Sports year 1907
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Events
badminton
The high points of the badminton year 1907 were the All England , the Irish Open and the Scottish Open .
International events
| event | Men's singles | Ladies singles | Men's doubles | Ladies doubles | Mixed |
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| All of England |
 Norman Wood
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Meriel Lucas
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Albert Davis Prebble Norman Wood
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GL Murray Meriel Lucas
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George Alan Thomas G. L. Murray
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| Irish Open |
 Arthur Cave
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Blayney Hamilton Thomas D. Good
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Hazel Hogarth Mary K. Bateman
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Norman Wood Hazel Hogarth
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| Scottish Open |
George Alan Thomas
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George Alan Thomas R. GP Hunter
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 FA Todd V. I. Todd
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George Alan Thomas G. L. Murray
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balloon ride
Gordon Bennett Cup 1907
- September 30 : The German Oskar Erbslöh and his US co-driver Henry Helm Clayton won the second edition of the Gordon Bennett Cup for gas balloons held in Saint Louis .
baseball
- The Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers 4-1 in the World Series .
Rockclimbing
- As the London Alpine Club persistently refuses to accept female alpinists, Elizabeth Le Blond founds the Lyceum Alpine Club as the Lyceum Club's interest group for working women .
Soccer
- April 14th : AC Milan become Italian champions.
- May 12th : Servette Geneva becomes Swiss champion.
- May 19 : Freiburg FC become German champions .
- Newcastle United become champions in England.
athletics
Athletics records
- September 22nd : Edvard Dahl , Sweden, runs the men's 3000 meters in 8: 56.8 minutes.
Cycling
- April 14th : The one-day race Milan – Sanremo is held for the first time. The Frenchman Lucien Mazan becomes the first winner.
- June 30th / July 4th / July 7th : 1907 UCI Track World Championships
The tour passes through Ville-d'Avray
- July 8 to August 4 : Frenchman Lucien Petit-Breton wins the 1907 Tour de France after his competitor Émile Georget , who borrowed a bike from a spectator, was penalized and downgraded. It is the first tour whose route leads to other countries.
- The Newark Velodrome in New Jersey is built.
Motorsport
- June 10 : In Beijing, five cars start the longest automobile race of all time, the drive from Beijing to Paris . The 12,000 km route leads through the Gobi desert, past Lake Baikal, through Siberia, over the Urals and via Moscow to France.
- August 10 : The first of five cars that started the automobile race from Beijing to Paris reached the French capital after two months. The Italian team around Prince Scipione Borghese is celebrated as the winner. The second vehicle , driven by the Dutchman Charles Goddard , arrives on August 30th , the others fail to reach their destination.
- Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia donates the touring car competition Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt , which is held for the first time the following year.
Wrestling
- May 20 : Denmark wins two out of three gold medals at the World Wrestling Championships in Frankfurt / Main .
rowing
rugby
- March 16 : Scotland wins the Home Nations Championship and wins the Triple Crown .
chess
swim
Swimming records
- November 17 : András Baronyi , Hungary, swims the 100 meter chest in 01: 24.0.
do gymnastics
- May 30th : At the World Gymnastics Championships in Prague , host Bohemia becomes the most successful nation.
Winter sports
Founding of clubs
- February 1st : Foundation of the Vogelheim sports club, today's Rot-Weiss Essen
- April 11th : Foundation of the Waldhof 07 sports club , today's SV Waldhof Mannheim
- February 10 : The Norwegian football club Strømsgodset Toppfotball is founded.
- May 3 : Since the formation of clubs is forbidden in the Ottoman Empire, the multi-sports club Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul, which also includes a football department , is founded in secret.
- May 7th : Foundation of the Free Gymnastics Association Blankenese-Dockenhuden zu Hamburg, predecessor of the Free Gymnastics and Sports Association Komet Blankenese from 1907 e. V. ( FTSV Comet Blankenese )
- June 4th : The Swedish football club Helsingborgs IF is created through the merger of two clubs .
- June 19 : The Finnish football club HJK Helsinki is established.
- August 8 : Foundation of FC Augsburg as FC Alemannia Augsburg
- August 14th : Foundation of Arminia Neuhaus , a predecessor of today's SC Paderborn 07
- September 20th : Foundation of FC Lustenau 07
- Foundation of VfL Pirna-Copitz
- The Cologne Ballspielverein 07 is founded.
- First mention of the FC Gottingia club of today's SVG Göttingen 07
Others
- December 2 : The Suomen Olympic Committee is founded in Helsinki .
