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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....

Decathlon

Decathlon

The decathlon is an athletic event consisting of ten track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all....

• Best Year Performance

– 8824 points

Marathon

• June 16 — Enschede Marathon
  Enschede Marathon
  
  The Enschede Marathon is an annual marathon race held in the city of Enschede, Netherlands. The race is the distance of a typical marathon . It has been held annually since 1991, after being bi-annual for the previous 44 years....
  , Netherlands
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
  
• Men's Winner: John Mandu (KEN) 2:15:14
• Women's Winner: Mieke Pullen (NED) 2:41:13

• July 28 — Olympic Marathon
  Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's marathon
  
  The official results of the marathon at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, held on Sunday July 28, 1996. The race started on 07.05h local time....
  , Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
   (USA)
• Women's Winner: Fatuma Roba
  Fatuma Roba
  
  Fatuma Roba is an Ethiopian long distance runner from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia most known for winning a gold medal in the marathon race at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics....
   (ETH) 2:26:05

• August 4 — Olympic Marathon
  Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon
  
  The official results of the men's marathon at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, held on Sunday August 4, 1996. The race started on 07.05h local time....
  , Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
   (USA)
• Men's Winner: Josia Thugwane
  Josia Thugwane
  
  Josia Thugwane is a South African Athletics , best known for winning the Gold Medal in the Marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Thugwane, who is of Ndebele heritage, is the first black athlete to earn an Olympic gold for South Africa....
   (RSA) 2:12:36

• December 1 — 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: Lee Bong-Ju
  Lee Bong-Ju
  
  Lee Bong-Ju is a South Korean marathoner , and he is still active in 2008.He won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States....
   (KOR) 2:10:48

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....
  :
• Dale Jarrett
  Dale Jarrett
  
  Dale Arnold Jarrett is a former United States Auto racing driver. He is the 1999 NASCAR NASCAR Championship and the son of two-time NASCAR Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett....
   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 - Terry Labonte
  Terry Labonte
  
  Terrance Lee Labonte is a semi-retired NASCAR driver who now races part-time in the Sprint Cup Series. Labonte was introduced to the sport through his father, who had worked on racecars as a hobby for his friends....
  
• Rusty Wallace
  Rusty Wallace
  
  Russell William "Rusty" Wallace is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Nationwide Series car owner, and television broadcaster with NASCAR on ESPN and ESPN on ABC and co-host of NASCAR Angels....
   wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 at Suzuka City November 24, the first NASCAR event held in Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  .
• Indy Racing League
  Indy Racing League
  
  The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel Auto racing.The League sanctions two series, the premier IndyCar Series , whose centerpiece is the Indianapolis 500, and Firestone Indy Lights, the official developmental series of the Indy Racing League....
   - Scott Sharp
  Scott Sharp
  
  Scott Sharp is an American race car driver in the American Le Mans Series. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Scott Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing League....
   and Buzz Calkins
  Buzz Calkins
  
  Bradley "Buzz" Calkins is a former Indy Racing League driver. After a successful run in Indy Lights from 1993 to 1995 where he finished 11th, 10th, and 6th in his three seasons, he and his Bradley Motorsports team purchased a 1995 Reynard Motorsport chassis to compete in the inaugural season of the IRL....
   tie for the inaugural IRL 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....
   - Buddy Lazier
  Buddy Lazier
  
  Robert Buddy Lazier is an United States of America open-wheel racecar driver. He won the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and has finished in the Top Ten in that race six times....
  
• CART - Jimmy Vasser
  Jimmy Vasser
  
  Jimmy Vasser is an United States racing driver and current race team owner. Vasser won the 1996 Champ Car champion with Chip Ganassi Racing, and scored ten victories in the series....
   won the season championship
• 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 ....
   - Damon Hill
  Damon Hill
  
  Damon Graham Devereux Hill Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom racing driver from England. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship; as the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title....
   of Great Britain
  Great Britain
  
  Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  
• 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 Manuel Reuter
  Manuel Reuter
  
  Manuel Reuter is a former Germany race car driver.He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice:*in 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans for Sauber-Mercedes...
   / Davy Jones / Alexander Wurz
  Alexander Wurz
  
