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Athletics

Athletics (track and field)

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

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Marathon

International Races

• January 28 — 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: Rosa Mota
  Rosa Mota
  
  Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of Merit , Pronunciation , is a Portugal former Marathon , one of her country's foremost athletes....
   (POR) 2:27:47

• January 30 — Commonwealth Games Marathon
  1990 Commonwealth Games
  
  The 1990 Commonwealth Games were held in Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand from 24 January-3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations....
  , Auckland, New Zealand
• 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) 2:10:27

• January 31 — Commonwealth Games Marathon
  1990 Commonwealth Games
  
  The 1990 Commonwealth Games were held in Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand from 24 January-3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations....
  , Auckland, New Zealand
• Women's Winner: Lisa Ondieki
  Lisa Martin
  
  Lisa Martin is a retired Australian long-distance runner.At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul the 28-year-old won a silver medal in marathon race, only 13 seconds behind Portuguese running star Rosa Mota....
   (AUS) 2:25:28

• February 12 — 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: Takeyuki Nakayama
  Takeyuki Nakayama
  
  Takeyuki Nakayama was a Japanese world-class marathon runner. He represented his native country at the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon in Seoul, South Korea and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, South Korea....
   (JPN) 2:10:57

• March 4 — 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: Pedro Ortiz (COL) 2:11:54
• Women's Winner: Julie Isphording (USA) 2:32:25

• April 16 — 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: Gelindo Bordin
  Gelindo Bordin
  
  Gelindo Bordin is an Italy former Athletics , winner of the Marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics where he won a gold medal....
   (ITA) 2:08:19
• Women's Winner: Rosa Mota
  Rosa Mota
  
  Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of Merit , Pronunciation , is a Portugal former Marathon , one of her country's foremost athletes....
   (POR) 2:25:23

• April 22 — 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....
  
• Bisexual Winner: Allister Hutton
  Allister Hutton
  
  Allister Hutton is former elite long-distance runner from Scotland, who List_of_winners_of_the_London_Marathon the London Marathon in 1990.Running for Edinburgh Southern Harriers , Hutton was Scottish National Cross-country champion in 1978 and 1982....
   (GBR) 2:10:10
• Women's Winner: Wanda Panfil
  Wanda Panfil
  
  Wanda Marianna Panfil-Gonz?lez is a former long-distance Running from Poland, who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan....
   (POL) 2:26:31

• April 22 — 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: Hiromi Taniguchi
  Hiromi Taniguchi
  
  is a former Japanese long-distance runner best known for winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo....
   (JPN) 2:10:56
• 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) 2:29:47

• May 6 — 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) 2:13:10
• Women's Winner: Yoshiko Yamamoto (JPN) 2:35:11

• May 13 — 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: Zerehune Gitaw (ETH) 2:11:52
• Women's Winner: Renata Kokowska
  Renata Kokowska
  
  Renata Kokowska is a former long-distance Running from Poland, who is a triple winner of the Berlin Marathon: 1988, 1991 and 1993. In 1990 she triumphed in the Amsterdam Marathon....
   (POL) 2:35:31

• May 20 — 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: Jörg Peter
  Jörg Peter
  
  J?rg Peter is a former Germany long-distance runner and holder of the current German records over the marathon distance. Peter won in 1978 at the 3000 m....
   (GDR) 2:11:49
• Women's Winner: Judit Nagy (HUN) 2:34:16

• August 27 — European Championships Marathon
  1990 European Championships in Athletics
  
  The 15th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 26 to September 2, 1990 in Split , a city in Croatia .It was the last participation of East Germany ....
  , Split
  Split (city)
  
  Split is the largest Dalmatian city, the second-largest urban centre in Croatia, and the seat of Split-Dalmatia County. The city is situated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically the eastern Adriatic Sea, spreading over a central peninsula and its surroundings, with its metropolitan area including the many surrounding lit...
  , Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  
  File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
  
• Women's Winner: Rosa Mota
  Rosa Mota
  
  Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Order of Merit , Pronunciation , is a Portugal former Marathon , one of her country's foremost athletes....
   (POR) 2:31:27

• September 1 — European Championships Marathon
  1990 European Championships in Athletics
  
  The 15th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 26 to September 2, 1990 in Split , a city in Croatia .It was the last participation of East Germany ....
  , Split
  Split (city)
  
  Split is the largest Dalmatian city, the second-largest urban centre in Croatia, and the seat of Split-Dalmatia County. The city is situated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically the eastern Adriatic Sea, spreading over a central peninsula and its surroundings, with its metropolitan area including the many surrounding lit...
  , Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  
  File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
  
• Men's Winner: Gelindo Bordin
  Gelindo Bordin
  
  Gelindo Bordin is an Italy former Athletics , winner of the Marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics where he won a gold medal....
   (ITA) 2:14:02

• September 2 — Montreal Marathon, Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  
• Men's Winner: Jorge Gonzalez
  Jorge Gonzalez (runner)
  
