Germany)
• Heavyweight (– 91 kg): Arnold Vanderlyde
  Arnold Vanderlyde
  
  Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde is a former boxer from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division , starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California....
   (Netherlands)
• Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg): Ulli Kaden
  Ulli Kaden
  
  Ulli Kaden is a former East German amateur boxer best known to win the European title 1987 and 1989 at super heavyweight....
   (East Germany)

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 Laurent Fignon
  Laurent Fignon
  
  Laurent Fignon is a France former professional road bicycle racer, who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984, and missed winning it a third time, in 1989, by the closest margin ever to decide the tour, 8 seconds ....
   of 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....
  
• 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....
   - Greg LeMond
  Greg LeMond
  
  Gregory James "Greg" LeMond is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California, California....
   of 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...
  
• 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 ....
  : Greg LeMond
  Greg LeMond
  
  Gregory James "Greg" LeMond is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California, California....
   of 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...
  

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:
• Joe Runyan won with lead dogs: Rambo & Ferlin the Husky

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 World Cup Qualifier Tournament in Madison, Wisconsin
  Madison, Wisconsin
  
  Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
  , 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: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: Canada
• Bronze Medal: India

• Men's Champions Trophy in Berlin
  Berlin
  
  Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal: Australia
• Silver Medal: West Germany
• Bronze Medal: The Netherlands

• Women's World Cup Qualifier Tournament in New Delhi
  New Delhi
  
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. With a total area of 42.7 km2, New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi and serves as the seat of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi ....
  , India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  
• Gold Medal: South Korea
• Silver Medal: China
• Bronze Medal: Spain

• Women's Champions Trophy in Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
  
  is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal: South Korea
• Silver Medal: Australia
• Bronze Medal: West Germany

Regional Competitions

• Men's Asia Cup in New Delhi, India
• Gold Medal: Pakistan
• Silver Medal: India
• Bronze Medal: South Korea

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: Kurt Browning
  Kurt Browning
  
  Kurt Browning, Order of Canada is a Canadian figure skating and choreographer. He is a four-time World Figure Skating Championships and four-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships....
  , 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: Midori Ito
  Midori Ito
  
  is a former Japanese figure skater. She is the World Figure Skating Championships and the 1992 Winter Olympics. In 1988, she became the first woman to land a axel jump in competition....
  , 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....
  
• 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: Marina Klimova
  Marina Klimova
  
  Marina Vladimirovna Klimova is an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union and the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Her skating partner and husband is Sergei Ponomarenko....
   / Sergei Ponomarenko
  Sergei Ponomarenko
  
  Sergei Vladilenovich Ponomarenko is a Russian ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union and the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics. His skating partner and wife is Marina Klimova....
  , 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

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

American football

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

• Super Bowl XXIII
  Super Bowl XXIII
  
  Super Bowl XXIII was an American football game played on January 22, 1989 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football League champion following the 1988 NFL season....
  : San Francisco 49ers
  San Francisco 49ers
  
  The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in , while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California....
   won 20-16 over the Cincinnati Bengals
  Cincinnati Bengals
  
  The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. It is currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National 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...
  
• 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....
   wins the 93rd VFL Premiership (Hawthorn 21.18 (144) d Geelong
  Geelong Football Club
  
  Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the city of Geelong. Playing in the Australian Football League , they have won seven Australian Football League premierships, and nine McClelland Trophies.....
   21.12 (138))
• 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 Paul Couch
  Paul Couch
  
  Paul Couch is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League.Prior to playing with Geelong, Couch initially tried out with Fitzroy Football Club, but was rejected for being too slow....
   (Geelong)

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....
  : Saskatchewan Roughriders
  Saskatchewan Roughriders
  
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, founded in 1910 in sports. They play their home games at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field....
   won 43-40 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Flying Wildcats....
  