Born
First half of the year
- January 4th : Willy Busch , German soccer player († 1982 )
- January 5th : Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete, Olympic champion († 1969 )
- January 6th : Josef Walla , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1994 )
- January 13 : George Raynor , English football player and coach († 1985 )
- January 15 : Janusz Kusociński , Polish athlete († 1940 )
- January 19 : Briggs Cunningham , American racing car driver, designer and sailor († 2003 )
- January 22nd : Dixie Dean , English soccer player († 1980 )
- January 31 : Georg Wurzer , German football coach († 1982 )
- February 4th : Gerda Paumgarten , Austrian ski racer († 2000 )
- February 5 : Walter Nausch , Austrian football player and national coach († 1957 )
- February 9 : Dit Clapper , Canadian ice hockey player († 1978 )
- February 12 : Louis Klemantaski , British racing car driver and photographer († 2001 )
- February 16 : Herbert Drews , German motorcycle racer († 1949 )
- February 16 : László Rajcsányi , Hungarian saber fencer († 1992 )
- February 22nd : Georg Braun , Austrian soccer player and coach († 1963 )
- February 22nd : Georg Christian von Lobkowitz , Czechoslovak nobleman and racing car driver († 1932 )
- March 3 : Canada Lee , American boxer, actor and civil rights activist († 1952 )
- March 11 : Mortimer Morris-Goodall , British racing car driver († 2001 )
- March 12 : Wiggerl Kraus , German motorcycle racer († 1987 )
- March 13 : Jack Holden , British long-distance runner († 2004 )
- March 25 : Horst von Waldthausen , German-Swiss automobile racing driver († 1933 )
- April 10 : Ted Mellors , British motorcycle racer († 1946 )
- April 11th : Mochizuki Minoru , founder of Yoseikan Budō († 2003 )
- April 12 : Eugène Chaboud , French racing car driver († 1983 )
- April 13 : Roderich Menzel , Czech-German tennis player († 1987 )
- April 30th : Ludwig Rödl , German chess master († 1970 )
- May 4 : Petar Graf Orssich , Austrian automobile racing driver and nobleman († 1961 )
- May 6 : Weeb Ewbank , American football coach († 1998 )
- May 17th : Ilona Elek , Hungarian foil fencer († 1988 )
- May 19 : Rudi Knees , German motorcycle racer († 1982 )
- May 28 : Francesco Severi , Italian racing driver († 1980 )
- June 8 : Georges Speicher , French cyclist († 1978 )
- June 22nd : Anton Schall , Austrian soccer player († 1947 )
- June 25 : Mario Revelli di Beaumont , Italian motorcycle racer and vehicle designer († 1987 )
- June 26 : Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1947 )
- June 27 : Otto Kohfink , German motorcycle racer († 1994 )
Second half of the year
- July 4th : Ernst Loof , German engineer, racing driver, race director and entrepreneur († 1956 )
- July 5 : Ethel Smith , Canadian athlete and Olympic champion († 1979 )
- July 8 : Elmer Sleight , American football player († 1978 )
- July 11th : Erwin Gillmeister , German athlete († 1993 )
- July 14th : Chico Landi , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver († 1989 )
- July 24th : William Chalmers , Scottish football player and coach († 1980 )
- July 25 : Alfred Letourneur , French cyclist († 1975 )
- August 5th : Roger Loyer , French motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1988 )
- August 12 : Andrew Charlton , Australian swimmer († 1975 )
- August 21 : Hans Welker , German football player († 1968 )
- August 29 : Nando Barbieri , Italian racing driver († 1997 )
- August 31 : Ray Berres , American baseball player and coach († 2007 )
- September 2 : Fritz Szepan , German football player († 1974 )
- September 8 : Jean Aerts , Belgian cyclist († 1992 )
- September 13 : Phil Edwards , Canadian athlete and physician († 1971 )
- September 14 : Raffaele Alberti , Italian motorcycle racer († 1951 )
- September 22nd : Philip Fotheringham-Parker , British racing driver († 1981 )
- September 24th : Karl Bierwirth , German weightlifter († 1955 )
- October 3 : Aldo Pigorini , Italian motorcycle racer († 1937 )
- October 6 : Louis Jeannin , French motorcycle racer († unknown)
- October 28 : Tommy Hampson , British middle-distance runner and Olympic champion († 1965 )
- November 3 : Gustav Kilian , German racing cyclist († 2000 )
- November 3 : Frank Séchehaye , Swiss football goalkeeper and racing car driver († 1982 )
- November 10 : Tom Hanson , American football player († 1985 )
- November 12 : Ernst Albrecht , German football player († 1976 )
- November 19 : Luigi Beccali , Italian athlete and Olympic champion († 1990 )
- November 21 : Ernesto Mascheroni , Uruguayan-Italian football player († 1984 )
- November 22nd : Guido Masetti , Italian soccer player († 1993 )
- November 25 : Johnny Hindmarsh , British racing car driver and aviator († 1938 )
- December 6 : Giovanni Ferrari , Italian football player and coach († 1982 )
- December 10 : Lucien Laurent , French football player († 2005 )
- December 13 : Bill Holland , American racing driver († 1984 )
- December 14 : Georg Frank , German football player († 1944 )
- December 18 : Conrad Dürr , German motorcycle racer († 1999 )
- December 19 : Vasja Pirc , Slovenian chess player († 1980 )
- December 27th : Johann Wilhelm Trollmann , German boxer († 1943 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Tom Bullus , British motorcycle racer († 1998 )
- Henry Tyrell-Smith , Irish motorcycle racer († 1982 )
Died
- January 25 : René Pottier , French cyclist and winner of the Tour de France 1906 by suicide (* 1879 )
- May 17th : Albert Clément , French racing driver (* 1883 )
- December 31 : Garrett Serviss , American athlete (* 1881 )
See also
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