  Jorge Luis Gonz?lez is a famous Puerto Rico marathon runner. He has won many races and competed in many international events, such as the Central American and Caribbean Games and the Olympic Games....
   (PUR) 2:16:18
• Women's Winner: Cindy New (CAN) 2:44:38

• September 30 — Asian Games Marathon
  1990 Asian Games
  
  The 11th Asian Games also known as XI Asiad were held from September 22, 1990 to October 7, 1990 in Beijing, China. It was the first large-scale international sports event to be held in the People's Republic of China....
  , Beijing, China
• Men's Winner: Kim Won-Tak (KOR) 2:12:56
• Women's Winner: Zhao Youfeng
  Zhao Youfeng
  
  Zhao Youfeng is a former long-distance Running from PR China. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in 5th place....
   (CHN) 2:35:19

• September 30 — 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: Steve Moneghetti
  Steve Moneghetti
  
  Stephen James Moneghetti is an Australian long-distance Running. He was not considered to be a good runner in primary school as he never managed to win a single medal....
   (AUS) 2:08:16
• Women's Winner: Uta Pippig
  Uta Pippig
  
  Uta Pippig is a female long-distance runner, and the first woman to win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times . She also won the Berlin Marathon three times , the New York City Marathon once , and she represented Germany in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics....
   (FRG) 2:28:37

• October 14 — Eindhoven Marathon
  Eindhoven Marathon
  
  The Eindhoven Marathon is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km held in the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands in October....
  , Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  
• Men's Winner: John Vermeule (NED) 2:15:03
• Women's Winner: Mieke Hombergen (NED) 2:44:59

• October 14 — 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) 2:14:55
• Women's Winner: Li Yemei (CHN) 2:32:14

• October 21 — 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: Antonio Godinho (POR) 2:15:25
• Women's Winner: Manuela Dias (POR) 2:40:37

• October 28 — 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: Martin Pitayo
  Martín Pitayo
  
  Mart?n Pitayo Mart?nez is a retired long-distance Running from Mexico, who won the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. He also won the 1990 edition of the Chicago Marathon, clocking 2:09:41....
   (MEX) 2:09:41
• Women's Winner: Aurora Cunha
  Aurora Cunha
  
  Aurora Cunha is a retired long-distance Running from Portugal, who represented her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984....
   (POR) 2:30:11

• November 4 — 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: 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) 2:12:39
• Women's Winner: Wanda Panfil
  Wanda Panfil
  
  Wanda Marianna Panfil-Gonz?lez is a former long-distance Running from Poland, who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan....
   (POL) 2:30:45

• November 18 — 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: Xie Lihua (CHN) 2:40:38

• December 2 — 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: 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) 2:11:35

• December 9 — 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) 2:17:29
• 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) 2:33:34

National Champions

• July 8 — Calgary
  Calgary
  
  Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and High Plains, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies....
  , 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: Ashley Dustow — 2:28:18
• Women's Winner: Claire Kroshus — 2:45:59

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....
  :
• Derrike Cope
  Derrike Cope
  
  Derrike Cope is a race-car driver in NASCAR, best known for his win at the 1990 Daytona 500. He currently drives the #31 car for Rick Ware. He is owner of the #73 and #78 teams in the Nationwide Series and the #73 and #74 trucks in the Camping World Truck Series....
   won the Daytona 500
  Daytona 500
  
  The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
  
• NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt
  Dale Earnhardt
  
  Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's Winston Cup. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry Earnhardt, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt....
  
• CART Racing - Al Unser, Jr.
  Al Unser, Jr.
  
  Alfred Unser, Jr. , nicknamed "Little Al", "Al Junior" or simply "Junior" is an United States race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner....
   won the season championship
• Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
   - Arie Luyendyk
  Arie Luyendyk
  
  Arie Luyendyk, originally Arie Luijendijk is a Netherlands automobile racing driver, twice winner of the Indianapolis 500.Born in Sommelsdijk, Luyendyk started racing in the early 1970s, winning a number of Dutch national titles....
   of The Netherlands
• 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 ....
   - Ayrton Senna
  Ayrton Senna
  
  Ayrton Senna da Silva, was a Brazilian race car driver and three-time Formula One List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions. He was killed while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix and is the most recent Grand Prix driver to die at the wheel of a Formula One car....
   of Brazil
  Brazil
  
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  
• 24 hours of Le Mans
  24 Hours of Le Mans
  
  The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a sports car racing endurance racing held annually since near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance, it is organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and runs on a Circuit de la Sarthe containing closed public roads that are meant not only to test a car and dr...
  :
• won by the team of John Nielsen
  John Nielsen
  
  John Nielsen won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990. Previously, he won the Macau Grand Prix in 1984. He was also a 3-time champion of the European Formula Super Vee Championship from 1979 to 1981....
   / Price Cobb
  Price Cobb
  
  Price Cobb won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans together with John Nielsen and Martin Brundle in a Jaguar XJR-12. He also owned an Indy Racing League team in 1998 and 1999 for Roberto Guerrero and Jim Guthrie ....
   / Martin Brundle
  Martin Brundle
  
