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2004 in sports was marked by the crisis in Zimbabwean cricket.

anuary 28, International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 Vice-President Kim Un-yong is arrested on charges of corruption in Seoul
Seoul

Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...
. Prosecutors arrest Kim minutes after an arrest warrant is issued by the Seoul District Court, and the 72-year-old was put behind bars after his pre-trial detention was approved.

On April 27, the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 takes out insurance in case the Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 Olympic Games
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 are canceled due to terrorism
Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
 or natural disaster
Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental or human losses....
s.

On May 18, the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 announced the list of cities accepted as candidates to host the 2012 Olympic Games
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
.






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2004 in sports was marked by the crisis in Zimbabwean cricket.

Events

On January 28, International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 Vice-President Kim Un-yong is arrested on charges of corruption in Seoul
Seoul

Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...
. Prosecutors arrest Kim minutes after an arrest warrant is issued by the Seoul District Court, and the 72-year-old was put behind bars after his pre-trial detention was approved.

On April 27, the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 takes out insurance in case the Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 Olympic Games
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 are canceled due to terrorism
Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
 or natural disaster
Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental or human losses....
s.

On May 18, the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 announced the list of cities accepted as candidates to host the 2012 Olympic Games
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
. The five candidate cities are Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 and Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
.

2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....

The 2004 Olympics opened in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 on August 13.
1 36 39 27 102
2 32 17 14 63
3 27 27 38 92
4 17 16 16 49
5 16 9 12 37


American football
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....

  • College football
    College football

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

    The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the Division I#Football Bowl Subdivision an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game"....
     (2003 season):
    • January 1 - Rose Bowl: USC
      University of Southern California

      The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
       28, Michigan
      University of Michigan

      The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
       14
    • January 1 - Orange Bowl
      Orange Bowl (game)

      The Orange Bowl is an annual United States of America college football bowl game played in Dolphin Stadium just outside Miami, Florida, Florida....
      : Miami
      University of Miami

      The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, United States, a historic suburb of Miami, Florida....
       16, Florida State
      Florida State University

      Florida State University is a public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching....
       14
    • January 2 - Fiesta Bowl
      Fiesta Bowl

      The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips, is a United States college football bowl game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006....
      : Ohio State
      Ohio State University

      The Ohio State University is a public university research university in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States....
       35, Kansas State
      Kansas State University

      Kansas State University, officially named Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas, in the United States....
       28
    • January 4 - Sugar Bowl
      Sugar Bowl

      The Sugar Bowl is an annual United States of America college football bowl game played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since December 2, 1934, and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009....
      : LSU
      Louisiana State University

      Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a state university, coeducational, Level l Research University located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System....
       21, Oklahoma
      University of Oklahoma

      University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
       14
    • January 5 - LSU is awarded the 2003 BCS national championship; USC is awarded the 2003 Associated Press national championship
  • College football
    College football

    College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
     (other divisions; 2004 season):
    • Division I-AA: James Madison
      James Madison University

      James Madison University is a public university coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Virginia, United States Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes until settling with James Madison University....
       31, Montana 21
    • Division II
      NCAA Division II national football championship

      The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II National College football Championship began in 1973 in sports. Prior to 1973, four regional bowl games were played in order to provide postseason action for what was then called the NCAA College Division and a poll determined the final champion....
      : Valdosta State
      Valdosta State University

      Valdosta State University is a public university located in the city of Valdosta, Georgia, Georgia , in the United States of America, and is part of the University System of Georgia....
       36, Pittsburg State
      Pittsburg State University

      Pittsburg State University, also called Pitt State or PSU, is a public university with approximately 7,100 students located in Pittsburg, Kansas....
       31
    • Division III
      NCAA Division III national football championship

      The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III National college football Championship began in 1973 in sports. Prior to 1973, most of the schools now in Division III competed in the NCAA's former "College Division"....
      : Linfield
      Linfield College

      Linfield College is an United States Private university institution of higher learning located in located in McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon, United States....
       28, Mary Hardin-Baylor
      University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

      University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is a Christian co-educational liberal arts institution of higher learning located in Belton, Texas. Founded by the Republic of Texas in 1845, as "Baylor Female College" it has grown to approximately 2,700 students and awards degrees at the Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and doctorate levels....
       21
  • 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....
    :
    • February 1 - Super Bowl XXXVIII
      Super Bowl XXXVIII

      Super Bowl XXXVIII was an American football game played on February 1, 2004 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas to decide the National Football League champion following the 2003 NFL season....
      : New England Patriots
      New England Patriots

      The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats" by sports writers and fans, are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
       32, Carolina Panthers
      Carolina Panthers

      The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, representing both North Carolina and South Carolina in the National Football League....
       29 at Houston, Texas
      Houston, Texas

      Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
    • August 8 - John Elway
      John Elway

      John Albert Elway, Jr. is a retired American football quarterback. He played his college football at Stanford Cardinal football and his entire professional career for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League ....
      , Barry Sanders
      Barry Sanders

      Barry David Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the National Football League....
      , Carl Eller
      Carl Eller

      Carl Eller was a professional American football player in the National Football League from 1964 through 1979. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and attended the University of Minnesota....
       and Bob Brown
      Bob Brown

      Robert James Brown , is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia....
       are inducted into the 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....
    • September 19 - Jerry Rice
      Jerry Rice

      Jerry Lee Rice is a former football wide receiver in the National Football League. Rice is widely regarded as the greatest wide receiver ever and one of the greatest players in NFL history, consistently showing exceptional performance and strong work ethic on and off of the field....
      's record of 274 consecutive games with a pass reception comes to an end, although his Oakland Raiders
      Oakland Raiders

      The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
       defeat the Buffalo Bills
      Buffalo Bills

      The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008....
      , 13-10.
    • September 27 - Morten Andersen
      Morten Andersen

      Morten Andersen is a former American football placekicker. He holds the distinction of being the all-time leading scorer in National Football League history and the all-time leading scorer for two different teams; the New Orleans Saints, with whom he spent 13 seasons, and the Atlanta Falcons, with whom he spent a combined 8 seasons....
       appears in his 341st NFL game, breaking the record set by George Blanda
      George Blanda

      George "The Fossil" Blanda is a former American football placekicker and quarterback. The son of a Pittsburgh area coal miner, Blanda has the distinction of having played 26 seasons of professional football, the most in the sport's history, and had scored more points than anyone in history at the time of his retirement....
      .
    • December 26 - Peyton Manning
      Peyton Manning

      Peyton Williams Manning is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Manning is one of only two three-time NFL MVPs....
       threw his 49th touchdown
      Touchdown

      A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American football and Canadian football....
       pass of the season in a game against the San Diego Chargers
      San Diego Chargers

      The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
       breaking Dan Marino's
      Dan Marino

      Daniel Constantine Marino, Jr. is an United States Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League....
       single season touchdown record
  • NFL Europe
    NFL Europe

    NFL Europa was an American football league which operated in Europe from 1991 until 2007. Backed by the National Football League , the largest professional American football league in the United States, it was founded as the World League of American Football to serve as a type of spring league....
    :
    • June 12 - World Bowl: Berlin Thunder
      Berlin Thunder

      The Berlin Thunder were a professional American football team in NFL Europa, which was a springtime American football league serving primarily as a developmental league for the National Football League....
       30, 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....
       24
  • Arena Football League
    Arena Football League

    The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
    :
    • June 27 - ArenaBowl XVIII
      ArenaBowl XVIII

      ArenaBowl XVIII saw the San Jose SaberCats and Arizona Rattlers competing for the 2004 in sports Arena Football League championship. The game marked the last time the ArenaBowl was held at the home arena of the higher-seeded team, rather than a neutral site, and 17,391 fans packed the sold-out US Airways Center as the visiting SaberCats defea...
      : San Jose SaberCats
      San Jose SaberCats

      The San Jose SaberCats are an Arena Football League team that began play as a 1995 expansion team. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Conference....
       69, Arizona Rattlers
      Arizona Rattlers

      The Arizona Rattlers are an Arena Football League team, based in Phoenix, Arizona, that began play as a 1992 expansion team....
       62 at Phoenix, Arizona
      Phoenix, Arizona

      Phoenix is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,552,259 residents, and is the anchor of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area with 4,179,427 residents....


Association football

For an extensive coverage see 2004 in football (soccer)
2004 in football (soccer)

The following are the football events of the year 2004 throughout the world....
  • February 14 – Tunisia
    Tunisia national football team

    The Tunisia national football team , nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage , is the national team of Tunisia and is controlled by the F?d?ration Tunisienne de Football....
     beat Morocco
    Morocco national football team

    The Morocco national football team , nicknamed ???? ?????? , is the national team of Morocco and is controlled by the F?d?ration Royale Marocaine de Football....
     2-1 to clinch the first African Cup of Nations
    African Cup of Nations

    The Africa Cup of Nations, also referred to as the African Nations Cup is the main international association football competition in Africa....
     in the country's history.
  • May 26 – Porto
    Futebol Clube do Porto

    Futebol Clube do Porto - short: FC Porto, Porto or FCP - is a Portugal sports club best known for its football endeavors. It was founded in Porto in 1893....
     defeat AS Monaco
    AS Monaco FC

    The Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club is a Monaco football club founded in 1924. They became a professional club after 1948. Although the club is in Monaco, it has always competed in the France football structure due to Monaco being too small in territory to hold other clubs of note....
     3-0 in the UEFA Champions League
    UEFA Champions League

    The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
     final in Gelsenkirchen
    Gelsenkirchen

    Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c....
    , 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....
    .
  • July 4 – Greece
    Greece national football team

    The Greece national football team is the national Association football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation....
     surprising win the UEFA
    UEFA

    The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA ....
     Euro 2004 football tournament, defeating the host nation Portugal
    Portugal national football team

    The Portugal national football team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation , finishing 4th at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The first appearance in the 1966 FIFA World cup saw them reach the semi final, losing 2-1 at Wembley Stadium to the eventual world champions England national football team....
     1-0.
  • July 25 – Brazil
    Brazil national football team

    The Brazil national football team is the national team of Brazil and is managed by the Brazilian Football Confederation that represents Brazil in international football competitions....
     win the Copa América
    Copa América

    The Copa Am?rica is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONMEBOL, the South American football confederation....
     football tournament, defeating Argentina
    Argentina national football team

    The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Asociaci?n del F?tbol Argentino . Argentina has the world record for most international titles won by any national team....
     4-2 on penalties.
  • August 7 – Japan
    Japan national football team

    The Japan national football team is the national football team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association.On July 21, 2006, Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivica Osim, who previously coached Yugoslavia national football team and most recently JEF United Ichihara Chiba, took over as manager, succeeding Zico, who had coached Japan f...
     win the 2004 Asian Cup football tournament, defeating China
    China national football team

    The China national football team is the national Association football team of People's Republic of China and is governed by the Chinese Football Association ....
     3-1.
  • August 26 – United States
    United States women's national soccer team

    The United States Women's National Soccer Team is operated by the United States Soccer Federation. The team has won two FIFA Women's World Cups ; three Football at the Summer Olympics and six Algarve Cups ....
     win the Olympic
    Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics

    The football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics started on August 11, , and ended on August 28.The Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament is played by U-23 national teams, with up to three over age players allowed per squad....
     women's football tournament, defeating Brazil
    Brazil women's national football team

    The Brazil women's national football team represents Brazil in international women's football .The team finished the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 in the third place....
     2-1 in extra time.
  • August 28 – Argentina
    Argentina national football team

    The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Asociaci?n del F?tbol Argentino . Argentina has the world record for most international titles won by any national team....
     win the Olympic
    Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics

    The football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics started on August 11, , and ended on August 28.The Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament is played by U-23 national teams, with up to three over age players allowed per squad....
     men's football tournament, defeating Paraguay
    Paraguay national football team

    The Paraguay national football team is the national team of Paraguay and is controlled by the Asociaci?n Paraguaya de F?tbol.The Paraguay national football team has reached the second round of the Football World Cup on three occasions but has never advanced beyond that stage....
     1-0.
  • September 7 – Cienciano
    Cienciano del Cuzco

    Club Cienciano del Cusco is a football club from Cusco, Peru. The club was founded in 1901 and was originally the team of the Faculty of Science of the University of Cusco , from which it takes its name....
     defeats Boca Juniors
    Boca Juniors

    Club Atl?tico Boca Juniors, known also as Boca Juniors or simply Boca, is a popular Argentina sports clubs, best known for its football team....
     4-2 on penalties to win the South American Recopa final in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
    Fort Lauderdale, Florida

    Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States....
    , USA.
  • December 17 – Boca Juniors
    Boca Juniors

    Club Atl?tico Boca Juniors, known also as Boca Juniors or simply Boca, is a popular Argentina sports clubs, best known for its football team....
     defeats Bolívar 2-1 on aggregate to win the Copa Sudamericana
    Copa Sudamericana

    The Copa Sudamericana , also known as Copa Nissan Motors Sudamericana for sponsorship reasons, is an international football cup competition that started in 2002 played annually by clubs of CONMEBOL and, since 2005, from CONCACAF....
     final in Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
    , Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    .


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....

For an extensive coverage see 2004 in athletics (track and field)
2004 in athletics (track and field)

This page shows the main events during the 2004 in sports year in athletics throughout the world....

Cross-country running

    • January 3 - Winners from the 2004 Great Winter Run X-country race at Newcastle
      Newcastle upon Tyne

      Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
      , England
      England

      native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
      :
      • Women's 6.3 km: Tirunesh Dibada, Ethiopia
        Ethiopia

        Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
         21:01
      • Men's 8.0 km: Sileshi Sihine
        Sileshi Sihine

        Sileshi Sihine is an Ethiopian long-distance athlete.He achieved a silver medal in the 10,000 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as at the 2005 World Championships and 2007 World Championships as well as a bronze in 2003....
        , Ethiopia 26:15


Track

  • 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...
     Olympic Track and Field trials, Sacramento, California
    Sacramento, California

    Sacramento is the Capital of the United States U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County, California. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive California Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California.....
    :
    • July 10 - Marion Jones
      Marion Jones

      Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an United States former world champion Athletics . She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs....
       finishes fourth in the qualifying for the 100 meter dash, and therefore fails to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics
      2004 Summer Olympics

      The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
       in that event. (Jones did qualify for the Olympics in the long jump
      Long jump

      The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....
      .)
    • July 11 - Tim Montgomery
      Tim Montgomery

      Timothy Montgomery is a former United States Athletics . He was stripped of his records after being found guilt y of using anabolic steroids. Since retiring from athletics he has been tried and convicted for his part in a New York-based check fraud scheme and for dealing heroin in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia....
      , current world record
      World record

      A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, often a sports event. Outside of conventional sports, world records can also be set in virtually anything that is measurable, but verifying these records is often very difficult....
       holder in the men's 100 meter run, fails to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics
      2004 Summer Olympics

      The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
      , finishing 7th out of 8 competitors in the trials finals.