• 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....
  : Western Ontario Mustangs
  Western Ontario Mustangs
  
  The Western Ontario Mustangs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.UWO has teams for badminton, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country running, curling, Fencing , field hockey, figure skating, Canadian football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, Sport rowing, rugby union, fo...
   won 35-10 over the Saskatchewan Huskies
  Saskatchewan Huskies
  
  The University of Saskatchewan began in 1907 and has operated teams that compete with others since 1911. The term Huskie Athletics is defined as those student Sportsperson from the University of Saskatchewan that compete in elite interuniversity competition administered by Canadian Interuniversity Sport and its members, both as regions and as indi...
  

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...
  : 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....
   0-17 d. Mayo 1-11
• 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....
  : 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....
   0-15 d. 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....
   0-12

• 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...
  : Tipperary
  Tipperary GAA
  
  The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary....
   4-24 d. Antrim
  Antrim GAA
  
  The Antrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Antrim GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Antrim....
   3-9
• 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 6-9 - Masters Tournament - 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....
  
• June 15-18 - 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....
   - 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....
  
• July 20-23 - 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....
   - Mark Calcavecchia
  Mark Calcavecchia
  
  Mark John Calcavecchia is an United States professional golfer.Calcavecchia was born in Laurel, Nebraska. He attended the University of Florida and earned All-Southeastern Conference honors in 1979....
  
• August 10-13 - 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 ....
   - Payne Stewart
  Payne Stewart
  
  William Payne Stewart was an United States professional golfer who won three Men's major golf championships in his career, the last of which occurred only months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42....
  
• 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 - Tom Kite
  Tom Kite
  
  Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. is an United Statesn professional golfer. He spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994....
   - $1,395,278
• 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 - Bob Charles
  Bob Charles (golfer)
  
  Sir Robert James "Bob" Charles, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire is a New Zealand professional golfer whose achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf Men's major golf championships, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his...
   - $725,887
• 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....
   and 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...
   teams tied 14-14 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"....
   - Stephen Dodd
  Stephen Dodd
  
  Stephen Dodd is a Wales golfer who after a very moderate career, unexpectedly won two events on the European Tour in the 2005 season at the age of 38....
  
• U.S. Amateur - Chris Patton
• 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....
   - David Ecob

• 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....
   - Juli Inkster
  Juli Inkster
  
  Juli Inkster is an American professional golfer who plays on the United States-based LPGA Tour....
  
• 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....
   - Nancy Lopez
  Nancy Lopez
  
  Nancy Lopez is an United States professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won three women's major golf championships and 48 LPGA Tour events in all....
  
• 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....
   - 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....
  
• Classique du Maurier - Tammie Green
  Tammie Green
  
  Tammie Green is an United States golfer....
  
• 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 - 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....
   - $654,132

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....
   - Tawrrific
• 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....
   - With Approval
  With Approval
  
  With Approval is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour....
  
• 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....
   - Carroll House
• 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....
   - Old Vic

• 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 - Nashwan
     Nashwan
     
     Nashwan was a thoroughbred racehorse bred and owned by Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum.The Chestnut Colt was sired by the 1977 Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Blushing Groom out of Height of Fashion , a daughter of Bustino previously owned by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
     
  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....
      - Nashwan
     Nashwan
     
     Nashwan was a thoroughbred racehorse bred and owned by Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum.The Chestnut Colt was sired by the 1977 Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Blushing Groom out of Height of Fashion , a daughter of Bustino previously owned by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
     
  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....
      - Michelozzo

• United States Triple Crown Races
  Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
  
  The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
  :
  1. May 6 - Kentucky Derby
     Kentucky Derby
     
     The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
      - Sunday Silence
     Sunday Silence
     
     Sunday Silence was an United States thoroughbred race horse. He was foaled in 1986, sired by Halo out of Wishing Well. Though he was registered as a dark bay/brown, he was in fact a true black....
     
  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....
      - Sunday Silence
     Sunday Silence
     
     Sunday Silence was an United States thoroughbred race horse. He was foaled in 1986, sired by Halo out of Wishing Well. Though he was registered as a dark bay/brown, he was in fact a true black....
     
