Sports year 1912
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| 27 / 28 January | World figure skating championships for women |
| 10 / February 11 | European figure skating championships |
| 16 / February 17 | World figure skating championships for men |
| 27th of February | World figure skating championship for couples |
| April 1st | Oxford wins the Boat Race against Cambridge . |
| 2nd of April | The Association for Movement Games Stuttgart 1893 e. V. is founded. |
| 5th of May | The Olympic Games in Stockholm are opened. |
| 5th of May | Ried is SV Ried founded. |
| May 18 | George Horine is the first person to jump 2 meters in the high jump . |
| November 29th | The Amisia Meppen football club is founded. |
Events
Olympic games
- May 5th / June 29th - July 27th : The 5th Olympic Games take place in Stockholm . After the sometimes chaotic conditions during the Olympic Games of 1900 , 1904 and 1908 , Stockholm sets the standard for future events. For the first time, electronic timing and target photography are used.
- July 1 : With ten and four goals respectively , Gottfried Fuchs and Fritz Förderer , who play at Karlsruher FV , make a significant contribution to the highest victory of the German men's national team to date , a 16-0 win over the Russian selection in the consolation round of the Olympic football tournament .
- July 4th : Great Britain beat Denmark 4-2 in the final of the Olympic football tournament, becoming Olympic champion like in 1908 . The Netherlands win the bronze medal with a 9-0 win over Finland.
- July 5 : Hungary wins the final of the consolation round in the football tournament against Austria 3-0.
- 7th to 12th July : For the first time, a competition in the modern pentathlon invented by Pierre de Coubertin is held at the Olympic Games . The Swede Gösta Lilliehöök becomes the first Olympic champion in this discipline.
- July 8th : A tug of war competition is held at the Games . The Stockholm Police defeated the City of London Police . Other teams do not compete.
- July 8th : The long jump will be held for the last time at the Olympic Games . The Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras is the last Olympic champion with 3.37 m.
- July 10th : In the final of the men's swimming competition over 200 meters chest , the German Walter Bathe wins with a new Olympic record of 3: 01.8 minutes ahead of his compatriots Wilhelm Lützow and Kurt Malisch .
- July 13th : The standing vault will be held for the last time at the Olympic Games . The US-American Platt Adams becomes Olympic champion with 1.63 m.
- The Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lázaro is the first to be killed in the Olympic Games. He collapsed in the marathon on July 14th and died in hospital the next day. Five days after his death, a sports festival is being held in his honor at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium . A collection among the 23,000 spectators achieved an amount of 14,000 crowns, which was given to the Lázaros family.
- July 15 : The last athletics event is the decathlon . The American Jim Thorpe wins with the world record of 8412.955 points. In the following year, his medals were stripped of his for violating amateur status.
- July 27 : The Olympic Games end with the closing ceremony. The most successful athlete is the Finnish runner Hannes Kolehmainen with three gold and one silver medal. The most successful nation is the United States with a total of 63 medals.
- November 10th : The German Sports Badge is created by the general assembly of the German Reich Committee for the Olympic Games under the name Award for diverse performance in the field of physical exercise . The model is the Swedish sports badge ( Idrottsmärke ), which the founder of the sports badge, Carl Diem , got to know during the games in Stockholm.
- November 17 : As a reaction to the creation of the German Sports Badge, the Central Commission for Sport and Personal Care is founded as the umbrella organization for workers' sports in Germany .
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1912 was the All England from February 28th to March 2nd , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open on December 21st and 22nd . The Englishman George Alan Thomas is successful there in the men's singles as well as in the men's and mixed doubles.
International events
Boxing
- February 12 : Johnny Kilbane defeats defending champion Abe Attell to become world featherweight champion .
Soccer
- German football championship 1911/12
- Italian football championship 1911/12
- Only Viennese clubs take part in the first official Austrian football championship . SK Rapid Wien becomes the first Austrian champion .
- Swiss Football Championship 1911/12
- South German football championship 1911/12
athletics
World records
sprint
- July 6 : Donald Lippincott , USA, runs at an Olympic lead the 100 meters of Mäner in 10.6 s.