Marathon


International Races
  • April 4 — 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: Felix Limo
      Felix Limo

      Felix Limo is a Kenyan distance runner who specializes in the marathon. Limo is one of the best marathon runners in the world today. He solidified that claim with victory at the 2006 London Marathon, which had boasted one of the strongest fields ever assembled for a marathon....
       (KEN) 2:06:14
    • Women's Winner: Zhor El Kamch
      Zhor El Kamch

      Zhor El Kamch is a Morocco long-distance runner....
       (MAR) 2:26:10


  • April 18 — London Marathon
    London Marathon

    The London Marathon is a popular road running marathon that has been held each year in London since 1981, usually in April. The race is currently sponsored by Flora , as the Flora London Marathon....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    • Men's Winner: Evans Rutto
      Evans Rutto

      File:2005 London Marathon Lel-Rutto-Gharib.jpgEvans Rutto is a Kenyan athlete who won the 2003 Chicago Marathon with debutant world record time of 2:05:50, which was also the Marathon Year Rankings in 2004 ....
       (KEN) 2:06:18
    • Women's Winner: Margaret Okayo
      Margaret Okayo

      Margaret Okayo is a successful marathon runner from Kenya. She has won a number of major marathons.Okayo started running while at primary school....
       (KEN) 2:22:35


  • April 19 — 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: Timothy Cherigat
      Timothy Cherigat

      Timothy Cherigat is a long-distance Running from Kenya, who was the winner of the 108th Boston Marathon held in 2004. Cherigat won this race in a time of 2:10:37 on an abnormally warm day during which temperatures reached as high as 87 ?F ....
       (KEN) 2:10:37
    • Women's Winner: Catherine Ndereba
      Catherine Ndereba

      Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba is a world class Kenyan marathon . She won the Boston Marathon four times and silver medals in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008....
       (KEN) 2:24:27


  • May 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: Girma Tolla
      Girma Tolla

      Girma Tolla is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race, having previously concentrated on the 10,000 metres....
       (ETH) 2:10:33
    • Women's Winner: Nadezhda Wijenberg
      Nadezhda Wijenberg

      Nadezhda Wijenberg is a long-distance Running from Russia, who got the Netherlands nationality in 1999 by marrying her coach Ger Wijenberg from the Netherlands....
       (NED) 2:31:23


  • August 22 — Olympic Marathon
    Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Marathon

    The Women's marathon event at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in August 22, 2004 in the streets of Athens, Greece. World record holder Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain started as favourite for the race, and led from the start....
    , Athens, Greece
    • Women's Winner: Mizuki Noguchi
      Mizuki Noguchi

      Mizuki Noguchi is a long-distance Athletics from Japan. She was born in Kanagawa, but grew up in Ise in Ise, Mie city in Mie. She started competing in track and field during her first year of middle school....
       (JPN) 2:26:20


  • August 29 — Olympic Marathon
    Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

    The men's marathon event at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in August 29, 2004 in the streets of Athens, Greece. The streets were recently painted for the event, which provided an excellent road surface for the athletes....
    , Athens, Greece
    • Men's Winner: Stefano Baldini
      Stefano Baldini

      Stefano Baldini is an Italy Athletics and the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon and current 2006 European Championships in Athletics champion in the marathon....
       (ITA) 2:10:55


  • November 7 — 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: Hendrik Ramaala
      Hendrik Ramaala

      Hendrik Ramaala is a South African long-distance runner, the winner of the 2004 New York City Marathon and 2004 Mumbai Marathon. He also has two silver medals from the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1998 and 1999....
       (RSA) 2:09:28
    • Women's Winner:Paula Radcliffe
      Paula Radcliffe

      Paula Jane Radcliffe, Order of the British Empire is a British Long-distance track event and currently holds several world records.Radcliffe's distinctive "nodding" action while running has made her instantly recognisable to British viewers....
       (GBR) 2:23:10


  • December 5 — 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: Tsuyoshi Ogata
      Tsuyoshi Ogata

      is a Japan long-distance athlete competing mainly in the marathon .In August 2003 he came twelfth at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris....
       (JPN) 2:09:10


National Champions
  • April 4 — Rotterdam
    Rotterdam

    Rotterdam ; city and municipality in the Netherlands province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people in the country, with a population of 584,046 on 1 January 2007 and comprises the southern part of the Randstad, the List of metropolitan are...
    , 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: Luc Krotwaar
      Luc Krotwaar

      Luc Krotwaar is a Netherlands long-distance runner, who is nicknamed 'The White Kenyan'. In the spring of 2003 Krotwaar ran 2:19.42 in the Rotterdam Marathon and only eight days later 2:13.41 in the Utrecht marathon....
       — 2:11:56
    • Women's Winner: Nadezhda Wijenberg
      Nadezhda Wijenberg

      Nadezhda Wijenberg is a long-distance Running from Russia, who got the Netherlands nationality in 1999 by marrying her coach Ger Wijenberg from the Netherlands....
       — 2:38:38


  • April 18 — London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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    • Men's Winner: Jonathan Brown — 2:13:39
    • Women's Winner: Birhan Dagne — 2:34:45


  • May 30 — Ottawa
    Ottawa

    Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    • Men's Winner: Matthew McInnes — 2:18:52
    • Women's Winner: Nicole Stevenson — 2:34:45


  • July 4 — Turku
    Turku

    Turku is a List of towns in Finland situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of Aura river. It is located in the region of Finland Proper in the Province of Western Finland....
    , Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
    • Men's Winner: Petri Saavalainen — 2:24:22
    • Women's Winner: Marjaana Lahti — 2:55:38


  • September 12 — 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....
    • Men's Winner: Daniel Green — 2:23:06
    • Women's Winner: Jenny Wickman — 2:55:09


  • October 3 — Budapest
    Budapest

    Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
    , Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
    • Men's Winner: Roland Ádók — 2:26:34
    • Women's Winner: Simona Staicu — 2:38:17


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....
    • Port Adelaide
      Port Adelaide Football Club

      Port Adelaide Football Club, often referred to as simply Port or the Power, is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia....
       wins the 108th AFL premiership (Port Adelaide 17.11 (113) d 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....
       10.13 (73))
    • 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 Chris Judd
      Chris Judd

      Chris Judd is a professional Australian rules footballer for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League . A tall midfielder at 189cm and 85kg, Judd is an AFL Premiership captain, Brownlow Medallist, Leigh Matthews Trophy winner, and Norm Smith Medallist....
       (West Coast Eagles
      West Coast Eagles

      The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. The club is based at Subiaco Oval in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia and was formed in August 1986 when the then Australian Football League expanded to include teams from Perth and Brisbane for the 1987 season....
      )
    • See also Australian Football League season 2004


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 27 College World Series
    2004 College World Series

    The 2004 College World Series was held June 18 through June 28, 2004 in sports in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a 64-team bracket to play at historic Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium....
    : Cal State Fullerton
    California State University, Fullerton

    California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as CSUF, CSU Fullerton, or Cal State Fullerton, is currently the second largest California State University campus....
     wins the NCAA
    National Collegiate Athletic Association

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
     College World Series
    College World Series

    The College World Series or CWS is a baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion....
    , defeating Texas
    University of Texas at Austin

    The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....
     3-2 to win the best-of-three championship series 2-0.


  • July 4: Éric Gagné
    Éric Gagné

    ?ric Serge Gagn? is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent.Signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in , Gagn? began his career as a starting pitcher....
    's consecutive saves streak ended at 84 in a 6-5 Los Angeles Dodgers
    Los Angeles Dodgers

    The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of names before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers circa 1911....
     victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks
    Arizona Diamondbacks

    The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the National League West of Major League Baseball's National League....


  • July 10: Barry Bonds
    Barry Bonds

    Barry Lamar Bonds is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He is the son of former major league Major League Baseball All-Star Game Bobby Bonds, Godparent of National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Willie Mays, nephew of 1964 Summer Olympics Rosie Bonds, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson....
     breaks his own record for intentional walk
    Intentional base on balls

    An intentional base on balls , often called an intentional walk, is a base on balls that was issued with no intent of ever allowing a hit....
    s received in a season; amazingly, he broke the former full-season record of 68 set in 2002 before the All-Star
    Major League Baseball All-Star Game

    The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by a combination of Fan , players, Coach , and Manager ....
     break. After three intentional walks in a 3-1 San Francisco Giants
    San Francisco Giants

    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
     win over the Arizona Diamondbacks
    Arizona Diamondbacks

    The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the National League West of Major League Baseball's National League....
    , his total stood at 71. He would end the season with 120.


  • August 8: At Comerica Park
    Comerica Park

    Comerica Park is an open air baseball park located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It serves as the home of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball's American League, replacing historic Tiger Stadium in 2000....
    , 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....
     outslugged the Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers

    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit, Michigan in ....
     11-9, despite knuckle baller Tim Wakefield
    Tim Wakefield

    Timothy Stephen Wakefield is a right-handed knuckleball pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played with the Boston Red Sox since 1995 Major League Baseball season....
     giving up a record six home run
    Home run

    In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batting is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring run for himself and each baserunning who was already on base, with no error by the defensive team on the play....
    s.


  • August 31: The Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians

    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They are in the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
     win a 22-0 rout of the 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....
    , who endured the worst shutout loss in league history.


  • September 17: At San Francisco
    San Francisco Giants

    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in , that currently play in the National League West. One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports....
    , Barry Bonds
    Barry Bonds

    Barry Lamar Bonds is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He is the son of former major league Major League Baseball All-Star Game Bobby Bonds, Godparent of National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Willie Mays, nephew of 1964 Summer Olympics Rosie Bonds, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson....
     became just the third player in MLB history
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     to hit 700 home run
    Home run

    In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batting is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring run for himself and each baserunning who was already on base, with no error by the defensive team on the play....
    s. Bonds joined the select company of Hall of Famers Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth
    Babe Ruth

    George Herman Ruth, Jr. , also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player from –....
     (714) with his historic blast off San Diego Padres
    San Diego Padres

    The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California since their founding in 1969. They play in the National League West....
     Jake Peavy
    Jake Peavy

    Jacob Edward Peavy is a Cy Young Award-winning starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the San Diego Padres. He bats and throws right-handed....
     in the third inning.


  • September 17: At Seattle
    Seattle Mariners

    The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
    , Ichiro Suzuki
    Ichiro Suzuki

    "Ichiro" redirects here. For other uses, see Ichiro., often known simply as , is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners....
     hits his 199th single of the season, breaking the major league baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     record of 198, set by Lloyd Waner
    Lloyd Waner

    Lloyd James Waner was a Major League Baseball player. His small stature and 150 pound weight made him one of the smallest players of the time....
     in 1927.


  • September 29: Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     announces that the Montreal Expos
    Montreal Expos

    The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969 until 2004. After the 2004 Major League Baseball season, the franchise was relocated by Major League Baseball, its owners since 2002, to Washington, D.C....
     will be moved to the Washington, DC area for the 2005 season.


  • October 1: Ichiro Suzuki
    Ichiro Suzuki

    "Ichiro" redirects here. For other uses, see Ichiro., often known simply as , is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners....
     of the Seattle Mariners
    Seattle Mariners

    The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
     gets two base hits to break the 83-year-old record for most hits in a single season. The previous record, held by George Sisler
    George Sisler

    George Harold Sisler , nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an United States baseball player who played Major League Baseball for 15 Season #Regular season, primarily as a first Baseman with the Baltimore Orioles#St....
    , was 257 hits in a season.


  • October 20: The 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....
     win the ALCS
    American League Championship Series

    In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series , played in October, is a playoff round that determines the winner of the American League pennant....
    , coming back from 0-3 in the best-of-seven series against the 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....
    .


  • October 26: Seibu Lions
    Seibu Lions

    The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League. As a company, it is a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, belonging to Seibu Railway. Recently, the team had stood on shaky financial ground, until the Boston Red Sox signed Daisuke Matsuzaka....
     PL defeats Chunichi Dragons
    Chunichi Dragons

    The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chubu region of Japan. The team is in the Central League. They won the 2007 Japan Series and Konami Cup Asia Series 2007....
     CL, 4 games to 3 in the Japan Series
    Japan Series

    , or is a seven-game championship played by the teams of Japan's two professional baseball leagues . The Series is the highest level of play in professional baseball in Japan....
    .


  • October 27: The 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....
     sweep the St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals

    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
    , four games to none, to win the 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...
     for the first time in 86 years.


See also 2004 in baseball
2004 in baseball

Headline events of the year*The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since , ending the Curse of the Bambino.*With 262 hits, Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners breaks George Sisler's record of 257....


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....

  • NBA Finals
    2004 NBA Finals

    The 2004 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2003-04 NBA season. The Finals were between the Los Angeles Lakers of the Western Conference and the Detroit Pistons of the Eastern Conference , the Lakers held home court advantage....
    : The 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....
    , in a major upset, defeat the heavily-favored Los Angeles Lakers
    Los Angeles Lakers

    The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
    , 4 games to 1. It is the Pistons first NBA title in fourteen years.


  • November 19 - A game between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers
    Indiana Pacers

    The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association . The team is based in the state's capital and largest city, Indianapolis, Indiana, located in the center of the state....
     is called with less than a minute remaining after a fight between opposing players turns into a far more massive brawl between Pacers players and Pistons supporters. For more details on the brawl and its aftermath, see Pacers–Pistons brawl.


  • The Los Angeles Lakers dynasty is dismantled, after Shaquille O'Neal
    Shaquille O'Neal

    Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal , frequently referred to simply as "Shaq", is an United States professional basketball player, rapper, and actor....
     is traded to the Miami Heat
    Miami Heat

    The Miami Heat is a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ....
    , Phil Jackson
    Phil Jackson

    Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson is a former American professional basketball player and the current Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Jackson is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the National Basketball Association ....
     retires, and many role players either sign with other teams (such as Derek Fisher
    Derek Fisher

    Derek Lamar Fisher is an United States professional basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He was the twenty-fourth pick in the first-round by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1996 NBA Draft....
    ) or retire (such as Rick Fox
    Rick Fox

    Ulrich Alexander "Rick" Fox is a Canada television actor and retired professional basketball player....
    ).


  • NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
    • The UConn Huskies
      University of Connecticut

      The University of Connecticut is the Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 28,000 students on its six campuses, including nearly 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs....
       win 82-73 over 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....
      . UConn's Emeka Okafor
      Emeka Okafor

      Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor , is an American professional basketball player playing at power forward and center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association....
       is named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four
      NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

      The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....
      .


  • NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
    • The UConn Huskies
      University of Connecticut

      The University of Connecticut is the Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 28,000 students on its six campuses, including nearly 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs....
       defeat the Tennessee Lady Volunteers
      University of Tennessee

      The University of Tennessee , sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant university University of Tennessee system public school system in Tennessee....
      , 70-61, making UConn the first school to win both the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball championships in the same season. A Division II school, Central Missouri State, was the first to accomplish this double in 1984. UConn's Diana Taurasi
      Diana Taurasi

      Diana Lurena Taurasi is a professional basketball player who plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association....
       is named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four
      NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

      The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981 in sports-1982 in sports season....
      .


  • August 25- The Puerto Rican National Basketball Team defeats the United States' Dream Team 92-73 on the opening game if the 2004 Summer Olympics
    2004 Summer Olympics

    The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
    . This marked the first time the Dream Team lost an Olympic Game.


  • Euroleague
    Euroleague

    The Euroleague is one of the professional basketball competitions in Europe, with teams from thirteen different European countries. The competition is operated by ULEB, a Europe-wide consortium of leading professional basketball leagues....
    : Maccabi Tel-Aviv of Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
     wins the final 118-74 over Fortitudo Bologna
    Fortitudo Bologna

    Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna is a prominent Serie A professional basketball club that is based in Bologna. It began the current 2008-09 season as the only club in the top Italian League that did not include a sponsor's name , but in November 2008 signed a sponsorship deal with the American financial services company GMAC....
     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....
    .
  • ULEB Cup
    ULEB Cup

    The Eurocup is the second-tier transnational professional basketball competition in Europe. It is comprised of teams from European domestic national leagues that are joined in and are a part of the ULEB , and that also do not have a contract to be in the Euroleague....
    : Hapoel Jerusalem
    Hapoel Jerusalem

    Hapoel Jerusalem is a sport organization in Jerusalem, Israel as a local branch of the Hapoel movement. The branch was established in the 1920s and represents the city in more sports than any other sport organization in Jerusalem....
     of Israel wins the title after winning Real Madrid
    Real Madrid

    Real Madrid Club de F?tbol is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the Football records in Spain in Football in Spain and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record thirty-one La Liga titles, seventeen Copa del Rey, a record nine UEFA Champions League and two UEFA...
     in the final.
  • Chinese Basketball Association
    Chinese Basketball Association

    The Chinese Basketball Association is the premier professional basketball List of professional sports leagues in People's Republic of China. It is commonly known as the CBA, and this acronym is often used even in Chinese language....
     finals: Guangdong Southern Tigers
    Guangdong Southern Tigers

    Guangdong Winnerway Southern Tigers or Guangdong Southern Tigers or Guangdong Winnerway are the basketball team owned by the Guangdong Winnerway Group playing in the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Dongguan, Guangdong....
     defeat Bayi Rockets
    Bayi Rockets

    Bayi Shuanglu Rockets or Bayi Rockets or Bayi Army Rockets or Bayi Shuanglu are a basketball team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Ningbo, Zhejiang....
    , 3 games to 1.


  • 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....
    : Sydney Kings
    Sydney Kings

    The Sydney Kings were a basketball team competing in the National Basketball League in Australia. They were the first team to win three consecutive championships in the NBL....
     defeated the West Sydney Razorbacks
    West Sydney Razorbacks

    The Sydney Spirit are a professional basketball team competing in Australia's National Basketball League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales....
     3-2 in best-of-five final series.