  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....
      - Easy Goer
     Easy Goer
     
     Easy Goer was an United States Champion Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, famous for beating 1989 Horse of the Year Sunday Silence in the 1989 Belmont Stakes by a resounding and astonishing 8 lengths....
     

• 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....
      - Sunday Silence
     Sunday Silence
     
     Sunday Silence was an United States thoroughbred race horse. He was foaled in 1986, sired by Halo out of Wishing Well. Though he was registered as a dark bay/brown, he was in fact a true black....
     
  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....
      - Bayakoa
     Bayakoa
     
     Bayakoa was a Thoroughbred Eclipse Award racehorse bred in Argentina. A descendant of the very important sire Nearco through both her sire and dam, after racing successfully in Argentina, Bayakoa was sold to Americans, Janis and Frank Whitham....
     
  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....
      - Rhythm
     Rhythm (horse)
     
     Rhythm was an United States Eclipse Award Thoroughbred horse racing. Regally bred in Kentucky, he was out of the Graded stakes race winning mare Dance Number who was a daughter of the Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, Northern Dancer....
     
  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....
      - Go for Wand
     Go For Wand
     
     Go For Wand was a champion United States thoroughbred racehorse.Sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Deputy Minister , out of Obeah . Go For Wand was foaled and raised at Christiana Stables....
     
  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....
      - Steinlen
  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....
      - Dancing Spree
  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....
      - Prized
     Prized
     
     Prized is an American Thoroughbred Horse racing who won the 1989 Breeders' Cup Turf in his first start on grass. He was bred by Meadowbrook Farm who raced him in partnership with Clover Racing Stable....
     

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....

• 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....
   - Quite A Sensation

• 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....
      - Dancing Master
     Dancing master
     
     Dancing master may refer to:* The Dancing Master, a dance manual, first published by John Playford in 1651* Dancing master, an early term for a dance teacher, or perhaps a Choreography...
     
  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....
      - Goalie Jeff
  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....
      - Sandman Hanover

• 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...
      - Park Ave Joe & Probe (dead heat)
  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....
      - Valley Victory
  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....
      - Peace Corps

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
• Pacers: Jodie's Babe
• Trotters: Yankee Loch

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: Mario Lemieux
  Mario Lemieux
  
  Mario Lemieux is a retired Canada professional ice hockey Centre who played 17 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984?85 NHL season and 2004?05 NHL season....
  , Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern 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 ....
  , Los Angeles Kings
  Los Angeles Kings
  
  The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of 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....
  : Calgary Flames
  Calgary Flames
  
  The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   won 4 games to 2 over the Montreal Canadiens
  Montreal Canadiens
  
  The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The team is a member of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  . The first time and only team ever that the visiting team won their game at the Montreal Forum against the Montreal Canadiens.

• World Hockey Championship
• Men's 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....
   defeated 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....
  
• Junior Men's 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....
   defeated 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....
  

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 ....

• The Philadelphia Wings
  Philadelphia Wings
  
  The Philadelphia Wings are a member of the National Lacrosse League, a professional box lacrosse league in North America. They play at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
   defeat the New York Saints
  New York Saints
  
  The New York Saints are a former member of the National Lacrosse League. They played at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York from 1989 MILL season to 2003 NLL season....
   to win the Major Indoor Lacrosse League championship

Radiosport

Radiosport

The term radiosport is of modern Eastern European origin and is used to describe any of several competitive amateur radio activities. It is most often written as a single word, as in radiosport, but can be found as two separate words, as in radio sport....

• Second 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....
  an High Speed Telegraphy
  High Speed Telegraphy
  
  High Speed Telegraphy competitions challenge individuals to correctly receive and copy Morse code transmissions sent at very high speeds. It is most popular in Eastern Europe, where it is one of several activities collectively referred to as radiosport....
   Championship held in Hannover, Germany.

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: Marc Girardelli
  Marc Girardelli
  
  Marc Girardelli is a former Alpine skiing, a five time Alpine Skiing World Cup overall champion who excelled in all five alpine disciplines.Girardelli started skiing at the age of five, and started racing at seven....
  , Luxembourg
  Luxembourg
  
  Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....
  