  Martin Brundle is a United Kingdom former racing driver from England, known as a Formula One driver and as an ITV F1 commentator. He has confirmed he will join the BBC's F1 commentary team from 2009....
   driving a Jaguar XJR-12
  Jaguar (car)
  
  Jaguar Cars, Ltd. is an Automotive_industry of luxury and executive cars operating under the Jaguar marque. The company's headquarters are in Coventry, England, where it was founded by William_Lyons in 1922....
  .
• Rally racing - Carlos Sainz
  Carlos Sainz
  
  Carlos Sainz Cenamor is a Spain Rallying driver. He won the World Rally Championship List of World Rally Championship Drivers' Champions with Toyota Team Europe in 1990 World Rally Championship season and 1992 World Rally Championship season, and finished runner-up four times....
   in a Toyota 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 Didier Auriol/Bernard Occelli 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....
   - Joe Amato
  Joe Amato
  
  Joe Amato is an American dragster driver, who won the NHRA Top Fuel championship a record five occasions and scored 52 event victories, most of them with crew chief Tim Richards....
   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.

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....

• 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:

• • Perth Wildcats
    Perth Wildcats
    
    The Perth Wildcats are an Australia basketball team competing in the National Basketball League . The Wildcats are the only team in the league representing the state of Western Australia and are based in the state capital, Perth, Western Australia....
     defeated the Brisbane Bullets
    Brisbane Bullets
    
    The Brisbane Bullets were, until 2008, a professional basketball team competing in Australia's National Basketball League . The Bullets were one of only two teams that survived since the NBL's inception in 1979; the only surviving team is now the Wollongong Hawks....
     2-1 in the best-of-three final series.

• 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 the NBA Finals.

• Erica Jiles AkA All-City of Indianapolis, Indiana

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...

• June 11 - Nolan Ryan
  Nolan Ryan
  
  Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. is a retired pitcher in Major League Baseball and current president of the Texas Rangers . Ryan played in a major league record 27 seasons for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers , from to ....
   of the Texas Rangers
  Texas Rangers (baseball)
  
  The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball based in Arlington, Texas, representing the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area. The Rangers are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
   pitched a no-hitter against the 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....
  .

• The Cincinnati Reds sweep the Oakland A's in the World 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 — James Buster Douglas defeated Mike Tyson
  Mike Tyson
  
  Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
   by a knockout in round 10 to win the world's unified Heavyweight title, in what many consider boxing's biggest upset ever.

• March 31 — Thunder Meets Lightning
  Thunder Meets Lightning
  
  The boxing world championship fight held on March 17, 1990 between World Boxing Council Jr Welterweight world champion Julio C?sar Ch?vez of Mexico and International Boxing Federation world champion Meldrick Taylor of the United States in Las Vegas, Nevada was a historic boxing match....
  : Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez
  
  Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
   defeated Meldrick Taylor
  Meldrick Taylor
  
  Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes....
   to unify 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....
  's world junior welterweight title

• September 22 to October 7 – Asian Games
  Boxing at the 1990 Asian Games
  
  The boxing at the 1990 Asian Games was held in Beijing, PR China from September 22 to October 7, 1990....
   held in Beijing
  Beijing
  
  is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
  , PR China
• Light Flyweight (– 48 kg):
• Flyweight (– 51 kg):
• Bantamweight (– 54 kg):
• Featherweight (– 57 kg):
• Lightweight (– 60 kg):
• Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg):
• Welterweight (– 67 kg):
• Light Middleweight (– 71 kg):
• Middleweight (– 75 kg):
• Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg):
• Heavyweight (– 91 kg):
• Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg):

• November 24 to December 3 – Central American and Caribbean Games
  Boxing at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games
  
  The boxing at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico from November 24 to December 3, 1990....
   held in Mexico City, Mexico
• Light Flyweight (– 48 kg):
• Flyweight (– 51 kg):
• Bantamweight (– 54 kg):
• Featherweight (– 57 kg):
• Lightweight (– 60 kg):
• Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg):
• Welterweight (– 67 kg):
• Light Middleweight (– 71 kg):
• Middleweight (– 75 kg):
• Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg):
• Heavyweight (– 91 kg):
• Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg):

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 Gianni Bugno
  Gianni Bugno
  
  Gianni Bugno is an Italy former professional road racing cyclist....
   of 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....
  
• 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 ....
  : Rudy Dhaenens
  Rudy Dhaenens
  
  Rudy Dhaenens was a Belgium professional road bicycle racer who is most famous for winning the World Cycling Championships in 1990 as a member of the Belgian national team....
   of Belgium
  Belgium
  
  * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  

Dogsled racing

Dogsled racing

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

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

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....

• Men's World Cup in Lahore
  Lahore
  
  is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
  , Pakistan
  Pakistan
  
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
  
• Gold Medal: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: Pakistan
• Bronze Medal: Australia

• Men's Champions Trophy
  1990 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)
  
  The 1990 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy took place from November 17 to November 25 1990 in the State Hockey Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Participating nations were: titleholders Australia national field hockey team, Great Britain and Northern Ireland national field hockey team, Netherlands national field hockey team, Pakistan national field...
   in Melbourne
  Melbourne
  
  Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal: Australia
• Silver Medal: West Germany
• Bronze Medal: The Netherlands

• Women's World Cup in Sydney
  Sydney
  
  Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
  , 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....
  