  Alexander Wurz is a retired Austrian Formula One racing driver. He is the test driver for the Honda Racing F1 team for the 2008 Formula One season....
   driving a TWR-Porsche
• Rallying
  Rallying
  
  Rallying is a form of motor competition that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars....
   - Tommi Mäkinen
  Tommi Mäkinen
  
  "Turbo" Tommi Antero M?kinen He is a four-time World Rally Championship List of World Rally Championship Drivers' Champions, a series he first won, and then successfully defended, continuously throughout 1996 World Rally Championship season, 1997 World Rally Championship season, 1998 World Rally Championship season and 1999 World Rally Cham...
   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 Patrick Bernardini / 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 Ford Escort RS Cosworth
  Ford Escort RS Cosworth
  
  The Escort RS Cosworth was a sports derivative of the Ford Escort . It was available from 1992-96 and in very limited numbers.It was instantly recognisable due to its large whale tail rear spoiler....
  
• 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....
   - Kenny Bernstein
  Kenny Bernstein
  
  File:Bernstein, Kenny.jpgKenny Bernstein , is an American drag racing driver....
   won the NHRA "Top Fuel
  Top Fuel
  
  Top-Fuel Racing is a class of drag racing in which the cars are run on a maximum of 90% nitromethane and about 10% methanol , instead of gasoline....
  " championship.

Baseball

Baseball

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

• January 8 - For the first time in 25 years, no one garners 75 percent of the votes needed to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Phil Niekro
  Phil Niekro
  
  Philip Henry Niekro is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997.A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio, and was a boyhood friend of future National Basketball Association great John Havlicek....
   comes closest with 68 percent.

• World Series
  World Series
  
  The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas...
  ,October 26: New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
   won 4 games to 2 over the Atlanta Braves
  Atlanta Braves
  
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
  . Their 23rd World Championship and their first since 1978. The Series MVP was relief pitcher, John Wetteland
  John Wetteland
  
  John Karl Wetteland is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, who pitched as a Closer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, New York Yankees, and Texas Rangers ....
  , New York

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....

• April 1 - NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
• Kentucky
  University of Kentucky
  
  The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a state university , co-educational, university, and is also the state's land-grant university, located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky....
   wins 76-67 over Syracuse
  Syracuse University
  
  Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
  

• NBA Finals
  National Basketball Association
  
  The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
  :
• Chicago Bulls
  Chicago Bulls
  
  The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
   win 4 games to 2 over the Seattle SuperSonics
  Seattle SuperSonics
  
  The Seattle SuperSonics were an United States professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific Division and Northwest Division s of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008....
  , after a record-breaking 72-10 regular season.

• 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:
• South East Melbourne Magic
  South East Melbourne Magic
  
  The South East Melbourne Magic were an Australian basketball team, that played in Melbourne, Victoria, in the National Basketball League . The team was the result of a merger of two Melbourne clubs for the 1991 season....
   defeated the Melbourne Tigers
  Melbourne Tigers
  
  The Melbourne Tigers are a team in the Australian National Basketball League , and along with the South Dragons is one of two teams based in Melbourne....
   2-1 in the best-of-three final series.

Boxing

Boxing

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

• March 16 - Christy Martin
  Christy Martin
  
  Christy Martin is a women's boxing. Martin, who is married to her manager and trainer Jim Martin and promoted by Don King , is nicknamed The Coal Miner's Daughter....
   defeats Deirdre Gogarty
  Deirdre Gogarty
  
  Deirdre Gogarty is a Women's boxing who was born in Drogheda, Ireland.Because of legal issues regarding women's boxing in her native country, Gogarty currently cannot engage in competition there, and now she fights out of New Orleans, Louisiana....
   by a decision in six rounds to retain her Women's boxing
  Women's boxing
  
  Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904. For most of the 20th century, however, it was banned in most nations....
   world title in front of a national tv
  Television
  
  Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
   audience. This fight is credited with making the general public aware of women's boxing.