• The women's overall season champion: Vreni Schneider
  Vreni Schneider
  
  Verena Schneider is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful female ski racer ever and was elected "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century"....
  , 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 John Parrott
  John Parrott
  
  John Parrott Order of the British Empire is an England professional snooker player.He won the World Snooker Championship in World Snooker Championship 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final....
   18-3
• 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 1989/90

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

• Third Pan Pacific Championships
  1989 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  
  The third edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in 1989 in Tokyo, Japan from August 17 to August 20....
  , held in Tokyo, Japan (August 17 – 20)

Records

• August 20 — 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....
   once again regains the world record (22.14) in the 50m freestyle (long course) during 1989 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  1989 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  
  The third edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in 1989 in Tokyo, Japan from August 17 to August 20....
  , with a time of 22.12.

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
  1989 World Taekwondo Championships
  
  The 1989 World Taekwondo Championships were the 9th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Seoul, South Korea from October 9 to November 14, 1989....
   held in Seoul, South Korea

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....
      - 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....
     
  2. French Open - Michael Chang
     Michael Chang
     
     Michael Te-Pei Chang is an American former professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male winner of a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Boris Becker
     Boris Becker
     
     Boris Franz Becker is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic Games gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17....
     
  4. US Open - Boris Becker
     Boris Becker
     
     Boris Franz Becker is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic Games gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17....
     

• 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....
      - 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....
     
  2. French Open - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
     Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
     
     Ar?nzazu Arantxa Isabel Maria S?nchez Vicario is a Spanish professional tennis player. She won four Grand Slam singles titles, six Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - 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....
     
  4. US 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....
     

• Davis Cup
  Davis Cup
  
  The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format....
  : Germany F.R.
  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....
   won 3-2 over 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....
   in world tennis.

Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....

Men's Competition

• FIVB World Cup
  1989 FIVB Men's World Cup
  
  The 1989 Volleyball World Cup was the sixth edition of the event, held from Friday November 17 to Sunday November 26, 1989 in Japan. Eight men's national teams played in three cities in Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain ....
   in several cities in 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• Asian Championship
  Asia Volleyball Championship
  
  The Asian Volleyball Championship is a sport for national teams, currently held biannually and organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation, the Asia volleyball federation....
   in Seoul, South Korea
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• European Championship
  1989 Men's European Volleyball Championship
  
  The European Volleyball Championship was the sixteenth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Conf?d?ration Europ?enne de Volleyball....
   in Stockholm, Sweden
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

Women's Competition

• FIVB World Cup in several cities in 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• Asian Championship
  Asia Volleyball Championship
  
  The Asian Volleyball Championship is a sport for national teams, currently held biannually and organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation, the Asia volleyball federation....
   in Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  
  Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• European Championship
  1989 Women's European Volleyball Championship
  
  The European Volleyball Championship was the sixteenth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Conf?d?ration Europ?enne de Volleyball....
   in Stuttgart
  Stuttgart
  
  Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

Water polo

Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....

Men's Competition

• FINA World Cup in Berlin
  Berlin
  
  Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• European Championship in Bonn
  Bonn
  
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

Women's Competition

• European Championship in Bonn
  Bonn
  
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

Multi-sport event

Multi-sport event

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

• Third World Games
  World Games
  
  The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are organised and governed by the International World Games Association , under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee ....
   held in Karlsruhe
  Karlsruhe
  
  Karlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the France-German border.Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany whose decisions have the force of a law, and the...
  , 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....
  

• 15th Summer Universiade
  1989 Summer Universiade
  
  The 1989 Summer Universiade, also known as the XV Summer Universiade, took place in Duisburg, West Germany....
   held in Duisburg
  Duisburg
  
  Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
  , 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....
  