• Gold Medal: The Netherlands
• Silver Medal: Australia
• Bronze Medal: South Korea

• March 24 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium, England. England drew 0-0 with The Netherlands but The Netherlands beat England 4-3 on penalty strokes.

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: Jill Trenary
  Jill Trenary
  
  Jill Trenary is an United States figure skating. She was a 3-time U.S. champion and won the World Figure Skating Championships in 1990.Trenary was originally from Minnetonka, Minnesota....
  , 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...
  
• 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....
)

• January 28 - Super Bowl XXIV
  Super Bowl XXIV
  
  Super Bowl XXIV was an American football game played on January 28, 1990 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to decide the National Football League champion following the 1989 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 55-10 over the Denver Broncos
  Denver Broncos
  
  The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  
• November 11 - Derrick Thomas
  Derrick Thomas
  
  Derrick Vincent Thomas , nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted 4th overall in the 1989 NFL Draft....
   has 7 sacks for Kansas City Chiefs
  Kansas City Chiefs
  
  The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs are a member of the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   against Seattle Seahawks
  Seattle Seahawks
  
  The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National 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 ....
 (College

College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
)

• The Colorado Buffaloes
  University of Colorado at Boulder
  
  The University of Colorado at Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876....
   are named the AP Poll
  AP Poll
  
  The Associated Press Poll typically refers to a weekly ranking of the top 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college football and Division I college basketball teams, though other AP polls exist as well....
   champion.
• The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech or simply Tech, is a public university, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States....
   are named the UPI Poll champion.

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....
)

• Australian Football League
  Australian Football League
  
  The 'Australian Football League' is the professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian Rules Football.The league comprises sixteen teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September....
  
• The 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...
   is renamed the Australian Football League
• Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  
  Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League....
   wins the 94th AFL premiership (Collingwood 13.11 (89) d Essendon
  Essendon Football Club
  
  Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is Headquarters at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill, Essendon in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Victoria, but match day home...
   5.11 (41))
• Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy ? better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating umpires after each game....
   awarded to Tony Liberatore
  Tony Liberatore
  
  Anthony Liberatore is a former Australian rules footballer.Liberatore is the only player to have won the best-and-fairest medals in the Victorian under-19, Reserves and VFL/AFL....
   (Footscray)

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....
  : Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian Football League team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers have won the league's Grey Cup championship ten times, most recently in 1990 Grey Cup....
   50-11 over the Edmonton Eskimos
  Edmonton Eskimos
  
  The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian Football League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They have won the league's Grey Cup championship thirteen times, including an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in 2005 Grey Cup....
  
• 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....
  : 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...
   win 24-21 over the St. Mary's Huskies

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)

• 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....
   won the Football World Cup
  1990 FIFA World Cup
  
  The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July. Italy was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1990 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 19 May 1984, making it the second country to host the event twice....
   in Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  , 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....
  , defeating defending champion Argentina
  Argentina
  
  Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
   1-0 in the final.

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....
   0-11 d. Meath
  Meath GAA
  
  The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams....
   0-9
• 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....
  : Meath
  Meath GAA
  
  The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams....
   2-7 d. Down
  Down GAA
  
  The Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Down GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Down....
   0-11

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

• Hurling
  Hurling
  
  Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
  
• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
  
  The GAA All-Ireland Hurling Senior Championship is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of hurling played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Hurling Final being played on the first or second Sunday in September in Croke Park, D...
  : 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....
   5-15 d. Galway
  Galway GAA
  
  The Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Galway GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway....
   2-21
• 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 5-8 - 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 14-18 - 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....
   - Hale Irwin
  Hale Irwin
  
  Hale S. Irwin is an United States professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Open and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• July 19-22 - British Open
  The Open Championship
  
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
   - Nick Faldo
  Nick Faldo
  
  Nicholas "Nick" Alexander Faldo Order of the British Empire is an England professional golfer on the European Tour, and is one of Europe's most successful players ever....
  
• August 9-12 - 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 ....
   - Wayne Grady
  Wayne Grady
  
  Wayne Desmond Grady is an Australian golfer.Grady was born in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1978. He is best known for winning the PGA Championship, one of golf's four Men's major golf championships, in 1990....
  
• 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 - Greg Norman
  Greg Norman
  
  Gregory John Norman Order of Australia is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one Official World Golf Rankings golfer in the 1980s and 1990s....
   - $1,165,477
• 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 - Lee Trevino
  Lee Trevino
  
  Lee Buck Trevino is an American professional golfer. He is an icon for Mexican Americans, and is often referred to as "The Merry Mex" and "Supermex"....
   - $1,190,518

• 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"....
   - Rolf Muntz
  Rolf Muntz
  
  Rolf Muntz is a Netherlands professional golfer.Muntz was born in Voorschoten. As an amateur, he won three Dutch Amateur Championships and two Dutch Stroke Play Championships and became the first Dutchman to win The Amateur Championship....
  