Boxing
Boxing

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

  • February 19 to 29 – 35th European Amateur Boxing Championships
    2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships

    The Men's 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Pula, Croatia from February 19 to February 29. The 35th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA....
     held in Pula, Croatia
    • Light Flyweight (– 48 kg): Sergey Kazakov
      Sergey Kazakov

      Sergey Kazakov is a Russian amateur boxer best known to win the World Championships 2003 and European Championships 1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships, 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships and 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Men's Light Flyweight....
       (Russia)
    • Flyweight (– 51 kg): Georgi Balakshin (Russia)
    • Bantamweight (– 54 kg): Gennady Kovalev
      Gennady Kovalev

      Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev is a Boxing from Russia....
       (Russia)
    • Featherweight (– 57 kg): Vitaly Tajbert (Germany)
    • Lightweight (– 60 kg): Dimitar Stilianov
      Dimitar Stilianov

      Dimitar Stilianov is boxing from Bulgaria, who won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas. Two years later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships, he won the silver medal in the Light Welterweight ....
       (Bulgaria)
    • Light Welterweight (– 64 kg): Alexander Maletin (Russia)
    • Welterweight (– 69 kg): Oleg Saitov
      Oleg Saitov

      Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov is a Russian Boxing. He studied journalism in Ryazan, a city of approximately one million people south of Moscow.He won the Olympic Games gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics....
       (Russia)
    • Middleweight (– 75 kg): Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov (Russia)
    • Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg): Evgeny Makarenko
      Evgeny Makarenko

      Evgeny Makarenko is a Boxing from Russia best known to win two world titles 2001 and 2003 at light heavyweight, and him being a part of the 2005 Russian team at the Boxing World Cup....
       (Russia)
    • Heavyweight (– 91 kg): Alexander Alexeyev
      Alexander Alexeyev (boxer)

      Alexander Vyacheslavovich Alekseev is a Boxing from Russia....
       (Russia)
    • Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg): Alexander Povetkin
      Alexander Povetkin

      Aleksander Vladimirovich Povetkin is a Russian boxer. His height is 6' 2" . Because of his amateur success, as well as his early pro accomplishments, he is seen as a leading contender in professional boxing's Heavyweight division....
       (Russia)

  • March 13 – The world junior middleweight championship was unified as Shane Mosley
    Shane Mosley

    "Sugar" Shane Mosley is a boxing from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current World_Boxing_Association#Current_WBA_world_title_holders....
     lost to Winky Wright
    Winky Wright

    Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright is an United States boxing, the former Undisputed Champion light middleweight world champion and a current middleweight contender....
    .
  • May 15 – Antonio Tarver
    Antonio Tarver

    Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional Boxing from Orlando, Florida, who is the former Ring light heavyweight champion and former IBF, WBC and IBO light heavyweight champion....
     won the WBC light-heavyweight title with a stunning second-round knockout of champion Roy Jones Jr.
    Roy Jones Jr.

    Roy Jones, Jr. is an United States boxer. Jones was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 1990s by the Boxing Writers Association of America. As a professional he captured IBF championships in the middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions....
  • July 30 – Danny Williams
    Danny Williams (boxer)

    Bronze medal 1994 Commonwealth GamesDaniel Williams is a United Kingdom professional heavyweight boxing, current British heavyweight title holder and former Commonwealth of Nations champion....
     knocks out 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....
     in the fourth round of a non-championship bout.
  • August 16 – Robert Quiroga
    Robert Quiroga

    Robert Quiroga was the International Boxing Federation Super flyweight champion from 1990 to 1993. Quiroga successfully defended his title five times and retired in 1995....
    , former International Boxing Federation
    International Boxing Federation

    The International Boxing Federation, or IBF, is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council and WBO....
     super flyweight
    Super Flyweight

    Super Flyweight is a Boxing weight classes in professional boxing. It is alternately referred to as Junior Bantamweight. The maximum weight for this division is 115 lbs ....
     champion, found stabbed to death.
  • September 18 – Bernard Hopkins
    Bernard Hopkins

    Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins is an United States Boxing. He is best known for his ten year reign as Middleweight World Champion in which he defended his title a record 20 times....
     successfully defends his undisputed middleweight title with a ninth-round knockout of 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....
    .


Canadian football
Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played chiefly in Canada in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide , attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area ....

  • November 21: 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....
     defeats British Columbia Lions
    British Columbia Lions

    The BC Lions are a major professional sports team of the Canadian Football League . Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954 to 1982....
     27-19 in the 92nd Grey Cup
    92nd Grey Cup

    The 92nd Grey Cup game took place on November 21, 2004 at Frank Clair Stadium at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Ontario. The game decided the championship of the 2004 CFL season Canadian Football League season....
    , played in Ottawa
    Ottawa

    Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    .


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....

  • March 5 - Pakistan
    Pakistan Under-19 cricket team

    The Pakistan Under-19 cricket team are 2007 world champions at the international cricket under-19 level, having won the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup making them the first team to win two U-19 World Cups back to back....
     beat the West Indies
    West Indian U-19 cricket team

    The West Indian Under-19 cricket team have been playing official U-19 test matches since 1974. Future international players to have represented the team include Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Courtney Walsh....
     by 25 runs to win the 2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
    Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2004

    The Under-19 Cricket Cricket World Cup 2004 was held between 15 February and 5 March 2004 in Bangladesh. The final was played in Dhaka between Pakistan Under-19 cricket team and the West Indian U-19 cricket team, which Pakistan won by 25 runs....
    .
  • March 12 - Shane Warne
    Shane Warne

    Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer who is widely regarded as the greatest leg spin Bowler in the history of cricket....
     becomes the first spinner
    Spin bowling

    Spin bowling, sometimes known as slow bowling, is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as spinners or spin bowler s....
     in history to take 500 Test
    Test cricket

    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations....
     wickets.
  • March 13 - India
    Indian cricket team

    The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , the richest cricket board in the world, it is a List of International Cricket Council members#Full Members of the International Cricket Council with Test cricket and One Day International status....
     beat Pakistan
    Pakistani cricket team

    The Pakistan National Cricket Team is an international cricket team representing Pakistan. It is administrated by the Pakistan Cricket Board . Pakistan is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test cricket and One Day International status....
     in the highest scoring One Day International ever (693 runs), in the opening match of their first Pakistan tour since 1989.
  • April - Ricky Ponting
    Ricky Ponting

    Ricky Thomas Ponting is a professional cricketer who is the current Australian national cricket captains of the Australia national cricket team in One Day International, Twenty20 International and Test cricket....
     is named Leading Cricketer in the World by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
    Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

    Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. It is probably the world's most famous sports reference book....
    .
  • April 2 - Zimbabwe Cricket Union announces the retirement of Heath Streak
    Heath Streak

    Heath Hilton Streak is a Zimbabwe cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi ....
     as captain of Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwean cricket team

    The Zimbabwean cricket team is a national cricket team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by Zimbabwe Cricket Union .Zimbabwe is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test cricket and One Day International status, although it is currently inactive in Tests ....
    . It is later revealed he was sacked, and 15 senior players withdraw from Zimbabwean cricket, citing political interference by Robert Mugabe
    Robert Mugabe

    Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the List of Presidents of Zimbabwe of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987....
    's government in team selection.
  • April 12 - The West Indies' Brian Lara
    Brian Lara

    Brian Charles Lara is a former West Indian cricketer, who is widely regarded as one of the finest batsmen ever. This elegant left handed batsman topped the Test cricket batting LG ICC cricket ratings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records....
     regains the individual Test innings record from 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....
    n Matthew Hayden
    Matthew Hayden

    Matthew Lawrence Hayden is a former Australian cricketer. Hayden is a powerful and aggressive left-handed batting order #opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test cricket and one-day cricket levels....
     with 400 not out in the fourth Test against England in St. John's, Antigua
    Antigua and Barbuda

    Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. As its name suggests, it consists of two major islands Antigua and Barbuda as well as a number of smaller islets....
    .
  • May 8 - Sri Lanka
    Sri Lankan cricket team

    The Sri Lankan cricket team is a national cricket team representing Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1975, and were later awarded Test cricket status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test playing nation....
    's Muttiah Muralitharan
    Muttiah Muralitharan

    Muttiah Muralitharan , often referred to as Murali, is a Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test cricket bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002....
     breaks Courtney Walsh
    Courtney Walsh

    Courtney Andrew Walsh is a former international cricketer who represented the West Indian cricket team from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test cricketes....
    's world record of 519 Test wickets with his 520th wicket against Zimbabwe in Harare
    Harare

    Harare is the Capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province....
    .
  • June 10 - Zimbabwe Cricket Union agrees to abandon any further Test matches in 2004, under pressure from International Cricket Council
    International Cricket Council

    The International Cricket Council is the international Sport governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989....
     over substandard teams due to 15 striking players.
  • June 19 - September 4 - Inaugural Pro Cricket
    Pro Cricket

    Pro Cricket was a professional cricket league in the United States. It was operated by American Pro Cricket LLC , a private company independent of the International Cricket Council and the United States of America Cricket Association....
     season, the first professional cricket tournament in 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...
    .
  • September 10 - September 25 - ICC Champions Trophy
    ICC Champions Trophy

    The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002....
     in England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    : West Indies
    West Indian cricket team

    The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of a dozen English language Caribbean countries and British dependencies that form the British West Indies....
     beats England
    English cricket team

    The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end of 1996....
     in the final.


see also 2004 in cricket
2004 in cricket

See also:2003 in cricket,2004 in sports,2005 in cricket...


Curling
Curling

Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice....

  • 2004 Nokia Brier
    2004 Nokia Brier

    The 2004 Nokia Brier was held at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from March 6 to March 14, 2004. The Nova Scotia team skipped by Mark Dacey defeated the Alberta team of Randy Ferbey in dramatic fashion in the final game played on March 14....
    :
    • Final: (March 14) Nova Scotia
      Nova Scotia

      Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
       (Mark Dacey
      Mark Dacey

      Mark Dacey is a Canada curling from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax Urban Area, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan.Dacey is a former Canadian men's curling champion skip, winning the 2004 Nokia Brier....
      ) 10-9 Alberta
      Alberta

      Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
       (Randy Ferbey
      Randy Ferbey

      Randy Ferbey is a Canada curling from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is one of the best curlers in the world, being a six time Tim Hortons Brier and a four time World Curling Championships....
      )
  • 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts
    2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts

    The 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts was held at the ENMAX Centrium in Red Deer, Alberta from February 21 to February 29, 2004. The defending champion, Colleen Jones won the right to represent "Canada" and she would go on to win her fourth straight championship....
    :
    • Final: (February 29) 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....
       (Colleen Jones
      Colleen Jones

      Colleen P. Jones is the most successful Canadian women's skip in curling history.From a family of curlers, at age 14, she joined the Mayflower Curling Club....
      ) 7-4 Quebec
      Quebec

      Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
       (Marie-France Larouche
      Marie-France Larouche

      Marie-France Larouche is a Canada curler.Larouche is a former Canadian Junior Curling Championships, having won the title in 1999 with her team of Nancy B?langer, Marie-?ve L?tourneau, Valerie Grenier and V?ronique Gr?goire....
      )
  • 2004 Ford World Curling Championship:
    • Women's Final: (April 24) 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....
       (Colleen Jones
      Colleen Jones

      Colleen P. Jones is the most successful Canadian women's skip in curling history.From a family of curlers, at age 14, she joined the Mayflower Curling Club....
      ) 8-4 Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
       (Dordi Nordby
      Dordi Nordby

      Dordi Agate Nordby, , is a Norway right-handed Curling from Snar?ya. Nordby has amassed an array of medals in major international competitions over a career spanning three decades, including two world Curling Championships gold medals and two European Curling Championships gold medals....
      )
    • Men's Final: (April 25) 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....
       (Peja Lindholm
      Peja Lindholm

      Peter "Peja" Lindholm is a Sweden curling. He is a three time World Curling Championships skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two time European Curling Championships and a former World Junior Curling Championships ....
      ) 7-6 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....
       (Sebastian Stock
      Sebastian Stock

      Sebastian Stock is a Germany curling living in Burgdorf, Switzerland, Switzerland.Stock's junior career included a silver medal at the 1995 World Junior Curling Championships and a bronze medal the following year....
      )
  • Canada Cup
    Canada Cup (curling)

    The Canada Cup of Curling is a major curling championship in Canada. In 2004, a second tier of competition, the qualification rounds Canada Cup East and Canada Cup West were added....
    • Women's Final: (January 10) Colleen Jones
      Colleen Jones

      Colleen P. Jones is the most successful Canadian women's skip in curling history.From a family of curlers, at age 14, she joined the Mayflower Curling Club....
       8-7 Sherry Anderson
      Sherry Anderson

      Sherry Anderson is a Canada curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anderson has been to five Scott Tournament of Hearts, four as a skip. Her first Scotts were in 1994 when her team lost in the semi-final....
    • Men's Final: (January 11) Randy Ferbey
      Randy Ferbey

      Randy Ferbey is a Canada curling from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is one of the best curlers in the world, being a six time Tim Hortons Brier and a four time World Curling Championships....
       10-3 John Morris
      John Morris (curler)

      John Morris is a Canada curler from Chestermere, Alberta. As of April 26, 2006 Morris currently plays third for Kevin Martin .Morris, the son of Earle Morris, inventor of the "stabilizer" curling broom, grew up in Ottawa and began curling at age 5....
  • M&M Meat Shops National Final (January 25) Glenn Howard
    Glenn Howard

    ||Glenn Howard is a Canada curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three briers and three world championships in his career.Howard had much of his success in his early career when he played third with his brother, Russ Howard....
     5-3 Jeff Stoughton
    Jeff Stoughton

    Jeff Stoughton is a Canada curling. Stoughton is a two time Tim Hortons Brier and one time World Curling Championship skip.Stoughton's first national championship came in 1988 when he won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship....
  • PharmAssist Players' Championship Final (April 4) John Morris
    John Morris (curler)

    John Morris is a Canada curler from Chestermere, Alberta. As of April 26, 2006 Morris currently plays third for Kevin Martin .Morris, the son of Earle Morris, inventor of the "stabilizer" curling broom, grew up in Ottawa and began curling at age 5....
     7-5 Jeff Stoughton
    Jeff Stoughton

    Jeff Stoughton is a Canada curling. Stoughton is a two time Tim Hortons Brier and one time World Curling Championship skip.Stoughton's first national championship came in 1988 when he won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship....
  • 2004 Canadian mixed curling championship Final: (January 18) Alberta
    Alberta

    Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
     (Shannon Kleibrink
    Shannon Kleibrink

    Shannon Kleibrink is a Canada curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy....
    ) 9-5 Ontario
    Ontario

    Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
     (Heath McCormick) Shannon Kleibrink becomes the first woman to skip and win the Canadian mixed curling championship. Last year, she was the first to skip and participate in the event, losing only in the final.
  • Canadian Senior Curling Championship
    • Women's Final: (February 1) Ontario
      Ontario

      Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
       (Anne Dunn) 7-3 British Columbia
      British Columbia

      British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
       (Kathy Smiley)
    • Men's Final: (February 1) Newfoundland and Labrador
      Newfoundland and Labrador

      Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
       (Bas Buckle) 9-8 Nova Scotia
      Nova Scotia

      Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
       (Steve Ogden)
  • World Junior Curling Championships
    World Junior Curling Championships

    The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competition for both men and women occur at the same venue....
    • Women's Final: (March 27) Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
       (Linn Githmark
      Linn Githmark

      Linn Githmark is a Norway Curling who has skipped her country to a world junior title, and also played in the Norway team that won a silver medal at the main Curling World Championships....
      ) 9-6 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....
       (Jill Mouzar
      Jill Mouzar

      Jillian Mouzar [pronounced MOW-zer] is a Canada curler.Mouzar started curling in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her first Nova Scotia junior championship was in 2001, along with Meaghan Smart, Meghan MacAdams, Carolyn Marshall, and coach Albert Smart....
      )
    • Men's Final: (March 28) 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....
       (Niklas Edin) 6-4 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....
       (Stefan Rindisblacher)


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....


Road Cycling
Road cycling

Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling. It takes place primarily on paved surfaces. It includes recreational, racing, and utility cycling....

  • 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 Damiano Cunego
    Damiano Cunego

    Damiano Cunego is an Italy professional road racing cyclist who rides for the Italian UCI ProTeam Lampre. His biggest wins are theGiro d'Italia in 2004, the Amstel Gold Race in 2008 and the Giro di Lombardia in 2004, 2007, 2008....
     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....
    . Sprinter Alessandro Petacchi
    Alessandro Petacchi

    Alessandro Petacchi is an Italy professional cyclist. He joined LPR Brakes in August 2008 after being suspended for a doping offence....
     wins nine stages. See 2004 Giro d'Italia
    2004 Giro d'Italia

    The 87th Giro d'Italia was scheduled for May 8 - May 30, 2004 for a total distance of 3435 kilometers. The stages are listed below. It was won by Damiano Cunego....
  • Tour de France
    2004 Tour de France

    The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st, taking place from July 3 to July 25, 2004. It consisted of 20 stages over 3429 km.Lance Armstrong became the first to win six Tours de France....
     -
    • Overall (Yellow jersey) - Lance Armstrong
      Lance Armstrong

      Lance Armstrong is an United States professional Road bicycle racing who rides for UCI ProTeam Team Astana. He won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years, from 1999 Tour de France to 2005 Tour de France....
      , his record-setting sixth consecutive title.
    • King of the Mountains (Polka dot jersey
      Polka dot jersey

      The polka dot jersey is the cycling jersey awarded for the best climbing specialist during the mountain stages of the Tour de France cycle race....
      ) - Richard Virenque
      Richard Virenque

      Richard VirenqueRichard Virenque's name is pronounced Ree-shah Vee-rahnk. Virenque considers himself a man of the South but pronounces his name in standard French....
      , a record seventh title
    • Points Classification (Green jersey) - Robbie McEwen
      Robbie McEwen

      Robbie McEwen is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, for the Team Katusha team on the UCI ProTour, specializing in sprint finishes. As a triple winner of the Tour de France's green jersey, at his peak , he was considered one of the fastest Cycling sprinter in the world....
    • Young Rider (White jersey) - Vladimir Karpets
      Vladimir Karpets

      Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpets is a Russian road bicycle racer currently riding for UCI ProTeam Team Katusha, most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France....
    • Team - T-Mobile Team
      T-Mobile Team

      Team Columbia-High Road is a professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. In June 2008, Columbia Sportswear announced a three year sponsorship of the team beginning with the 2008 Tour de France....