• Fourteenth Winter Universiade
  1989 Winter Universiade
  
  The 1989 Winter Universiade, the XIV Winter Universiade, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria....
   held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Awards

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : Joe Montana
  Joe Montana
  
  For the actor with a similarly pronounced name, see Joe Mantegna.Joseph Clifford Montana, Jr., , nicknamed Joe Cool and Comeback Joe, is a retired United States American football player whose professional career in the National Football League spanned the late 1970s through the mid-1990s....
  , National Football League
  National Football League
  
  The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
  
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
  Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  
  The first Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete....
  : 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....
  , 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....
  

Births

• January 9 — Dinko Jukic
  Dinko Jukic
  
  Dinko Jukic is a male medley swimming and butterfly swimming swimmer from Austria, who was born in Croatia. He competed for Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in tenth place in the men's 200m butterfly event....
  , Austrian swimmer
• January 9 — Michaëlla Krajicek
  Michaëlla Krajicek
  
  Micha?lla Krajicek is a Netherlands professional tennis player. Her highest Women's Tennis Association#WTA Rankings was number 30 on 11 February 2008....
  , Dutch tennis player
• January 26 — Imogen Cairns
  Imogen Cairns
  
  Imogen Jane Cairns is an English gymnast. She has won the British Junior Championship twice, in 2003 & 2004. She is coached by Liz Kincaid at the Academy of Gymnastics in Portishead, Somerset....
  , British gymnast
• February 4 — Febian Brandy
  Febian Brandy
  
  Febian Earlston Brandy is an England association football currently playing for Hereford United F.C. on loan from Manchester United F.C.. His regular position is as a Forward ....
  , English football (soccer) player
• February 17 — Rebecca Adlington
  Rebecca Adlington
  
  Rebecca Adlington Order of the British Empire is a British freestyle swimming swimmer. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre freestyle and Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 metre freestyle, breaking the 19 year-old world record of Janet Evans in the...
  , British swimmer
• February 18 — Xue Chen
  Xue Chen
  
  Xue Chen is a Chinese people female beach volleyball player, measuring 6'3" or 191 cm in height. Her hometown is Fuzhou, Fujian, but she trains in Sanya, Hainan....
  , Chinese beach volleyball player
• February 19 — Sone Aluko
  Sone Aluko
  
  Sone Aluko is an England association footballer currently playing for Aberdeen F.C.. Born in Birmingham and of Nigerian background, he is a forward and has been capped by England at all levels up to under-19....
  , English football (soccer) player
• February 24 — Kosta Koufos
  Kosta Koufos
  
  Konstantine Demetrios ?Kosta? Koufos is a Greek American professional basketball player. He was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft....
  , American-born Greek basketball player
• February 25 — Lee Sang-Hwa
  Lee Sang-Hwa
  
  Lee Sang-Hwa is a South Korean long track speed skating who specialises in the sprint distances. She is a World Single Distance Championships medallist on the 500 metres, and on this distance she has also placed in the top three in World Cup events four times....
  , South Korean long track speed skater
• March 6 — Agnieszka Radwanska
  Agnieszka Radwanska
  
  Agnieszka Radwanska is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player.She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Wimbledon Championships at The Championships, Wimbledon....
  , Polish tennis player
• March 16 — Theo Walcott
  Theo Walcott
  
  Theo James Walcott is an English people Association football who currently plays for Arsenal F.C. and the England national football team....
  , English football (soccer) player
• April 3 — Zsuzsanna Jakabos
  Zsuzsanna Jakabos
  
  Zsuzsanna Jakabos is a Hungary swimmer, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008.References...
  , Hungarian swimmer
• April 25 — Michael van Gerwen
  Michael van Gerwen
  
  Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player, nicknamed Mighty Mike. In January 2007, van Gerwen became the youngest player ever to compete at the BDO version of the World Professional Darts Championship at the age of 17 years, 257 days....
  , Dutch darts player
• May 3 — Shavahn Church
  Shavahn Church
  
  Shavahn Church is a United Kingdom gymnast, who lives and trains in California. She formerly competed for the United States but decided in 2005 to represent Great Britain....
  , British gymnast
• May 3 — Katinka Hosszú
  Katinka Hosszú
  