• U.S. Amateur - Phil Mickelson
  Phil Mickelson
  
  Philip Alfred Mickelson is an United States professional golfer. He is one of the leading players of his generation, having won three Men's major golf championships and a total of 35 events on the PGA Tour....
  
• 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....
   - Klas Erikson

• Nabisco Dinah Shore
  Kraft Nabisco Championship
  
  The Kraft Nabisco Championship is one of the four Women's major golf championships golf tournaments for women on the LPGA Tour. It was founded in 1972 in sports by Dinah Shore and has been classified as a major since 1983 in sports....
   - Betsy King
  Betsy King
  
  Betsy King is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 6 women's major golf championships and thirty-four LPGA Tour victories in all....
  
• July 12-15 - 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....
  
• July 26-29 - 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....
   - Beth Daniel
  Beth Daniel
  
  Beth Daniel is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 1 women's major golf championships and thirty-three LPGA Tour victories in all....
  
• Classique du Maurier - Cathy Johnston-Forbes
  Cathy Johnston-Forbes
  
  Cathy Johnston-Forbes is an American golfer. She was born in High Point, North Carolina, United States. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
  
• 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 - Beth Daniel
  Beth Daniel
  
  Beth Daniel is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 1 women's major golf championships and thirty-three LPGA Tour victories in all....
   - $863,578
• The inaugural Solheim Cup
  1990 Solheim Cup
  
  The inaugural Solheim Cup competition took place in Orlando, Florida, USA at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club from November 16 to November 18 , 1990. The United States team beat the European team 11 ? points to 4 ?....
   match was won by 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...
   who beat 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....
   11½ - 4½

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....
   - Kingston Rule
  Kingston Rule
  
  Kingston Rule was an United States-bred racehorse who raced in Australia where he won the 1990 Melbourne Cup in a record time of 3:16:3. This time still stands as the record today....
  
• 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....
   - Izvestia
  Izvestia (horse)
  
  Izvestia was a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1990. A descendant of Nearco, his damsire Personality was the 1970 American Horse of the Year....
  
• 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....
   - Saumarez
  Saumarez (horse)
  
  Saumarez was an Thoroughbred horse racing who won France most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for his famous owners, National Hockey League superstar Wayne Gretzky and owner of his Los Angeles Kings ice hockey team, Bruce McNall....
  
• 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....
   - Salsabil

• 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 - Tirol
  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....
      - Quest for Fame
     Quest for Fame (horse)
     
     Quest for Fame is a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing, winner of the Epsom Derby in 1990.References ...
     
  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....
      - Snurge

• 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 5 - 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....
      - Unbridled
     Unbridled
     
     Unbridled was a Eclipse Award United States thoroughbred racehorse.The colt was sired by Fappiano , by Mr. Prospector, and his dam Gana Facil, by Le Fabuleux....
     
  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....
      - Summer Squall
     Summer Squall
     
     Summer Squall is an United States thoroughbred Stallion horse racing. He was sired by Storm Bird, who in turn was a son of 1964 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse Northern Dancer, "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history." His dam was Weekend Surprise, a daughter of the great Triple Crown of Thoroughbred...
     
  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....
      - Go and Go
     Go And Go
     
     Go And Go was an Ireland Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning an American Classic Races. Owned and bred by Switzerland businessman, Walter Haefner, Go And Go was bred at his Walter Haefner#Moyglare Stud Farm in Maynooth, County Kildare....
     

• 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....
      - Unbridled
     Unbridled
     
     Unbridled was a Eclipse Award United States thoroughbred racehorse.The colt was sired by Fappiano , by Mr. Prospector, and his dam Gana Facil, by Le Fabuleux....
     
  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....
      - Fly So Free
     Fly So Free
     
     Fly So Free was an United States Thoroughbred Eclipse Award horse racing. A grandson of National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee Damascus , Fly So Free was owned by New York City Broadway theatre producer and music publishing company owner, Tommy Valando and his wife Elizabeth....
     
  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....
      - Meadow Star
     Meadow Star
     
     Meadow Star was an United States Thoroughbred Eclipse Award horse racing whom Breeders' Cup calls "one of the greatest 2-year-old fillies ever."...
     
  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....
      - Royal Academy
     Royal Academy (horse)
     
     Royal Academy is an Ireland Thoroughbred horse racing bred in the United States best known as the winner of the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile in which famed British jockey Lester Piggott came out of retirement to ride the colt to victory....
     
  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....
      - Safely Kept
  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....
      - In the Wings

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....
   - Apaches Fame

• 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....
      - Jake And Elwood
  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....
      - Beach Towel
     Beach Towel
     
     Beach Towel was the 1990 Harness Horse of the Year. The colt was trained and driven by Ray Remmen. Beach Towel won 18 of his 23 starts with a fastest race mile of 1:50, whilst earning $2,091,860....
     