Cyclo-cross
Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races take place typically in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and remount in one motion....

  • UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
    2004 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

    The 2004 in sports UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were held in Pont-Ch?teau, France on Saturday January 31 and Sunday February 1, 2004....
     in Pont-Château, 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....
     (January 31–February 1)
    • Men's Competition
      1. Gold – Bart Wellens
        Bart Wellens

        Bart Wellens is a professional cyclo-cross Bicycle racing from Belgium. He starred in the reality television series 'Wellens en Wee' on Flanders TV-channel VT4....
      2. Silver – Mario De Clercq
        Mario De Clercq

        Mario De Clercq is a former racing cyclist. He specialized in cyclo-cross racing but also rode on the road and circuit races during his career, he raced as a professional between 1991 and 2004....
      3. Bronze – Sven Vanthourenhout
        Sven Vanthourenhout

        Sven Vanthourenhout is a Belgium professional racing cyclist....
    • Women's Competition
      1. Gold – Laurence Leboucher
        Laurence Leboucher

        Laurence Leboucher is a France professional mountain bike racing and cyclo-cross racer. She is a three-time Olympian and two-time rainbow jersey....
      2. Silver – Maryline Salvetat
        Maryline Salvetat

        Maryline Salvetat is a France cycling born in Castres. She participates in road cycling as well as in cyclo-cross and mountain biking. In 2002, 2004 and 2005 she became French national champion in cyclo-cross....
      3. Bronze – Hanka Kupfernagel
        Hanka Kupfernagel

        Hanka Kupfernagel is a Germany professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races....


Field Hockey
Field hockey

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


World Competitions

  • Men's Olympic Qualifier Tournament in Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
    , 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 Medal: The Netherlands
    • Silver Medal: Spain
    • Bronze Medal: Pakistan


  • Olympic Games (Men's Competition)
    Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

    Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals....
     in Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
    , Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    • Gold Medal: Australia
    • Silver Medal: The Netherlands
    • Bronze Medal: Germany


  • Men's Champions Trophy
    2004 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)

    The 2004 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy took place in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan from December 4 to December 12, 2004.Participating nations at the annual men's elite six nations tournament were India national field hockey team, hosts Pakistan national field hockey team, reigning champions Netherlands national field hocke...
     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: Spain
    • Silver Medal: The Netherlands
    • Bronze Medal: Pakistan

  • Women's Olympic Qualifier Tournament 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....
    , New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    • Gold Medal: Japan
    • Silver Medal: Spain
    • Bronze Medal: New Zealand


  • Olympic Games (Women's Competition)
    Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

    Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals....
     in Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
    , Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    • Gold Medal: Germany
    • Silver Medal: The Netherlands
    • Bronze Medal: Argentina


  • Women's Champions Trophy
    2004 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy

    The 12th edition of the annual Hockey Champions Trophy took place from Saturday November 6 until Sunday November 14 2004 at the Country Jockey Club de Rosario in Rosario, Argentina....
     in Rosario
    Rosario

    Rosario is the largest city in the provinces of Argentina of Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paran? River and has 1,025,000 residents as of the ....
    , Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    • Gold Medal: The Netherlands
    • Silver Medal: Germany
    • Bronze Medal: Argentina


Regional Competitions

  • Men's Pan American Cup in London, Canada
    • Gold Medal: Argentina
    • Silver Medal: Canada
    • Bronze Medal: Chile

  • Women's Asia Cup in New Delhi, India
    • Gold Medal: India
    • Silver Medal: Japan
    • Bronze Medal: China


  • Women's Pan American Cup in Bridgetown
    Bridgetown

    The City of Bridgetown, metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the Capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the Parishes of Barbados of Saint Michael, Barbados....
    , Barbados
    Barbados

    Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....
    • Gold Medal: Argentina
    • Silver Medal: United States
    • Bronze Medal: Canada


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....

  • Canadian Figure Skating Championships
    Canadian Figure Skating Championships

    The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the list of national championships in figure skating of Canada....
     at Edmonton:
    • January 9
      • Junior Ice dance winners: Tessa Virtue
        Tessa Virtue

        Tessa Virtue is a Canada ice dancer. She currently competes with Scott Moir. They are the 2008 & 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 Four Continents Championships, and World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
        , (London
        London, Ontario

        London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457,720; the city proper had a population of 352,395 in the Canada 2006 Census....
        ) and Scott Moir
        Scott Moir

        Scott Moir is a Canada ice dancer. He currently competes with Tessa Virtue. They are the 2008 & 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 Four Continents Championships, and World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
         (Ilderton, Ontario), 2.8 factored placements
      • Junior Pairs winners: Jessica Dubé
        Jessica Dubé

        Jessica Dub? is a Canada pair skater. With partner Bryce Davison, she is the 2007 & 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships and the 2009 Four Continents Championships....
        , (Drummondville, Quebec
        Drummondville, Quebec

        Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Qu?bec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-Fran?ois River. Drummondville is the seat of Drummond Regional County Municipality, Quebec....
        ) and Bryce Davison
        Bryce Davison

        Bryce Davison is a Canada pair skater. With partner Jessica Dub?, he is the 2007 and 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships and the 2009 Four Continents Championships....
        , (Cambridge, Ontario
        Cambridge, Ontario

        Cambridge is a city located on the Grand River and Speed River in the Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Ontario, Canada.History...
        ), 1.5 factored placements
    • January 10
      • Junior Women's singles winner: Myriane Samson
        Myriane Samson

        Myriane Samson is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2004 Canadian Junior national champion....
        , (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
        Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

        Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost navigable point of Lake Champlain....
        ), 1.5 factored placements
    • January 11
      • Senior Ice Dance winners: Marie-France Dubreuil
        Marie-France Dubreuil

        Marie-France Dubreuil is a Canada ice dancing. With partner and husband Patrice Lauzon, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Figure Skating Championships....
         and Patrice Lauzon
        Patrice Lauzon

        Patrice Lauzon is a Canada ice dancer. With partner and fiancee Marie-France Dubreuil, he is the 2006 & 2007 World Figure Skating Championships....
        , (Boisbriand, Quebec
        Boisbriand, Quebec

        Boisbriand is an off-island suburbs of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the North Shore of the Rivi?re des Mille-?les in the Th?r?se-de-Blainville Regional County Municipality, Quebec....
        ), 2.0


  • 2004 United States Figure Skating Championships
    United States Figure Skating Championships

    The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the list of national championships in figure skating of the United States....
     at 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....
    :
    • January 8:
      • Junior Pairs winners: Shantel Jordan and Jeremy Barrett
        Jeremy Barrett (figure skater)

        Jeremy Barrett is an United States pair skater. He competes with Caydee Denney. They are the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships....
        , Bradenton, Florida
        Bradenton, Florida

        Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's 2006 population at 53,986. Bradenton is the largest Principal City of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 682,833....
        , 2.5 factored placements
    • January 9:
      • Junior Men's winner: Christopher Toland
        Christopher Toland

        Christopher Toland is an United States figure skater. He was the 2004 U.S. Junior National Champion. He is coached by Ken Congemi....
        , 3.5
      • Junior Ice Dance winners: Morgan Matthews
        Morgan Matthews

        Morgan Matthews is an United States ice dancer. She previously competed with Maxim Zavozin. They joined forces on the ice in 2001. The duo won the 2003 and 2004 U.S....
         and Maxim Zavozin
        Maxim Zavozin

        Maxim Zavozin is an United States ice dancer who competes for Hungary with Nora Hoffmann. With Hoffmann, he is the 2009 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships....
        , New York City
        New York City

        The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
        , 2.0
    • January 10:
      • Senior Men's winner: Johnny Weir
        Johnny Weir

        John G. "Johnny" Weir is an United States figure skater. He is a three-time United States Figure Skating Championships , the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, the 2008-2009 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the 2001 World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
        , Newark, Delaware
        Newark, Delaware

        Newark is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, Delaware, USA, 12 miles west-southwest of Wilmington, Delaware. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 30,060....
        , 1.5
      • Senior Pairs winners: Rena Inoue
        Rena Inoue

        Rena Inoue is an United States pair skater. With partner John Baldwin , she is the 2004 and 2006 United States Figure Skating Championships. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skating and pair skater....
         and John Baldwin
        John Baldwin (skater)

        John Baldwin, Jr. is an United States Figure skating. With partner Rena Inoue, he is a two-time United States Figure Skating Championships. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters to perform a axel jump in competition....
        , 2.0
      • Junior Ladies' winner: Kimberly Meissner, Bel Air, Maryland
        Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland

        The town of Bel Air is the county seat of Harford County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. According to the 2000 United States Census the population of the town proper was 10,080....
        , 2.0
      • Senior Ice Dance winners: Tanith Belbin
        Tanith Belbin

        Tanith Jessica Louise Belbin is a Canadian-American ice dancing. Though she holds Multiple citizenship, she competes for the United States and has competed for the U.S....
         and Benjamin Agosto
        Benjamin Agosto

        Benjamin Alexandro Agosto is an American ice dancing. With partner Tanith Belbin, Agosto is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics, 2004?2006 Four Continents Championships, and 2004?2008 United States Figure Skating Championships....
        , Detroit, Michigan
        Detroit, Michigan

        Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
        , 2.0
    • January 11:
      • Senior Ladies' winner: 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....
        , 2.0


  • 2004 European Figure Skating Championships
    European Figure Skating Championships

    The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skating compete for the title of European Champion....
    , Budapest, Hungary
    • February 4, Senior Pairs:
      • 1-Tatiana Totmianina
        Tatiana Totmianina

        Tatiana Totmianina is a retired pairs figure skating. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
         and Maxim Marinin
        Maxim Marinin

        Maxim Victorovich Marinin in Volgograd, Russia) is a retired pair skater. With partner Tatiana Totmianina, he is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
        , Russia
        Russia

        Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
        , 1.5 factored placements
      • 2-Maria Petrova
        Maria Petrova (figure skater)

        Maria Petrova is a Russian pair skater. With partner Alexei Tikhonov, she is the 2000 World Figure Skating Championships and the 1999 & 2000 European Figure Skating Championships....
         and Alexei Tikhonov
        Alexei Tikhonov

        Alexei Vladimirovich Tikhonov is a Russian pair skater. With partner Maria Petrova , he is the 2000 World Figure Skating Championships....
        , Russia, 3.0
      • 3-Dorota Zagorska
        Dorota Zagórska

        Dorota Siudek is a Poles retired pair skating who is now a coach. Her partner and husband is Mariusz Siudek. They have been skating together since 1995....
         and Mariusz Siudek
        Mariusz Siudek

        Mariusz Siudek is a Poles retired pair skating who is now a coach. He skates with wife Dorota Siudek....
        , Poland
        Poland

        Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
        , 4.5
    • February 5, Senior Men's:
      • Brian Joubert
        Brian Joubert

        Brian Joubert is a French people figure skating. He is the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships, a three-time European Figure Skating Championships , a six-time French Figure Skating Championships, and the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final....
        , 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....
        , 2.6
      • Evgeny Plushenko, Russia
        Russia

        Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
        , 3.0
      • Ilia Klimkin
        Ilia Klimkin

        Ilia Sergeyevich Klimkin is a Russian figure skating. He is the 1999 World Junior Figure Skating Championships champion, the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships bronze medalist, and the three-time Russian silver medalist....
        , Russia, 5.6
    • February 6, Senior Ice Dance:
      • Tatiana Navka
        Tatiana Navka

        Tatiana Navka is a Russian ice dancer who has also competed for the Soviet Union and Belarus. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion with partner Roman Kostomarov....
         and Roman Kostomarov
        Roman Kostomarov

        Roman Kostomarov is a Russian Ice dancing. His partner is Tatiana Navka.Roman won the 1996 World Juniors Championships with former partner Ekaterina Davydova....
        , Russia
        Russia

        Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
        , 2.0
      • Albena Denkova
        Albena Denkova

        Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian Ice dancing. With partner Maxim Staviski, she is a two-time World Figure Skating Championships, two-time European Figure Skating Championships, and 2006 Grand Prix Final....
         and Maxim Staviski
        Maxim Staviski

        Maxim Staviski is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fianc?e Albena Denkova, he is a former two-time World Figure Skating Championships, two-time European Figure Skating Championships, and 2006 Grand Prix Final....
        , Bulgaria
        Bulgaria

        The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
        , 4.6
      • Elena Grushina
        Elena Grushina

        Elena Grushina is a Ukrainian Figure skating. She competed in Ice dancing with Ruslan Goncharov. They began skating together in 1990. The pair captured a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and retired from competition soon after....
         and Ruslan Goncharov
        Ruslan Goncharov

        Ruslan Goncharov is a Ukrainian Figure skating. He currently competes in Ice dancing with Elena Grushina. They began skating together in 1990. The pair has captured a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
        , Ukraine
        Ukraine

        Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
        , 5.4
    • February 7: Senior Ladies':
      • Julia Sebestyen
        Julia Sebestyen

        J?lia Sebesty?n is a Hungarian figure skating. She is the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships. She is the first Hungarian woman to win the European title....
        , Hungary
        Hungary

        Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
        , 1.5
      • Elena Liashenko
        Elena Liashenko

        Elena Liashenko is a Ukrainian figure skater. She is the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships and 1995 and 2005 bronze medalist....
        , Ukraine
        Ukraine

        Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
        , 4.0
      • Elena Sokolova
        Elena Sokolova

        Elena Sergeevna Sokolova is a Russian figure skater. Sokolova is a three-time Russian national champion , a three-time European medalist and the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships....
        , Russia
        Russia

        Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
        , 5.0


  • 2004 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....
    , Dortmund
    Dortmund

    Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
    , 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....
    • March 24, Senior Pairs:
      • Tatiana Totmianina
        Tatiana Totmianina

        Tatiana Totmianina is a retired pairs figure skating. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
         and Maxim Marinin
        Maxim Marinin

        Maxim Victorovich Marinin in Volgograd, Russia) is a retired pair skater. With partner Tatiana Totmianina, he is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
        , Russia
        Russia

        Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
        , 2.5 factored placements
      • Shen Xue
        Shen Xue

        Shen Xue is a former pair skater from People's Republic of China. Along with her partner Zhao Hongbo, they became the first World Champion pairs team from China, and also the first to win an Olympic medal....
         and Zhao Hongbo
        Zhao Hongbo

        Zhao Hongbo is a People's Republic of China former pair skater. With his partner Shen Xue, they won three World Figure Skating Championships titles, five Grand Prix Final championships and two Winter Olympics medals....
        , China
        People's Republic of China

        The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
        , 3.0
      • Pang Qing
        Pang Qing

        Pang Qing is a Chinese pairs skater. With partner Tong Jian, she is the World Figure Skating Championships, a four-time Four Continents Championships and the 2008-2009 GPF....
         and Tong Jian
        Tong Jian

        Tong Jian is a Chinese pairs skater. With partner Pang Qing, he is the World Figure Skating Championships, a four-time Four Continents Championships and the 2008-2009 GPF....
        , China
    • March 25, Senior Men's:
      • Evgeny Plushenko, Russia, 2.0
      • Brian Joubert
        Brian Joubert

        Brian Joubert is a French people figure skating. He is the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships, a three-time European Figure Skating Championships , a six-time French Figure Skating Championships, and the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final....
        , 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....
        , 4.0
      • Stefan Lindemann
        Stefan Lindemann

        Stefan Lindemann is a German figure skater. He is a six time German national champion and the 2000 World Junior Champion....
        , 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....
        , 6.0
    • March 26, Senior Dance:
      • Tatiana Navka
        Tatiana Navka

        Tatiana Navka is a Russian ice dancer who has also competed for the Soviet Union and Belarus. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion with partner Roman Kostomarov....
         and Roman Kostomarov
        Roman Kostomarov

        Roman Kostomarov is a Russian Ice dancing. His partner is Tatiana Navka.Roman won the 1996 World Juniors Championships with former partner Ekaterina Davydova....
        , Russia, 2.0
      • Albena Denkova
        Albena Denkova

        Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian Ice dancing. With partner Maxim Staviski, she is a two-time World Figure Skating Championships, two-time European Figure Skating Championships, and 2006 Grand Prix Final....
         and Maxim Staviski
        Maxim Staviski

        Maxim Staviski is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fianc?e Albena Denkova, he is a former two-time World Figure Skating Championships, two-time European Figure Skating Championships, and 2006 Grand Prix Final....
        , Bulgaria
        Bulgaria

        The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
        , 3.6
      • Kati Winkler
        Kati Winkler

        Kati Winkler is a German figure skating and specialized in ice dancing.Kati Winkler was a team in ice dancing with Ren? Lohse. They won the bronze medla at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004....
         and René Lohse
        René Lohse

        Ren? Lohse is a German figure skating and specialized in ice dance.Ren? Lohse was a team in ice dancing with Kati Winkler. They won the bronze medal at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004....
        , Germany, 6.2
    • March 27, Senior Ladies':
      • Shizuka Arakawa
        Shizuka Arakawa

        is a Japanese figure skater. She is the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2004 World Figure Skating Championship. Arakawa is the first Japanese figure skater to win the Olympics....
        , 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....
        , 2.6
      • Sasha Cohen
        Sasha Cohen

        Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen is an United States figure skating. She is the United States Figure Skating Championships, Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, and 2006 Winter 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...
        , 4.0
      • 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, 5.6


Floorball
Floorball

Floorball, often referred to as floor hockey, is an indoor team sport, which was developed in the 1970s. It is a fast paced sport, with limited physical contact allowed....