• March 30 to 7 – 31st European Amateur Boxing Championships
  1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships
  
  The Men's 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Vejle, Denmark from March 30 to April 7. The 31st edition of the bi-annual competition, in which 304 fighters from 35 countries participated this time, was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA....
   held in Vejle
  Vejle
  
  Vejle is a town in Denmark and the site of the council of both Vejle Municipality and Region Syddanmark, located in southeast of Jutland Peninsula....
  , Denmark
  Denmark
  
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  .
• Light Flyweight (– 48 kg): Daniel Petrov
  Daniel Petrov
  
  Daniel Bozhilov Petrov is a Bulgarian boxing. He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the category Light Flyweight....
   (Bulgaria)
• Flyweight (– 51 kg): Albert Pakeyev
  Albert Pakeyev
  
  Albert Aleksandrovich Pakeyev, or Albert Pakeev, is a boxing from Russia who won the bronze medal in the Men's Flyweight division at the Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
   (Russia)
• Bantamweight (– 54 kg): István Kovács
  István Kovács
  
  Istv?n Kov?cs , nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian people boxing. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in featherw...
   (Hungary)
• Featherweight (– 57 kg): Ramaz Paliani
  Ramaz Paliani
  
  Ramaz Paliani is a Georgia boxing who has won World and European Championships in the men's featherweight division.He has represented Turkey, Georgia, and Russia in international competitions, including appearances in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympic Games....
   (Russia)
• Lightweight (– 60 kg): Leonard Doroftei
  Leonard Doroftei
  
  Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian people former Boxing, the World Boxing Association lightweight world champion from January 5, 2002 to October 24, 2003....
   (Romania)
• Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg): Oktay Urkal
  Oktay Urkal
  
  Oktay Urkal is a Turks in Germany professional welterweight. He is currently ranked 10th in the world among welterweights by Ring Magazine....
   (Germany)
• Welterweight (– 67 kg): Al Hassan (Denmark)
• Light Middleweight (– 71 kg): Francisc Vastag
  Francisc Vastag
  
  The Boxing Francisc Vastag was the first Romanian to win the supreme belt in his category. His victory greatly stimulated boxing in Romania. The champion boxer Adrian Diaconu has said that he considers Vastag to be a brother and mentor....
   (Romania)
• Middleweight (– 75 kg): Sven Ottke
  Sven Ottke
  
  Sven Ottke, known as "the Phantom", is a former Germany professional boxing who remained undefeated throughout his career held the International Boxing Federation title from 1998 to 2004....
   (Germany)
• Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg): Pietro Aurino (Italy)
• Heavyweight (– 91 kg): Luan Krasniqi
  Luan Krasniqi
  
  Luan Krasniqi is a professional German Boxing from an Kosovo Albanian familiy. He was the European Heavyweight Champion....
   (Germany)
• Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg): Alexei Lezin
  Alexei Lezin
  
  Alexei Vladimirovich Lezin was a Russian boxing, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Lezin never turned pro....
   (Russia)

• June 7 - Oscar de la Hoya
  Oscar de la Hoya
  
  Oscar De La Hoya — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is an United States boxing and promoter who won a List of Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
   defeats Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez
  
  Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
   by a knockout in four rounds to win the WBC's
  World Boxing Council
  
  The World Boxing Council was initially created by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo L?pez Mateos, to create an international boxi...
   world Jr. Welterweight championship.

Cricket

Cricket

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

• Cricket World Cup
  Cricket World Cup
  
  The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years....
   - Final: Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
   beat 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....
   by 7 wickets

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 Pavel Tonkov
  Pavel Tonkov
  
  Pavel Sergeyevich Tonkov is a former professional road racing cyclist from Russia. His biggest success was the overall win in the 1996 edition of the Giro d'Italia....
   of Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  
• 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....
   - Bjarne Riis
  Bjarne Riis
  
  Bjarne Lykkeg?rd Riis , nicknamed the Eagle from Herning , is a Denmark former professional road bicycle racer who won the 1996 Tour de France, and is now the team owner and manager of Danish UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC Saxo Bank....
   of Denmark
  Denmark
  
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  
• 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 ....
  : Johan Museeuw
  Johan Museeuw
  
  Johan Museeuw is a retired Belgium professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1988 to 2004 and was particularly successful in the classic cycle races in the nineties....
   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:
• Jeff King
  Jeff King (mushing)
  
  Jeff King is an United States long distance mushing who is well known for winning both the 1,049+ mi Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S....
   wins with lead dogs: Jake & Booster

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 Olympic Qualifier Tournament in Barcelona
  Barcelona
  
  Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
  , Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  
• Gold: The Netherlands
• Silver: India
• Bronze: Great Britain