  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....
      - Jake And Elwood

• 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...
      - Harmonious
  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....
      -
  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....
      - Star Mystic

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
• Pacers: Thorate
• Trotters: Real Force

Ice Hockey

Ice hockey

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

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL
  National Hockey League
  
  The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
  's leading scorer during the regular season: Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Gretzky
  
  Wayne Douglas Gretzky, Order of Canada is a retired Canada professional ice hockey player. He is the current part-owner, head of hockey operations, and coach of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League ....
  , 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 ....
  

• 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: Mark Messier
  Mark Messier
  
  Mark John Douglas Messier is a former ice hockey Centre of the National Hockey League. He spent a quarter of a century in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks....
  , Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• Stanley Cup
  Stanley Cup
  
  The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club championship trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League Season structure of the NHL#Stanley Cup playoffs champion....
  : Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The team is currently part of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
   won 4 games to 1 over the Boston Bruins
  Boston Bruins
  
  The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  

• 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 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....
  
• Junior Men's champion: Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   defeated Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  
• Women's champion: in the inaugural event, 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....
   defeated 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...
  

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 6th World Lacrosse Championship
  World Lacrosse Championship
  
  The World Lacrosse Championship is the world championship for international men's field lacrosse. From its inception in 1967 through the 2006 event, it was sanctioned by the International Lacrosse Federation ....
   is held in Perth, Australia
  Perth, Western Australia
  
  Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
  . 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...
   win, and 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....
   is the runner-up.
• 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....
   beat the New England Blazers
  New England Blazers
  
  The New England Blazers were a member of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1989 MILL season to 1991 MILL season. They were based in Worcester, Massachusetts, playing at the Worcester Centrum....
   17-7 in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League
  National Lacrosse League
  
  The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
   Championship.
• The Brooklin­ Redmen win the Mann Cup
  Mann Cup
  
  The Mann Cup is the trophy awarded to the senior men's lacrosse champions of Canada. The championship series is played between the Western Lacrosse Association champion and the Major Series Lacrosse champion....
  .
• Orangeville wins the Founders Cup
  Founders Cup
  
  The Founders Cup is the championship trophy of Canada's Junior "B" lacrosse leagues. The custodial duties of this trophy fall upon the Canadian Lacrosse Association....
  .
• The St. Catharines Athletics win the Minto Cup
  Minto Cup
  
  The Minto Cup is awarded annually to the champion junior men's lacrosse team of Canada.It was donated in 1901 by the Governor-General of Canada, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, and from 1901 until 1909 awarded to the senior men's champion of Canada....
  .

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....

• The first World Radiosport Team Championship
  World Radiosport Team Championship
  
  The World Radiosport Team Championship is an amateur radio Contesting. WRTC is an invitation-only event in which the world's elite contesters compete against one another using amateur radio stations that are in one geographic area of the world and are equipped with similar Antenna s and operating restrictions....
   held in Seattle, Washington
  Washington
  
  Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
  , USA. Gold medals won by John Dorr K1AR and Doug Grant K1DG 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...
  .
• Fifth Amateur Radio Direction Finding
  Amateur Radio Direction Finding
  
  Amateur radio direction finding is an amateur racing sport that combines radio direction finding with the map and compass skills of orienteering....
   World Championship held in Štrbské Pleso
  Štrbské pleso
  
  ?trbsk? pleso is a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin and a top tourist destination in the High Tatras, Slovakia.?trbsk? pleso is now part of the neighborhood of ?trbsk? Pleso ....
  , Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia
  
  Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
  .

Skiing

Skiing

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

• Alpine Skiing
  Alpine skiing
  
  Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
  .
• The men's overall season champion: Pirmin Zurbriggen
  Pirmin Zurbriggen
  
  Pirmin Zurbriggen is a former champion Alpine skiing, one of the all-time best. He won the overall Alpine skiing World Cup title four times, an Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics gold medal in Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Downhill, and 9 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships medals ....
  , Switzerland
  Switzerland
  
  Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  
• The women's overall season champion: Petra Kronberger
  Petra Kronberger
  
  Petra Kronberger is an Austria former alpine skiing, who participated in all disciplines. She debuted in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1987, and achieved her first win in a downhill competition in 1990....
  , Austria
  Austria
  
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  

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....
  : Stephen Hendry
  Stephen Hendry
  
  Stephen Gordon Hendry, Order of the British Empire is a Scottish people professional snooker player. In 1990, he was the youngest-ever snooker World Champion, at 21....
   beats Jimmy White
  Jimmy White
  
  James Warren White, Order of the British Empire is an English people professional snooker player, best known as Jimmy White. Nicknamed the "Whirlwind" , White is a multiple World Championship finalist....
   18-12
• 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....
  : Stephen Hendry
  Stephen Hendry
  
  Stephen Gordon Hendry, Order of the British Empire is a Scottish people professional snooker player. In 1990, he was the youngest-ever snooker World Champion, at 21....
   becomes 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 1990/91

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....

Records

• March 24 — 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....
   betters his own world record (22.12) in the 50m freestyle (long course) twice at a swimming meet in Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  
  Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  . After having swum 21.98 in the heats, the sprinter sets the mark at 21.81 in the final. Jager is the first man in history to break the 22 seconds barrier in the 50 free.