  • May 16 to 24
    • Sweden
      Men's national floorball team of Sweden

      The Sweden Men's National Floorball Team is the national floorball team of Sweden, and a member of the International Floorball Federation. It has won six out of seven Floorball#Men's world championships ....
       captures the 2004 Men's World Floorball Championship
      2004 Men's World Floorball Championships

      The 2004 Men's Floorball Championships were the fifth world championships in men's floorball. It was held in May 2004 in Switzerland, and won by Sweden men's national floorball team....
       by defeating the Czech Republic 6:4 in Zürich
      Zürich

      Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....
      , 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....


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: Tipperary
      Tipperary GAA

      The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary....
    • National Camogie League: Tipperary
      Tipperary GAA

      The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary....


  • 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
      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....
       1-20 d. Mayo 2-9
    • 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....
      : 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....
       3-11 d. Galway
      Galway GAA

      The Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Galway GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway....
       1-16
    • Tommy Murphy Cup
      Tommy Murphy Cup

      The Tommy Murphy Cup is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition, secondary to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The participants are the teams that were eliminated at the early provincial stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, and also Kilkenny GAA who do not field a team in the main All-Ireland....
      : Clare
      Clare GAA

      The Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Clare GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Clare....
       1-11 d. Sligo
      Sligo GAA

      The Sligo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Sligo GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Sligo....
       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: 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 Football League: Mayo


  • 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....
       0-17 d. Kilkenny
      Kilkenny GAA

      The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny....
       0-9
    • National Hurling League
      National Hurling League

      The National Hurling League is a hurling tournament held annually between the county teams of Ireland, under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
      :


Gliding

  • World Gliding Championships
    World Gliding Championships

    The World Gliding Championships is a gliding competitions held every two years or so by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are sometimes held in the summer in the Southern Hemisphere....
    , Elverum
    Elverum

    is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of ?sterdalen....
    , Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
    • Club Class Winner: Sebastian Kawa, Poland; Glider: SZD-48-3M Brawo


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....

Men's professional
  • Major Championships
    Men's major golf championships

    The men's major golf championships, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf....
    • April 11 - Masters Tournament - 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....
       wins the first major of his career.
    • June 20 - 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....
       - Retief Goosen
      Retief Goosen

      Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007....
       wins his second U.S. Open title
    • July 18 - 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....
       - Todd Hamilton
      Todd Hamilton

      William Todd Hamilton is an United States professional golfer.Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg, Illinois....
      , a virtual unknown, wins at Royal Troon in a playoff over Ernie Els
      Ernie Els

      Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African golfer who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former Official World Golf Rankings, he is known as "The Big Easy", for his imposing physical stature along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing....
    • August 15 - 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 ....
       - Vijay Singh
      Vijay Singh

      Vijay Singh , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian Professional golfer golfer who was Chronological list of World Number One male golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005....
       wins in a three-hole playoff over Chris DiMarco
      Chris DiMarco

      Christian Dean DiMarco is an United States professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, and has been in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for over 50 weeks between 2002 and 2006....
       and Justin Leonard
      Justin Leonard

      Justin Charles Garrett Leonard is an United States professional golfer.Leonard was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended Lake Highlands High School and graduated in 1990....
      .
  • Other highlights
    • February 29 - 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....
       wins the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
      WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship

      The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is a knockout tournament event and is staged in January or February each year....
       for the second consecutive year
    • September 6 - Vijay Singh
      Vijay Singh

      Vijay Singh , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian Professional golfer golfer who was Chronological list of World Number One male golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005....
       replaces 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....
       at the top of the world rankings
      Official World Golf Rankings

      The Official World Golf Rankings is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers. They were introduced in 1986 and are endorsed by the four Men's major golf championships and the six professional golf tours which make up the International Federation of PGA Tours, namely the PGA Tour, the European Tour, the Asian Tour...
      , ending Woods' record reign of five years and four weeks.
    • September 17-19 - Team Europe defeats Team USA 18˝ - 9˝ to retain the Ryder Cup
      Ryder Cup

      The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy, donated by Samuel Ryder, which is awarded biennially in an event called the "Ryder Cup Matches" between teams from Europe and the United States of America....
      . See 2004 Ryder Cup
      2004 Ryder Cup

      The 35th Ryder Cup Matches were held September 17?19 at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan.The European team won the competition by a margin of 18? to 9? points, the winning putt being made by Colin Montgomerie, who maintained his record of never losing in any of his seven Ryder Cup singles matche...
       for more details.
  • Awards
    • PGA Tour Player 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....
      : Vijay Singh
      Vijay Singh

      Vijay Singh , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian Professional golfer golfer who was Chronological list of World Number One male golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005....
    • PGA Tour leading money winner
      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....
      : Vijay Singh
      Vijay Singh

      Vijay Singh , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian Professional golfer golfer who was Chronological list of World Number One male golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005....
       wins a record $10,905,166
    • 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....
      : Todd Hamilton
      Todd Hamilton

      William Todd Hamilton is an United States professional golfer.Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg, Illinois....
    • Champions 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 - Craig Stadler
      Craig Stadler

      Craig Robert Stadler is an United States professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.Stadler was born in San Diego, California and attended La Jolla High School....
       - $2,306,066
Men's amateur
  • 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"....
     - Stuart Wilson
  • U.S. Amateur - Ryan Moore
  • 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....
     - Matthew Richardson
Women's professional
  • March 28 - Kraft Nabisco Championship
    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....
     - Grace Park
    Grace Park (golfer)

    Grace Park was born Park Ji-eun on March 6, 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour....
      wins the first major of the LPGA
    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...
     season, by one shot over 17-year-old Aree Song
    Aree Song

    Aree Song is a Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. Her father is South Korea and her mother is Thai . She was born in Bangkok, Thailand....
    . Michelle Wie
    Michelle Wie

    Michelle Sung Wie is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article: "one of 100 people who shape our world."...
     finished fourth, four shots behind Park.
  • June 13 - 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....
     - 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....
  • 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....
     - Meg Mallon
    Meg Mallon

    Meg Mallon is an United States professional golfer.Mallon attended Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio....
  • Women's British Open
    Women's British Open

    The Women's British Open is a leading event in women's professional golf and the only tournament which is classified as a women's major golf championships by both the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour....
     - Karen Stupples
    Karen Stupples

    Karen Stupples is an England professional golfer who plays primarily on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour....
  • 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 - 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....
     - $2,544,707
  • January 15-16 - At the age of 14, golf prodigy Michelle Wie
    Michelle Wie

    Michelle Sung Wie is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article: "one of 100 people who shape our world."...
     becomes the youngest woman (and only the fourth overall) to play at a 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....
     event, shooting 72-68 (even par) at the Sony Open in Hawaii
    Sony Open in Hawaii

    The Sony Open in Hawaii is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, and is part of the tour's FedEx Cup. It has been contested at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii since the event's modern-day inception in 1965....
     in her hometown of Honolulu. She missed the cut by one stroke.


Handball
Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....


Men's Competition

  • European Championship
    2004 European Men's Handball Championship

    The 2004 Men's European Handball Championship took place from January 22 to February 1, 2004 in Slovenia....
     in Slovenia
    Slovenia

    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
  • Gold Medal:
  • Silver Medal:
  • Bronze Medal:


  • Asian Championship in Doha, Qatar
  • Gold Medal:
  • Silver Medal:
  • Bronze Medal:


Women's Competition

  • European Championship
    2004 European Women's Handball Championship

    The 2004 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in Hungary from 9–19 December, it was won by Norway women's national handball team after beating Denmark women's national handball team 27–25 in the final match....
     in Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
  • Gold Medal:
  • Silver Medal:
  • Bronze Medal:

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....

  • Windsong's Legacy
    Windsong's Legacy

    Windsong's Legacy was a Standardbred trotting horse who won the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters in 2004, capturing the Hambletonian, Yonkers Trot and Kentucky Futurity titles....
     becomes the seventh horse to win the North America
    North America

    North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
    n Trotting Triple Crown
    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...
    .


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....


Flat races

  • Australia
    • November 2 - Makybe Diva
      Makybe Diva

      Makybe Diva is an Australian Horse racing, and the first Thoroughbred to win the prestigious Melbourne Cup three times: in 2003 and 2004, and again in 2005 when she also won the Cox Plate....
       wins the 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....
      .
  • Canada
    • June 27 - Niigon wins the 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....
      .
  • France
    • October 3 - Bago
      Bago (horse)

      Bago was the European Three-Year-Old Champion Thoroughbred race horse in 2004. Bred by the Niarchos family, Bago is best known for winning the 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe amongst his five Group One successes....
       wins the 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....
      .
  • Ireland
    • June 27 - Grey Swallow wins the Irish Derby
      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....
      .
  • English Triple Crown
    Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

    The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
    1. May 1 - Haafhd wins the 2,000 Guineas Stakes.
    2. June 5 - North Light
      North Light

      North Light is a British-trained Thoroughbred horse racing, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2004. He made two starts at age two, finishing second by a nose in his debut then winning his next race....
       wins the 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....
      .
    3. September 11 - Rule of Law wins the 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....
      .
  • Other English races
    • May 2 - Attraction wins the 1,000 Guineas Stakes.
    • June 4 - Ouija Board wins the Epsom Oaks
      Epsom Oaks

      The Oaks Stakes is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the United Kingdom open to three-year-old thoroughbred Filly. It is run over a distance of 1 mile 4 furlongs and 10 yards at Epsom Downs Racecourse, and it takes place annually, presently in early June....
      .
  • United States Triple Crown
    Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

    The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
    1. May 1 - Smarty Jones
      Smarty Jones

      Smarty Jones is a thoroughbred race horse, and winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.He is a third-generation descendant of Mr....
       wins the 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....
      .
    2. May 15 - Smarty Jones
      Smarty Jones

      Smarty Jones is a thoroughbred race horse, and winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.He is a third-generation descendant of Mr....
       wins the 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....
       by a record margin of 11˝ lengths.
    3. June 5 - Birdstone
      Birdstone

      Birdstone is an United States Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 2004 Belmont Stakes.Owned and horse breeding by Marylou Whitney of Whitney family racing fame, Birdstone had won the Champagne Stakes , a leading race for two-year-olds, at Belmont Park in 2003, but had not been a factor in the first two Triple Crown of Thor...
       wins the 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....
      .
  • Other United States races
    • April 30 - Ashado
      Ashado

      Ashado is United States Thoroughbred mare horse racing. Highly successful in racing, she is a two-time Eclipse Award winner. At the end of the 2005 racing season her owner group, which included horse trainer Todd Pletcher, Paul Saylor, Johns Martin, and Mr....
       wins the Kentucky Oaks
      Kentucky Oaks

      The Kentucky Oaks is a Graded stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred Filly staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The race currently covers 1? miles at Churchill Downs; carry 121 pounds ....
      .
    • August 28 - Birdstone
      Birdstone

      Birdstone is an United States Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 2004 Belmont Stakes.Owned and horse breeding by Marylou Whitney of Whitney family racing fame, Birdstone had won the Champagne Stakes , a leading race for two-year-olds, at Belmont Park in 2003, but had not been a factor in the first two Triple Crown of Thor...
       wins the Travers Stakes
      Travers Stakes

      The Travers Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.First held in 1864, it was named for William R....
      .
  • October 30 - Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships
    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....
     at Lone Star Park
    Lone Star Park

    Lone Star Park is a horse racing track located in Grand Prairie, Texas, Texas....
     in Grand Prairie
    Grand Prairie, Texas

    Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas County, Texas, Ellis County, Texas, and Tarrant County, Texas Counties in the U.S. state of Texas and is a part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex....
    , Texas
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
    :
    • Ghostzapper
      Ghostzapper

      Born in Kentucky on April 6th in the year 2000, the thoroughbred racehorse Ghostzapper won the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2004, outdistancing Roses in May by three lengths in a stakes record of 1:59.02....
       wins the 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....
      .
    • Ashado
      Ashado

      Ashado is United States Thoroughbred mare horse racing. Highly successful in racing, she is a two-time Eclipse Award winner. At the end of the 2005 racing season her owner group, which included horse trainer Todd Pletcher, Paul Saylor, Johns Martin, and Mr....
       wins the 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....
      .
    • Ouija Board wins the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
      Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf

      The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on sod for Filly and mares, 3 years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States as part of the Breeders' Cup....
      .
    • Wilko
      Wilko (horse)

      Wilko is a Thoroughbred horse racing who competed in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Sired by Awesome Again, winner of the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic, he was out of the Mare , Native Roots....
       wins the 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....
      .
    • Sweet Catomine wins the 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....
      .
    • Singletary wins the 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....
      .
    • Speightstown wins the 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....
      .
    • Better Talk Now
      Better Talk Now

      Better Talk Now is an United States Thoroughbred horse racing. Out of the Mare Bendita, his damsire Baldski is a son of Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United Kingdom, Nijinsky II....
       wins the 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....
      .


Steeplechases

  • United Kingdom
    • March 18 - Best Mate
      Best Mate

      Best Mate was a famous English trained racehorse and three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup. He was considered and treated as one of the most loved horses in the history of horse racing, with his sudden death while racing was front page news....
       wins a third consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup
      Cheltenham Gold Cup

      The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt racing Chase in Great Britain which is open to Horse racing aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse over a distance of 3 miles and 2? furlongs , and during its running there are twenty-two fences to be jumped....
      .
    • April 3 - Amberleigh House
      Amberleigh House

      Amberleigh House was the horse that won the 2004 Grand National. He is now retired and living at the National Stud in Newmarket....
       wins the Grand National
      Grand National

      The Grand National is the most valuable National Hunt racing horse racing in the world. It is popular amongst many people who do not normally watch or bet on horse racing at other times of the year....
      .


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...

