Sports year 1861
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 second Open Championship in golf at Prestwick . |
 Rocky Mountains for the first time . |
As in the previous year, the sporting year 1861 was marked by gymnastics in Germany and by golf on the British Isles . But the soccer game is also enjoying increasing popularity on several continents .
Events
Cricket, soccer, gymnastics, fencing
The boom in gymnastics that began in Germany the previous year continued in 1861 . The number of gymnasts throughout Germany has risen from around 30,000 in the previous year to around 100,000. Many gymnastics clubs are set up (again), including for political reasons in the previous year from the Frankfurter Turnverein breakaway Frankfurt Turngemeinde which Gummersbacher gymnastics club that Turnerschaft Kronach that Turngemeinde Heidenheim and the men gymnastics club Gifhorn . TV GutsMuths is founded in Moabit near Berlin in honor of the founder of German youth gymnastics, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths , on May 11th . 73 previous members of the MTV von 1848 Hildesheim founded the gymnastics club MTV Eintracht Hildesheim on July 19 , which also includes its own fencing department . The 2nd German Gymnastics and Jubilation Festival will be held in Berlin in August . The reason for this is the establishment of the first German gymnasium 50 years earlier and the laying of the foundation stone for the Jahndenkmal in the Hasenheide .
Further gymnastics clubs founded in 1861
- March 23 : TV 1861 Kulmbach
- May 1st : Lüdenscheid gymnastics club from 1861
- May: TV Giengen
- June: Gymnastics parish of 1861 Rheda
- Men's gymnastics club Abbehausen
- TV Feuchtwangen
- Gymnastics Club 1861 Forst
- Gymnastics Club Groitzsch
- MTV from 1861 Horneburg
- Melsunger Turngemeinde
- TV Metzingen
- TV 1861 Rottenburg
Outside Europe, there will be ups of sports clubs: On 18 July, in Montevideo from British in Uruguay of Montevideo Cricket Club established with an associated football department. And Boston students found the Oneida Football Club as the first football club in the United States, which only lasted just under five years, but did not lose a single football game during that time . The team even remains without conceding a goal. However, it is unclear according to which rules the "Oneida-Boys" play during this time, since the rules of the Football Association were only drawn up in 1863.
After its successful tour of North America in 1859 , the English cricket team set sail from Liverpool on October 20 for a tour to Australia. The team arrives in Melbourne on December 24th.
Boxing
Jem Mace , known as "The Gypsie", defeated Sam Hurst , who is generally considered to be the heavyweight champion in boxing and who weighs about 100 pounds more, by knocking out an eighth round fight in Kent to become the new English boxing champion.
golf
After The Open Championship in golf in Prestwick was held for the first time last year under his influence , the Scottish greenkeeper Tom Morris wins this event for the first time.
horse race
- November 7th : The Melbourne Cup , a handicap race over two miles, is held for the first time.
- "Rookeby" wins the 28th Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
rowing
On March 23rd, Oxford wins the 18th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 23'03 ″.
The First Trinity Boat Club wins as last year the Grand Challenge Cup of the Henley Royal Regatta in London.
rugby
The Sale Sharks Rugby Union Football Club is founded in Stockport in the north of England and is still one of the leading teams in rugby union .
Canon George Ogilvie, the new Rector of Diocesan College in Cape Town, brings rugby from England to South Africa .
chess
The first congress of the West German Chess Federation (WDSB) will be held in Düsseldorf. However, no master is played out yet.
Sports shooting / archery
- July 11th : The German Rifle Federation is founded in Gotha .
- The Grand National Archery Society for archery is established in the UK .
Winter sports
Trysilgutten , the world's oldest ski club , is founded in Trysil in Norway on May 20th .
The Frankfurt ice skating club is founded. This makes it the oldest German ice skating club .
Rockclimbing
On July 18, the mountain guide Johann Josef Benet, together with Leslie Stephen , FF Tuckett , Melchior Anderegg and Peter Perren, managed the first ascent of Mont Blanc over the Dôme du Goûter , today's normal route.
The following mountains are climbed for the first time in 1861:
Others
- March 15 : The Central Association for the Expansion of Physical Exercise and the Use of Arms ( Centralforeningen for Udbredelse af Legemsøvelser og Vaabenbrug ) is founded in Norway with the aim of strengthening the country's defense capabilities . Over the years the organization developed into the Norwegian Sports Association and the National Olympic Committee .
- The Clube Atlético de Coimbra is founded.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 3 : Ernest Renshaw , English tennis player († 1899 )
- March 4 : Curt von Bardeleben , German chess player († 1924 )
- July 3 : Peter Jackson , Australian heavyweight boxer († 1901 )
- July 31 : Edward Breck , American foil fencer, golfer, author, diplomat and spy († 1929 )
- August 11 : Emil Zsigmondy , Austrian mountaineer († 1885 )
- October 16 : Richard Sears , American tennis player († 1943 )
- November 6 : James Naismith , Canadian inventor of the sport of basketball († 1939 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- John Frederick Abercromby , British golf architect († 1935 )
Born around 1861
- 1860 /1861: Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed , Irish climber, photographer and writer († 1934 )