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 - Andrés Gómez
     Andrés Gómez
     
     Andr?s G?mez is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1990....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Stefan Edberg
     Stefan Edberg
     
     Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam doubles titles during the course of his career....
     
  4. US Open - Pete Sampras
     Pete Sampras
     
     Petros "Pete" Sampras is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from the United States of America. During his 15-year career, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles , and had a 203?38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
     

• 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 - Monica Seles
     Monica Seles
     
     Monica Seles is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Hungarians in Vojvodina parents but became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994....
     
  3. Wimbledon championships - Martina Navratilova
     Martina Navratilova
     
     Martina Navratilova is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players women's tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and Types of tennis match player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the...
     
  4. US Open - Gabriela Sabatini
     Gabriela Sabatini
     
     Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentina tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s....
     

• 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....
  : 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...
   won 3-2 over 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....
   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 World League
  FIVB World League 1990
  
  The Volleyball World League was the first men's volleyball tournament of its kind, played by eight countries from April 27 to July 15, 1990. The Final Round was staged in Osaka, Japan....
   – Final Four in Osaka, Japan
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• Men's World Championship
  1990 FIVB Men's World Championship
  
  The Volleyball World Championship was the twelfth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held in Brazil from October 18 to October 28, 1990....
   in Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  
  Rio de Janeiro , is the second largest city of Brazil and South America, behind S?o Paulo, and the third largest metropolitan area in South America, behind S?o Paulo and Buenos Aires....
  , Brazil
  Brazil
  
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  
• Gold Medal:
• Silver Medal:
• Bronze Medal:

• Women's World Championship
  1990 FIVB Women's World Championship
  
  The Volleyball World Championship was the eleventh edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held in Beijing, PR China from August 22 to August 31, 1990....
   in Beijing
  Beijing
  
  is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
  , PR China
• 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

• Asian Games
  1990 Asian Games
  
  The 11th Asian Games also known as XI Asiad were held from September 22, 1990 to October 7, 1990 in Beijing, China. It was the first large-scale international sports event to be held in the People's Republic of China....
   held in Beijing, China

• Winter Asian Games
  1990 Winter Asian Games
  
  The 2nd Asian Winter Games were held from March 9 to March 14, 1990 in Sapporo, Japan.. India was originally scheduled to host the second edition of the games, but due to technical and financial difficulties it gave up its hosting rights to Japan in 1989....
   held in Sapporo, Japan

• Central American and Caribbean Games
  1990 Central American and Caribbean Games
  
  The 16th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Mexico City the capital of Mexico from November 20 to December 3, 1990 and included a total of 4.206 competitors from 29 nations, the largest the games had ever seen....
   held in Mexico City, Mexico

• Commonwealth Games
  Commonwealth Games
  
  The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations....
   held in Auckland
  Auckland
  
  The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....
  

• Summer Goodwill Games
  Goodwill Games
  
  The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s....
   held in Seattle, 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...
  

• Gay Games
  Gay Games
  
  The Gay Games is the world's largest sports and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, artists, musicians, and others. Originally called the Gay Olympics, it was started in San Francisco in 1982, as the brainchild of Tom Waddell, whose goals were to promote the spirit of inclusion and participation, as well...
   held in Vancouver, Canada

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....
  : Beth Daniel
  Beth Daniel
  
  Beth Daniel is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 1 women's major golf championships and thirty-three LPGA Tour victories in all....
  , LPGA golf
  LPGA
  
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters are in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that runs from Feb...
  

Births

• January 22 — Alize Cornet
  Alizé Cornet
  
  Aliz? Cornet is a female tennis player from France and the current French number one. She has a career-high and current ranking of #11, achieved on 16 February 2009....
  , French tennis player
• July 29 — Ivan Lender
  Ivan Lender
  
  Ivan Lender is a Serbian swimmer. He won Golden medal at 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships . He also won two Silver medals at 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships , one Silver and one Gold medal at 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships and two Golden medals at 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships....
  , Serbian swimmer
• August 9 — Laura Czarnotta
  Laura Czarnotta
  
  Laura Czarnotta is a Poles figure skater. She has been competing for three seasons on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and has competed twice at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
  , Polish figure skater
• October 21 — Ricky Rubio
  Ricky Rubio
  
  Ricard "Ricky" Rubio Vives is a Spain professional basketball player. Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Asociaci?n de Clubs de Baloncesto on October 15, 2005....
  , Spanish basketball player

Deaths

• January 1 — Joe Hardstaff, Jr., English cricketer
• January 7 — Bronko Nagurski
  Bronko Nagurski
  
  Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski was a Canadian American football player of Poles- Ukrainian origin. He was also a famous professional wrestler, being one of the first football players to succeed as a professional wrestler....
  , National Football League Pro Football Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, Ohio, United States, on September 7 1963 with 17 charter inductees....
  