Middle distance run
- June 8th : Abel Kiviat , USA, runs the men's 1500 meters in 3: 55.8 minutes, setting the first official world record.
- July 8 : Ted Meredith , USA, wins the Olympic gold medal in the men's 800 meters in the first official world record time of 1: 51.9 minutes.
Long distance running
- July 10 : Hannes Kolehmainen , Finland, runs the men's 5000 meters at the Olympic Games in 14: 36.6 minutes.
- July 12th : Hannes Kolehmainen, Finland, runs the men's 3000 meters in 8: 36.8 minutes.
Relay race
- In the semifinals of the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the German team set the first official world record in the 4 x 100 meter run with 42.3 seconds .
Jump disciplines
- May 18 : George Horine , USA, jumps 2.00 m in the men's high jump . This is later recognized by the IAAF as the first world record in high jump .
- June 8 : Marc Wright , USA, jumps 4.02 m in the men's pole vault . He is not only the first person to have mastered the four meters, but also the first official world record holder.
Throwing disciplines
- May 27 : James Duncan , USA, sets the first official world record in the men's discus throw with 47.58 m .
- September 29th : Eric Lemming , Sweden, throws 62.32 m in the men's javelin .
All-around
- July 15 : Jim Thorpe , USA, scores 8412.955 points in the decathlon at the Olympics .
Cycling
- May 19 to June 2 : At the Giro d'Italia 1912 there is only one team classification . The Italian team Atala wins the overall standings after nine stages, eight of which are classified.
- June 30th to July 28th : Odiel Defraeye becomes the first Belgian to win the Tour de France .
- August 30 to September 4 : At the UCI Track World Championships in Newark in 1912 , there are only US winners: Frank Kramer and George Wiley win the pros, Donald McDougall wins the amateurs . The events have to be interrupted again and again due to rain.
- The distance bike ride Vienna – Berlin is being carried out for the fourth time.
Wrestling
- May 4th / September 21st : Unofficial European wrestling championships 1912 in Budapest and Vienna
rowing
- April 1st : After both boats sank in the first run, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the boat race in the second run in 22'05 ″.
rugby
- England and Ireland are jointly tournament winner of the Five Nations in 1912 the Rugby Union .
swim
Swimming championships
Swimming records
Freestyle swimming
- April 6th : Kurt Bretting , German Reich, swims the 100 meter freestyle in 1: 02.4 min.
- April 21 : Alajos Kenyery , Hungary, swims the 400 meter freestyle in 5: 29.0 min.
- June 5 : Béla from Las-Torres , Hungary, swims the 400 meter freestyle in 5: 28.4 min.
- June 10 : Daisy Curwen , Great Britain, swims the women's 100 meter freestyle in 1: 20.6 minutes.
Fanny Durack (left) and Mina Wylie at the Olympics
- July 9 : Fanny Durack , Australia, swims the women's 100 meter freestyle in 1: 19.8 minutes at the Olympic Games.
- July 10th : George Hodgson , Canada, swims the 1500 meter freestyle at the Olympic Games in 22: 00.0 min.
- July 14th : George Hodgson , Canada, swims the 400 meter freestyle in 5: 24.4 minutes at the Olympic Games.
- July 15 : Isabella Moore , Jennie Fletcher , Annie Speirs and Irene Steer , Great Britain, swim the women's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay in 5: 52.8 minutes at the Olympic Games.
- July 20 : Duke Kahanamoku , United States, swims the 100 meter freestyle in 1: 01.6 min at the Olympic Games.
- July 21 : Fanny Durack , Australia, swims the women's 100 meter freestyle in 1: 18.8 minutes at the Olympic Games.
- September 26 : Jack Hatfield , Great Britain, swims the 400 meter freestyle in 5: 21.6 minutes.
Backstroke
- April 3 : Otto Fahr , German Reich, swims the 200 meter back in 2: 48.4 minutes, a record that lasted until 1926 .
- April 6th : Oskar Schiele , German Reich, swims the 100 meters back in 1: 18.4 min.