  • January 4 - Under 17 World Championship at St. John's
    St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

    St. John's is the Provinces of Canada capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the Newfoundland ....
    • Gold Medal Game: Ontario
      Ontario

      Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
       5, Pacific 2
    • Bronze Medal Game: Team Quebec
      Quebec

      Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
       3, 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...
       2
  • January 5 - 2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
    2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

    The 2004 IIHF World U20 Championship was held between December 26, 2003 and January 5, 2004 in Helsinki and H?meenlinna, Finland. The United States won its first ever gold medal, defeating Canada 4-3 in the Final....
     at Helsinki
    Helsinki

    Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
    , Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
    • Gold Medal Game: 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...
       4, 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....
       3
    • Bronze Medal Game: Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
       2, Czech Republic
      Czech Republic

      The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
       1
  • February 12 - An independent audit by Arthur Levitt
    Arthur Levitt

    Arthur Levitt Jr. was the twenty-fifth and longest serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 2001....
     reveals that National Hockey League
    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....
     teams lost a collective US$273 million in 2003, and suggests the league is "on the road to oblivion."
  • April 6 - 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
    2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

    The 2004 IIHF World Women Championships were held March 30-April 6, 2004 in Halifax Urban Area and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Canadian national women's hockey team won their eighth straight World Championships....
     at Halifax, Nova Scotia
    • Gold Medal Game: 2, 0
    • Bronze Medal Game: 3, 2
  • April 10 - National Women's Hockey League
    National Women's Hockey League

    The National Women's Hockey League was a women's ice hockey league, established in 1999 in sports. After the 2006-07 season, the league ceased operations, and its teams moved to the Canadian Women's Hockey League and Western Women's Hockey League....
     championship at Brampton, Ontario
    Brampton, Ontario

    Brampton is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and the seat of Regional Municipality of Peel. As of the Canada 2006 Census, Brampton's population stood at 433,806, making it the 11th largest city in Canada....
    • Championship Final: 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....
       X-Treme 6, Brampton
      Brampton, Ontario

      Brampton is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and the seat of Regional Municipality of Peel. As of the Canada 2006 Census, Brampton's population stood at 433,806, making it the 11th largest city in Canada....
       Thunder 5 (OT)
  • April 18 - IIHF World Under-18 Championship at Minsk
    Minsk

    Minsk is the Capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach River and Nemiga rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States ....
    , Belarus
    Belarus

    Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
    • Gold Medal Game: Russia
      Russia

      Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
       3, 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...
       2
    • Bronze Medal Game: Czech Republic
      Czech Republic

      The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
       3, 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....
       2
  • April 25 - Allan Cup
    Allan Cup

    The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded to the national Senior ice hockey men?s ice hockey champions of Canada. The trophy was donated in 1909 by Sir H....
     at Saint-Georges, Quebec
    Saint-Georges, Quebec

    Saint-Georges is a city in the province of Quebec. It is the seat of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, Quebec, part of the Chaudi?re-Appalaches region....
    • Allan Cup Final: Saint-Georges
      Saint-Georges, Quebec

      Saint-Georges is a city in the province of Quebec. It is the seat of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, Quebec, part of the Chaudi?re-Appalaches region....
       Garaga 5, Ministlkwan Islanders 0
  • April 25 - Canadian National Midget Championship at Kenora, Ontario
    Kenora, Ontario

    Kenora , originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg, Manitoba....
    • Gold Medal Game: Brandon
      Brandon, Manitoba

      Brandon is a city in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.The surrounding area is often referred to as "Westman Region, Manitoba".The city started as a major junction on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Assiniboine River and was then incorporated in 1882....
       Wheat Kings 2, College Charles-Lemoyne 1 (OT)
    • Bronze Medal Game: Red Deer
      Red Deer, Alberta

      Red Deer is a city in central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, and is Alberta's third most populous city?after Calgary and Edmonton....
       Optimist Chiefs 5, Kenora
      Kenora, Ontario

      Kenora , originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg, Manitoba....
       Stars 2
  • May 9 - 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
    2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

    The 2004 Men's Ice Hockey Championships were held April 24-May 9, 2004, in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic. Games for this Ice Hockey World Championships tournament were played at Sazka Arena and Cez Arena....
     at Prague
    Prague

    Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
    , Czech Republic
    Czech Republic

    The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
    • Gold Medal Game: 5, 3
    • Bronze Medal Game: 1, 0 (SO)
  • May 23 - Memorial Cup
    Memorial Cup

    The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League champion. Each year the champions from three CHL member leagues; the Western Hockey League , Ontario Hockey League , and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League , along with a host team, compete in the MasterCard Memorial Cup...
     at Kelowna, British Columbia
    Kelowna, British Columbia

    Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a native term for "grizzly bear". Kelowna ranks as the 22nd largest List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada in Canada....
    • 2004 Memorial Cup
      2004 Memorial Cup

      The 2004 Memorial Cup occurred May 15-May 23 at Prospera Place in Kelowna, British Columbia. It featured the host team, the Kelowna Rockets as well as the winners of the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League which were the Guelph Storm, Gatineau Olympiques and the Medicine Hat Tigers respective...
       Final: Kelowna Rockets 2, Gatineau Olympques 1
  • June 7 - 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....
     - Tampa Bay Lightning
    Tampa Bay Lightning

    The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. Members of the National Hockey League , since 1992, they have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2004 Stanley Cup Final....
     defeat Calgary Flames
    Calgary Flames

    The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
     4 games to 3 to win the 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....
    .
  • September 14 - World Cup of Hockey
    2004 World Cup of Hockey

    The 2004 World Cup of Hockey is the second World Cup of Hockey , an international ice hockey tournament. Prior to the first World Cup of Hockey in 1996 World Cup of Hockey, the Canada Cup was the name of this international competition between nations....
     at Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    • Final: 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....
       3, Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
       2.
  • September 15 - 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....
     collective bargaining agreement expires. Commissioner Gary Bettman
    Gary Bettman

    Gary Bruce Bettman is the NHL Commissioner of the National Hockey League , a post he has held since February 1, 1993. Previously, Bettman was a senior vice-president and general counsel to the National Basketball Association ....
     announces a lockout
    Lockout (industry)

    A lockout is a work stoppage in which an employer prevents employees from working. This is different from a strike action, in which employees refuse to work....
     of NHLPA
    NHLPA

    NHLPA is an initialism for:* The National Hockey League Players Association, a players' union* The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000...
     players (see: 2004-05 NHL lockout
    2004-05 NHL lockout

    The 2004?05 NHL lockout resulted in the cancellation of what would have been the 2004?05 NHL season of the National Hockey League . It was the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded since 1919, and the first time a major professional sports league in North America canceled a complete season because of a labour dispute....
    ).
  • October 11 - Jean Perron
    Jean Perron

    Jean Perron was a head coach for the National Hockey League Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques. Perron coached the Habs for three seasons, and lead them to a Stanley Cup in 1985?86 NHL season....
     named head coach
    Head coach

    A head coach is a professional at training and developing sports men and women. He is typically paid more than other coach . Other coaches are often subordinate to the head coach, often in offense positions or defense positions, and occasionally proceeding down into individualized position coaches....
     of Israeli national under-18 hockey team


Kabaddi
Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a team sport originally from the Indian subcontinent. Two teams occupy opposite halves of a field and take turns sending a "raider" into the other half, in order to win points by tagging or wrestling members of the opposing team; the raider then tries to return to his own half, holding his breath during the whole raid....

  • November 21 - 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....
     wins the first-ever World Cup kabaddi championship defeating Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     in the final held at Mumbai
    Mumbai

    Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
    .


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 ....

  • February 22 - National Lacrosse League
    National Lacrosse League

    The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
     - The East Division All-Stars defeat the West Division All-Stars 19-15 in the All Star Game
    National Lacrosse League All-Star Game

    National Lacrosse League All Star Game is a lacrosse game played each year between two teams representing the two divisions of the National Lacrosse League ....
    .
  • May 7 - National Lacrosse League
    National Lacrosse League

    The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
     - Calgary Roughnecks
    Calgary Roughnecks

    The Calgary Roughnecks are a member of the National Lacrosse League based in Calgary, Alberta. The name refers to the roughnecks who work the drilling rigs in Alberta's oilpatch....
     defeat Buffalo Bandits
    Buffalo Bandits

    The Buffalo Bandits are a team in the National Lacrosse League . They play at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The Bandits played in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1992 MILL season to 1997 MILL season, until the turned into the NLL in 1998 NLL season....
     14-11 to win Champion's Cup
  • May 30 - LeMoyne College defeats Limestone
    Limestone

    File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
     11-10 (2OT) for first Division II
    Division II

    Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the highly competitive level of intercollegiate sports offered in NCAA Division I and to the non-scholarship level offered in Division III....
     National Championship
    NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

    The annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top Men's Field Lacrosse team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, Division II, and Division III....
    .
  • August - European Lacrosse Championships
    European Lacrosse Championships

    The European Lacrosse Championships are held every four years, and have been held since 1995 to determine the best national lacrosse team of Europe....
    • Men's - England defeats Germany
    • Women's - Wales A defeats Scotland A
  • August 22 - Major League Lacrosse
    Major League Lacrosse

    Major League Lacrosse is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of 5 teams in the United States and 1 team in Canada. The league currently has all six teams in one conference....
     - Philadelphia Barrage
    Philadelphia Barrage

    The Philadelphia Barrage were a Men's Field Lacrosse team that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the 2004 MLL season until the 2008 MLL season when they became a traveling team....
     defeat Boston Cannons
    Boston Cannons

    The Boston Cannons are a professional men's field lacrosse team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the 2001 season, they have played in Major League Lacrosse....
     13-11 to win league championship at Boston
  • Clarington Green Gaels win 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....
  • Peterborough Lakers 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....
  • Burnaby Lakers 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....


Luge
Luge

A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds Supine position and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat....

  • January 4 - European Luge Championships at Oberhof
    Oberhof, Germany

    Oberhof is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen Districts of Germany of Thuringia, Germany. It is a winter sports center and destination spa. It is visited by tenfold as many tourists every year....
    , 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 Doubles winner: Steffen Skel
      Steffen Skel

      Steffen Skel is a Germany luger who competed from 1992 to 2004. He won five medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with one gold , three silvers , and one bronze ....
       and Steffen Woeller, Germany, 1:22.633
    • Women's Singles winner: Silke Kraushaar
      Silke Kraushaar

      Silke Kraushaar-Pielach is a Germany luger who competed from 1995 to 2008. In June 2008, she was named sports manager for the luge section of Bob- und Schlittenverband f?r Deutschland ....
      , Germany, 1:22.995
  • January 17 - World Cup event at Winterberg
    Winterberg

    Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
    , 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 Singles winner: Georg Hackl
      Georg Hackl

      Georg Hackl is a Germany former luger who was three time Olympic Games and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Wei?wurst a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds....
      , Germany 1:51.211


Motor racing

  • 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....
     (NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
    ):
    • February 15 - 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....
      : won by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
    • November 21st - Kurt Busch
      Kurt Busch

      Kurt Thomas Busch is a professional United States race car driver. He drives the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series....
       wins the 2004 Nextel Cup at the conclusion of a ten-race "playoff" by seven points.
  • 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....
    :
    • May 30 - 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....
      : won by Buddy Rice
      Buddy Rice

      Buddy Rice is an auto racing driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal Letterman Racing and the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona for Brumos Racing....
  • Formula One
    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 ....
    :
    • August 15 - Ferrari
      Scuderia Ferrari

      Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. Though the Scuderia and Ferrari Corse Clienti continue to manage the racing activities of numerous Ferrari customers and private teams, Ferrari's racing division has completely devoted its attention and funding to its...
       clinch Formula One
      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 ....
       constructors title
    • August 29 - Michael Schumacher
      Michael Schumacher

      Michael Schumacher is a former Formula One driver, seven-time world champion, and current advisor and occasional test driver for Scuderia Ferrari....
       clinches seventh Formula One
      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 ....
       title
  • 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...
    • June - Tom Kristensen
      Tom Kristensen

      Tom Kristensen is a Denmark auto racing. He has won many championships in auto racing but his most famous achievement is being the only person to win the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, six of which were consecutive ....
       / Rinaldo Capello
      Rinaldo Capello

      Rinaldo Capello , also known as Dindo Capello, is an Italy endurance racing driver.Dindo started his racing career in 1976, driving go-karts, but didn't move into single-seaters until 1983, starting in Formula Fiat Abarth....
       / Seiji Ara
      Seiji Ara

      Seiji Ara is a race car driving.He was the winner of the 24 hour Le Mans race in 2004, driving an Audi R8 Race Car. In the same year he also raced in the Le Mans Endurance Series and JGTC....
       driving an Audi R8
      Audi R8 Race Car

      The Audi R8 is a Le Mans Prototype race car introduced in 2000 for sports car racing as a redevelopment of their Audi R8R and Audi R8C used in 1999....
       with Audi Sport Japan Team Goh win the LMP1 class and overall victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
      • The LMP2 category was won by the #32 Interport Racing Lola with drivers Bill Binnie, Clint Field, and Rick Sutherland.
      • The GTS category was won by the #65 Chevrolet Corvette
        Chevrolet Corvette

        The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been manufactured by General Motors since 1953. The car was originally designed by Harley Earl, and named by Myron Scott after the fast corvette....
         with drivers Oliver Gavin
        Oliver Gavin

        Oliver Benjamin Gavin to Michael and Deborah, is a United Kingdom racing driver. He was raised in the village of Felmersham, Bedfordshire. He attended the local Primary school, Pinchmill....
        , Olivier Beretta
        Olivier Beretta

        Olivier Beretta is a racing driver from Monaco who raced in Formula One in 1994 for the Larrousse team, partnering ?rik Comas. He participated in 10 grands prix, debuting on March 27, 1994....
        , and Jan Magnussen
        Jan Magnussen

        Jan Magnussen is a race car driver from Denmark and a General Motors factory driver....
        .
      • The GT category was won by the #90 White Lightning Porsche
        Porsche

        Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
         with drivers Sascha Maassen
        Sascha Maassen

        Sascha Maassen is a veteran sports car racing driver. He is currently a Porsche factory driver, and drives the #6 Porsche RS Spyder for Penske Racing in the American Le Mans Series....
        , Jörg Bergmeister
        Jörg Bergmeister

        J?rg Bergmeister is a race car driver from Germany.His father, Willi Bergmeister, owns a workshop and dealership where Michael Schumacher learned his trade as a car mechanic in the 1980s....
        , and Patrick Long
        Patrick Long

        Patrick Long is a professional race car driver. He is currently a Porsche factory driver, having driven for Alex Job Racing in the American Le Mans Series and Rolex Sports Car Series, and currently assigned to Penske Racing....
        .
  • V8 Supercar
    V8 Supercar

    V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category operated under the regulations of the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile . It is the most popular motorsport in Australia, has a considerable following in New Zealand, and is steadily growing in popularity across the world where television coverage allows....
    :
    • March - Marcos Ambrose (Ford Falcon) won Adelaide 500
    • November - Andrews Jones (Ford Falcon) won V8 Development (level two) Series
    • October 10 - Greg Murphy and Rick Kelly (Holden Commodore
      Holden Commodore

      The Holden Commodore is an automobile manufactured by the Holden division of General Motors in Australia, and, formerly, in New Zealand. In the mid-1970s, Holden established proposals to replace the long-serving Holden Kingswood nameplate with an all-new smaller model....
      ) won Bathurst 1000
      Bathurst 1000

      The Bathurst 1000 is a touring car racing race held annually at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was traditionally run on the first Sunday in October but is now held on the second Sunday....
    • September - Marcos Ambrose (Ford Falcon) won V8 Championship Series
  • Formula 3000:
    • Vitantonio Liuzzi
      Vitantonio Liuzzi

      Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian Formula One test driver for the Force India Formula One team. Having once lived in Hemel Hempstead in England where he shared an apartment with Red Bull Racing driver Christian Klien, Liuzzi now lives in Pescara, Italy....
       wins the title by comfortable margin; championship is replaced by GP2
      GP2 Series

      The GP2 Series, GP2 for short, is a form of motor racing introduced in 2005 following the discontinuation of the long-term Formula One 'feeder' sport, International Formula 3000....
       for the new year
  • Superfund Euro 3000 Series
    • champion - Nicky Pastorelli
      Nicky Pastorelli

      Nicky Pastorelli is a Netherlands race car driver. He raced a partial season in Champ Car for Rocketsports in 2006....
       of The Netherlands
  • Asian Formula 3
    Asian Formula Three Championship

    The Asian Formula Three Championship is a Open wheel car racing series based in South East Asia. It is one of a number of national and international Formula Three championships that form part of an established "career ladder" below Formula One....
    • Inaugural season of the Asian Formula Three Championship.
  • The French
    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....
     Citroen
    Citroën

    Citro?n is a France automobile manufacturer, founded in 1919 by Andr? Citro?n, it was the world's first mass-production car company outside of the USA....
     crew of Sebastien Loeb
    Sébastien Loeb

    S?bastien Loeb is a France Rallying and winner, with co-driver Daniel Elena, of the World Rally Championship List of World Rally Championship Drivers' Champions in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and of a record eleven world rallies in 2008, all, save for 2006, with the Citro?n Total World Rally Team....
     and Daniel Elena
    Daniel Elena

    Daniel Elena is a rally co-driver from Monaco. He is currently co-driver to S?bastien Loeb. The pair have won the World Rally Championship five times, and currently compete with the Citro?n C4#C4 in rallying....
     win their first 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....
     title.


Orienteering
Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain....

  • First ever World Championship in Trail Orienteering
    Orienteering

    Orienteering is a family of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain....
     held September 15-18 in Västerĺs, 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....
    .


Netball
Netball

Netball is a non-contact team sport originating from the United States similar to, and derived from, basketball. Invented in 1895 by Clara Gregory Baer, a pioneer in women's sport, netball is now pre-eminently played as a women's team sport in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in the West Indies, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom....
 

  • 5 July- World champions, New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    's Silver Ferns, complete 3-0 test series win 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....
     with 53-46 win at Hamilton, New Zealand
    Hamilton, New Zealand

    Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authorities of New Zealand....
    .


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....

  • Twelfth 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 Brno
    Brno

    Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. Today Brno has 403,304 inhabitants and is the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Ombudsman....
    , Czech Republic
    Czech Republic

    The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
    .


Rugby league
Rugby league

Rugby league football is a competitive Full-contact sport team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field....