  Katinka Hossz? is a female Hungary swimmer, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008.References...
  , Hungarian swimmer
• May 13 — Bethania de la Cruz
  Bethania de la Cruz
  
  Bethania De la Cruz De Pe?a is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who twice won the bronze medal with the Dominican Republic women's national volleyball team at the NORCECA Championship....
  , Dominican Republic volleyball player
• June 2 — Freddy Adu
  Freddy Adu
  
  Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu is an American football striker or attacking midfielder. He plays for AS Monaco FC on loan from S.L. Benfica....
  , Ghana-born American football (soccer) player
• June 3 — Katie Hoff
  Katie Hoff
  
  Kathryn Elise Hoff is an United States swimming. Hoff is strongest in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley, though she is a very capable swimmer in many events, ranging from the four 200 meter events to the 800 meter freestyle....
  , American swimmer
• June 17 — Omar Pinzón
  Omar Pinzón
  
  Omar Andr?s Pinz?n Garc?a is a backstroke swimmer from Colombia who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece for his native country....
  , Colombia backstroke swimmer
• July 17 — Evelyn Verrasztó
  Evelyn Verrasztó
  
  Evelyn Verraszt? is a Hungary swimmer, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008.References...
  , Hungarian swimmer
• July 23 — Donald Young
  Donald Young (tennis player)
  
  Donald Oliver Young, Jr. is a professional tennis player from the United States. While ball-boying at the age of 10, Young had the opportunity to play with tennis legend John McEnroe....
  , American tennis player
• July 31 — Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka
  
  Victoria Azarenka is a tennis player from Minsk, Belarus, who became junior world champion in 2005. She won the 2007 US Open mixed doubles title with her partner Max Mirnyi, and also the 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan....
  , Belarusian tennis player
• September 7 — Holly Colvin
  Holly Colvin
  
  Holly Louise Colvin is an England cricketer and member of the current English women's cricket team.She currently holds the record of being the youngest Test cricket cricketer of either sex to play for England....
  , English cricketer
• October 11 — Michelle Wie
  Michelle Wie
  
  Michelle Sung Wie is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article: "one of 100 people who shape our world."...
  , American golfer
• November 6 — Jozy Altidore
  Jozy Altidore
  
  Josmer "Jozy" Volmy Altidore is an American soccer striker who currently plays for Xerez C.D. of Spain's Segunda Divisi?n while on loan from Villarreal C.F....
  , American football (soccer) player
• November 12 — Jana Bieger
  Jana Bieger
  
  Jana Lyn Bieger is an United States gymnast of German descent. She is a multiple medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and was a member of the silver-medal-winning American team in 2006....
  , German gymnast
• November 24 — Johnny Exantus
  Johnny Exantus
  
  Johnny Exantus is a Haitian Association football forward who currently plays for R.R.F.C. Montegn?e in Belgium. He previously was a member of Red Bull New York's youth team and attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey....
  , Haïtian football (soccer) player

Deaths

• February 10 — Dan Kelly
  Dan Kelly (sportscaster)
  
  Patrick Daniel Kelly was a Canada-born sportscaster best known for his radio play-by-play coverage of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, from early in their existence until his death more than two decades later....
  , American NHL sportscaster
• March 18 — Piet Kruiver
  Piet Kruiver
  
  Piet Kruiver is a former Netherlands footballer who was active as a striker. Kruiver made his professional debut at PSV Eindhoven and also played for Lanerossi Vicenza, Feyenoord Rotterdam and Door Wilskracht Sterk....
  , Dutch football (soccer) player
• April 1 — George Robledo
  George Robledo
  
  Jorge "George" Robledo Oliver was a Chile professional football player. He played as a striker, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United F.C.....
  , Chilean footballer (b. 1926)
• April 12 — Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson
  
  Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight....
  , American boxing champion
• June 17 — John Matuszak
  John Matuszak
  