- April 29th : Otto Fahr , German Reich, swims the 100 meter back in 1: 15.6 min.
tennis
- 11. bis 13. July : Great Britain qualifies against France and the United States for the final of the International Lawn Tennis Challenge against Australasia.
- November 28th to 30th : International Lawn Tennis Challenge 1912 in Melbourne
Winter sports
ice Hockey
- February 2 to 4 : The 1912 European ice hockey championship takes place in Prague with only three teams. The Czech national ice hockey team defends its title from the previous year. However, the European Championship was subsequently withdrawn by the World Association IIHF in March, because the participating Austrian national ice hockey team was only accepted into the ice hockey association one month after the European Championship.
- March 20 to 24 : The first LIHG championship takes place in Brussels , in which the Berlin Ice Skating Club , the Brussels Royal IHSC and the Club des Patineurs de Paris take part. Only Switzerland competes with a national selection . The Oxford Canadians , a team of Canadian students at the University of Oxford , England, are known as the Representation of Canada. The Berlin ice skating club wins the tournament with a record of 4 wins from as many games. The annual LIHG congress takes place parallel to the tournament. On this, the cancellation of the European Championship 1912 (see above) is decided.
- The Club des Patineurs de Paris wins the fourth Coupe de Chamonix .
figure skating
- January 27th / 28th : The 1912 World Figure Skating Championships for women take place in Davos. The Hungarian Opika from Méray Horváth becomes world champion for the first time.
- 10 / 11 February : The European Figure Skating Championships 1912 will be held in Stockholm. The Swede Gösta Sandahl becomes European champion.
- 16 / 17 February : The World Figure Skating Championships in 1912 the men be carried out in Manchester. The winner is the Austrian Fritz Kachler ahead of the German Werner Rittberger .
- February 27 : The World Figure Skating Championship for couples takes place in Manchester. The title goes to the British couple Phyllis and James H. Johnson for the second time since 1909 .
Speed skating records
- February 17 : Oscar Mathisen , Norway, runs the 500 meter speed skating in 44.2 s in Kristiania (Oslo) .
- February 18 : Oscar Mathisen , Norway, runs the 10,000 meters in Kristiania in 17: 46.3 min.
Ski jumping
- The Norwegian Gunnar Andersen reached a width of 47 meters while ski jumping on Gustadbakken in Geithus, Norway.
Founding of clubs
- March 12 : The oldest Bulgarian football club Botev Plovdiv is founded.
- April 2 : The association for movement games Stuttgart 1893 e. Is created in Stuttgart-Cannstatt through the merger of the Stuttgart FV 93, originally founded as a rugby club, with the soccer club Kronen-Club Cannstatt . V.
- April 14 : The Brazilian soccer club FC Santos is founded.
- April 16 : The sports club RNK Split is founded under the name HRŠD Anarh . It is the second football club in Split .
- May 5th : The Austrian football club SV Ried is founded.
- June 28 : The Viktoria Goch sports club is founded.
- July 17th : Delegates from 17 countries found the International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ) in Stockholm as the umbrella organization for the national athletics federations.
- November 29th : The Amisia Meppen football club is founded.
- December 22nd : The soccer club Calcio Lecco is founded in Lombardy .
- The Hungarian gymnastics club Csepel SC is founded.