• Olympic Games (Men's Competition) in Atlanta, United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Gold: The Netherlands
• Silver: Spain
• Bronze: Australia

• Men's Champions Trophy
  1996 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)
  
  The 1996 Hockey Champions Trophy took place from December 7 to December 15, 1996 in the newly build Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Madras , India....
   in Madras, India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  
• Gold: The Netherlands
• Silver: Pakistan
• Bronze: Germany

• Olympic Games (Women's Competition) in Atlanta, United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Gold: Australia
• Silver: South Korea
• Bronze: The Netherlands

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: Todd Eldredge
  Todd Eldredge
  
  Todd James Eldredge is an United States figure skater. He is the World Figure Skating Championships and a six-time national champion ....
  , United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Ladies' champion: Michelle Kwan
  Michelle Kwan
  
  Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American figure skating. She has won nine United States Figure Skating Championships, five World Figure Skating Championships, and two Figure skating at the Olympics....
  , 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...
  
• Pairs' champions: Marina Eltsova
  Marina Eltsova
  
  Marina Eltsova is a Russian pairs figure skater. She represented the Soviet Union until its fall, and, after that, Russia. With partner Andrei Bushkov, she won the 1996 World Figure Skating Championships and the 1993 and 1997 European Figure Skating Championships....
   / Sergei Bushkov, Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  
• Ice dancing champions: Oksana Grishuk
  Oksana Grishuk
  
  Oksana Grishuk is a Russian Figure skating. She began training in skating at the age of four. Grishuk moved to Moscow in 1986, and studied at the Sport University of Moscow from 1988 to 1992....
   / Evgeny Platov
  Evgeny Platov
  
  Evgeny Platov is a former competitive ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, and Russia in international competition and now works as a figure skating coach and choreographer....
  , Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  

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)

Football

Football

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

American football

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

• Super Bowl XXX
  Super Bowl XXX
  
  Super Bowl XXX was an American football game played on January 28, 1996 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona to decide the National Football League champion following the 1995 NFL season....
  : Dallas Cowboys
  Dallas Cowboys
  
  The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the National Football Conference East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   won 27-17 over the Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
  

• 1995NCAA Division I-A national football championship: the Nebraska Cornhuskers
  Nebraska Cornhuskers
  
  The Nebraska Cornhuskers is the name given to several sports teams of the University of Nebraska?Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, fielding 21 Varsity team teams in 14 sports:...
   manhandle the University of Florida
  University of Florida
  
  The University of Florida is a Public university land-grant university, sea grant colleges, Space grant colleges major research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States....
   Gators, winning 62-24, along with their second back-to-back National Championship seasons on January 2, 1996.

• World Bowl 96
  World Bowl IV
  
  World Bowl '96 , the championship game of American football NFL Europe, took place at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 23 1996....
  : The Scottish Claymores
  Scottish Claymores
  
  The Scottish Claymores were an American football team from Scotland. The franchise played in the World League of American Football between 1995 and 2004, alternately playing home games at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh and Hampden Park, Glasgow....
   won 32-27 over the Frankfurt Galaxy
  Frankfurt Galaxy
  
  The Frankfurt Galaxy was an American football team based in Frankfurt, Germany, playing in NFL Europa. They were one of only two original NFL Europa teams remaining when the league folded, and were the only one still in its original city....
  .
• The Cleveland Browns
  Cleveland Browns
  
  The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   are deactivated and move to Baltimore. They become the Baltimore Ravens
  Baltimore Ravens
  
  The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
   and reactivate in 1999.

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

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....
  
• North Melbourne wins the 100th AFL premiership (North Melbourne 19.17 (131) d Sydney Swans
  Sydney Swans
  
  The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League club based in Sydney, New South Wales.The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans....
   13.10 (88))
• 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 James Hird
  James Hird
  
  James Alan Hird is a retired Australian rules footballer and the former captain of the Essendon Football Club.A long-time captain of the Bombers, Hird was admired not only for his on-field bravery, but his exceptional ability to anticipate the course of play....
   (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...
  ) and Michael Voss
  Michael Voss
  
  Michael Voss is the senior coach of the Brisbane Lions and also a former Australian rules footballer, predominantly playing midfield for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League....
   (Brisbane Bears
  Brisbane Bears
  
  Brisbane Bears were an Australian rules football Club and was the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League. It played its first match in 1987, but struggled on and off the field until it made the finals for the first time in 1995....
  )
• At the end of the season Fitzroy
  Fitzroy Football Club
  
  Fitzroy Football Club, most recently nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Australian Football League on its inception in 1897 in sports....
   and the Brisbane Bears merge, forming the Brisbane Lions
  Brisbane Lions
  
  Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club is an Australian Football League club based in Brisbane, Queensland. They are the most successful AFL team this century, having won three consecutive Grand Finals, and appeared in a fourth....
  .