  • May 15 - St Helens
    St Helens, Merseyside

    St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens with a population of just over 100,000 of an urban area with a total population of 176,843 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001....
     defeat Wigan Warriors
    Wigan Warriors

    Wigan Warriors Rugby League Football Club is a full-time professional rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The club is one of the original twenty two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union formed in 1895, making it one of the oldest clubs within the sport of rugby league....
     32-16 to win the Challenge Cup
    Challenge Cup

    The Challenge Cup is a knockout cup competition for rugby league clubs across Europe. Originally it was contested only by British teams, but in recent years the entry has been expanded to allow teams from across Europe to take part....
    .
  • June 17 - Martin Gleeson
    Martin Gleeson

    Martin Gleeson is a rugby league player from Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.Gleeson was born in Wigan on 25 May 1980. Much of his early rugby development took place in Australia, where he emigrated with his family at age 9 to live in Queensland....
     and Sean Long
    Sean Long

    Sean Long is an English professional rugby league footballer. He currently plays for St Helens RFC as Rugby league positions#Scrum-half. Long has played international rugby league both for England national rugby league team and Great Britain national rugby league team....
     are banned for four and three months respectively after placing bets on their side, St Helens
    St Helens RFC

    St Helens Rugby League Football Club, are a professional rugby league club from St Helens, Merseyside, England. The club play in the Super League ....
    , to lose a Super League
    Super League (Europe)

    Super League is Europe's top-level professional rugby league club competition. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League....
     match against the Bradford Bulls
    Bradford Bulls

    The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. It has been one of the major success stories of the Super League era, with the 2003 season being its best where the club successfully won all of the major rugby league honours, The team jersey is white with red, black and amber hoops....
    .
  • October 3 - Canterbury Bulldogs
    Canterbury Bulldogs

    The Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney....
     defeat Sydney Roosters
    Sydney Roosters

    The Sydney Roosters is a professional rugby league football team based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the most successful clubs in Rugby league in Australia, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League premiership and National Rugby League titles, and several othe...
     16-13 in the Grand Final to win the NRL
    National Rugby League

    The National Rugby League is the top Sports league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL competition is contested by 16 teams, 15 based in Australia and one based in New Zealand, and is the Southern Hemisphere's elite rugby league championship....
     premiership.
  • October 16 - Leeds Rhinos
    Leeds Rhinos

    Leeds Rhinos, or informally Leeds or Rhinos, are an England Professional sport rugby league football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire....
     defeat Bradford Bulls
    Bradford Bulls

    The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. It has been one of the major success stories of the Super League era, with the 2003 season being its best where the club successfully won all of the major rugby league honours, The team jersey is white with red, black and amber hoops....
     16-8 in the Super League Grand Final
    Super League (Europe)

    Super League is Europe's top-level professional rugby league club competition. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League....
     to become champions of Super League IX.
  • November 27 - Australia defeat Great Britain
    Great Britain national rugby league team

    Great Britain was traditionally one of the major national teams playing rugby league. The team was administered by the Rugby Football League , and was commonly nicknamed "The Lions" or "Great Britain Lions"....
     44-4 in the final of the second Tri-Nations
    2004 Rugby League Tri-Nations

    The second Rugby League Tri-Nations tournament was contested between October 2004 in sports and November 2004 in sports of 2004 in sports. The format of the competition differed from the 1999 Rugby League Tri-Nations in that the teams played each other twice, rather than once, prior to the final....
     competition.


Rugby union
Rugby union

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

  • Hong Kong Sevens
    Hong Kong Sevens

    The Hong Kong Sevens is considered the premier tournament on the IRB Sevens World Series in rugby union. It is held annually at the last weekend of March in Hong Kong and is organised by the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union ....
     - England
    England national rugby union team (sevens)

    The England national Rugby sevens#Rugby union sevens team compete in the World Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games....
     beat Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
     22-12
  • Super 12 - ACT Brumbies defeated Crusaders 47-38
  • Six Nations Championship
    Six Nations Championship

    The Six Nations Championship , known before 2000 as the Five Nations Championship, is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England national rugby union team, France national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team an...
     - France
    France national rugby union team

    The France national rugby union team represents France in rugby union. They compete annually against England national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team and Wales national rugby union team in the Six Nations Championship....
     (Grand Slam). Ireland
    Ireland national rugby union team

    The Ireland rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union, which is a popular sport throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, though only dominant in limited geographical areas....
     win the Triple Crown
    Triple Crown (Rugby Union)

    In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the national teams of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales as part of the Six Nations Championship....
    .
  • Heineken Cup
    Heineken Cup

    The European Rugby Cup is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from six International Rugby Board nations in Europe: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
     - London Wasps
    London Wasps

    London Wasps is an England professional rugby union team. The men's first team, which forms London Wasps, was derived from Wasps FC who were formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern in North London, at the turn of professionalism in 1999....
     defeated Toulouse
    Stade Toulousain

    Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a France rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyr?n?es. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup three times - in 1996, 2003 and 2005....
     27-20
  • Tri Nations Series - The Springboks
    South Africa national rugby union team

    The South Africa national rugby union team , are the current holders of the Rugby World Cup and are currently ranked number 2 in the IRB World Rankings....
     of South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
     win due to bonus points, after all sides finish with two wins and two losses. The All Blacks
    All Blacks

    The New Zealand national rugby union team, often referred to by their nickname the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union....
     of New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
     retain the Bledisloe Cup
    Bledisloe Cup

    Rugby Union Bledisloe Cup is contested by Australia Australia national rugby union team and New Zealand All Blacks. It is named after Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, the former Governor-General of New Zealand who donated the trophy in 1931....
    .
  • International Rugby Board
    International Rugby Board

    The International Rugby Board is the world governing and law-making body for the sport of rugby union, and previously for rugby football. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scottish Rugby Union, Welsh Rugby Union and Irish Rugby Football Union....
     year-end awards:
    • Player of the Year: Schalk Burger
      Schalk Burger

      Schalk Burger Jr. is a South African rugby union player. He plays the position of Rugby union positions#6. Blindside flanker & 7. Openside flanker in the South Africa national rugby union team rugby union team and is regarded as one of the best flankers in the world....
      , South Africa
    • Coach of the Year: Jake White
      Jake White

      Jake White is a rugby union coach and former coach of the South Africa national rugby union team, the South Africa national rugby union team. His most notable achievements as coach include leading the Springboks to victory in 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2004 Tri Nations title....
      , South Africa
    • Team of the Year: South Africa


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....
 & Snowboarding
Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....

  • Biathlon
    Biathlon

    Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle....
    • January 10- World Cup Biathlon event at Pokljuka
      Pokljuka

      Pokljuka is a foresty plateau at the altitude of around 1300 metres, situated partly in the municipality of Bled and partly in municipality of Bohinj in northwestern Slovenia....
      , Slovenia
      Slovenia

      Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
       winner, men's 12.5 km pursuit: Ole Einar Bjřrndalen
      Ole Einar Bjřrndalen

      Ole Einar Bj?rndalen 87individual World Cup victories, and became the first biathlete ever to win a International Ski Federation Cross Country World Cup race, in G?llivare, Sweden in 2006....
      , Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
      , 36:18.8
    • January 14- World Cup Biathlon event at Ruhpolding
      Ruhpolding

      Ruhpolding is a municipality of the Traunstein in southeastern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the south of the Chiemgau region in the Alps....
      , 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....
       winner, Women's 4x6K Relay winner: Germany, 1:18:37
    • January 15- Men's 4x7.5K Relay winner: Belarus
      Belarus

      Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
      , 1:43:43.71
    • January 17- World Cup Biathlon competition Men's 10 km Sprint winner: Halvard Hanevold
      Halvard Hanevold

      Halvard Hanevold , is a Norway Biathlon. who competed in the biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Hanevold won the bronze medal in the Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's individual and the silver medal in the Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's sprint....
      , Norway 25:01.5
  • Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing

    Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, Alaska and the Upper Midwest....
    • January 10- World Cup men's cross-country skiing competition at Otepaa, Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
       winner, 30 km mass start: Frode Estil
      Frode Estil

      Frode Estil is a Norway cross-country skiing. He currently lives in Mer?ker with his wife Grete whom he married in the summer of 2001. They have two sons, Bernhard, born in August 2002, and Konrad....
      , Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
      , 1:15:18.1
    • January 17- World Cup cross-country ski meet at Nove Mesto na Morave
      Nové Mesto na Morave

      Nov? Mesto na Morave is a town in the Vysocina Region of the Czech Republic. It has 10,464 inhabitants....
      , Czech Republic
      Czech Republic

      The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
      • Men's 15 km classical style winner: Andrus Veerpalu
        Andrus Veerpalu

        Andrus Veerpalu is an Estonian cross country skier.On February 17, 2006 he won his second Winter Olympics gold medal , becoming the fourth Estonians to have won two Olympic gold medals ....
        , Estonia
        Estonia

        Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
         42:27.6
      • Women's 10 km classical style winner: Gabriella Paruzzi
        Gabriella Paruzzi

        Gabriella Paruzzi is a retired Italy cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 and formerly skied with the C.S. Forestale club. She skied in World Cup events, and won the Cross-country skiing World Cup medalists in 2004....
        , 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....
         31:17.6
  • Downhill skiing
    • January 4 - Men's World Cup Slalom Competition at Flachau
      Flachau

      Flachau is a village in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Salzburg , Austria, with a population of 2625 . Its numerous skiing facilities are part of the Ski Amad? network of ski areas, the largest in Europe....
      , 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....
       winner: Kalle Palander
      Kalle Palander

      Kalle Markus Palander is a Finland alpine skiing, the most successful male Finn ever in the sport.In 1999 Palander won the Alpine World Skiing Championships in slalom skiing....
      , Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
      , 1:42.24
    • January 4 - Women's World Cip Giant Slalom Competition at Megeve
      Megčve

      Meg?ve is a town and Communes of France in the Haute-Savoie Departments of France and Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France of France.Meg?ve is a famous ski resort near the Mont-Blanc in the French Alps....
      , 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....
       winner: Alexandra Meissnitzer
      Alexandra Meissnitzer

      Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines.She comes from Abtenau, Land Salzburg....
      , Austria 1:24.98
    • January 10 - Men's World Cup downhill race at Chamonix
      Chamonix

      Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a town and Communes of France in eastern France, in the Haute-Savoie d?partement in France, at the foot of Mont Blanc....
      , France winner: Stephane Eberharter, Austria 1:59.08
    • January 10- Women's World Cup downhill ski race at Veysonnaz
      Veysonnaz

      Veysonnaz is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Sion in the Swiss Cantons of Switzerland of Valais.It is most known for its winter sports, as the home of winter sports resorts and the Piste de l'Ours trail on which some Alpine Ski World Cup competitions take place....
      , 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....
       winner: Renate Götschl
      Renate Götschl

      Renate G?tschl is a champion alpine skiing. She is a two-time individual List of Alpine Skiing World Champions in the alpine skiing combined and downhill , and has won a total of 9 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships medals....
      , Austria 1:38.58
    • January 11- Men's World Cup slalom at Chamonix, France winner: Giorgio Rocca
      Giorgio Rocca

      Giorgio Rocca is an Italy alpine skiing, a specialist in Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is one of three skiers to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slaloms in a row, which he achieved in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba has won more World Cup slaloms consecutively....
      , 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....
       1:29.09
    • January 17- Women's World Cup downhill race at Cortina d'Ampezzo
      Cortina d'Ampezzo

      Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and municipality in Alps and the province of Belluno, Veneto, northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and apr?s-ski scene....
      , Italy winner: Hilde Gerg
      Hilde Gerg

      Mathilde Gerg is a Germany former alpine skiing.She was Olympic Champion at on several medals at 1998 Winter Olympics; at the World Championships she was bronze medallist in Combined and Super-G at Sestriere 1997, Bronze medallist in Super-G at St....
      , 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....
       1:17.57
  • Freestyle skiing
    Freestyle skiing

    Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norway skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine skiing and cross country skiing training. Later, non-competitive professional skiing exhibitions in the United States featured performances of what would later be called freestyle....
    • January 10- Ericsson World Freestyle skiing competition at Mont Tremblant, Quebec
      • Women's Moguls winner: Stephanie St. Pierre, 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....
         24.25 points
      • Men's Moguls winner: Marc-Andre Moreau
        Marc-André Moreau

        Marc-Andr? Moreau is a Canada freestyle skiing.Moreau, a mogulist has placed in the top-3 in World Cup events on three occasions. In 2004, he won a World Cup event in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and he picked up a silver medal at the 2005 moguls world championships in Ruka, Finland....
        , Canada 25.14 points
    • January 16- Freesyle FIS World Cup at Lake Placid, New York
      Lake Placid, New York

      Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....
      • Women's aerials winner: Jiao Wang, China
        China

        China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
         183.61
      • Men's aerials winner: Steve Omischl, Canada 246.01
    • January 17
      • Women's Moguls winner: Jennifer Heil
        Jennifer Heil

        Jennifer Heil is a Canada freestyle skiing. She won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics games in Turin, Italy. Giving Canada its first victory on the first full day of competition, Heil placed her title in the Mogul s event....
        , Canada 26.77
      • Men's Moguls winner: Janne Lahtela
        Janne Lahtela

        Janne Lahtela is a Finns former sportsperson, who established himself as one of the most dominant persons in the history of mogul skiing. He is currently the head coach of Japan freestyle skiing team....
        , Finland
        Finland

        Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
         26.29
  • Giant slalom
    Giant Slalom skiing

    Giant slalom is an alpine skiing discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles spaced at a greater distance to each other than in Slalom skiing but not as great as in Super Giant Slalom skiing ....
    • January 3 - Men's World Cup Giant Slalom Competition at Flachau
      Flachau

      Flachau is a village in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Salzburg , Austria, with a population of 2625 . Its numerous skiing facilities are part of the Ski Amad? network of ski areas, the largest in Europe....
      , 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....
       winner: Benjamin Raich
      Benjamin Raich

      Benjamin Raich is an Austrian Alpine skiing who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, Italy....
      , Austria, 2:22.54
  • Nordic skiing
    Nordic skiing

    Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski. This includes a wide range of ski equipment and techniques such as classic and skate cross country skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, and telemark skiing....
    • January 4 - Nordic combined World Cup event at Schonach
      Schonach

      Schonach may refer to:* A place in mid Schwarzwald, see Schonach im Schwarzwald* A part of Creglingen...
      , 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....
       winner: Todd Lodwick
      Todd Lodwick

      Todd Lodwick is an United States nordic combined skier and by several measures the most successful North American in this sport ever. In 2009 he became 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in nordic combined....
      , 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...
      , 34:29.5
  • Ski jumping
    Ski jumping

    Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp , attempting to go as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style....
    • January 1 - The traditional New Year's Ski Jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
      Garmisch-Partenkirchen

      Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen , in the Oberbayern region, not far from the border with Austria....
      , 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....
      . The Large Hill event was won by Sigurd Pettersen
      Sigurd Pettersen

      Sigurd Pettersen is a Norway ski jumper . His greatest achievement is winning the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in 2003....
       of Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
       with 253.8 points.
    • January 4 - Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Innsbruck
      Innsbruck

      Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
      , 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....
      . K120 winner: Peter Zonta, Slovenia
      Slovenia

      Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
      , 265.2 points
  • Ski mountaineering
    Ski mountaineering

    Ski mountaineering is a sport that combines the techniques of skiing with those of mountaineering. The goal of the ski mountaineer may be to climb a beautiful mountain by a worthy route and then ski the mountain down an elegant line, preferably from the summit....
    • March 1 - March 6 - The 2004 World Championship of Skimountaineering
      2004 World Championship of Skimountaineering

      The 2004 World Championship of Skimountaineering was the second World Championship of Skimountaineering sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions , held in the Spanish Aran Valley from March 1 to March 6, 2004....
       was held in the Aran Valley, 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....
      .
  • Super-G
    • January 11 - Women's World Cup super-G at Veysonnaz
      Veysonnaz

      Veysonnaz is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Sion in the Swiss Cantons of Switzerland of Valais.It is most known for its winter sports, as the home of winter sports resorts and the Piste de l'Ours trail on which some Alpine Ski World Cup competitions take place....
      , 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....
       winner: Hilde Gerg
      Hilde Gerg

      Mathilde Gerg is a Germany former alpine skiing.She was Olympic Champion at on several medals at 1998 Winter Olympics; at the World Championships she was bronze medallist in Combined and Super-G at Sestriere 1997, Bronze medallist in Super-G at St....
      , 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....
      , 1:21.34
    • January 14 - Women's World Cup super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo
      Cortina d'Ampezzo

      Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and municipality in Alps and the province of Belluno, Veneto, northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and apr?s-ski scene....
      , 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....
       winner: Genevieve Simard
      Genevičve Simard

      Genevi?ve Simard is a Canada alpine skier. She has appeared in two Winter Olympics in 2002 and 2006....
      , 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....
      , 13.05
    • January 16 - Women's World Cup super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy winner: Renate Götschl
      Renate Götschl

      Renate G?tschl is a champion alpine skiing. She is a two-time individual List of Alpine Skiing World Champions in the alpine skiing combined and downhill , and has won a total of 9 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships medals....
      , 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....
       1:10.59
  • Snowboarding
    Snowboarding

    Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....
    • January 3 - World Cup men's "big air" snowboarding competition at Klagenfurt
      Klagenfurt