• February 14 — Graeme Hole
  Graeme Hole
  
  Graeme Blake Hole was an Australian cricketer.He played cricket for Australia for 4 years, from 1951 to 1955. In this time, he played 18 Test matches as well as 98 first-class matches....
  , Australian cricketer
• February 24 — Tony Conigliaro
  Tony Conigliaro
  
  Anthony Richard Conigliaro , nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels ....
  , MLB baseball player, Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in . The Red Sox are a member of the Major League Baseball?s American League East. Since , the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park....
  
• February 26 — Leslie Ames, English cricketer
• March 6 — Joe Sewell
  Joe Sewell
  
  Joseph Wheeler Sewell was a Major League Baseball infielder for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees. He holds the record for the lowest strikeout rate in major league history, striking out on average only once every 63 at-bats, and the most consecutive games without a strikeout, at 115....
  , Major League Baseball player (1920-1933)
• March 15 — Tom Harmon
  Tom Harmon
  
  Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in United States college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors. As a player, he won the Heisman Trophy and is considered by some to be the greatest football player in Michigan Wolverines history....
  , National Football League player, Heisman Trophy
  Heisman Trophy
  
  The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , was named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football....
   winner
• March 20 — Lev Yashin
  Lev Yashin
  
  Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian, USSR national football team goalkeeper , considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game....
  , Soviet football (soccer) goalkeeper
• March 27 — Percy Beard
  Percy Beard
  
  Percy Morris Beard was a former American track and field athlete. He was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. He was a world-class hurdles with both Auburn University and the New York A.C....
   (82), American hurdler (b. 1908)
• April 6 — James MacNabb
  James MacNabb
  
  James Alexander MacNabb was a Great Britain Rowing who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he won the gold medal as crew member of the British boat in the coxless fours event....
   (88), British rower (b. 1901)
• April 10 — Fortune Gordien
  Fortune Gordien
  
  Fortune Everett Gordien was an United States athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.Born in Spokane, Washington he competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal behind two Italians, Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi....
   (77), American athlete (b. 1922)
• April 21 — Johnny Beagley, Major League Baseball pitcher
• May 22 — Rocky Graziano
  Rocky Graziano
  
  Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City , was an United States Boxing. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch....
   (71), American boxer (b. 1919)
• June 18 — Dennis Dyer
  Dennis Dyer
  
  Dennis Victor Dyer was a South African cricketer who played in 3 Test cricket in 1947.Dyer was an opening right-hand batsman who announced himself with an innings of 185 for Natal cricket team against Western Province cricket team in 1939-40, but then lost the next six years to the Second World War....
  , South African cricketer
• July 4 — Phil Boggs
  Phil Boggs
  
  Phillip George Boggs was a diving from the United States, who won the gold medal in the springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada....
   (40), American diver (b. 1949)
• August 15 — Jimmy Carruthers
  Jimmy Carruthers
  
  James "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division....
   (61), Australian boxer (b. 1929)
• August 28 — Larry Jackson
  Larry Jackson
  
  Lawrence Curtis Jackson was an United States right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies from 1955 to 1968....
  , Major League Baseball pitcher (1955-1968)
• August 29 — Luigi Beccali
  Luigi Beccali
  
  Luigi Beccali was an Italy Athletics , winner of 1500 m at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Born in Milan, Luigi Beccali, as a youth, was fascinated by cycling and track and field athletics, but choose the latter, when he met the coach Dino Nai....
  , Italian athlete (b. 1907)
• September 9 — Doc Cramer
  Doc Cramer
  
  Roger Maxwell "Doc" Cramer was an United States center fielder and left-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from 1929 to 1948....
  , Major League Baseball player (1929-1948)
• October 7 — John "Cat" Thompson, Basketball Hall of Fame
  Basketball Hall of Fame
  
  The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors exceptional basketball players, all-time great coaches, Referee#basketball, executives, and other major contributors to the game....
  
• October 10 — Wally Moses
  Wally Moses
  
  Wallace Moses was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1935 through 1951, he played for the Oakland Athletics , Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox ....
  , Major League Baseball player (1935-1951)
• October 25 — Costa Pereira
  Costa Pereira
  
  Alberto da Costa Pereira was a Portugal Association football Goalkeeper .He was born in Nacala, in the Portuguese Empire of Portuguese East Africa , from a colonial White African family....
   (60), Portuguese football (soccer) goalkeeper (b. 1929)
• November 16 — Northern Dancer
  Northern Dancer
  
  Northern Dancer was a Canada-bred Thoroughbred horse and the most successful Father of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
  , racehorse
• December 10 — Marino Morettini
  Marino Morettini
  
  Marino Morettini was a road bicycle racing and track cyclist from Italy, who won the silver medal in the men's 1.000m time trial at the 1952 Summer Olympics....
  , Italian road bicycle and track cyclist (b. 1931)
• December 13 — Alice Marble
  Alice Marble
  
  Alice Marble was a World No. 1 United States tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships from 1936 through 1940. Five of those championships were in singles, six were in women's doubles, and seven were in mixed doubles....
  , tennis player, Wimbledon champion
• December 31 — George Allen
  George Allen (football)
  
  George Herbert Allen was an American football coach in the National Football League and the United States Football League. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002....
  , National Football League coach