Football

Football

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

Canadian Football League

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

• Grey Cup
  Grey Cup
  
  The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team....
  : Toronto Argonauts
  Toronto Argonauts
  
  The Toronto Argonauts are a Canadian Football League team based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1873, they are one of the oldest extant professional sports teams in North America....
   win 43-37 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 31-12 over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men

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: 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....
  
• National Camogie League: 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....
  

• 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...
  : Kerry
  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....
   2-9 d. Mayo 1-11
• National Football League
  National Football League (Ireland)
  
  The National Football League is a Gaelic football tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
  : Derry
  Derry GAA
  
  The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Derry GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and holds de facto responsibility for the Gaelic games of Gaelic football, hurling, ladies' Gaelic football, camogie, Gaelic handball and rounders in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland....
   1-16 d. Donegal
  Donegal GAA
  
  :For more details of Donegal GAA see Donegal Senior Football Championship or Donegal Senior Hurling Championship.The Donegal County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Donegal GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Donegal....
   1-9

• 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: Monaghan
  Monaghan GAA
  
  The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Monaghan GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Monaghan and the Monaghan inter-county Gaelic football and hurling teams....
  
• National Football League: Monaghan
  Monaghan GAA
  
  The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Monaghan GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Monaghan and the Monaghan inter-county Gaelic football and hurling teams....
  

• 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...
  : Wexford
  Wexford GAA
  
  The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford....
   1-13 d. Limerick
  Limerick GAA
  
  The Limerick County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Limerick GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Limerick....
   0-14
• 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 14 - 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 16 - 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....
   - Steve Jones
  Steve Jones (golfer)
  
  Steven Glen Jones is an United States professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1996....
  
• July 21 - 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....
   - Tom Lehman
  Tom Lehman
  
  Thomas Edward Lehman is an United States professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown....
  
• August 11 - 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 ....
   - Mark Brooks
  Mark Brooks (golfer)
  
  Mark David Brooks is an United States professional golfer.Brooks was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and turned professional in 1984....
  
• PGA Tour
  PGA Tour
  
  The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
   money leader - Tom Lehman
  Tom Lehman
  
  Thomas Edward Lehman is an United States professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown....
   - $1,780,159
• 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 - Jim Colbert
  Jim Colbert
  
  James Joseph Colbert is an United States professional golfer.Colbert was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Kansas State University, where he finished second in the NCAA golf championships in 1964, before graduating and turning professional in 1965....
   - $1,627,890
• Tiger Woods
  Tiger Woods
  
  Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time....
   turns professional in September. In the last five regular tournaments of the year on the 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....
  , his finishes were T5-T3-1-3-1, placing him among the tour's top 30 money-winners for the year and thereby qualifying him for the season-ending The Tour Championship
  The Tour Championship
  
  The Tour Championship was historically the final event of golf PGA Tour season. Since 2007, it has been the final event of the FedEx Cup, the competition for the first official championship trophy for the PGA Tour season....
  . Woods named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
  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....
  .

• 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"....
   - Warren Bladon
• U.S. Amateur - Tiger Woods
  Tiger Woods
  
  Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time....
   becomes the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles. This was the sixth consecutive year in which he won a USGA
  United States Golf Association
  
  The United States Golf Association is the United States' national association of golf course, clubs and facilities and the Sport governing body of golf for the U.S....
   championship, one short of Bobby Jones
  Bobby Jones (golfer)
  
  Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28....
  ' record of seven.
• 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....
   - Daniel Olsson

• 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....
   - Patty Sheehan
  Patty Sheehan
  
  Patty Sheehan is an United States professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won 6 women's major golf championships and thirty-five LPGA Tour victories in all....
  