      Klagenfurt am W?rthersee is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. With a population of over 90,000 it is the sixth-largest city in the country....
      , 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....
       winner: Aleksi Vanninen, Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
      , 1,000 points
    • January 6 - World Cup snowboard parallel slalom at Bad Gastein
      Bad Gastein

      Bad Gastein is a spa town in Austria, situated in the middle of the National Park Hohe Tauern, at 1,000 meters above sea level. It hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958 in alpine skiing....
      , Austria
      • Men's winner: Dejan Josir, Slovenia
        Slovenia

        Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
        , 1,000
      • Women's winner: Jagna Kolasinska-Marczulajtis, Poland
        Poland

        Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
        , 1,000
    • January 10 - World Cup giant slalom race at L'Alpe d'Huez, 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 Parallel Giant Slalom winner: Urs Eiselin, 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....
        , 1,000
      • Women's Parallel Giant Slalom winner: Daniela Meuli
        Daniela Meuli

        Daniela Meuli is a Switzerland snowboarder.Meuli is World Champion 2005 in parallel slalom. In the World Cup in Parallel Giant Slalom, she ranked 1st for 2003/2004, 2004/2005 and the current season ....
        , Switzerland, 1,000
    • January 16 - World Cup cross at Arosa
      Arosa

      Arosa is a municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Plessur in the Cantons of Switzerland of Graub?nden in Switzerland. It is known for being both a summer and a winter resort....
      , Switzerland
      • Men's winner: Stefano Pozzolini, 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....
         1,000
      • Women's winner: Karine Ruby
        Karine Ruby

        Karine Ruby is a France snowboarding and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
        , France 1,000
    • January 17 -
      • Men's winner: Simone Malusa, Italy 1,000
      • Women's winner: Karine Ruby, France 1,000


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....
    : Ronnie O'Sullivan
    Ronnie O'Sullivan

    Ronald Antonio "Ronnie" O'Sullivan , nicknamed "The Rocket" due to his rapid playing style, is an English people professional snooker player....
     beats Graeme Dott
    Graeme Dott

    Graeme Dott is a professional snooker player from Larkhall in Scotland. He won the World Snooker Championship 2006, which was his first ranking title after four previous runner-up spots....
     18-8
  • 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....
    : Ronnie O'Sullivan
    Ronnie O'Sullivan

    Ronald Antonio "Ronnie" O'Sullivan , nicknamed "The Rocket" due to his rapid playing style, is an English people professional snooker player....
     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 2004/05


  • October 16: In a qualifying match for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett
    Jamie Burnett

    Jamie Burnett is a professional snooker player from Hamilton, Scotland...
     makes a break
    Highest snooker break

    In snooker, a break is the total score achieved by a player in a single to the Billiard table. A player's proficiency at building big breaks, particularly Century break , is widely used as a measure of their overall skill....
     of 148 against Leo Fernandez
    Leo Fernandez

    Leo Fernandez is a current amateur and former professional snooker player born in Limerick, Ireland and living in London, England. He is currently competing on the Pontins International Tour , attempting to gain promotion to the Main Tour and professional status once again....
     and becomes the first player to achieve a break higher than the nominal maximum of 147 in a professional match.


Speed skating
Speed skating

Speed skating or speedskating is a competition form of skating in which the competitors racing each other in travelling a certain distance on skating....


Long track speed skating
Speed skating

Speed skating or speedskating is a competition form of skating in which the competitors racing each other in travelling a certain distance on skating....

  • January 2 - Winners at the 2003 Canada Post All Round Canadian Championships at Calgary, Alberta:
    • Men's 500 m: Mike Ireland
      Mike Ireland

      Michael Ireland is a long track Speed skating.Mike Ireland specialises in the sprint distances . He participated in the 500 m at the 1994 Winter Olympics , the 500 m and 1,000 m at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
      , Winnipeg, Manitoba 34.58 seconds
    • Men's 1000 m: Jeremy Wotherspoon
      Jeremy Wotherspoon

      Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canada Speed skating.Wotherspoon was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan but grew up in Red Deer, Alberta. He first became involved in speedskating after signing up for a power skating class in an effort to improve his ice hockey skills....
      , Red Deer, Alberta
      Red Deer, Alberta

      Red Deer is a city in central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, and is Alberta's third most populous city?after Calgary and Edmonton....
       1:08.90
    • Women's 500 m: Krisy Myers, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan 39.43
    • Women's 1000 m: Kristy Myers 1:18.16
  • January 3
    • Men's 500 m: Casey Fitzrandolph
      Casey FitzRandolph

      Casey J. FitzRandolph is an United States Speed skating.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Hamar....
      , Madison, Wisconsin
      Madison, Wisconsin

      Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
       35.27 seconds
    • Men's 1500 m: Jay Morrison, Fort St. John, British Columbia
      Fort St. John, British Columbia

      The City of Fort St. John is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. A member municipality of the Peace River Regional District, British Columbia, the city covers an area of about 22 km? with 17,402 residents ....
       1:46.96
    • Women's 500 m: Kerry Simpson, Melville, Saskatchewan
      Melville, Saskatchewan

      Melville is a small Canada city located in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan. It was declared a city by the province in 1960. According to The World Gazetteer, it has a 2004 population of approximately 4,300....
       39.67
    • Women's 1500 m: Kristina Groves
      Kristina Groves

      Kristina Groves is a Canadian speed skater, of Norwegian descent. As of 13 January 2008, she is ranked 5th on the women's Adelskalender....
      , Ottawa
      Ottawa

      Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
       1:59.25


January 17 - Winners at the World sprint speedskating championships at Nagano, 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 500 m: Jeremy Wotherspoon
Jeremy Wotherspoon

Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canada Speed skating.Wotherspoon was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan but grew up in Red Deer, Alberta. He first became involved in speedskating after signing up for a power skating class in an effort to improve his ice hockey skills....
, 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....
 35.25 *Women's 500 m: Sayuri Osuga
Sayuri Osuga

Sayuri Osuga is a Japanese Speed skating and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games ....
, Japan 38.79

February 7 - 9 - Winners at the 2004 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
World Allround Speed Skating Championships

The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world....
 at Hamar
Hamar

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Hedmarken....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
: *Men's 500 m: Yevgeny Lalenkov
Yevgeny Lalenkov

Yevgeny Lalenkov is a Russian long track speed skating speed skating who participates in international competitions....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 35.780 *Men's 5000 m: Carl Verheijen
Carl Verheijen

Carl Eduard Verheijen is a Netherlands speed skating specializing in the longer distances 5,000-m and the 10,000-m. Verheijen is the son of skater Eddy Verheijen and has a relation with retired skater Andrea Nuyt in Leusden....
, 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....
 6:20.61 *Ladies' 500 m: Jennifer Rodriguez
Jennifer Rodriguez

Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cubans-United States Speed Skating. She started her career as an Artistic roller skating, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships....
, 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...
 38.740 *Ladies' 3000 m Renate Groenewold
Renate Groenewold

Renate Groenewold is a Dutch long track speed skating and road bicycle racer.Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships.In 1999, 2002 and 2003 she won the Dutch allround championship....
, 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....
 4:04.58 *Men's 1500 m Shani Davis
Shani Davis

Shani Davis is an American speed skater who competes in both short track and long track speed skating.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Davis became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport and the fifth black Winter Olympics medalist....
, 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...
 1:46.02 *Men's 10,000 m Carl Verheijen
Carl Verheijen

Carl Eduard Verheijen is a Netherlands speed skating specializing in the longer distances 5,000-m and the 10,000-m. Verheijen is the son of skater Eddy Verheijen and has a relation with retired skater Andrea Nuyt in Leusden....
, 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....
 13:17.86 *Ladies' 1500 m Jennifer Rodriguez
Jennifer Rodriguez

Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cubans-United States Speed Skating. She started her career as an Artistic roller skating, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships....
, 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...
, 1:57.33 *Ladies' 5000 m Gretha Smit
Gretha Smit

Gretha Smit is a Netherlands speed skating.Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein....
, 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....
 7:02.89 *Men's all-around champion: Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick

Chad Hedrick is an United States inline speed skating and ice speed skating. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP, now the standard skating technique for ?lite skaters....
, 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...
 150.478 *Ladies' all-around champion: Renate Groenewold
Renate Groenewold

Renate Groenewold is a Dutch long track speed skating and road bicycle racer.Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships.In 1999, 2002 and 2003 she won the Dutch allround championship....
, 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....
 162.573

Short track speed skating
Short track speed skating

Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m....

January 10- World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships are a junior short track speed skating event and held once a year in a different country....
 at 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....
 *Men's 500 m winner: Ho-Suk Lee, South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
 42.542 seconds *Women's 500 m winner: Anouk Leblanc-Boucher
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher

Anouk Leblanc-Boucher is a Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
, 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....
 45.689 seconds January 11- *Men's 1000 m winner: Ki-Deok Kwon, South Korea 1:28.682 *Women's 1000 m winner: Kang Yun-Mi, South Korea 1:36.040 January 17- European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
European Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The European Short Track Speed Skating Championships are a european short track speed skating event and held once a year in a different country....
 at Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km? . Though a small village until the late 1960s, with only 6,392 people living in the entire municipality in 1950 , by March 1, 2007 this number had grown to 118,483, making Zoetermeer the third largest population cen...
, 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....
: *Women's 500 m: Evgenia Radanova
Evgenia Radanova

Evgenia Radanova is a Bulgarian female sportsperson that has participated in both Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. She is the world record holder in the 500m short track distance with 43.671s, which she set in Calgary, Canada on 19 October 2001....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 44.882 *Men's 500 m: Nicola Franceschina
Nicola Franceschina

Nicola Franceschina is an Italy Short track speed skating who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, in the 2002 Winter Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics....
, 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....
 42. 845

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....


International tournaments

January 13 – World Cup (short course) in Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
, 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....
: *Men's 50m Butterfly: Mike Mintenko
Mike Mintenko

Michael Mintenko is a Freestyle swimming and Butterfly stroke swimmer from Canada, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2000 and in 2004 ....
 (CAN) 23.75 *Men's 100m Freestyle: Jason Lezak
Jason Lezak

Jason Edward Lezak is an American swimming.He formerly swam for Irvine Novaquatics. He graduated from Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999....
 (USA) 47.24 *Men's 100m Individual Medley: Kosuke Kitajima
Kosuke Kitajima

is a Japanese world record holder and multiple Olympic gold medalist breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals for the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics Olympics....
 (JPN) 53.71 *Men's 400m Freestyle: Yuri Prilukov (RUS) 3:41.10 *Men's 400m Individual Medley: Brian Johns
Brian Johns

Brian Johns is an Olympic swimming from Canada. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he grew up in Richmond, British Columbia and trained with the Aquanauts and Racers swim clubs....
 (CAN) 4:09.92 *Men's 50m Breaststroke: Ed Moses
Ed Moses (swimmer)

Glenn Edward Moses, Jr. is an American swimmer who won gold and silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Loma Linda, California, California to Glenn Edward, a United States Air Force colonel, and Sissy Moses, a school teacher....
 (USA) 27.10 *Men's 200m Breaststroke: Ed Moses
Ed Moses (swimmer)

Glenn Edward Moses, Jr. is an American swimmer who won gold and silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Loma Linda, California, California to Glenn Edward, a United States Air Force colonel, and Sissy Moses, a school teacher....
 (USA) 2:04.54 *Men's 200m Butterfly: Takeshi Matsuda
Takeshi Matsuda

is an Olympic Games medalist swimmer....
 (JPN) 1:52.67 *Women's 50m Backstroke: Chang Gao (CHN) 27.61 January 14 – World Cup (short course) in Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
, Sweden
Sweden

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: *Men's 200m Backstroke: Evgeny Aleshin
Evgeny Aleshin

Evgeny Aleshin is a Russia swimmer who specializes in backstroke. He competed at the Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2007 World Championships....
 (RUS) 1:53.21 *Men's 100m Butterfly: Andriy Serdinov
Andriy Serdinov

Andriy Serdinov is a Ukraine swimmer, who competed in the 2004 Olympics in various categories, and won the bronze medal in the 100m butterfly stroke....
 (UKR) 51.66 *Men's 200m Freestyle: Ryk Neethling
Ryk Neethling

Ryk Neethling is a South African swimmer. He won an Olympic gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the former joint owner of the 4x100 freestyle relay world record and holds several South African records....
 (RSA) 1:23.85 *Men's 1500m Freestyle: Yuri Prilukov (RUS) 14:46.59 *Men's 200m Individual Medley: Kosuke Kitajima
Kosuke Kitajima

is a Japanese world record holder and multiple Olympic gold medalist breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals for the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics Olympics....
 (JPN) 1:56.68
27th European LC Championships
European LC Championships 2004

The European LC Championships 2004 were held in Madrid, Spain from May 5 to May 16, at the M-86 Swimming Center in the southeast of the city, less than three months before the Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
 in Madrid, Spain (May 5 – 16) *Russia wins the most medals (16), Ukraine the most gold medals (9)
Summer Olympics
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the sportspersons competing in 32 events....
 in Athens
Athens

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, Greece
Greece

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 (August 14 – 22) *United States wins the most medals (28), and the most gold medals (12)
Seventh World Short Course Championships
2004 FINA Short Course World Championships

The 7th FINA Short Course World Championships were held in Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA from October 7 through October 11, 2004....
 in Indianapolis, United States
United States

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 (October 7 – 11) *United States wins the most medals (41), and the most gold medals (21)
8th European SC Championships
European SC Championships 2004

The European Short Course Championships 2004 was held in Vienna, Austria, in a temporary pool located in the Vienna City Hall . It was the 8th edition of the tournament, which was organised by LEN....
 in Vienna, Austria (December 9 – 12) *Germany wins the most medals (22), and the most gold medals (9)

Records

January 18 — Exactly four years after Australia's Susie O'Neill set her world record (2:04.16) in the women's 200m butterfly (short course), Yang Yu from PR China betters that time at a World Cup meet in Berlin
Berlin

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, Germany
Germany

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, clocking 2:04.04.

March 25 — Frédérick Bousquet
Frédérick Bousquet

Fr?d?rick Bousquet is a freestyle swimming and butterfly swimming swimmer from France. He previously held the world record in the 50 m freestyle in a time of 21.10 in short course , set in 2004 at the Men's NCAA Division One Swimming and Diving Championships, for over two years....
 breaks the world record in the men's 50m freestyle (short course) at a meet in New York, United States, clocking 21.10.

Tennis
Tennis

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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....
 *Men's Final: Roger Federer
Roger Federer

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 defeats Marat Safin
Marat Safin

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, 7-6(7-3) 6-4 6-2 *Women's Final: Justine Henin-Hardenne
Justine Henin-Hardenne

Justine Henin , is a retired professional Belgian tennis List of female tennis players. On 14 May 2008, Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis....
 defeats Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters

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, 6-3 4-6 6-3

French Open *Men's Final: Gastón Gaudio
Gastón Gaudio

Gast?n Norberto Gaudio , nicknamed El Gato , is a professional tennis player from Argentina. His career-high Association of Tennis Professionals Entry ranking was No....
 defeats Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria

Guillermo Sebasti?n Coria , nicknamed El Mago , is a professional tennis player from Argentina. He was named after tennis champion and fellow countryman Guillermo Vilas....
 0-6 3-6 6-4 6-1 8-6 *Women's Final: Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Myskina

Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. In 2004 she won the French Open, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event....
 defeats Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva ; is a professional tennis player from Russia who has won two Olympic Games medals in singles, including the gold medal at the Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics....
 6-1 6-2

Wimbledon Championships *Men's Final: Roger Federer
Roger Federer

Roger Federer is a Switzerland professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 2. He was the List of ATP number 1 ranked players ranked player for a ATP Tour records#Ranking, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008....
 defeats Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an United States of America professional tennis player, and a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players.He is the 6th-ranked player in the world, and top-ranked in the U.S., as of February 2, 2009....
, 4-6 7-5 7-6(7-3) 6-3 *Ladies' Final: Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova

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 defeats Serena Williams
Serena Williams

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, 6-1 6-4

US Open
U.S. Open (tennis)

The US Open tennis tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, first contested in 1881. The tournament is chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament each year....
 *Men's Final: Roger Federer
Roger Federer

Roger Federer is a Switzerland professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 2. He was the List of ATP number 1 ranked players ranked player for a ATP Tour records#Ranking, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008....
 defeats Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is a tennis player from Australia. In 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one. His career best achievements are winning the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon Championships men's singles titles....
 6-0 7-6 (7-3) 6-0 *Women's Final: Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova

Svetlana Alexandrovna Kuznetsova is a Russian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 7. She won the 2004 US Open singles title and was the runner-up in singles at the 2006 French Open and the 2007 U.S....
 defeats Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva ; is a professional tennis player from Russia who has won two Olympic Games medals in singles, including the gold medal at the Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics....
 6-3 7-5

2004 Summer Olympics
Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place on ten separate courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre . The surface was hardcourt, specifically DecoTurf....
 *Men's Singles Competition #Gold –