  John Daniel Matuszak , nicknamed Tooz, was an American football player in the National Football League who later became an actor. He was the first draft pick of 1973 NFL Draft and played most of his career with the Oakland Raiders until he retired after winning his second Super Bowl in 1981 NFL season....
   (38), NFL player with Oakland Raiders
  Oakland Raiders
  
  The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
• June 22 — Lee Calhoun
  Lee Calhoun
  
  Lee Quincy Calhoun was an United States Athletics , a double winner of 110 m hurdles at the Olympic Games.Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Lee Calhoun, representing North Carolina Central University, won the National Collegiate Athletic Association 120 yd hurdles in 1956 and 1957....
  , American track and field athlete
• July 15 — Laurie Cunningham
  Laurie Cunningham
  
  Laurence Paul "Laurie" Cunningham was an England national football team football er. When he joined Real Madrid, he became the first English player in the club's history....
   (33), English football (soccer) player
• July 18 — Donnie Moore
  Donnie Moore
  
  Donnie Ray Moore was an United States relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , St. Louis Cardinals , Milwaukee Brewers , Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ....
   (35), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• August 13 — Tim Richmond
  Tim Richmond
  
  Tim Richmond was an United States race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series ....
  , NASCAR driver
• August 18 — Bert Oosterbosch
  Bert Oosterbosch
  
  Bert Oosterbosch was a Netherlands racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful Track cycling and Road bicycle racing racer.Early career...
   (32), Dutch cyclist, world professional pursuit champion
• August 22 — Robert Grondelaers
  Robert Grondelaers
  
  Robert Grondelaers was a road cyclist from Belgium, who won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland....
   (56), Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• September 1 — A. Bartlett Giamatti
  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  
  Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Baseball. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Major League Baseball Scandals#1980s Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further punishment....
  , 7th Major League Baseball commissioner
• September 1 — Kazimierz Deyna
  Kazimierz Deyna
  
  Kazimierz Deyna was a Poland football player, one of the best marksmen in the history of world football. He was a playmaker or deep lying forward famed for his finishing and vision....
   (41), Polish football (soccer) player (b. 1947)
• September 10 — Jeff Stollmeyer
  Jeff Stollmeyer
  
  Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and football . He played 32 Test cricket for the West Indies cricket team, captaining 13 of these....
  , President, West Indies Cricket Board, murdered
• September 15 — Harry Cave
  Harry Cave
  
  Henry "Harry" Butler Cave was a New Zealand cricket team cricketer who New Zealand national cricket captains in nine of his nineteen Tests.In 1952-53 New Zealand cricket season he and Ian Leggat added 239 for the ninth wicket for the Central Districts Stags against the Otago Volts in Dunedin....
  , New Zealand cricketer
• October 4 — Secretariat
  Secretariat (horse)
  
  Secretariat was an United States thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby , and the Belmont Stakes ....
  , Thoroughbred race horse
  Thoroughbred
  
  The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
  , 1973 U.S. Triple Crown
  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....
   winner, two-time U.S. Horse of the Year
• October 4 — Norman Yardley
  Norman Yardley
  
  Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricket team cricketer. He played for University of Cambridge, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman....
  , English cricketer
• November 13 — Victor Davis
  Victor Davis
  
  Victor Davis, Order of Canada was a Canadian Olympic Games and world champion swimming, a well known breaststroker from Canada. He also enjoyed success in the Medley swimming and the Butterfly stroke....
  , 1984 Olympic and World swimming champion
• December 3 — Fernando Martín Espina
  Fernando Martín Espina
  
  Fernando Mart?n Espina is considered one of the best Spain basketball players ever.Martin was 2.06 m tall, and played primarily at center. He was considered a talented all-around athlete....
   (27), Spanish basketball player (b. 1962)
• December 25 — Billy Martin
  Billy Martin
  
  Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an United States second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times....
  , New York Yankees manager
• December 26 — Doug Harvey
  Doug Harvey
  
  Douglas Norman Harvey was a star player in the National Hockey League , and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Defenceman to ever play the game....
  , National Hockey League superstar defenseman (1947-1969)