• LPGA Championship
  LPGA Championship
  
  The LPGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U.S....
   - Laura Davies
  Laura Davies
  
  Laura Jane Davies Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an English professional golfer.She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times...
  
• 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....
   - Annika Sörenstam
  Annika Sörenstam
  
  Annika S?renstam is a Sweden professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful golfers in history. Before "stepping away" from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golf player with the most wins to her name....
  
• Classique du Maurier - Laura Davies
  Laura Davies
  
  Laura Jane Davies Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an English professional golfer.She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times...
  
• 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 - Karrie Webb
  Karrie Webb
  
  Karrie Anne Webb is Australia's most successful female golfer, and one of the top players in the history of global women's golf. She currently plays mainly on the U.S....
   - $1,002,000 - becomes the first ever woman to earn more than a million dollars in one golf season.
• 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...
   team retained the Solheim Cup
  1996 Solheim Cup
  
  The fourth Solheim Cup took place from September 20 to September 22, 1996 at St. Pierre Hotel & Country Club, Chepstow, Wales. The United States team retained the cup beating the European team by 17 points to 11....
   beating the Europe
  Europe
  
  Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
  an team 17 to 11.

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....
   - Saintly
  Saintly
  
  Saintly was a champion Australian thoroughbred horse. He was bred by legendary trainer Bart Cummings who owned him in partnership with Malaysian businessman Dato Tan Chin Nam....
  
• 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....
   - Victor Cooley
• 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....
   - Helissio
  Helissio
  
  Helissio is a Thoroughbred horse racing sired by Fairy King and a grandson of Northern Dancer. Owned by the Spain businessman, Enrique Sarasola, he was voted the European Horse of the Year for 1996...
  
• 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....
   - Zagreb

• 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 - Mark of Esteem
  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....
      - Shaamit
     Shaamit
     
     Shaamit was an Irish-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing, winner of the Epsom Derby in 1996.Shaamit was foaled on 11 February 1993 and was sired by Mtoto, winner of the Eclipse Stakes in 1987 and 1988 and the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes in 1988....
     
  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....
      - Shantou

• 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 4 - 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....
      - Grindstone
     Grindstone (horse)
     
     Grindstone is a thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 1996. He became jockey Jerry Bailey 2nd Kentucky Derby winner and the second in a row for trainer D....
     
  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....
      - Louis Quatorze
     Louis Quatorze (horse)
     
     Louis Quatorze is an United States thoroughbred stallion horse racing. He was sired by Sovereign Dancer, who in turn was a son of the great 1964 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, Northern Dancer out of the mare, On To Royalty....
     
  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....
      - Editor's Note
     Editor's Note
     
     Editor's Note is an United States thoroughbred Stallion horse racing. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner , who in turn was a son of Leading sire in North America Mr....
     

• 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....
      - Alphabet Soup
  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....
      - Jewel Princess
  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....
      - Boston Harbor
     Boston Harbor (horse)
     
     Boston Harbor is an United States Thoroughbred horse racing. Bred by William T. Young Overbrook Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, Boston Harbor was a son of Capote who won the 1996 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was voted tat year's American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt....
     
  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....
      - Storm Song
  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....
      - Da Hoss
     Da Hoss
     
     Da Hoss by Gone West out of Jolly Saint is a bay Thoroughbred gelding bred in Kentucky by Fares Farms and originally owned by Prestonwood Farm as well as Wallstreet Racing Stables....
     
  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....
      - Lit de Justice
     Lit de Justice
     
     Lit de Justice is an United States Eclipse Award Thoroughbred horse racing. He was bred by Robert Sangster Swettenham Stud, and purchased by the France racing operation Mise de Moratalla who named him for a famous Parlement of Paris known as the Lit de justice....
     
  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....
      - Pilsudski
     Pilsudski (horse)
     
     Pilsudski is a United Kingdom thoroughbred racehorse. Out of the mare Cocotte, he was sired by Polish Precedent, a son of Leading sire in North America Danzig and named after J?zef Pilsudski a famous Polish politician know for his love for horses....
     

Handball

Men's Competition

• European Championship
  1996 European Men's Handball Championship
  
  The 1996 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was held in Spain from 24 May?2 June, in the cities of Ciudad Real and Seville. Russia national handball team won the tournament with Spain national handball team second and Yugoslavia national handball team third....
   in Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....