Born
January to April
- January 3 : Tibor Berczelly , Hungarian saber fencer and Olympic champion († 1990 )
- January 18 : Wilhelm Herz , German motorcycle racer († 1998 )
- January 20 : Egon Schein , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1977 )
- January 21 : Petermax Müller , German automobile racing driver and dealer († 2002 )
- February 1 : Albin Kitzinger , German soccer player († 1970 )
- February 7th : Matthias Heidemann , German soccer player († 1970 )
- February 9 : Futabayama Sadaji , Japanese sumo wrestler and the 35th yokozuna († 1968 )
- February 15 : Pietro Ferraris , Italian football player († 1991 )
- March 1 : Mario Genta , Italian football player († 1993 )
- March 3 : Lauro Amadò , Swiss football player († 1971 )
- March 4 : Willy Steuri , Swiss ski racer († 1978 )
- March 7th : Willy Schröder , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1990 )
- March 10 : Paul Janes , German football player († 1987 )
- March 12 : Joel Mason , American football player, basketball coach († 1995 )
- March 16 : Jean Schorn , German cyclist († 1994 )
- March 17 : Joe Stydahar , American football player and coach († 1977 )
- March 23 : Ilse Dörffeldt , German athlete († 1992 )
- March 29 : Ernst von Delius , German racing car driver († 1937 )
- April 8 : Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater († 1969 )
- April 9 : Franz Seybold , German soccer player and soccer coach († 1978 )
- April 14th : Joie Chitwood , American racing driver († 1988 )
- April 29 : Karl Lottes , German motorcycle racer († 1997 )
May to August
- May 2 : Karl Adam , German rowing coach († 1976 )
- May 6 : Ellen Müller Prize , Austrian foil fencer († 2007 )
- May 13 : Hans-Werner von Massow , German correspondence chess official († 1988 )
- May 16 : Alfred Aston , French football player († 2003 )
- May 17 : Ace Parker , American football player († 2013 )
- May 18 : Georg von Opel , German automobile entrepreneur and sports official († 1971 )
- May 20 : Nereo Rocco , Italian football player and coach († 1979 )
- May 25 : Marshall Wayne , American water diver and Olympic champion († 1999 )
- June 1 : Herbert Tichy , Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and mountaineer († 1987 )
- June 3 : Hermann Blazejezak , German athlete and Olympic participant († 2008 )
- June 5 : Josef Neckermann , German mail order salesman and dressage rider, Chairman of the German Sports Aid Foundation († 1992 )
- June 6 : Joan Hartigan Bathurst , Australian tennis player († 2000 )
- June 16 : Willibald Schmaus , German and Austrian soccer player († 1979 )
- June 17 : Myron Fohr , American racing driver († 1994 )
- June 21 : Toni Merkens , German racing cyclist († 1944 )
- July 12 : Anna Maria Peduzzi , Italian racing car driver († 1979 )
- July 17 : Erwin Bauer , German racing car driver († 1958 )
- July 17th : Pál Kovács , Hungarian saber fencer († 1995 )
- July 31 : Harry Ayres , New Zealand mountaineer († 1987 )
- August 3 : Otto Siffling , German football player († 1939 )
- August 10 : Romain Maes , Belgian cyclist († 1983 )
- August 13 : Ben Hogan , American golfer († 1997 )
- August 14 : Hilda Cameron , Canadian athlete († 2001 )
- August 31 : Helmut Hamann , German athlete († 1941 )
September to December
- September 6 : Miguel Andreolo , Uruguayan-Italian football player († 1981 )
- September 16 : György Sárosi , Hungarian football player and coach († 1993 )
- September 18 : Sarah Palfrey Cooke , American tennis player († 1996 )
- October 7th : Peter Walker , British racing driver († 1984 )
- October 14 : Albert Richter , German racing cyclist († 1940 )
- October 21 : Walter Hamelehle , German motorcycle racer († 1946 )
- October 21 : Alfredo Piàn , Argentine racing car driver († 1990 )
- October 25 : Abdelkader Ben Bouali , Algerian football matches († 1997 )
- October 27 : Heinz Nickelsburg , German table tennis player († 2001 )
- October 29 : Jakob Scheuring , German athlete († 2001 )
- November 7th : Ernst Lehner , German soccer player († 1986 )
- November 12 : Tuffy Leemans , American football player († 1979 )
- November 17 : Erhart Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer († 2008 )
- November 22 : Rudolf Heydel , German automobile racing driver († 1936 )
- December 20 : Dorothy Brookshaw , Canadian athlete and Olympian († 1962 )
- December 26 : Luis Fontés , British racing car driver and aviator († 1940 )
- December 28th : Georg Klaus , German philosopher, chess player and chess official († 1974 )
Died
- April 15 : John B. Thayer , American first-class cricketer and Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, victim of the Titanic disaster (* 1862 )
- July 15 : Francisco Lázaro , Portuguese marathon runner (* 1891 )
See also
Web links
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